Daylily - 'Kiwi Magic' - hybridized by a local grower in Laytonsville, MD, named Frank (Bud) Bennett, who was one of the founding members of the National Capital Daylily Club over fifty years ago - Please see the Gardens Column for more information
The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting the work of contemporary sculptor Martin Puryear, now through September 28. A native Washingtonian, he is internationally-acclaimed for his minimalist exploration of natural forms and materials. The exhibition features 48 objects created between 1976 and 2007, including several made for the exhibition.
The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting From Dürer to Ruscha: Exceptional Works on Paper Dating from the 15th Century, now through November 2. The 209 objects on view include one of the earliest European engravings and the first image printed in multiple colors. Andrew Robinson curated the exhibition.
The National Gallery of Art and The National Geographic Society are exhibiting Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul now through September 7. The exhibition explores the cultural heritage of Afghanistan dating back to the Bronze Age (2500 B.C.). Nearly 230 archeological treasures dating back more than 4,000 years are displayed. Complementing the Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures exhibition, The Garden Café: Silk Road now offers a menu of Afghan cuisine that represents the many culinary delights found along the Silk Road. Three local chefs have dishes on the menu, including chef Tim Elliott of Mie N Yu in DC; chef Nasrullah Malang of Bamian Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia; and chef David Rogers of Restaurant Associates, National Gallery of Art. Visit www.nga.gov/press/exh/273/cafe.shtm
+Added July 10: The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program will offer a presentation titled Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society and the National Gallery of Art, on Monday, August 11. Archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert, who is the curator of the ongoing exhibition about Afghanista’s hidden treasures at the National Gallery, will talk about the thousands of years of history which the treasures represent, their cultural significance, and how they were preserved. The program will be presented in the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden’s Marion & Gustave Ring Auditorium. Visit http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=201470
The National Gallery of Art is exhibiting Richard Misrach: On the Beach in the photography galleries, now through September 1. The exhibition, which consists of 19 color photographs from one of his most recent series, On the Beach, is being displayed in five galleries. The large-scale chromogenic prints were made between 2002 and 2005. Visit www.nga.gov/press/aes.shtm
+Added July 7: The National Gallery of Art Weekend Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis and registration is not required. The upcoming lectures will be given on Sundays in the Large Auditorium in the East Building Concourse. In brief, the lectures will be on:
July 27: David Smith, American Totem - a lecture by Wilford W. Scott August 3: Constantin Brancusi and Postwar Sculpture in the U.S. - a lecture by David Gariff August 10: Max Ernst in America - a lecture by Christopher With August 17: The Light of the Imagination: Canaletto, Turner, Whistler, Hopper - a lecture by Eric Denker, August 24: The "Grand Tour" and Eighteenth–Century Taste in Sculpture - a lecture by David Gariff Visit www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/index.shtm#brancusi
+Added July 20: Odysseys and Photographs—Masters From the National Geographic Archives will be on exhibit at Explorers Hall, August 13-January 4, 2009. It will be a behind-the-scenes look as four legendary photographer-explorers recorded their unique views of the 20th century, “while building the National Geographic tradition of photographic excellence.” The work of Maynard Owen Williams features Greenland in the 1920s. Luis Marden’s work shows “a different side of the Caribbean.” Volkmar Wentzel recorded views of his travels to India. Tom Abercrombie witnessed a changing Middle East. Each photographer used his perspective and style to tell stories of a changing world. Visit www.nationalgeographic.com/museum/exhibitions/odysseys-and-photographs.html
A Photograph made in the Middle East by Tom Abercrombie from the exhibition titled "Odysseys and Photographs—Masters From the National Geographic Archives" - Click to enlarge
Ledelle Moe: Disasters - Courtesy of the Katzen Arts Center - Click to enlarge
+Updated July 18: The Katzen Arts Center at American University is exhibiting works by sculptor Ledelle Moe in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden through October 26. Born in South Africa, she studied sculpture there and later in the U.S. at the Virginia Commonwealth University. She as taught at the Corcoran College of Art and has exhibited her works in a wide range of venues. Her large-scale concrete installations have been called “stunning” and “provocative.” Although based in Baltimore, she travels back to South Africa annually. To read more about Ledelle Moe, visit www.ledellemoe.com/ The Katzen Arts Center is exhibiting three shows through July 27. Joe Shannon is a major exhibition of paintings by the distinguished figurative artist. The exhibition’s catalogue features an interview with Joe Shannon conducted by James Demetrion, the former director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Noche Crist is a posthumous retrospective of Washington art’s “unofficial doyen of decadence for almost 60 years.” Crist (1909-2004) was born in Romania and moved to DC with her American husband, David Crist, an Air Force officer, just before the Communists took over her native country. She worked with acrylics and other media, creating surreal two-and three-dimensional scenes.
