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From "Turner to Cezanne" at The Corcoran Gallery of Art: Paul Cézanne, The François Zola Dam, ca. 1877–78. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Miss Gwendoline E. Davies Bequest, 1951 (nmwa 2439). Courtesy American Federation of Arts
From "Turner to Cezanne" at The Corcoran Gallery of Art: Paul Cézanne, The François Zola Dam, ca. 1877–78. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Miss Gwendoline E. Davies Bequest, 1951 (nmwa 2439). Courtesy American Federation of Arts
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Diego Velázquez  - Juan Martinez Montañés, 1635  - oil on canvas  - unframed: 109 x 83.5 cm (42 15/16 x 32 7/8 in.)  - Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid  - Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art
Diego Velázquez - Juan Martinez Montañés, 1635 - oil on canvas - unframed: 109 x 83.5 cm (42 15/16 x 32 7/8 in.) - Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art - Click to enlarge

    The National Gallery of Art is presenting From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, through July 31, 2011.  Chester Dale was a successful businessman, collector and president of the board of trustees of the National Gallery of Art from 1955 until his death in 1962.   Some 81 of the finest French and American paintings shown explore “the collector’s passion and talent for acquiring great art as well as his tastes in modern art.” 

    The National Gallery of Art will exhibit The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700, February 28–May 31.  The landmark exhibition will include some 20 Spanish masterpieces of the 17th century, including works Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Francisco Pacheco, plus painted and gilded sculptures carved by Gregorio Fernández, Juan Martínez Montañés, Pedro de Mena and others.  The works shown will “reveal the dynamic and intricate relationship between two-dimensional pictures on canvas and painted sculptures that has long been noted by scholars but little known by the general public.”  Many of the sculptures have never before being removed from the Spanish churches, convents, and monasteries where they normally reside.
    The exhibition will be presented on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, the Spain-USA Foundation and the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC.  Earl A. Powell III has commented that "We are grateful to the museums and Spanish ecclesiastical institutions that have agreed to lend these exceptional works of art, which together provide an illuminating and powerful experience."

    The National Gallery of Art will exhibit In the Tower: Mark Rothko, the second in a series of exhibitions focusing on contemporary art and its roots, February 21-January 2, 2011.  The show will offer “a rare look” at the black-on-black paintings the artist made in 1964 in connection with his work on a chapel for the Menil Collection in Houston. A recording of music originally composed for the chapel will accompany the exhibition. The exhibition will be curated by Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery.  A new 10-minute will film will focus on Rothko’s career and his style.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec  - A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892  - oil on cardboard  - Overall: 100 x 89.2 cm (39 3/8 x 35 1/8 in.)  - framed: 132.4 x 122.6 cm (52 1/8 x 48 1/4 in.)  - Chester Dale Collection  - Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892 - oil on cardboard - Overall: 100 x 89.2 cm (39 3/8 x 35 1/8 in.) - framed: 132.4 x 122.6 cm (52 1/8 x 48 1/4 in.) - Chester Dale Collection - Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art - Click to enlarge
From “In the Darkroom:  Photographic Processes”  - Charles Nègre  - Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle (Chartres Cathedral, South Portal, 12th Century), c. 1854  - photogravure, printed c. 1857  - National Gallery of Art, Washington William and Sarah Walton Fund
From “In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes” - Charles Nègre - Cathédrale de Chartres - Portique du Midi XIIe Siècle (Chartres Cathedral, South Portal, 12th Century), c. 1854 - photogravure, printed c. 1857 - National Gallery of Art, Washington William and Sarah Walton Fund - click to enlarge

    The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes through March 14, 2010.  The exhibition chronicles “the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography.”  The exhibition of some 90 photographs is drawn from the Gallery’s permanent collection. 


