| Year | Key | Imgs | Short Description | |
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 | 1865 |
| 64 | | |
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| 2 |  | |
| 1941 |
| 1 | | |
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| 1 | | |
| 1950 |
| 1 | | |
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| 2 | | |
| 1952 |
| 8 | | |
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| 5 | | |
| 1954 |
| 2 | | |
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| 53 | | |
| 1956 |
| 102 | | |
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| 181 | | |
| 1958 |
| 186 | | |
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| 131 | | |
| 1960 |
| 255 | | |
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| 203 | | |
| 1962 |
| 196 | | |
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| 214 | | |
| 1964 |
| 142 | | |
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| 188 | | |
| 1966 |
| 94 | | |
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| 74 | | |
| 1968 |
| 281 | | |
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| 116 | | |
| 1970 |
| 192 | | |
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| 197 | | |
| 1972 |
| 191 | | |
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| 128 | | |
| 1974 |
| 88 | | |
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| 381 | | |
| 1976 |
| 129 | | |
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| 14 | | |
| 1978 |
| 32 | | |
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| 149 | | |
| 1980 |
| 203 | | |
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| 417 | | |
| 1982 |
| 301 | | |
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| 87 | | |
| 1984 |
| 139 | | |
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| 270 | | |
| 1986 |
| 28 | | |
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| 134 | | |
| 1988 |
| 35 | | |
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| 469 | | |
| 1990 |
| 143 | | |
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| 115 | | |
| 1992 |
| 131 | | |
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| 388 | | |
| 1994 |
| 276 | | |
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| 67 | | |
| 1996 |
| 575 | | |
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| 7,189 | | |
| 1998 |
| 13,461 | | |
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| 9,904 | | |
| 2000 |
| 10,410 | | |
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| 8,143 | | |
| 2002 |
| 8,856 | | |
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| 8,607 | | |
| 2004 |
| 10,909 | | |
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| 15,156 | | |
| 2006 |
| 24,259 | | |
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| 37,608 | | |
| 2008 |
| 44,949 | | |
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| 53,188 | | |
| 2010 |
| 53,549 | | |
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| 59,656 | | |
| 2012 |
| 58,778 | | |
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| 67,399 | | |
| 2014 |
| 66,956 | | |
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| 83,700 | | |
| 2015_CA_CCArt_Reception_150709 | 34 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Art of Comic-Con Reception
Folks here included: Mark Evanier, Art Baltazar, Michael Cho (who did this year's cover), Paul Levitz, William Stout and others. | |
| 2015_CA_El_Capitan | 12 | CA -- Hollywood -- El Capitan Theatre | |
| 2015_CA_Fandom_150709 | 76 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Pop-up: MTV Fandom Fest 2015
Folks shown here include: Bella Thorne and Gregg Sulkin (introducing Ant Man clip), iJustine and Joey Graceffa (presenting for the fandom army of the year for Fifth Harmony), Dylan Bruce and Ed Skrein (announcing Hunger Games win), Ian Ziering, Willow Shields ("Hunger Games"), ???, Mel B... | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Bldg | 22 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Bldg | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Garden | 31 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Garden | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Manu | 35 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Manuscripts (Touching the Past)
Touching the Past:
The Hand and the Medieval Book:
July 7–September 27, 2015
In the Middle Ages, the hand (manus in Latin) had special status. It was considered the servant of the body and the primary organ of touch. Fingers had exceptional powers of expression and were even said to speak.... | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_OSculp | 20 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Outside Sculpture | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_PaintR | 93 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Painting (Religious) | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Paint | 259 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Paintings | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Rooms | 161 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Rooms | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Sculp | 99 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Sculpture | |
| 2015_CA_Getty_Center_Vw | 8 | CA -- Los Angeles -- Getty Center -- Views from... | |
| 2015_CA_Graumans | 109 | CA -- Hollywood -- TCL Chinese Theatre (Grauman's) | |
| 2015_CA_Hollywood | 17 | CA -- Hollywood | |
| 2015_CA_Hollywood_Highland | 48 | CA -- Hollywood -- Hollywood and Highland Center | |
| 2015_CA_Horton_Plaza | 10 | CA -- San Diego -- Westfield Horton Plaza (incl views from) | |
| 2015_CA_Horton_PPk | 27 | CA -- San Diego -- Horton Plaza Park | |
| 2015_CA_Lincoln_Mem_Shrine | 223 | CA -- Redlands -- Lincoln Memorial Shrine | |
| 2015_CA_Queen_Califia | 11 | CA -- Escondido -- Queen Califia's Magical Circle
It had been a few years since I visited this place and the friends group had used some of my photos from that visit so I thought I'd come back. A maintenance guy said the park was closed because kids had taken hammers to it and smashed it up. | |
| 2015_CA_Redlands | 15 | CA -- Redlands | |
| 2015_CA_Redlands_CH | 18 | CA -- Redlands -- City Hall(s) | |
| 2015_CA_Redlands_Prospect | 26 | CA -- Redlands -- Prospect Park | |
| 2015_CA_Redlands_SmileyL | 74 | CA -- Redlands -- A.K. Smiley Public Library | |
| 2015_CA_Redlands_SmileyP | 42 | CA -- Redlands -- Smiley Park | |
| 2015_CA_San_Diego | 12 | CA -- San Diego -- Miscellaneous downtown sites | |
| 2015_CA_SB_McDonalds | 153 | CA -- San Bernardino -- 1st McDonald's Site
More pictures of the soon-to-be-completed mural by Phil Yeh and friends. | |
| 2015_CA_SB_McDonalds_Work_150714 | 17 | CA -- San Bernardino -- 1st McDonald's Site -- Mural work
Phil Yeh and Rory Murray were working on the mural again. | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCA | 109 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Artists
Artists shown here:
Preview Night:
Gregg Berger, Mark Evanier, Jerry Beck, Phil Ortiz, Greg Koudoulian, Steve Geppi, Mark Wheatley, Victor Gorelick, Franco Aureliani, Steven Notley ("Bob the Angry Flower"), Tom Richmond, Alex Nino, Steve Leialoha, Chris Sparks, Sergio Aragones, Bob from one of the... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP01_150709 | 15 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Up, Up and Away: 75th Anniversary of the 1940 Premiere of the Superman Radio Series
Up, Up and Away: 75th Anniversary of the 1940 Premiere of the Superman Radio Series:
Former DC Comics president Paul Levitz (World's Finest), Len Wein (creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine), Mark Waid (The Flash, Captain America), and moderator Anthony Tollin (Smithsonian Superman on Radio) discuss the... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP01_150710 | 9 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: 21st-Century Creators
21st-Century Creators:
The 21st century has proven to be a time of great change for the book industry. With huge shifts in technology and the e-book industry transforming print media, Tracy Hurren (managing editor, Drawn & Quarterly) speaks to three cartoonists who began working after the year 2000... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP01_150711 | 47 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Are You Ready, Kids?: Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants
Are You Ready, Kids?: Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants
The cast of SpongeBob is back! All your Bikini Bottom favorites are on hand to perform Idiot Box at a live table read as chosen by the fans online. Featuring Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick Star), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), and... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP01_150712 | 24 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel
The Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Panel:
It's been 21 years since we lost him and we still can't stop talking about the man some called The King of the Comics. Jack Kirby may have been the greatest creative talent the field has ever seen and once again, some of his friends and fans will be discussing why.... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP02_150709 | 14 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Autobiography of James T. Kirk