Nefeli Massia features the work of the celebrated Greek-born Baltimore artist. The second floor of the museum is being used to exhibit “one of her dynamic and other-worldly environments.”
The Katzen is exhibiting a show titled Multiplicitocracy, now through July 27. Jack Rasmussen, the museum’s director and curator, worked with students in American University’s Arts Management Program during the spring semester to plan exhibitions and performances for this summer in the museum and in the Abramson Family Recital Hall.
A photo from The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden exhibition titled "Black Box: Semiconductor" - Click to enlarge
+Added July 10: The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden will exhibit Black Box: Semiconductor, August 25-December 14, 2008. Semiconductor is comprised of Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt, two artists who are based in the United Kingdom. They began collaborating in 1997, focusing on "digital noise and computer anarchy." They created films, experimental DVDs and multi-media performances. The film shorts featured in the exhibition will include "Magnetic Movie" (2007), a "documentary" created during the artists' residency at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratories at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/view.asp?key=21&subkey=199
The Hirshhorn began a two-part exhibition, "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" in February. The second part of the exhibition, Realisms, explores "the irony that in an age when documenting 'real life' in moving image formats becomes ever easier, the line between fact and fiction is increasingly complicated." Curator Anne Ellegood and associate curator Kristen Hileman organized Realisms, which is on view through September 7. Visit www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/hmsg.asp
A photo from The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden exhibition titled "Black Box: Semiconductor" - Click to enlarge
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is exhibiting The Elena del Rivero: Home Suite through November 16. The exhibition showcases two related installations by Del Rivero, [Swi:t] Home, 2000–2001, and [Swi:t] Home: A Chant, 2001–2006, complemented by an original score, Bring Light, by Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris. (“Swi:t” is a phonetic spelling which can mean either suite or sweet.) The artists works primarily with paper, and, for the two projects shown, she manipulated the papers in countless ways before they became finished works of art. Visit www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/exhibits_future_results.asp?Exhib_ID=227
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is presenting The American Evolution: A History Through Art through July 27. The exhibition features more than 200 objects from the gallery’s collection in an exploration of the evolution of American life and art over 250 years. Five themes that have shaped our culture are featured: Money, Land, Politics, Cultural Exchange, and The Modern World. Visit www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/exhibits_future_results.asp?Exhib_ID=216
The Gallery at Flashpoint in downtown DC is exhibiting Michael Dax Iacovone: The Numbers Behind, through August 23. The artist uses mathematical algorithms to create a blueprint to follow when he films and photographs his subjects in the Washington area. The result are large-scale black-and-white photographs. Visit http://flashpointdc.org
The Kreeger Museum, on Foxhall Road in NW Washington, is exhibiting Philip Johnson: Architecture as Art, through July 31. An internationally-known architect, Johnson (1906-2005) designed The Kreeger Museum. Curator Hilary Lewis, who had a working relationship with Johnson, showcases his work in the 1990s and beyond. The exhibition includes Johnson’s models, drawings, sculpture and photographs, plus works from his personal art collection, including works by Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. Visit http://kreegermuseum.org/programs/exhibitions.asp
+Added July 2: The Mansion at Strathmore is presenting the Strathmore at 25 Retrospective Exhibition in the Invitational Gallery, through September 30. The exhibition features the people, programs and events that have connected Strathmore to the surrounding community since it opened as an arts organization 25 years ago. There are photographs, stories and artifacts on view which represent the quarter-century evolution.
