Events for October 2017

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1

DC -- Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain

DC -- Judiciary Square -- Carl Moultrie Courthouse (DC Superior Court) (500 Indiana Ave NW)

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) First Amendment Gallery

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Matthias Mansen: Configurations

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Concourse (incl Leo Villareal's Multiverse LED installation)

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Bloomberg Internet, TV and Radio Gallery

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Edvard Munch: Color in Context

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Saul Steinberg

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions: Made in California

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Editorial Cartoons Of Jim Morin

Newseum -- Inside Media w/Steven Levingston ("JFK, MLK And The Civil Rights Movement")

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Edward R. Murrow

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Sculpture in common areas

2

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Bernardo de Gálvez (statue)

DC -- Pan American Health Organization (World Health Organization) Bldg

DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: How Finland Celebrates Its Centennial with Public Diplomacy (w/Kirsti Kauppi)

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- US Reservation 378+105+106 (Virginia Ave between 20th and 21st Sts NW)

3

Politics & Prose -- Al Franken ("Al Franken, Giant of the Senate")

4

AFI -- Latin American Film Festival (2017) -- "Woodpeckers" (w/Jean Jean) and presentation by Ike Leggett

5

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Herblock Gallery (2017)

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (6) Creating Camelot: The Kennedy Photography of Jacques Lowe

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Saul Steinberg

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Members' Room (1st Floor)

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): William Eisner

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Martin Luther

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) Funny Pages

DC -- Capitol Hill -- Rayburn House Office Bldg

DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit: Mail Call (SITES exhibit @ Rayburn HOB)

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Roof Terrace and View from...

DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs

Smithsonian Affiliations National Conference -- Briefing on the Hill @ Rayburn House Office Building

Library of Congress -- Event: AOC and USCHS tour of Library of Congress

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Congressional Reading Room (1st Floor)

New America -- Is Big Tech An Existential Threat? (w/Franklin Foer)

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Marvin Hamlisch PEGOT display

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Main Reading Room (room itself)

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Whittall Pavilion (Ground Floor)

6

AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival (2017) -- "House" (w/Dr. Sarcofiguy)

AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival (2017) -- "Halloween Video Mixtape: A Wraith Films Anthology"

7

DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle neighborhood

DC -- Callboxes

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Benito Juarez (statue)

Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day -- Crafts etc

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Exhibit: Human Trafficking: Reclaiming Freedom -- Opening Event

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate complex (and HoJo)

DC -- Shaw -- Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site (1538 9th St NW)

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Exhibit: Human Trafficking: Reclaiming Freedom

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light

Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day -- Cantare

Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day -- Ballet Folklorico Mi Herencia Mexicana

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Public Art Outside of Gallery

DC -- Temporary Signs

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Fountain

8

AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival (2017) -- Surprise Screening of "Butterfly Kisses" (w/Erik Kristopher Myers, Kenny Johnson, Cory Okouchi, and Stacie Jones Gentzler)

AFI -- "Gaslight" (w/panel) for Domestic Violence Awareness Month

AFI --"Farthest" (w/John Rubin and Tom Krimigis) for Parkland Middle School

9

DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Art

Natl World War I Memorial -- Event: Commemorative Coin Unveiling @ AUSA

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017) -- Joint Press Conference w/Ryan McCarthy and Mark Milley

DC -- Takoma neighborhood

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017) -- World War I exhibits

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017)

10

DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1301 Penn Ave NW

DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle neighborhood

DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Art

DC -- Washington Convention Center

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017) -- World War I exhibits

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures

DC -- Penn Qtr -- Hotel Monaco (700 F St. NW)

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017) -- Mark Wills Concert (w/Downrange)

AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition (2017)

DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Views from...

Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Walking Dead Artifact Donation -- Presentation

Metro Station -- Metro Center (art)

Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Walking Dead Artifact Donation -- Items

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Hugh Hefner, 1926-2017

DC -- CityCenterDC complex

11

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Terminal: Subodh Gupta

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Resound: Bells of Ancient China

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Peacock Room

Freer Gallery of Art -- Event: Press preview for the grand reopening of Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Not Covered Elsewhere

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Let Us Now Open Wide Our Eyes Video

12

AFI -- "Don Murray: Unsung Hero" (w/Don Murray and Don Malcolm)

13

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Tour: George Washington's Stomping Ground

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Tour of Stevenson Ridge

VA -- Spotsylvania -- Stevenson Ridge

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Ferry Farm

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Miscellaneous Civil War sites

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Dinner Banquet @ Stevenson Ridge