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk:
William Shatner (Star Trek: The Original Series) as James T. Kirk will read excerpts from The Autobiography of James T. Kirk. This in-world memoir chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life, including his boyhood on an Iowa farm, his youth spent on Tarsus IV,... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP02_150710 | 28 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel:
A breakthrough in the development of the graphic novel, Will Eisner's A Contract with God was not the first, was not the bestselling, and came before the days of awards, but it is still in print and affecting the explosive growth of comics' most vibrant... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP02_150711 | 30 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Marvel Animation Presents
Marvel Animation Presents:
The Marvel Animation Studios team returns for one of the most anticipated television panels at San Diego. Join Stephen Wacker (VP, current series Marvel Animation Studios), Cort Lane (VP, animation development and partnerships), and Eric Radomski (SVP, production and creative... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP02_150712 | 140 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 2
Cartoon Voices 2:
Another panel of experts at voicing animated characters convenes for your edification. They'll tell you what they do, show you what they do and probably fracture a fairy tale in the process. This time, we have Julie Nathanson (Final Fantasy, Spider-Man), Bob Bergen (Porky Pig, Star... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03A_150709 | 31 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Extant
CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Extant Exclusive Sneak Preview and Panel -
The mystery summer thriller series is back for its second season, bigger than ever with higher stakes and new faces. When Molly Woods discovers she has unwittingly put the human race on a path to destruction, she and a... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03B_150709 | 31 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Under the Dome
CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Under The Dome Exclusive Sneak Preview and Panel -
It has been weeks since the dome descended upon Chester’s Mill with Barbie and the residents of Chester’s Mill being urged to follow Melanie “home.” Season 3 will pick up where season 2 left off, and the community will... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03C_150709 | 28 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Zoo
CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Zoo Exclusive Sneak Peek and Panel-
The wild shall inherit the Earth in Zoo, CBS’s newest summer event series, based on the #1 bestselling novel by James Patterson. ZOO is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans that are sweeping the... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03D_150709 | 37 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Limitless
CBS TV Studios Comic-Con Lineup: Limitless Exclusive Premiere Screening and Panel-
What if you had access to 100% of your brain and nothing was impossible? Based on the feature film, and picking up where it left off, Limitless follows Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) as he discovers the power of the... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03_150710 | 20 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Science Fiction and Sex
Science Fiction and Sex:
Pizza rolls, not gender roles! From the strong female protagonist to the battle of the sexes, science fiction has long given us the ability to challenge the way we think about traditional gender roles. Maryelizabeth Yturralde of Mysterious Galaxy bookstore leads acclaimed... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03_150711 | 145 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Quick Draw!
Quick Draw!
Once again, three supercharged cartoonists duel to their dooms with Sharpies, each attempting to outdraw all opponents. It's one of the most popular Comic-Con events, and this year it's personal. Our returning champion Sergio Aragonés (MAD, Groo the Wanderer) goes mano a mano against Disney... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP03_150712 | 41 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Cover Story: The Art of the Cover
Cover Story: The Art of the Cover:
Forget about the insides! What makes for a great cover on a comic book? This topic will be discussed and debated by some artists who've been responsible for some of the best. With Kevin Wada (She-Hulk, Adventure Time), David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist), Lora... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP04_150709 | 10 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: ComiXology: Ask Me Anything
ComiXology: Ask Me Anything:
ComiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, spills the beans on everything you've ever wanted to know about digital comics, publishing, life, and more. From how to publish your own comic on comiXology Submit to how to begin your own successful start... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP04_150710 | 27 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: GRAPHIX: The Beginning, Present, and Beyond
GRAPHIX: The Beginning, Present, and Beyond:
Words are only half the story. Graphic novelists Jeff Smith (Bone), Raina Telgemeier (Smile), Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet) Doug TenNapel (Nnewts), Jenni and Matt Holm (Sunny Side Up), Craig Thompson (Space Dumplins), and Jimmy Gownley (Dumbest Idea Ever) join... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP04_150711 | 73 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 1
Cartoon Voices 1:
The fine art of giving voice to animated characters is again demonstrated by a dais of the best. This year, join Keone Young (Star Wars Rebels, G.I. Joe), Pat Musick (Rugrats, Extreme Ghostbusters), Eric Bauza (Ben 10, The Adventures of Puss in Boots), Jessica DiCicco (Gravity Falls,... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP04_150712 | 50 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: The Business of Cartoon Voices
Business of Cartoon Voices:
How does one get into the business of doing cartoon voices? Well, careers have been launched by folks coming to this panel and listening to some serious free advice from people actively engaged in the process from all sides. Explaining the industry this year is Paul Doherty... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP05_150709 | 26 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Sergio & Mark Show
Sergio & Mark Show:
The men who bring you Groo the Wanderer show their faces and explain just how and why it is they bring you Groo the Wanderer, as well as other silly comics. It's the award-winning duo of Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier, accompanied by the equally heralded Stan Sakai (creator of... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP05_150710 | 33 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Disney Animators: The Power of 2D
Disney Animators: The Power of 2D:
A luminary panel of former and current Disney animators spanning from Lady and the Tramp to Moana talk about the importance of 2D animation in the history of Disney, as well as the part it plays in guiding advancement of its future. Panelists are Willie Ito (Lady and... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP05_150711 | 21 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Dark Horse Takes Over the World
Dark Horse Takes Over the World:
From Hellboy to Fight Club 2, there are a lot of reasons for Dark Horse fans to get excited for the coming year in comics. Dark Horse president and publisher Mike Richardson, along with Dark Horse creators Mike Mignola, Chuck Palahniuk, Jeff Lemire, Eric Powell, and... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP06_150709 | 22 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Thunderbirds Are Go
Thunderbirds Are Go:
ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures, in association with Weta Workshop are bringing the U.S. premier of Thunderbirds Are Go exclusively to Comic-Con. Join executive producer Richard Taylor (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) and head writer Rob Hoegee (Teen Titans, Generator Rex), to watch... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP06_150710 | 77 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Lost in Space: 50th Anniversary
Lost in Space: 50th Anniversary:
It's been 50 years since this intergalactic family saga became a one-of-a-kind sci-fi classic set in the space age "future" of 1997! Created by legendary film producer Irwin Allen, this adventure series follows a typical American family, their trusty robot, and a... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP06_150711 | 29 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Doctor Who Comics Panel: Year Two, Crossover Event and New Miniseries!