 
From “The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection:  Selected Works”  - Roy Lichtenstein  - Brushstrokes in Flight, 1983  - painted and patinated bronze  - overall: 140.3 x 53.3 x 25.4 cm (55 1/4 x 21 x 10 in.)  - Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff  - courtesy of The National Gallery of Art
From “The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works” - Roy Lichtenstein - Brushstrokes in Flight, 1983 - painted and patinated bronze - overall: 140.3 x 53.3 x 25.4 cm (55 1/4 x 21 x 10 in.) - Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff - courtesy of The National Gallery of Art - click to enlarge
    The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works now through May 2, 2010.  The Meyerhoffs amassed “one of the most outstanding collections of modern art with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists.”  The exhibition features some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints.  

    The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting Editions with Additions: Jasper Johns’ Working Proofs, now through April 4, 2010.  Some 45 proofs for lithographs, etchings, and screen prints in a range of media, including pastel, ink, and paint, are being shown.  The works were selected from some 1,700 proofs for Johns’ prints that he has maintained and annotated over four decades. 


From “Editions with Additions: Jasper Johns’ Working Proofs”  - Fragment-According to What: Hinged Canvas, 1971  - lithograph, working proof with crayon, chalk, and graphite  - sheet: 89.5 x 76.8 cm (35 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)  - National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
From “Editions with Additions: Jasper Johns’ Working Proofs” - Fragment-According to What: Hinged Canvas, 1971 - lithograph, working proof with crayon, chalk, and graphite - sheet: 89.5 x 76.8 cm (35 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.) - National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY - Click to enlarge
From "Turner to Cezanne" at The Corcoran Gallery of Art:   Alfred Sisley, Moret-sur-Loing (Rue de Fosses), 1892. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Miss Margaret S. Davies Bequest, 1963 (nmwa 2502). Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
From "Turner to Cezanne" at The Corcoran Gallery of Art: Alfred Sisley, Moret-sur-Loing (Rue de Fosses), 1892. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Miss Margaret S. Davies Bequest, 1963 (nmwa 2502). Courtesy American Federation of Arts - click to enlarge

Visit http://www.nga.gov/ 

    The Corcoran Gallery of Art is displaying two exhibitions through April 25.  Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, features an outstanding group of 19th and 20th century paintings and works on paper.  The National Museum Wales has an internationally-acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.   Between 1908 and 1922, two wealthy sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, assembled one of the earliest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in Britain.  They bequeathed their collection to the National Museum Wales.
    The exhibition features 53 works, including masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Augustus John, Edouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh.

    The Corcoran in Context:  European Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection is also be on display through April 25.  Senator Clark’s collection forms the core of the Corcoran’s holdings of European art, ranging from ancient antiquities to Impressionist paintings.   The Montana Senator (1839-1925) bequeathed his personal collection of over 800 works of art to the Corcoran in 1926.   He particularly admired 19th-century French painting, and the exhibition includes works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, and Edgar Degas. 

Visit www.corcoran.org


 
From the National Geographic Image Collection:  A trio of triplet policemen. New Jersey  - 1981 Michael S. Yamashita
From the National Geographic Image Collection: A trio of triplet policemen. New Jersey - 1981 Michael S. Yamashita - Click to enlarge
    The National Geographic Image Collection is featured in a new outdoor display sponsored by Kodak, on view through April 12, 2010.  More than 90 rarely-seen or previously unpublished highlights from the Society’s archive of more than 11.5 million photographs are being exhibited.  They are installed in new lightboxes:
    - around the exterior of National Geographic’s headquarters building on 17th Street, N.W.,
    - in specially designed outdoor frames in the building courtyard, and
    - in the museum’s Grosvenor Gallery.
Visit 
www.ngmuseum.org

     The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery in the main lobby of the Washington DCJCC will exhibit the original sillkscreens that comprised Andy Warhol:  Good for the Jews? February 25-May 2.  The portraits depict notables including Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx brothers, Golda Meir and Sarah Bernhardt.  Susan W. Morgenstein curated both the original and current exhibitions.  The exhibition will complement production of monologuist Josh Kornbluth’s one-man show by the same name at the DCJCC’s Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater, March 6-21.  Please see the Theatre column for more about the Josh Kornbluth show.
    To read more about the Warhol exhibition, visit http://washingtondcjcc.org/center-for-arts/gallery/

Albert Einstein by Andy Warhol - Courtesy of the Bronfman Gallery at the DCJCC
Albert Einstein by Andy Warhol - Courtesy of the Bronfman Gallery at the DCJCC - Click to enlarge
      The National Museum of Women in the Arts will exhibit A Dream...but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey, February 12-May 16.  The exhibition will explore work by artists from Turkey who examine the impact of contemporary culture on women.