The Mansion at Strathmore is presenting the Annual Juried Exhibition of the Sumi-e Society of America in the Main Galleries, through August 23. The exhibition - judged by M. Stephen Doherty and Liang Wei - features East Asian brush paintings and calligraphic representations in both traditional and contemporary styles. To read more about the Sumi-e Society of America, visit www.sumiesociety.org/ Visit www.strathmore.org/fineartexhibitions/exhibitions.asp#20293969
The Textile Museum has canceled plans to expand to a site on 7th Street NW in downtown DC - near Pennsylvania Avenue. "Unforeseen costs" were mentioned as the reason for abandoning the plan.
The Textile Museum is displaying an exhibition titled Blue through September 18. The exhibition includes blue textiles which were produced from ancient times using natural indigo dyes - up to the present. The display features works of contemporary Japanese artist Hiroyuki Shindo and works by Venezuelans Maria Eugenia Davila and Eduardo Portillo. Visit www.textilemuseum.org/exhibitions/current/BLUE/exhibition_BLUE.htm
The Textile Museum has extended the display of the exhibition titled The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands through October 26. The museum recently acquired the accessories, which include woven and knitted belts, bags and other items, and they complement the museum’s collection of Bolivian textiles. Regional variations are reflected in the range of techniques, patterns and items in the exhibition and characterize the cultural wealth of the highlands. Visitwww.textilemuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming.htm
A work on display "The Elena del Rivero: Home Suite" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art - Click to enlarge
President & CEO Eliot Pfanstiehl with long-time executive assistant Mary Kay Almy (Strathmore at 25) - Click to enlarge
Chris Hsu, Whispering Pines and Falling Water (sumi-e society) - Image courtesy of the Mansion at Strathmore - click to enlarge
“Where Do We Go from Here?” from “Modern Love: Gifts to the Collection from Heather and Tony Podesta “ - Courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts - Click to enlarge
+Added July 10: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will exhibit Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia, August 22-February 3. Garcia comes from a family of distinguished potters from the Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, and she is credited with revolutionizing traditional Pueblo pottery by fusing two-thousand-year-old tradition with modern design and form. Her unique pots are elaborately sculpted and etched with carvings and some are quite large. Her work explores alternate visual sources and shapes. The exhibition will be her first at the Museum and will feature some of her most important works. Visit www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=178
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is exhibiting Modern Love: Gifts to the Collection from Heather and Tony Podesta, now through September 21. The exhibition celebrates a group of contemporary works of art donated to the museum by Washington-based collectors Heather and Tony Podesta. The collection includes photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings. The exhibition features over 50 works by artists such as Cathy de Monchaux, Candida Höfer, Elizabeth Turk, and Jane and Louise Wilson.
The NMWA is exhibiting Something Pertaining to God: The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins, now through September 21. The late African American artist Effie Mae Howard, who was also a nurse practitioner, created her work under the pseudonym Rosie Lee Tomkins. The exhibition features some 25 of her quilts and other quilted pieces, e.g., clothing, chair covers, and pillows. Visit www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=171
An image from “Something Pertaining to God: The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins” - Courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts - click to enlarge
The National Museum of African Art is exhibiting Treasures 2008 through August 17. The display showcases masterpieces from the museum’s collection and special loans from private collections throughout the United States. Many of the works have never been exhibited publicly in the U.S.
The National Museum of African Art is exhibiting TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity, through December 8. The exhibition features the extraordinary costumes and textiles of the African continent, including everything from ensembles to wrappers, wall hangings to chain mail, accessories, hats and more. Textiles in Africa are “powerful communicators of status, gender and accomplishment. The exhibition is drawn from the National Museum of African Art's collection and features an array of Africa's textile arts that have “seldom or never been on exhibit.”
The National Museum of African Art is exhibiting El Anatsui: Gawu, large-scale metal “tapestries” and other sculptures by one of Africa’s leading contemporary artists, through September 7. The artist has worked with a variety of media, but has focused recently on discarded metal objects, which he joins together to create works of art celebrating Africa’s cultural heritage. To read more about El Anatsui, visithttp://elanatsui.com/ Visit http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/upcoming.html
The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting Edward Steichen: Portraits through September 1. The exhibition features fifty images drawn from the Gallery’s collection of Steichen photographs. Steichen (1879-1973) was a painter, and an art gallery and museum curator as well as a pictorialist photographer. The focus is on his work created between 1923 and 1936, when he was the chief photographer for Vanity Fair magazine.