Doctor Who Comics Panel: Year Two, Crossover Event and New Miniseries!
Titan Comics gives you a sneak peek at the next chapters for the Doctor in all his incarnations, including sneak peeks at the direction of Year Two featuring the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors. Writer Cavan Scott and artist... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP07_150709 | 15 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Capturing Teen Angst in Comics
Capturing Teen Angst in Comics:
These four cartoonists have written about a universal, dark side of adolescence: teen angst. Peter Bagge (Hate), Gilbert Hernandez (Bumperhead), Jillian Tamaki (Supermutant Magic Academy), and Raina Telgemeier (Drama) talk about how they channel teenage frustrations and... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP07_150710 | 14 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton:
Two-time Oscar-nominated director Bill Plympton (Cheatin', Idiots and Angels) and writer/animator Jim Lujan discuss their upcoming animated feature, Revengeance, as a work in progress. They'll screen clips from this comic look at L.A.'s underworld scene and talk about funding the film... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP07_150711 | 34 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: That 70s Panel
That 70s Panel:
Once again, this panel talks about what was so special about comic books in the 1970s, starting with all the new talent that entered the field and bonded with the old talent. Discussing those days will be Chris Claremont (X-Men, Wolverine), Bob Layton (Iron Man), Don McGregor (Black... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP08_150710 | 12 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: The World of Mouse Guard: 10th Anniversary
The World of Mouse Guard: 10th Anniversary:
2015 makes the 10th anniversary of David Petersen's beloved series Mouse Guard, published by Archaia. Come celebrate the title and hear behind-the-scenes stories of the making of the Art of Mouse Guard 2005-2015 hardcover with Petersen, editor Cameron... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP08_150711 | 15 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Film: Art of Richard Thompson
The Art of Richard Thompson:
Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as the "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his extraordinary art, a gift so rare that it compelled "Calvin and Hobbes" creator, Bill Watterson, not only to break an almost 20 year... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09A_150711 | 39 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: Arrow
Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment Screening Block
DC fans, get ready for Super Hero Saturday Night! Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment welcome fans into the world of some of DC Comics' greatest characters during a three-hour experience in Hall H. The exclusive evening will feature... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09B_150711 | 42 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: The Flash
The Flash:
The cast and creative team behind The CW's highest-rated show of all time, The Flash, speed back to San Diego for their second Comic-Con appearance, bringing with them answers to many of the questions left unanswered in the jaw-dropping Season 1 finale. Following the defeat of Barry Allen's... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09C_150711 | 50 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: DC's Legends of Tomorrow
DC's Legends of Tomorrow:
When heroes alone are not enough, the world needs legends. In DC's Legends of Tomorrow, having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09D_150711 | 59 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: Gotham
Gotham:
The origin story continues in season two of Gotham, and the stakes are higher than ever, as supervillains more ambitious and depraved are introduced, and a realignment of alliances shakes up the fight for power in Gotham City. Season 2 will witness Detective James Gordon's moral compass... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09E_150711 | 73 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: Supergirl
Supergirl:
In the vast DC Comics Universe of superheroes, the rich mythology of Superman, the planet Krypton and the House of El is perhaps the most famous and instantly recognizable. Enter Supergirl! Born Kara Zor-El on the doomed planet Krypton, the preteen Kara escaped at the same time as the infant... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09F_150711 | 37 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment: Trapeze act
These performers came on after the Supergirl panel, before they presented the premier of the first episode. We had seen various people run across the stage in costume during the previous talks but had no idea what was going on until the act began. | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP09_150710 | 66 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: iZombie Special Video Presentation and Q&A
iZombie Special Video Presentation and Q&A
After the shocking events in the season finale of brainy hit iZombie, be among the first to get the scoop on what's in store for Season 2. Now that Liv (Rose McIver) gave the cure for zombie-ism to Blaine and Major (one that she desperately wanted to take... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCCP10_150710 | 59 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Panel: World Premiere of Justice League: Gods & Monsters
World Premiere of Justice League: Gods & Monsters:
Animation legend Bruce Timm returns to the popular DC Universe Original Movies with his unique new vision of a Justice League you've never seen before. Justice League: Gods & Monsters features a Superman born of General Zod's blood, a Batman with a... | |
| 2015_CA_SDCC | 233 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Miscellaneous | |
| 2015_CA_SDCC_Assassins | 11 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Pop-up: Assassins Creed Syndicate | |
| 2015_CA_SDCC_Masquerade_150711 | 41 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Masquerade | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Art | 8 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Art | |
| 2015_CA_SD_HyattV | 43 | CA -- San Diego -- Hyatt Parking Garage -- Views from... | |
| 2015_CA_SD_LibraryV | 40 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Views from... | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Library | 53 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Library | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Library_CCArt | 144 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Exhibit: Art of Comic-Con
There are a lot of duplicates here because I noticed a few times that I had the wrong camera settings and swept through all of the items for a second or third time. I'll resolve that at some point. | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Library_CCTie | 18 | CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Exhibit: San Diego Comic-Con Tie-In