     The NMWA is exhibiting Pomp and Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua, through August 22.  It’s a series of 25 engravings by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641-1676), modeled after a 16th century stucco frieze in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy.  The original frieze was created by Renaissance artists Giulio Romano and Francesco Primaticcio.   Antoinette Bouzonnet’s prints were commissioned in 1675 by Louis XIV’s minister of finance as part of a large-scale effort by the French government to emulate Classical Greek and Roman sculpture in French national art.  The work employs “the grand pictorial language of ancient Rome to depict the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismond’s visit to Mantua in 1433.” 

http://www.nmwa.org/

 
Georgia O’Keeffe  - Black Door with Red, 1954  - Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 in. (121.9 x 213.4 cm)  - Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia  - Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 89.63 © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Georgia O’Keeffe - Black Door with Red, 1954 - Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 in. (121.9 x 213.4 cm) - Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia - Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 89.63 © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York - Click to enlarge

    The Phillips Collection is exhibiting Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, through May 9.  The exhibition showcases more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors which the artist created from 1915 to the late 1970s, plus 12 photographic portraits of O’Keeffe by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.  Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) attended the Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions before accepting a teaching position in 1915 at Columbia College in South Carolina.  While in South Carolina, she created her breakthrough charcoal abstractions.  Gallery owner/photographer Alfred Stieglitz featured them in an exhibition in 1916.  She subsequently gave up teaching, moved to New York to paint full time and married Stieglitz.  In1929 O’Keeffe traveled to northern New Mexico, where the brilliant sun and sky inspired her work for the rest of her life. 
      Dorothy Kosinski, director of the Phillips, has commented that the exhibition is “a long overdue acknowledgement of her place as one of America’s first abstract artists and furthers our shared commitment to advancing a more complete understanding of the history of American abstraction.”

     The Phillips Collection is exhibiting Mandala—Linn Meyers, through May 2.  Ms. Meyers has been “inspired by the brushwork and colors of Vincent Van Gogh’s Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles and The Road Menders.   Thus, she has drawn “intersecting geometric shapes on an archway, creating visual vibrations of movement and color.” 

Visit
www.phillipscollection.com


"Icarus Takes Flight" by Barbara Liotta  - Image by Lloyd Wolf  - Courtesy of The Phillips Collection
"Icarus Takes Flight" by Barbara Liotta - Image by Lloyd Wolf - Courtesy of The Phillips Collection - Click to enlarge
      The Smithsonian' Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art is exhibiting Moving Perspectives: Yeondoo Jung, through March 14.  Contemporary artist Yeondoo Jung, who was born in Korea, “invites viewers into the dreams and memories of others” through photography and video.  The exhibition is comprised of his two new video works, including a multi-screen installation.  The videos suggest that, “when filtered through nostalgia and the passage of time, reality exists somewhere between truth and imagination.”
Visit www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/

    The Freer Gallery of Art is exhibiting Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan now through January 9, 2011.  Interest in the design and uses of ceramics, combined with new technology, fostered an era of “diverse and accomplished ceramic production” in Japan around the year 1600.  The center of production was the island of Kyushu in southern Japan.  Hundreds of kilns there produced “both stoneware coated in muted glazes and porcelain ornamented with cobalt blue or multicolored enamels.”  The artisans focused on utensils for dining and for the tea ceremony and sold to both the domestic market and to Europe and Southeast Asia.
Visit www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.htm

 
From Children at Play:  A Noble Boy and His goat  - china, Ming dynasty, late 15th century  - Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk  - Gift of Charles Lang Freer
From Children at Play: A Noble Boy and His goat - china, Ming dynasty, late 15th century - Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk - Gift of Charles Lang Freer - Click to enlarge
    The Freer Gallery of Art is presenting Children at Play in Chinese Painting through May 23, 2010.  Children at play and at work have been a recurring theme in Chinese art for two millennia.   On objects and in paintings, ceramics and ivory carvings, children are shown playing in urban and rural settings.  Relationships among family members can also be observed.   There are images of children catching butterflies and skipping rope as well as images of boys herding oxen and playing in fields.  They are all lovingly depicted in scenes throughout the centuries.