The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer through September 1. The British-born Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) became a leading pictorialist photographer in late 19th- and early 20th-century New York. To read more about Ben-Yusuf, visit www.si.edu/opa/insideresearch/articles/V16_PortraitPhotographer.html
The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraits through March 1, 2009. Some sixty posters, which function as portraits, are being shown. They range from the late 19th century to the present. The posters convey varied messages, from selling war bonds, to announcing the circus arrival, to advertising products, to publicizing films and concerts. Visit www.npg.si.edu Please see the HISTORY column for information about another Portrait Gallery exhibition, Herblock’s Presidents: “Puncturing Pomposity,” which is on display through November 30.
The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting New Arrivals through January 4, 2009. The rotating exhibition highlights newly-acquired objects in the gallery’s collection, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters, prints, and photographs. Among the new acquisitions are a portrait of Judy Garland by Andy Warhol, portraits of Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein by Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Carolina Herrera by Robert Mapplethorpe. The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture through October 26. The popular and influential musical form called Hip Hop emerged in the 1970s. The exhibition features works by artists who have explored Hip Hop, including photographs by David Scheinbaum, portraits by Kehinde Wiley, and poems by Nikki Giovanni, which are “interpreted artistically” by artist Shinique Smith. The National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting "One Life: Katharine Hepburn,” through October 5, 2008. The exhibition includes her Oscar statues, images from her career and personal life, and a video of film clips from her performances in films and on television and from interviews. Visit www.npg.si.edu
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is exhibiting Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury, through October 13. This special installation of twenty-nine large-scale paintings from the museum's permanent collection explores "the expressive possibilities of color.“ The exhibition includes works by Washington-based artists Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Kainen and Alma Thomas, plus other “exuberant colorists who created luminous, abstract paintings.” Visit http://americanart.si.edu/reynolds_center/event.cfm?key=567&exhibit=3020
The SAAM is exhibiting Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, which celebrates a recent gift of her work to the museum, through November 9. The contemporary artist, who is well known for her photos of National Champion Trees, creates panoramic images by combining multiple large-format negatives in a single print. The exhibition was curated by Toby Jurovics. Haluk Soykan and Elisa Fredericks donated the photographs for the exhibition.
The SAAM is exhibiting Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist through August 3. Douglas (1899-1979)is said to have developed a “radically new visual vocabulary,” by combining Cubism and Art Deco with African and African American imagery. The exhibition, which is the first nationally-touring Douglas retrospective, showcases some 80 rarely-seen works, including paintings, prints, drawings, and illustrations. Visit http://americanart.si.edu/reynolds_center/event.cfm?key=567&exhibit=2781
The Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall is exhibiting American Heroes of the Olympic Spirit, now through October 12. Some 44 medals, with photos and stories, are being displayed to highlight Olympic and Paralympic athletes and their achievements in a variety of sports. The athletes represented include Bonnie Blair-Cruikshank (speedskating), Dick Button (figure skating), Bart Connor (gymnastics), Tara Nott-Cunningham (weightlifting), Shannon Miller (gymnastics); Edwin Moses (track and field), and John Naber (swimming). To see the Smithsonian magazine online, visitwww.smithsonianmag.com/
The Smithsonian Castle is exhibiting Eyes on the World: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest, now through January 15, 2009. Judges selected fifty finalists from thousands of photographs submitted to Smithsonian magazine's Annual Photo Contest from around the U.S. and the world. Twenty of those selected are on view, including the grand prize winner and the winners in five categories: The Natural World, Travel, People, Americana, and Altered Images (photographs that have been manipulated). Visit www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/sib.asp
From the exhibition Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury: Sam Gilliam “April 4 1969,” acrylic - Smithsonian American Art Museum - Museum purchase - Click to enlarge
+Added July 15: The Phillips Collection will present Phillips After 5: Enhanced Extended Hours on Thursdays for several weeks this summer. The program will feature live jazz, a cash bar, wine tastings, lectures, and tours. The lectures and tours will focus on the three major ongoing exhibitions. Best Cellars will introduce wine tastings on select evenings. The jazz will performances will be: July 24: Tommy Cecil Jazz Trio - the bassist presents intimate pop and jazz July 31: Duende Quartet - a jazz combo in the rhythms of a Cuban band. August 7: Mosaic - expanding on the traditions of post-bop, Afro-Cuba, & electric jazz August 14: Daniel Barbiero Quartet - an improvisation session August 21: Auto Looming + 1 - electro-acoustic music -structured/improvisational The Collection has partnered with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) to encourage visitors to bike to Phillips after 5. Each week, cyclists will find extra parking available and discounts for WABA members. Visit www.phillipscollection.org