These were some of the comic-book-related items that were part of the library's government documents collection. | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Marriott | 10 | CA -- San Diego -- Marriott
The staff said they were building a 2,000-seat auditorium. I suspect comic-con will be using the space next year. | |
| 2015_CA_SD_MLK_Promenade | 33 | CA -- San Diego -- Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Ped_Bridge | 30 | CA -- San Diego -- Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge @ Convention Center (incl views from) | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Ralphs | 5 | San Diego Comic-Con International (2015) -- Ralphs prepared for comic-con | |
| 2015_CA_SD_Spreckels | 12 | CA -- San Diego -- Spreckels Theater
The Conan show was being broadcast from here for the convention. I talked to one of the workers and he said they brought in 300 people to do the show. | |
| 2015_CA_UCR_Botanic | 62 | CA -- Riverside -- University of California, Riverside Botanic Gardens | |
| 2015_CA_Walk_Fame | 209 | CA -- Hollywood -- Walk of Fame | |
| 2015_DC_1000F | 22 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1000 F St NW block (near Petersen House) | |
| 2015_DC_10Movies_150622 | 69 | Newseum & AARP -- 10 Movies That Shaped the Boomers (w/Arch Campbell, Ann Hornaday and Bill Newcott)
10 Movies That Shaped the Boomers
Baby boomers have always had an intimate relationship with the movies. Born in the age of Saturday matinees, boomers came of age just as the movies began to awaken to the radical changes taking place in American culture.
In a special Newseum program co-sponsored by... | |
| 2015_DC_13th_Amend_151207 | 50 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- The 13th Amendment at 150: Emancipation, America’s Second Founding, and the Challenges That Remain
The 13th Amendment at 150: Emancipation, America’s Second Founding, and the Challenges That Remain:
The 13th Amendment, which banned slavery throughout the United States, began a wave of constitutional transformations that followed through on President Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom” and... | |
| 2015_DC_13th_Amend_151211 | 116 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: 13th Amendment at 150
Join President Lincoln's Cottage and the United States Commission on Civil Rights on Friday, December 11 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment!
Scholars Christian Samito, George Rutherglen, and Edna Green Medford will discuss the historical, legal, and contemporary impact of the 13th... | |
| 2015_DC_1stDiv | 22 | DC -- Ellipse -- First Division Monument | |
| 2015_DC_2nd_InaugM_150304 | 100 | DC -- U.S. Capitol -- 150th Anniversary Lincoln's Second Inaugural -- Miscellaneous
Lincoln's Second Inaugural to be Commemorated at United States Capitol:
Actor Stephen Lang to Read Lincoln’s Immortal Inaugural Address
The Illinois State Society and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation (ALBF) will co-sponsor an official ceremony and reception in Statuary Hall of the... | |
| 2015_DC_2nd_InaugP_150304 | 127 | DC -- U.S. Capitol -- 150th Anniversary Lincoln's Second Inaugural -- Presentation
150th Anniversary Commemoration President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Statuary Hall – United States Capitol
SPONSORED BY:
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation
Illinois State Society of Washington, DC
PROGRAM
Welcoming Remarks:
* Harold Holzer, Chair, Abraham Lincoln... | |
| 2015_DC_3rdCCS | 13 | DC -- Downtown -- Third Church of Christ, Scientist (1600 K St NW)
The old building, the Brutalist architecture structure, had been demolished and the new one was going up. The church had begun to hate the old, inefficient building but preservationists fought the demolition for awhile. | |
| 2015_DC_40Chances_151005 | 111 | Newseum -- Special -- 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World (w/Howard Buffett, Tony Blair, Emmanuel de Merode, and Judy Woodruff)
To mark the opening of the new exhibit “40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World — The Photography of Howard G. Buffett,” the Newseum presents a special evening program featuring Buffett, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and conservationist Emmanuel de Merode.
The exhibit features 40 of... | |
| 2015_DC_4Seasons | 2 | DC -- Georgetown -- Four Seasons (2800 Penn Ave NW) | |
| 2015_DC_4th_ArchivesB_150704 | 70 | DC -- 4th of July @ National Archives -- Member Breakfast (2015)
July 4th at the National Archives
Promise of America Breakfast: American Heritage Chocolate Tasting
Remarks:
* (Emcee) Patrick Madden, Executive Director, Foundation for the National Archives
* David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
* A’Lelia Bundles, Chair and President, Foundation for... | |
| 2015_DC_4th_Archives_150704 | 156 | DC -- 4th of July @ National Archives -- Ceremony (2015)
Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony
* Greetings from Steve Scully, C-SPAN News Broadcaster
* Presentation of colors by the Continental Color Guard*
* National Anthem by Adalia Jimenez
* Performance by the Fife and Drum Corps*
* Remarks by Archivist of the United States David S.... | |
| 2015_DC_4th_Parade_150704 | 52 | DC -- 4th of July parade (2015) | |
| 2015_DC_6th_Hanukkah_151118 | 16 | Sixth & I -- Hanukkah staff shoot
Hanukkah | |
| 2015_DC_777Vw | 43 | DC -- Residences @ Gallery Place -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_Abdul-Jabbar_151031 | 61 | Politics & Prose -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ("Mycroft Holme")
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Mycroft Holme:
In his first novel for adults, the NBA-legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of On the Shoulders of Giants and, not-incidentally, a long-time fan of the Holmes mysteries, focuses on Sherlock’s older, smarter but, according to Arthur Conan Doyle, less industrious,... | |
| 2015_DC_AFRH | 22 | DC -- Armed Forces Retirement Home (Old Soldiers Home) | |
| 2015_DC_Alcohol_Regs_151022 | 80 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- History and Impact of Alcohol Regulation
The History and Impact of Alcohol Regulation:
Author and alcohol historian Garrett Peck (The Prohibition Hangover) moderates a discussion on the origins, effects, and current debate over the regulation of alcohol–exploring such topics as the three-tier system of alcohol distribution, recent industry... | |
| 2015_DC_Alice_Post_150930 | 141 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Luncheon and Post-event Mingling | |
| 2015_DC_Alice_Pre_150930 | 202 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Setup and Pre-Event Mingling | |
| 2015_DC_Alice_Program_150930 | 62 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House -- Alice Award (2015) -- Program/Awards
Luncheon celebrating Senator Patty Murray & Senator Lisa Murkowski
Awards Program agenda:
* Welcome: Peggy Cifrino, 2015 Alice Award Co-Chair
* Alice Award Presentation: Diana Chasen Lipsey, President, Board of Directors, awarding...