    The Freer Gallery of Art is exhibiting The Texture of Night:  James McNeill Whistler through June, 2010.  The American-born Whistler (1834-1903) applied the term “Nocturnes” to his nearly-abstract moonlit landscapes, which are said to “represent his signature contribution to nineteenth-century art.”  The ongoing exhibition focuses on his works on paper. 

Visit www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions 
 
Josef Albers, "Study for 'Homage to the Square: Last Century," (1956). From the Hirshhorn's collection
Josef Albers, "Study for 'Homage to the Square: Last Century," (1956). From the Hirshhorn's collection - Click to enlarge
    The Hirshhorn Museum & Gardens is exhibiting Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration, through April 11.  The exhibition features more than sixty works from the artist’s 50-year career.  A native of Germany, Albers (1888-1976) began his tenure at Yale University in 1950, and later became chairman of their art department.   The exhibition includes documentary photographs, a video, and examples of Albers’ teaching aids, with key objects on loan from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.  

   
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden is exhibiting Directions: John Gerrard through May 31.  The Irish artist uses customized 3-D gaming software to re-imagine landscape art.  Inspired by the look, the history, and politics of America’s Dust Bowl region, he creates scenes of farms and oil fields that consider the effect of human progress on the environment.  For the exhibition, he photographed sites from 360 degrees and then simulated movement around the sites using a computer. 

Visit http://hirshhorn.si.edu/

At the Hirshhorn:  Still from John Gerrard's "Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas)," 2008. Realtime 3D projection. Courtesy of the artist.
Directions: John Gerrard - Click to enlarge
 

    The Hirshhorn is exhibiting Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg, through April 4.   The artist draws inspiration for her short films from her theatrical training in Paris with Jacques Lecoq.   The film was named Best Short Film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.  Ms. Greenberg, who is Canadian, founded and directs a contemporary art venue in Montreal and is the head of a music and film production company.
Visit http://hirshhorn.si.edu/ 


    The Smithsonian African Art Museum is exhibiting Yinka Shonibare, a mid-career exhibition of the Nigerian-born artist, through March 7.  The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations, photography and moving images.  They represent 12 years of the artist's career and juxtapose his recent works with historical works.  The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia.

Visit http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/ 


At the Hirshhorn:  A detail of a still from Phoebe Greenberg's "Next Floor," (2008). Courtesy of the artist.
Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg - Click to enlarge
      The National Museum of the American Indian is exhibiting Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort through August 8, 2010.  The exhibition is a major survey of  works by the First Nations/Swiss-Canadian artist, who transforms the familiar and banal into exquisite objects.  His themes are globalization, pop culture, museums, and the commodification of Indian imagery.  To read more about Brian Jungen, visit www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/jungen/

    The National Museum of the American Indian is exhibiting IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, through May 23, 2010.  The 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the interactions between African American and Native American people, especially those of blended heritage. It highlights the dynamics of race, community, culture, and creativity, and addresses “the human desires of being and belonging.”   IndiVisible provides an opportunity “to understand the history and contemporary perspectives of people of African and Native American descent.”  

Visit www.nmai.si.edu/ 

Carapace, 2009. Industrial waste bins, 11.63' x 26.25' x 21.9'. Courtesy of the artist, Casey Kaplan, NY, and Frac des Pays de la Loire, France. Photo: Mathieu Génon. ©Brian Jungen.  - Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian
Carapace, 2009. Industrial waste bins, 11.63' x 26.25' x 21.9'. Courtesy of the artist, Casey Kaplan, NY, and Frac des Pays de la Loire, France. Photo: Mathieu Génon. ©Brian Jungen. - Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian - Click to enlarge
Elvis Presley by Mark Stutzman  - Acrylic on illustration board 1993  - U.S. Postal Service-Stamp Services, Rosslyn VA  © U.S. Postal Service
Elvis Presley by Mark Stutzman - Acrylic on illustration board 1993 - U.S. Postal Service-Stamp Services, Rosslyn VA © U.S. Postal Service - Click to enlarge

    The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting One Life: Echoes of Elvis to mark Presley’s 75th birth anniversary  - through August 29.   The one-room exhibition is devoted to the evolution and influence of Presley’s image more than 30 years after his death. His records continue to sell by the millions, and his home, Graceland, is the second-most-visited private residence in the U.S.