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Mary Washington House

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Historic Kenmore Plantation

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Miscellaneous Group Shots

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VA -- Fredericksburg -- Miscellaneous Civil War sites

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Miscellaneous Group Shots

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Tour: Two Battles of Chancellorsville w/Bob Krick

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Visitor Center

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Leadership at Chancellorsville w/Doug Douds

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield

VA -- Ely's Ford

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lick Run Battlefield (First Day at Chancellorsville)

VA -- Chancellorsville Natl Battlefield -- Lacy House (Ellwood)

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Walking Tour and Open House @ Sentry Box

VA -- Fredericksburg

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Sentry Box

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Walk from Marriott to Sentry Box

15

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Miscellaneous Civil War sites

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Miscellaneous Group Shots

VA -- Fredericksburg

CWT Grand Review (2017) in Fredericksburg, VA -- Tour: A Town's Ordeal w/John Hennessy

VA -- Fredericksburg Natl Battlefield -- Chatham

VA -- Fredericksburg -- Public Art

VA -- Stafford -- Government Island

VA -- Stafford Civil War Park

VA -- Stafford -- Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve

VA -- Fredericksburg Area Museum -- Everything Else

VA -- Stafford -- Aquia Landing Park

VA -- Fredericksburg Area Museum -- Exhibit: World Aflame: A Hometown In Two World Wars

VA -- Fredericksburg Area Museum -- Exhibit: Propaganda Posters

16

NPC -- Kalb Report: "Guardians of the Fourth Estate" (w/Dean Baquet and Marty Baron)

17

DC -- Brightwood -- Emory United Methodist Church (by Fort Stevens)

DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home)

DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Lincoln's Hat school visit

Natl Archives -- Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ("The Vietnam War") w/Cokie Roberts

DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) -- Interior Images

18

DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden Production Facility Tour

19

DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1301 Penn Ave NW

DC -- Federal Triangle -- Old Post Office / Trump Finger -- Outside

DC -- Mall -- Lockkeepers House (Washington City Canal House)

DC -- International Spy Museum (New Location)

DC -- Southwest (L'Enfant Plaza area)

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Peacock Room

DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Press Preview: Murder Is Her Hobby and Rick Araluce

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere

DC -- John Paul Jones Memorial

AERA Brown Lecture In Education Research (14th) w/Alfredo J. Artiles

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Octagon House and American Institute of Architects Bldg

DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Murder Is Her Hobby

DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Rick Araluce: The Final Stop

DC -- Octagon House -- Exhibit: The CODAworx CODAawards

DC -- Southwest (District Wharf)

DC -- World War II Memorial

DC -- Southwest (District Wharf) -- Politics & Prose

DC -- Dept of Agriculture Building (Jamie L. Whitten Bldg)

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Inner Courtyard

DC Heritage Trails: River Farms to Urban Towers: Southwest Heritage Trail

DC -- Southwest Shuttle

DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: The Power to See Beauty: Charles Lang Freer

DC -- Public Art: Murals by No Kings Collective (Brandon Hill, Peter Chang)

20

DC -- Penn Qtr -- Indiana Plaza -- GAR Memorial

DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Murder Is Her Hobby

DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: Rick Araluce: The Final Stop

Renwick Gallery -- Event: Murder Is Her Hobby Opening Party with SAAM and BYT

DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: What Absence Is Made Of

Politics & Prose @ Warner Theater -- Tom Hanks ("Uncommon Type") w/Ann Patchett

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 6): Beautiful Blooms: Flowering Plants on Stamps

DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Recent Acquisitions

Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Melania Trump Inaugural Gown Donation

DC -- Penn Qtr -- Capitol Crossing (200/250 Mass. Ave NW) (formerly I-395 Overpass)

21

AFI -- Film Noir Festival (2017) -- "Once a Thief" (w/Eddie Muller)

Politics & Prose -- Marvin Kalb ("The Year I Was Peter the Great")

22

DC -- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -- Views from...