The Phillips Collection is exhibiting Diebenkorn in New Mexico through September 7. An Abstract Expressionist, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) spent 30-months in Albuquerque, New Mexico between 1950 and 1952, and his paintings and drawings from that period illustrate the lasting influence of the region’s textures, shapes and colors on his work. For the first time, some forty pieces which he created in New Mexico are being exhibited together in an in-depth examination. To read more about the artist, visitwww.richarddiebenkorn.net/
The Phillips Collection is also exhibiting Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow through September 7. The second son of the renowned American photographer Edward Weston, Brett Weston (1911-1993) was himself an important photographer known for capturing form, light and shadow without using contrived lighting and other manipulations. The first major exhibition of Brett Weston’s work in thirty years, the show features some 75 photographs made from the 1920s through the 1980s.
The Phillips Collection is exhibiting The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series through October 26. The 60-panel narrative painting depicts the exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the 20th century. Lawrence (1917-2000), who was born in Atlantic City, N.J., painted his Migration Series when he was in his twenties. Visit www.phillipscollection.org/html/exhibits.html#upcoming
+Added July 6: The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery in the Washington DCJCC is exhibiting Hebraica Mirrors, now through September 30. The exhibition consists of over 60 fine prints by French Jewish artist Matatiaou on Arches Velum and leather parchment. The works represent “the crossroads of contemporary design and traditional Hebrew calligraphy…” The “universal graphic interpretation is inspired by the Zohar- the direct origin of the Kabbalah, written circa 1300.” The exhibition is on loan from The Jewish Museum of Florida. To read more about Matatiaou, visit www.matatiaou.com/ Visit http://washingtondcjcc.org/center-for-arts/gallery/
A "Hebraica Mirror" - Image courtesy of The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery of the Washington DCJCC - Click to enlarge
The Washington National Cathedral Apse by Candlelight by Marilyn Foley - Click to enlarge
Washington National Cathedral is exhibiting Marilyn Foley: The Cathedral and Grounds in Watercolor through December 31 in the Garrett Lounge on the 7th Floor. A prize-winning artist and Signature member of the National Watercolor Society, Ms. Foley was selected to paint scenes of the Cathedral and its grounds to commemorate the structure’s Centennial year. To read more about Marilyn Foley, visithttp://marilynfoley.com/
Washington National Cathedral is exhibiting Dreamers and Believers: Cathedral Builders through October, 2008 in the Rare Book Library Exhibit Room. The exhibition is part of the celebration of the centennial of the laying of the Cathedral’s foundation stone in 1907. Visit www.cathedral.org/cathedral/programs/exhibits.shtml
The National Building Museum is exhibiting Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future through August 23. In addition to his iconic designs, the exhibition includes designs for unbuilt works, sketches, documents, large-scale models, photographs, a full-scale façade mock-up, correspondence, original furniture samples, and a specially-commissioned documentary film. The Patron of the exhibition is Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, the President of the Republic of Finland. Visit www.nbm.org
+Added July 12: The Freer Gallery of Art will exhibit Guests of the Hills: Travelers & Recluses in Chinese Landscape Painting, August 23-February 22, 2009. From the mid-11th to the mid-18th century, Chinese landscape painting often included depictions of recreational travelers, recluses, "mountain sages," and retired gentlemen. Figures in some of the paintings represented “aspirations and ideals,” while figures in other paintings represented real people who were seen on actual journeys. Paintings were also created as gifts for travelers about to set out on trips. Visit www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.htm
The Freer Gallery of Art is exhibiting Tea for Everyone: Japanese Popular Ceramics for Tea Drinking through September 7. The focus is on the time when powdered tea (matcha) became popular among less aristocratic Japanese, e.g., artisans, townspeople, and farmers. The exhibition features containers used by people of modest means for sharing tea: tea-leaf storage jars, water jars, tea bowls, cups, and pots. Visit www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/fga.asp
The Freer Gallery is exhibiting Tales of the Brush Continued: Chinese Paintings with Literary Themes through July 27. Chinese artists have always found inspiration in literature for their paintings and calligraphy. For centuries, they have depicted mythical scenes, illustrated historical events, and interpreted poems and stories. Visit http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.htm
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is presenting Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape, now through August 24. The artist Xuezhuang (ca. 1646-1719), who was a monk, created 43 woodblock prints which popularized the Yellow Mountain. The exhibition presents ten leaves from his album, plus some hanging scrolls and a 20-foot-long handscroll dated 1704.