   
The National Portrait Gallery is presenting Portraiture Now: Communities through July 5, 2010.  Three painters were selected for the exhibition because they have explored the idea of community through a series of  portraits of friends, townspeople and/or families.  The artists featured are: 

   Rose Frantzen, who has painted portraits of 180 people from her hometown of Maquoketa, Iowa over a twelve-month period.
   Jim Torok, who paints small oil-on-panel portraits of fellow artists from New York, plus paintings documenting three  generations of one family.
    Rebecca Westcott, who painted full-length portraits of her peers, often from Philadelphia, until her death in 2004. 

    The exhibition was curated by Brandon Brame Fortune, curator of painting and sculpture, Anne Collins Goodyear, assistant curator of prints and drawings and Frank H.  Goodyear III, associate curator of photographs. 

     The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting New Arrivals, through November 14, 2010.  Nearly thirty works spanning more than two centuries of American history and culture are displayed.  The exhibition includes George Linen’s portrait of 19th-century statesman Daniel Webster, a self-portrait by William Beckman; Henry Casselli’s sketches of astronauts Bob Crippen, John Young and John Glenn and photographs of singers Enrico Caruso, Lena Horne and Selena, plus broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, and sportscaster Red Auerbach with Bob Cousy.

 


"Valeta" by Rose Frantzen - Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
"Valeta" by Rose Frantzen - Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery - Click to enlarge
Jimmy Carter by Joan Hall  - Plaster, mixed media and pine shadow box  - 1980  - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine © Joan Hall
Jimmy Carter by Joan Hall - Plaster, mixed media and pine shadow box - 1980 - National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine © Joan Hall - Click to enlarge
    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will exhibit From FDR to Obama: Presidents on Time, February 12-September 6.  Time magazines, since its founding in 1923, has devoted a cover to all incumbent presidents from Warren Harding to Barack Obama, with the exception of Herbert Hoover.   Beginning with President Franklin Roosevelt, the exhibition will explore the modern presidency through the covers of the magazine.  Some 30 works of presidential cover art are featured, including traditional oil paintings and images in other media.    Historian James Barber curated the exhibition.
             
    The National Portrait Gallery will open a new permanent exhibition, The Struggle for Justice, on February 12.  The exhibition will showcase major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.   More than 40 photographs, paintings, posters, buttons and sculptures will be displayed, including portraits of civil rights leaders Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Others featured will include  women’s-rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Betty Friedan, Native American activist Leonard Crow Dog, cultural icons Jackie Robinson and singer Marian Anderson, United Farm Workers organizer César Chávez, gay and lesbian rights leaders and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.          .

Visit http://npg.si.edu 

    The Smithsonian American Art Museum will exhibit Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, February 12-May 9.  O'Sullivan (1840–1882) traversed the mountain and desert regions of the western U.S. under the command of Clarence King and Lt. George M. Wheeler between 1867 and 1874 and returned to Washington with hundreds of unprecedented photographs that provided far more than documentation.   Framing the West is the first major exhibition devoted to O’Sullivan in almost three decades and features more than eighty photographs and stereographs, including a group of rarely-seen King Survey photographs from the Library of Congress.  Toby Jurovics, curator for photography, organized the exhibition in cooperation with the Library.