DC -- Kennedy Center -- Exhibit: The Art of Robert Risko

DC -- Kennedy Center -- Exhibit: Fantasy in Japan Blue (by Reiko Sudo)

DC -- Kennedy Center -- Exhibit: Leonard Bernstein at 100

DC -- Kennedy Center -- Mark Twain Prize (2017 -- David Letterman)

DC -- US Reservation 29 -- James Monroe Park (20th and Penn Ave)

23

National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments @ Rayburn House Office Bldg

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Feast Your Eyes

National History Center -- William Taubman ("Gorbachev: His Life and Times") w/Svetlana Savranskaya and Michael Dobbs @ Wilson Center

Natl Archives -- George William Van Cleve ("We Have Not a Government")

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Adoration of the Shepherds

24

CSIS -- Book Launch: Bob Schieffer's "Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News" (w/H. Andrew Schwartz)

DC -- Dupont Circle -- 1701 Rhode Island Ave (the old YMCA)

25

DC -- Callboxes

Washington Post Live -- Health 202

DC -- Downtown -- Engine Company 16 (1018 13th St., NW)

DC -- United States Institute of Peace & AFI Docs -- Event: "Saaba" Documentary Series w/Panel Discussion

Cato Institute -- "The Future of Public Transit"

Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Sebastian Smee ("Art and Darkness") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)

DC -- Bike Sharing / Racks

DC -- General Jose de San Martin Memorial

DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Discus Thrower (Statue)

DC -- Pershing Park (became National World War I Memorial in 2021)

26

DC -- Penn Quarter neighborhood

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Mahogany Row (1st Floor, by Kluge Center)

DC -- Bike Sharing / Racks

DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Nature's Best International Photography Awards (2017)

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Celebrate: Dizzie Gillespie

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: World War I Victory Gardens

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Mahogany Row): LOC Halloween: Chambers of Mystery

Sixth & I -- Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush ("Sisters First") w/Frank Bruni

27

DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior)

Library of Congress -- Event: Creating Modern Ghost Stories: The Blair Witch Project

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Coolidge Auditorium (Ground floor)

28

DC -- Public Art: Murals (not shown by artist)

DC -- Adams Morgan neighborhood

MD -- Silver Spring -- Bike Sharing / Racks

DC -- Ambassador Theater 50th Anniversary Celebration

AFI -- Silver Spring Zombie Walk (2017) descends on "Night of the Living Dead"

29

Politics & Prose -- Alice Waters ("Coming to My Senses")

Politics & Prose -- Barry Blitt ("Blitt") w/Mike Allen

30

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 1 (Lobby and Orientation)

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 5: View of City

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 2: Impact of the Bible

DC -- Museum of the Bible (Outside)

DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia

DC -- Newseum Friends tour of Museum of the Bible

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 5: Group Areas (Conference, Theatre, Hallway)

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 3: Stories of the Bible

DC -- Museum of the Bible -- Floor 4: History of the Bible

31

DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum (Outside)

MD -- Silver Spring -- Fairfield Residential (block: Mayor Ln., Thayer Ave., Fenton St., Silver Spring Ave.)

Newseum -- Forbidden Stories launch

Nov 1

American University -- Event: Changing Political Landscape: 2016 and Beyond (w/Joshua Green and Jonathan Allen)

Nov 2

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Echoes of the Great War

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall

Library of Congress -- Event: Christopher Nolan In Conversation (w/Carla Hayden)

DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Coolidge): Movie Scores

DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Whittall Pavilion (Ground Floor)

Nov 3

Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 1: Origins (w/Ervin Duggan, Nicholas Johnson, Bill Siemering, and Cokie Roberts) and Welcome

DC -- Library of Congress Madison Bldg -- Views from...

Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 3: Style and Archives (w/David Fanning, Clayborne Carson, Stephen Gong, Margaret Drain, and Patricia Aufderheide)

Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 4: Educational Uses (w/Lloyd Morrisett, Paula Apsell, Kathryn Ostrofsky, and Jennifer Lawson) and Conclusion

Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 2: News and Talk Shows (w/Jim Lehrer, Dick Cavett, Cokie Roberts, Hugo Morales, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, and Judy Woodruff)

Nov 4

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Other (Saturday)

Politics & Prose -- Chris Matthews ("Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit")

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 04: Howard Theatre’s Crucial Role in the Community Before and After the 1968 Riots

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 01: Wiping African American Neighborhoods off the Map

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 05: A Right to the City: Reflections on the History and Legacy of Neighborhood Organizing

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 02: Paper Trails: Self-rule, Emergency Preparedness, and the Legal Language of Riots

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 08: Community Conversation: The Radical Roots of Federal City College

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Author Talks

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Poster Session

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 09: Reliving the Movement: Music, Images, and Oral Histories

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 03: Transition, Migration, and Gathering Places: Immigration & Community Spaces in the District

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 10: A Radical Archaeology: Burial Grounds, Slavery, and White Supremacy

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 07: Race and Redevelopment

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 11: Costs, Myths, and Mobilization: Integration and Desegregation in the District of Columbia

44th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Panel 06: A Complicated Path Toward 1968: History, Corruption, Trauma, and Protest in 19th-century Washington, D.C.