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Curatorial Chemistry Proves Phenomenal as National Gallery Teams With Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum To Showcase ‘Little Beasts’
‘Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World’ National Gallery, Washington, D.C., May 18 - November 2, 2025 May 30, 2025 For “Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World,” the curators at the National Gallery of Art team up with... Read more -
Many Are the Happy Marriages Between Art and Space at Maryland’s Lavish Glenstone Museum
Glenstone Museum, 12100 Glen Road Potomac, MD 20854 March 31, 2025 There’s a famous story from Pliny the Elder about Cleopatra and Mark Antony at a banquet. As Antony revels in... Read more
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Early Optimism Yields to Undiluted Draughts of Anguish in National Gallery’s Exploration of German Expressionism’s Legacy
‘The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy’ The National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington D.C., February 11 - May 27, 2024 February 14, 2024 Among the emaciated figures, somber portraits, and crude experiments in primitivism, many of the characters in the National Gallery’s new... Read more -
‘British Vision’ at the Met Traces the Origins of the Picturesque Movement in Art — and a Nation in Flux
‘British Vision, 1700–1900: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints’ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY, December 7, 2023 – March 5, 2024 December 18, 2023 While you wait in the virtual queue for “Manet/Degas,” it’s worth a stop by “British Vision: 1700-1900,” a new rotation... Read more
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Seemingly Neither Organic Nor Man-Made, Mark Rothko’s Paintings on Paper Resonate as a Kind of Communion
Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2023 – March 31, 2024 November 18, 2023 In “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” the National Gallery has assembled more than 100 works by one of America’s greatest... Read more -
An Uncharted Sea of Pathos, Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photos at the National Gallery Inspire Empathy, Not Pity
‘Dorothea Lange: Seeing People’ National Gallery, Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. November 5, 2023 – March 31, 2024 November 3, 2023 Ars gratia artis is all very well, but how about art for the sake of the Farm Security Administration? In... Read more