The Sackler Gallery is presenting Perspectives: Y.Z. Kami through October 26. The exhibition features three new works by the artist. Two large portraits depict individuals in meditation, while a third combines poetry and religious architecture using collage and verses from the Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273).
The Sackler Gallery is exhibiting MURAQQA: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, through August 3. Muraqqa is the Persian word for lavish imperial albums which were commissioned by emperors of the Mughal Empire of India from the 16th through the 19th centuries. The greatest Mughal artists of the era produced jewel-like paintings for the albums, and the exhibition is comprised of 86 of them, plus works from the Freer’s collection of Mughal paintings. Visit www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/sga.asp
Two Gentlemen Contemplating a Waterfall - Traditionally attributed to Ma Yuan (active late 12th-early 13th century) China, Ming dynasty, 16th century - Ink and color on silk 319.6x105.1 cm - Image Credit: Freer Gallery of Art: Gift of Charles Lang Freer - Click to enlarge
Teapot with bail handle by Ueda Kichibei (Kichizaemon VIII; d. ca. 1861-64 - Japan, Minato ware - Edo period, mid-19th century - Earthenware with lead glaze; copper and rattan handle, copper chain - Courtesy of Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution: Gift of Charles Lang Freer - Click to enlarge
+Added July 10: The Annual Labor Day Art Show at Glen Echo Park will take place in the Spanish Ballroom, August 30-September 1. The event will feature works by more than 100 artists from the mid-Atlantic region. Most of the artists participating will be either instructors, students or resident artists at Glen Echo Park. There will be photographs, paintings, ceramics, jewelry, and more, and most of the artwork will be for sale. Visit www.glenechopark.org/calIndex.aspx?month=8/1/2008
+Added July 10: The Kiln Club will present a program titled Before and After, in which they will demonstrate the process of pottery-making, at The Scope Gallery in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, August 25-September 21. Visitors can see the process of pottery-making using different firing techniques - from raw clay to finished pieces. Visit www.torpedofactory.org/galleries/scope.htm
The Torpedo Factory’s Potomac Craftsmen Fiber Gallery is exhibiting a show titled Gifts from the Sea in Studio 18 through August 3. The exhibition features fiber interpretations of animals, vegetables and minerals from the seas of the world. The items shown include jewelry, sculpture, clothing and wall pieces. Visit www.torpedofactory.org/calendar_of_events_.htm
The Bethesda Artist Market, which features nearly 30 artists who market their original arts and crafts at Bethesda Place Plaza, will continue on Saturdays September 13 and October 11. The market features paintings, jewelry, photography, fiber, turned wood, pottery, blown glass and more. Bethesda Place Plaza is at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue. Visit www.bethesda.org/arts/artistmarket.htm
BOOKS & DISCUSSIONS:
+Added July 10: The Society of the Cincinnati will present biographer Stacy A. Cordery at a book signing on Tuesday, August 5. Ms. Cordery has written a new book titled Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, in addition to two previous books on the Roosevelt family. She is a professor of history at Monmouth College. To read more about Stacy Cordery, visit www.stacycordery.com/ Visit www.societyofthecincinnati.org/public.htm