Visit www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/osullivan/

From "The Struggle for Justice"  - George Washington Carver by Betsy Graves Reyneau  - Oil on canvas  - 1942  - National Portrait Gallery  - Smithsonian Institution  - gift of the George Washington Carver Memorial Committee
From "The Struggle for Justice" - George Washington Carver by Betsy Graves Reyneau - Oil on canvas - 1942 - National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution - gift of the George Washington Carver Memorial Committee - click to enlarge
An image from "Flights of Fancy: Birds in Pre-Columbian Art"
An image from "Flights of Fancy: Birds in Pre-Columbian Art" - Click to enlarge
   Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is exhibiting Flights of Fancy:  Birds in Pre-Columbian Art through February 28.  The display showcases avian-inspired art from the Pre-Columbian collection.  A related display in the Textile Gallery features Andean weavings and objects from the Byzantine collection. 

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www.doaks.org 


    The Textile Museum is exhibiting Fabrics of Feathers and Steel:  The Innovation of Nuno, now through April 11.  Nuno means “functional fabric” in Japanese.  Director and co-founder Reiko Sudo “integrates the techniques, materials and aesthetics of traditional Japanese textiles with cutting-edge technologies in order to create some of the world’s most innovative and influential fabrics.” 

 
“The Art of Living”:  Thrikheb (throne cover), Bhutan, 19th century.  The Textile Museum.  Gift of David W. and Barbara G. Fraser
“The Art of Living”: Thrikheb (throne cover), Bhutan, 19th century. The Textile Museum. Gift of David W. and Barbara G. Fraser - Click to enlarge
    The Textile Museum is exhibiting The Art of Living: Textile Furnishings from the Permanent Collection, through July 2010.  The exhibition highlights the historical and cultural breadth of the museum’s collection through the display of textile furnishings, including hangings, rugs, chair covers, cushions and other materials.  There are textiles from societies ranging from the late Roman Empire and colonial Peru to Edo-period Japan and Victorian Britain.  The textiles were made to provide protection, comfort, color and pattern in homes from the ancient times to the 20th-century. They document the lifestyles of their original owners the technical and artistic accomplishments of their creators. 

 
   The Textile Museum is exhibiting Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection, now through April 11.  Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto set the stage for the postmodernist movement in the fashion industry with designs which they introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s.  Some forty garments are displayed from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum. 
Visit
www.textilemuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming/Contemporary_Japanese_Fashion.htm

From Contemporary Japanese Fashion:  Broken Bride dress and boots. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons with Bijeux de Poche No. 53. Christian Astuguevieille. Fall/Winter 2005/06. The Collection of Mary Baskett. Photo by Scott Hisey
From Contemporary Japanese Fashion: Broken Bride dress and boots. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons with Bijeux de Poche No. 53. Christian Astuguevieille. Fall/Winter 2005/06. The Collection of Mary Baskett. Photo by Scott Hisey - Click to enlarge
9 Pair of Vases (vases à têtes d’éléphants) Sèvres, 1760 J. C. Duplessis père, designer; C. N. Dodin, painter Soft-paste porcelain The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland  - Courtesy of Hillwood
9 Pair of Vases (vases à têtes d’éléphants) Sèvres, 1760 J. C. Duplessis père, designer; C. N. Dodin, painter Soft-paste porcelain The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland - Courtesy of Hillwood - click to enlarge
    Sèvres Then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750-2000 is on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens through May 30, 2010.  The exhibition brings together over 90 intricate and colorful works of art in porcelain, many never before seen in the U.S. The company’s creativity and unparalleled innovation evolved from its inception in 1740 until the present day.  
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www.HillwoodMuseum.org

    The Music Center at Strathmore is exhibiting The Timkov Collection as part of a celebration of Russian music and art, now and through February 20.   Russian artist Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993) painted impressionistic landscapes and scenes of his native country.  Because the Soviets had a dim view of non-traditional art, his work was hidden away and virtually unknown in the U.S. 
    Collectors Timothy and Lisa Wyman acquired more than 500 of Timkov's works, and Strathmore and the Meridian International Center are presenting 47 of them in the Mansion.  In addition, an original Timkov painting will be auctioned to benefit artistic and educational programs at Strathmore and the Meridian Center. 
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www.strathmore.org 

 
Tom Green - "The Introverted Sculptor" - 1984, Mixed media on paper  - Courtesy of the Katzen Arts Center at AU
Tom Green - "The Introverted Sculptor" - 1984, Mixed media on paper - Courtesy of the Katzen Arts Center at AU - click to enlarge

    The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center is presenting Tom Green: Past and Present through March 14,  When he taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the esteemed Washington artist led a new generation of artists “out of the dominance of the Washington Color School toward a more personal process and iconography.”  

