Art
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Picturing Freedom
The Art Museum of the Americas offers a timely look at LGBT rights
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Sunday Afteroon at the Museums
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: TOURING THE GLOBE FOR 75 YEARS A collection of 43 artifacts, including photographs, costume sketches, posters and a short film of clips,...
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Museums & Galleries: Fall Arts Preview 2014
It’s official: The Fall 2014 museum and galleries season is for the birds. But only literally speaking, of course. At least three area museums devote...
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Beauty and the Beasts: Torpedo Factory’s Ceramic Animals
The Scope Gallery, the ceramics co-op arm of Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory, displays the latest works from the Kiln Club, “Beauty and the Beasts.” The focus...
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The D.A.R. Museum explores creating the ideal home way back when
Housed in the same building as Constitution Hall, the D.A.R. Museum offers a new exhibit exploring the evolution of household comfort and conveniences, and how...
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Reston gallery’s new Wizard of Oz art to benefit Habitat
There’s no place like Reston. At least not now, in light of the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. “ArtInsights is one of the...
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The National Portrait Gallery’s look at portraiture in the age of abstraction
The National Portrait Gallery presents “Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction,” an exhibit featuring the works of a group of young artists in the...
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The Walters showcases the Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists
The Walters Art Museum, one of Baltimore’s leading museums, presents an exhibit featuring the visual artworks of this year’s seven finalists for the prestigious Janet &...
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“Every single painting is worth the trip” – Whistler’s London works at the Sackler
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames is now at the Sackler
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It’s fun to get lost in the National Building Museum’s BIG Maze
Get lost in the National Building Museum's BIG Maze.
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Torpedo Factory’s Scope Gallery offers “to-be-used” pottery
Meet a potter, and chances are she’s a good cook. “I would say 99 percent of us are phenomenal cooks,” boasts potter Tracie Griffith, citing...
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Tom Hill’s erotic paintings of men takes root at Hillyer
“The LGBT movement has come so far, but there are these underlying themes that are still taboo,” says artist Tom Hill. Such as? “Such as...
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Anthony Dortch’s offers sexually charged art at Vitruvian Gallery
“People are very surprised,” says local mixed-media artist Anthony Dortch, whose new exhibit, Come Play With Me, recently opened at the Vitruvian Gallery. “It’s not my typical style.”...
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Creative Capital
''It's a great place for people who are interested in starting to build a collection,'' Lisa Gold says of Select 2014. ''Or people who are...
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Gay Cat Art
''I was actually kind of nervous when I first made the zine because I thought maybe people would be offended,'' says J. Morrison on his...