*** Senator Patty Murray
* Alice Award Presentation: Lucy... | |
| 2015_DC_Amar_150528 | 53 | Natl Archives -- Akhil Reed Amar ("Law of the Land")
The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic and Lincoln’s Constitutional Vision
Renowned legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar illustrates how geography, federalism, and regionalism have influenced some of the biggest questions in American constitutional law. While we may be united under... | |
| 2015_DC_Americas_Award_150918 | 182 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Duncan Tonatiuh and Margarita Engle
Library to Host 2015 Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature:
Authors Duncan Tonatiuh and Margarita Engle will receive the Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature during a special awards presentation on Friday, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. in the Hispanic Division Reading Room,... | |
| 2015_DC_AmerInd_Algonquian | 15 | DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake
Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake
November 13, 2006 – Permanent
Through photographs, maps, ceremonial and everyday objects, and interactives, this small display provides an overview of the history of the Native peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region (what is now Delaware,... | |
| 2015_DC_AmerInd_Dakota | 65 | DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota-U.S. War of 1862
Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota—U.S. War of 1862
January 14, 2015 – December 29, 2015
In the late summer of 1862, a war raged across southern Minnesota between Dakota akicitas (warriors) and the U.S. military and immigrant settlers. In the end, hundreds were dead and thousands more would lose... | |
| 2015_DC_AmerInd_Inca_Road | 199 | DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
June 26, 2015 – June 1, 2018
Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achievements in history. A network more than 20,000 miles long, crossing mountains and tropical lowlands, rivers and deserts, the Great Inka Road linked... | |
| 2015_DC_AmerInd_Int | 9 | DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Interior Areas Not Elsewhere Shown (such as Main Lobby) | |
| 2015_DC_AmerInd_Our_Univ | 10 | DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World | |
| 2015_DC_Amer_Now_Misc_150627 | 53 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- America Now! Innovation in Art -- Miscellaneous (incl courtyard floating ribbon)
America Now! Innovation in Art:
Come explore how artists are using technology to propel their work! Join:
* Digital paint pioneer Jeremy Sutton as he paints on an iPad, with the image projected on a large screen using motion capture technology. He paints to the beats of electro-swing band Good Co.... | |
| 2015_DC_Amer_Now_Music_150627 | 157 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- America Now! Innovation in Art -- Good Co. and DJ Eliazar
America Now! Innovation in Art:
Come explore how artists are using technology to propel their work! Join:
* Digital paint pioneer Jeremy Sutton as he paints on an iPad, with the image projected on a large screen using motion capture technology. He paints to the beats of electro-swing band Good Co.... | |
| 2015_DC_Amer_Now_Starry_150627 | 36 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- America Now! Innovation in Art -- Starry Heavens and Ribbon
America Now! Innovation in Art:
Come explore how artists are using technology to propel their work! Join:
* Digital paint pioneer Jeremy Sutton as he paints on an iPad, with the image projected on a large screen using motion capture technology. He paints to the beats of electro-swing band Good Co.... | |
| 2015_DC_Amer_Now_Sutton_150627 | 59 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- America Now! Innovation in Art -- Jeremy Sutton
America Now! Innovation in Art:
Come explore how artists are using technology to propel their work! Join:
* Digital paint pioneer Jeremy Sutton as he paints on an iPad, with the image projected on a large screen using motion capture technology. He paints to the beats of electro-swing band Good Co.... | |
| 2015_DC_Amer_Now_Video_150627 | 23 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- America Now! Innovation in Art -- Video Games
America Now! Innovation in Art:
Come explore how artists are using technology to propel their work! Join:
* Digital paint pioneer Jeremy Sutton as he paints on an iPad, with the image projected on a large screen using motion capture technology. He paints to the beats of electro-swing band Good Co.... | |
| 2015_DC_Anacostia_Park | 46 | DC -- Anacostia Park | |
| 2015_DC_AncestorsC_150306 | 57 | DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Closing: Light of the Ancestors
Black Artists of DC presents Light of the Ancestors Exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
February 11 – March 6, 2015
Meet the Artists Reception February 13, 2015 6 - 9 PM
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Friday, March 6, 2015, 6 - 9 PM.
The theme of Light of the Ancestors exhibition,... | |
| 2015_DC_AncestorsO_150213 | 110 | DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Light of the Ancestors
Black Artists of DC presents Light of the Ancestors Exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
February 11 – March 6, 2015
Meet the Artists Reception February 13, 2015 6 - 9 PM
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Friday, March 6, 2015, 6 - 9 PM.
The theme of Light of the Ancestors exhibition,... | |
| 2015_DC_AncestorsP_150213 | 97 | DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Opening: Light of the Ancestors -- Formal presentation
Black Artists of DC presents Light of the Ancestors Exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
February 11 – March 6, 2015
Meet the Artists Reception February 13, 2015 6 - 9 PM
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Friday, March 6, 2015, 6 - 9 PM.