    Three other exhibitions will open at the Katzen on January 30 and continue to March 14:
    Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin: Personal Interiors will present recent works by two artists who now live and work in Assisi, Italy. Feltus was a faculty member at AU and Irwin is an art alumna. The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, and collages that “reveal relationships of the figure in still, intimate spaces.”

    Robert Devers: Cult of the Hand is “an interdisciplinary exploration retracing and reimagining the influences of culture, craft, and place on the artist.”   “Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting (tin-glazed pottery that originated during the Renaissance), Devers maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural influence as an American artist working in Mexico and Italy.”

    Cream: Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Art Auction Exhibition features work by WPA member artists, as well as national contemporary artists selected by top curators from leading art institutions.

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www.american.edu/museum

    The George Washington University’s Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is presenting Warhol: Photographs Selected from the GW Permanent Collection through March 5.  The exhibition features Polaroid and black and white photographs by the late painter, photographer, printmaker, filmmaker and personality, plus other works from the GW Permanent Collection. The exhibition includes portraits of celebrities such as Edward Kennedy, Tara Tyson, Mary Martin and Truman Capote and intimate photographs of Warhol’s friends.  Diary entries by the artist illustrate his involvement in the New York art and social scenes. 

Visit www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/


 
      The Capitol Hill Art League, a program of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, is exhibiting a no-theme, all-media show of original art work, through March 5.  The show is being juried by Betsy Anderson, who is a Torpedo Factory studio artist, a former commissioner for the Alexandria Commission for the Arts, and President of The Art League.  

Visit www.chaw.org

A mask by Wally Szyndler  - Image courtesy of the Capitol Hill Art League
A mask by Wally Szyndler - Image courtesy of the Capitol Hill Art League - Click to enlarge
Jennifer Dorsey, Chalkboard, 2008, archival pigment print, 17X21 inches  - Image courtesy of  Flashpoint
Jennifer Dorsey, Chalkboard, 2008, archival pigment print, 17X21 inches - Image courtesy of Flashpoint - click to enlarge
   The Gallery at Flashpoint is exhibiting Jackie Milad: Inside Mouth, through February 13.  Ms. Milad’s work features “a series of elegant, lyrical line drawings that chronicle the subtlety of facial expressions and show androgynous figures in awkward exchanges with one another..."  

    The Gallery at Flashpoint will exhibit Jennifer Dorsey: Alma Mater, February 19-March 27.  Ms. Dorsey’s photographs of interiors of “everyday architecture” often focus on “seemingly mundane details.”  For the upcoming exhibition, she photographed the interiors of two Washington, DC area high schools over the course of two summers, focusing on “the unexpected and uncanny beauty of the schools' utilitarian spaces.”  Alma Mater will be her first solo exhibition in Washington.  

Visit www.flashpointdc.org

Caption: Jennifer Dorsey, Trophy Room, 2008, archival pigment print, 30X37 inches  - Image courtesy of  Flashpoint
Caption: Jennifer Dorsey, Trophy Room, 2008, archival pigment print, 30X37 inches - Image courtesy of Flashpoint - click to enlarge
      The  Goethe-Institut Washington is presenting Roads and Paths: Photographs by Bernhard Fuchs, through March 19.  The internationally-known photographer captured images of the landscape around his hometown of Helfenberg, Austria over a span of five years.   He “patiently observed and recorded the landscape, his calm, intense gaze rewarding viewers with immediacy and vitality.”

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www.goethe.de/washington





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From Roads and Paths (Straßen und Wege) Photographs by Bernhard Fuchs at the Goethe Institut
From Roads and Paths (Straßen und Wege) Photographs by Bernhard Fuchs at the Goethe Institut - Click to enlarge