The theme of Light of the Ancestors exhibition,... | |
| 2015_DC_AncestorsP_150306 | 90 | DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Closing: Light of the Ancestors -- Formal Presentation
Black Artists of DC presents Light of the Ancestors Exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
February 11 – March 6, 2015
Meet the Artists Reception February 13, 2015 6 - 9 PM
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Friday, March 6, 2015, 6 - 9 PM.
The theme of Light of the Ancestors exhibition,... | |
| 2015_DC_Ancestors | 75 | DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Exhibit: Light of the Ancestors
Black Artists of DC presents Light of the Ancestors Exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
February 11 – March 6, 2015
Meet the Artists Reception February 13, 2015 6 - 9 PM
Closing Reception and Artist Talk Friday, March 6, 2015, 6 - 9 PM.
The theme of Light of the Ancestors exhibition,... | |
| 2015_DC_Archives | 25 | DC -- Natl Archives -- Exterior | |
| 2015_DC_Archives_Spirited | 185 | DC -- Natl Archives -- Exhibit: Spirited Republic
“Spirited Republic” invites visitors to look at the government’s tolerance, oversight, and control of alcohol throughout our history.
“Spirited Republic” is free and open to the public, and will be on display in the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery of the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC,... | |
| 2015_DC_Archives_SpiritPP_150303 | 49 | Natl Archives -- Press Preview: Spirited Republic
Press Preview for National Archives “Spirited Republic” Exhibit March 3
Spirited Republic explores the Federal Government’s efforts, successes, and failures to change our drinking habits, from whiskey rations to the Continental Army to the Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition and beyond. The exhibit uses... | |
| 2015_DC_Artigas_Statue | 10 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- General Jose Gervasio Artigas Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Art_of_RT_150109 | 106 | Politics & Prose -- Nick Galifianakis, Gene Weingarten, and David Apatoff ("Art of Richard Thompson")
Nick Galifianakis, Gene Weingarten,and David Apatoff - The Art of Richard Thompson
Named the Outstanding Cartoonist of 2010 by the National Cartoonists Society, Richard Thompson is best known for his syndicated series, Cul de Sac. But his work encompasses much more, and in this colorful career... | |
| 2015_DC_Ashes_150208 | 79 | Politics & Prose -- Aviva Kempner, Menachem Rosensaft, Michael Brenner, and Matt Nosanchuk ("God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes")
Aviva Kempner, Menachem Rosensaft, Michael Brenner, and Matt Nosanchuk - God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
Marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, who has a... | |
| 2015_DC_Ataturk | 4 | DC -- Kemal Ataturk statue @ Sheridan Circle | |
| 2015_DC_Atlas | 1 | DC -- Atlas District neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_AtomicT_150805 | 53 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Gallery Talk: Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
June 13 through August 16, 2015
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks, this powerful show will include 20 artifacts collected from the debris of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as 6 large folding screens that depict... | |
| 2015_DC_Atomic_70th_150805 | 115 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Closing: Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this evening will include testimony by two Hibakushi (survivors of the atomic bombings) and a piano and choral performance by the children of Little Friends of Peace.
Program (in sequence):
* Melvin Hardy
*... | |
| 2015_DC_AU | 11 | DC -- American University | |
| 2015_DC_Axelrod_150211 | 121 | Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- David Axelrod ("Believer") w/John Dickerson
David Axelrod In Conversation with John Dickerson
David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young journalist investigating city corruption, a campaign consultant guiding underdog candidates, or as senior adviser to the president, Axelrod held fast to his faith in the power of stories to... | |
| 2015_DC_Ayers_150624 | 81 | Library of Congress Kluge Center -- Event: Ed Ayers ("The Shape of the Civil War")
Edward L. Ayers, noted historian and president of the University of Richmond, will deliver a lecture titled "The Shape of the Civil War" on Wednesday, June 24 at 4 p.m.
Hosted by the John W. Kluge Center, the event will occur in room 119 on the first floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10... | |
| 2015_DC_Backstory_Live_151122 | 101 | Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: BackStory Live (100th anniversary of "The Birth of a Nation")
Please join us for a live presentation of the award-winning BackStory with the American History Guys, featuring Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh.
This lively, interactive, and thought-provoking show will examine the historic D.W. Griffith film, "The Birth of a Nation" at the 100th anniversary of... | |
| 2015_DC_Baldacci_151124 | 56 | Politics & Prose -- David Baldacci ("The Guilty")
David Baldacci - The Guilty:
Starting with The Innocent, Will Robie staked his claim as one of the most coldly efficient professional killers any government could have on retainer. On his fourth international mission, however, Robie chokes. He can’t pull the trigger. To go forward, Robie must go... | |
| 2015_DC_Barrymore_151103 | 97 | Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Drew Barrymore ("Wildflower") w/Scott Simon
Drew Barrymore In Conversation with Scott Simon:
Descended from Hollywood royalty and working as an actress before she could walk and talk, Barrymore has had much of her private life on display for the whole world to see. Now, at the age of forty, Barrymore has increasingly and deliberately withdrawn... | |
| 2015_DC_Bar_Deco | 4 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- The Bulletin / Bar Deco (717 6th St, NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Bergen_150413 | 97 | Sixth & I -- Candice Bergen ("A Fine Romance") w/Madhulika Sikka
Candice Bergen In Conversation with Madhulika Sikka
In A Fine Romance, Candice Bergen shares with humor, honesty, and wisdom the big events of her life: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter... | |
| 2015_DC_Bernard_151019 | 81 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys Takoma -- Warren Bernard ("Cartoons for Victory")
@ Busboys and Poets Takoma: Warren Bernard - Cartoons for Victory
World War II needed heroes on the home front as well as on the battlefields abroad, and many comic artists provided just that. Bernard, executive director of Small Press Expo, whose vast collection and vaster knowledge of comic art has... | |
| 2015_DC_Bikes_Cars2_150317 | 72 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Bikes Vs. Cars" (w/Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangard) -- Presentation @ Carnegie Inst
Welcome:
* Stephanie Flack, Executive Director, Environmental Film Festival
Opening:
* Dr. Matthew P. Scott, President, Carnegie Institution for Science
Remarks:
* Alex Liftman, Global Environment Executive, Bank of America
Introduction of BIKES vs CARS:
* Peter Fox-Penner, Principal, The... | |
| 2015_DC_Bikes_Cars_150317 | 204 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Bikes Vs. Cars" (w/Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangard) -- Reception @ Carnegie Inst
Join us to celebrate the Festival’s launch and its theme: Climate Connections.
Traffic gridlock around the world is frustrating people, wasting their time, polluting the air and contributing to climate change. Director Fredrik Gertten (BANANAS! and Big Boys Gone Bananas!) investigates the daily global... | |
| 2015_DC_Bolivar_Statue | 15 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Simon Bolivar Equestrian Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Book_Hill | 4 | DC -- Georgetown -- Book Hill Park | |
| 2015_DC_Botanic | 4 | DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden | |
| 2015_DC_Botanic_Bartholdi | 14 | DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Bartholdi Park | |
| 2015_DC_Botanic_CAC_151215 | 15 | DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Performance: Christmas (2015) -- Capital Accord Chorus (choral performance) | |
| 2015_DC_Botanic_Exposed | 45 | DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Exposed: The Secret Life of Roots
Exposed: The Secret Life of Roots
February 21 through October 13, 2015
Hidden Treasures:
Plant roots are vital components of the earth's ecosystem. They are necessary for all plant growth, including the production of food and nutrients for humans and many other organisms. However, as root systems... | |
| 2015_DC_Botanic_XMas | 240 | DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Christmas (2015) -- Pollination Station
"Season’s Greenings: Pollination Station". Including some Christmas card family shots. | |
| 2015_DC_Bradford_150420 | 63 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Mark Bradford (James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture)
Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture with Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford is one of today’s most recognized contemporary artists and is known for his expansive, multi-layered collage paintings. He discusses his Amendment painting series that explores themes of democracy, power, and freedom as represented in... | |
| 2015_DC_Building | 79 | DC -- Natl Building Museum | |
| 2015_DC_Building_Beach | 66 | DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: The BEACH
The National Building Museum presents a one-of-a-kind destination for visitors, an interactive architectural installation that brings the quintessential summer experience of going to the beach to downtown Washington, D.C. Spanning across the Museum’s Great Hall, the BEACH, created in partnership with... | |
| 2015_DC_Busboys_14V | 34 | DC -- Busboys and Poets -- 14th and V | |
| 2015_DC_Busboys_Brookland | 14 | DC -- Busboys and Poets -- Brookland | |
| 2015_DC_Busboys_Takoma | 15 | DC -- Busboys and Poets -- Takoma | |
| 2015_DC_Cameras_150916 | 36 | Newseum Institute -- Panel -- Cameras, Cops and Accountability
Cameras, Cops and Accountability:
Cities and states across the country are experimenting with the use of police body cameras as a way of holding law enforcement officers accountable and building public trust in government. But proposed and existing body camera policies vary greatly, especially with... | |
| 2015_DC_Campbell_150215 | 65 | Politics & Prose -- W. Joseph Campbell ("1995: The Year the Future Began")
W. Joseph Campbell - 1995: The Year the Future Began:
What were you doing in 1995? If you were Bill Clinton, you were making the acquaintance of Monica Lewinsky. If you were a computer geek, you were on-line. If you lived in Oklahoma City, you may have witnessed the nation’s deadliest terrorist attack... | |
| 2015_DC_Canstruction | 92 | NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's CanstructionŽ 2015
November 22 - Monday, November 30, 2015
Join us at Canstruction on Black Friday as an alternative to the excess of shopping as we raise awareness about hunger in DC. Bring a can to get a dollar off of your admission to the National Building Museum and then use the can to vote for your favorite project.... | |
| 2015_DC_CapHill | 5 | DC -- Capitol Hill neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_CapitolV | 10 | DC -- U.S. Capitol -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_CapitolX | 42 | DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Christmas Tree (2015)
2015 -- Lutz Spruce -- 74 feet (23 m) -- Chugach National Forest -- Alaska -- The first Capitol Christmas Tree from Alaska. | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol | 13 | DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior) | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_Crossing | 40 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Capitol Crossing (200/250 Mass. Ave NW) (formerly I-395 Overpass)
(Washington DC) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that Property Group Partners (PGP), the developer of Capitol Crossing, will begin construction in the I-395/3rd Street Tunnel tomorrow, February 24, 2015. Work in northbound and southbound lanes will be performed between D... | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_Grounds | 2 | DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_I | 5 | DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Miscellaneous areas | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_LincolnRm | 18 | DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Special: Lincoln Room | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_NSH | 3 | DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- National Statuary Hall | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_R | 17 | DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Rotunda | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_SenatePk | 10 | DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Senate Park (Fountain, Reflecting Pool) | |
| 2015_DC_Capitol_Signs | 4 | DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Signs | |
| 2015_DC_Captive_Cove_151101 | 61 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys Brookland -- Rebecca Goldfield, Matt Dembicki, Mike Short, and Evan Keeling ("Captive of Friendly Cove")
@ Busboys and Poets Brookland: Rebecca Goldfield, Matt Dembicki, Mike Short, and Evan Keeling - Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt:
Goldfield is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS and National Geographic. Her previous collaboration... | |
| 2015_DC_Carla_PrizeM_150516 | 55 | Politics & Prose -- Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize Winners (w/Atticus Lish and Bryan Stevenson) -- Miscellaneous
2014 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize Winners:
Established last year by friends and family of the founding owner of Politics & Prose, this annual award recognizes two authors of first or second books, one fiction, one nonfiction. Join us to celebrate the exceptional work of Atticus Lish, author... | |
| 2015_DC_Carla_PrizeP_150516 | 83 | Politics & Prose -- Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize Winners (w/Atticus Lish and Bryan Stevenson) -- Presentation
2014 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Literary Prize Winners:
Established last year by friends and family of the founding owner of Politics & Prose, this annual award recognizes two authors of first or second books, one fiction, one nonfiction. Join us to celebrate the exceptional work of Atticus Lish, author... | |
| 2015_DC_Carnegie_Lib_ADA | 5 | DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle -- Carnegie Library of Washington, DC -- ADA steps
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_Caroli_151104 | 70 | Natl Archives -- Betty Boyd Caroli ("Lady Bird and Lyndon")
Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President:
Betty Boyd Caroli restores Lady Bird to her rightful place in history, painting a vivid portrait of a marriage with complex but familiar and identifiable overtones. A book signing follows the program. | |
| 2015_DC_CBMSO | 61 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office (437 7th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_CBMSO_Placards | 60 | Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Exhibit: Standard Placards | |
| 2015_DC_CBMSO_Tour_151031 | 9 | Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Event: Group tour w/Garrett Peck
Garrett Peck was leading a group through. | |
| 2015_DC_CBrown_Mem | 65 | DC -- Langdon -- Chuck Brown Memorial Park | |
| 2015_DC_CB_Fireworks_150404 | 67 | Fireworks -- Cherry Blossom Festival fireworks (2015) | |
| 2015_DC_CB_Parade_150411 | 252 | DC -- Natl Cherry Blossom Festival -- Parade (2015) | |
| 2015_DC_Charlie_March_150111 | 124 | Newseum -- Special -- Silent March in Memory of the Victims of the Attacks in France
Silent March to Start at Newseum in Memory of the Victims of the Attacks in France (Je Suis Charlie)
The Embassy of France is organizing a silent march on Sunday, January 11, following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
The march will take place starting at 2 pm between the Newseum (starting point) and... | |
| 2015_DC_Cherry | 127 | DC -- Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin (2015) | |
| 2015_DC_Chess_Players | 1 | DC -- Public Art: Chess Players (sculpture by Lloyd Little) @ Judiciary Square | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Artists_150214 | 50 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Artists
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Cere_150214 | 134 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Ceremony
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Crafts_150214 | 53 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Crafts
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Else_150214 | 36 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Everything else
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Fairfax_150214 | 58 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Fairfax Chinese Dance Troupe
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Lions_150214 | 47 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Lions
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_ChineseFD_Shaanxi_150214 | 72 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Chinese New Year (2015) -- Shaanxi Folk Arts Group
Chinese New Year Family Festival
This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
American Art is proud to open our doors to the Chinatown and DC community in celebration of the 2015 Lunar New Year! Help us bring in the year of the sheep with an afternoon of... | |
| 2015_DC_Cincinnati | 2 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House) | |
| 2015_DC_Cincinnati_C1776_150419 | 106 | Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House) -- Event: Saving Revolutionary War Battlefields
Saving Revolutionary War Battlefields
The American Revolution Institute has joined with the Civil War Trust, the nation's premier historic land preservation organization, to promote Campaign 1776, an ambitious program to preserve endangered battlefields of the Revolutionary War. Celebrate the... | |
| 2015_DC_Cincinnati_Hermione | 35 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House) -- Exhibit: Lafayette & L'Hermione: Symbols of French-American Friendship
Lafayette & L'Hermione: Symbols of French-American Friendship
April 3 — September 6, 2015
March 1780: The marquis de Lafayette is entrusted by his king with a message for George Washington. It is a message the American commander–in–chief has been hoping to receive for nearly five years—that France... | |
| 2015_DC_City_Sea_150329 | 49 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "City Under the Sea" (w/Guy and Anita Chaumette) @ Carnegie Inst
City Under the Sea
Beneath the waves lies a city where predators pillage, impostors loot and con artists dupe competitors. Dive below for an epic exploration of the most densely populated city on earth. Using highly specialized macro cinematography, the filmmakers capture interactions among marine... | |
| 2015_DC_Civil_Rights50_150117 | 55 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Eleanor Holmes Norton and Bill Plante (Civil Rights at 50)
Inside Media: 1965: Civil Rights at 50
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.
“1965: Civil Rights at 50” tells the... | |
| 2015_DC_Climate_Peace_150622 | 84 | Wilson Center -- Panel (A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks (Report Launch))
The ultimate “threat multiplier,” climate change is increasing the challenges facing the U.S. development, diplomatic, and security communities. “A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks,” an independent report commissioned by the members of the G7, identifies seven compound... | |
| 2015_DC_ClintonFBI | 279 | DC -- William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building -- Mural Tour
Kristen M Fusselle, Fine Arts Specialist, Office of Planning & Design Quality, National Capital Region PBS, U.S. General Services Administration took me through twice after I had some camera issues on my first tour. | |
| 2015_DC_ClintonFB | 45 | DC -- William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | |
| 2015_DC_Clinton_150924 | 29 | Politics & Prose -- Chelsea Clinton ("It's Your World")
Chelsea Clinton - It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
In a book that tackles the biggest challenges facing us today, Chelsea Clinton combines facts, charts, photographs and stories to give readers a deep understanding of the world around them—and how anyone can make a difference.... | |
| 2015_DC_Cocktails_Castle_150611 | 170 | DC -- Pride in Preservation: Cocktails in the Castle
Pride in Preservation – Cocktails in the Castle:
The Heurich House Museum will host its second annual Pride in Preservation: Cocktails in the Castle event on Thursday, June 11 from 6:00-8:00 pm. This official Capital Pride Week reception will honor and celebrate the National Park Service (NPS) LGBTQ... | |
| 2015_DC_Cohen_150702 | 44 | Politics & Prose -- William S. Cohen ("Collision")
William S. Cohen - Collision:
Now running the Cohen Group, an international consulting firm, Cohen served as secretary of defense under Clinton and spent twenty-four years in public office in the Senate and U.S. Congress. He is the author of several books on race in America and has written on politics... | |
| 2015_DC_Cohen_151110 | 15 | Wilson Center -- Andrew Cohen ("Two Days in June")
Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
In June 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been president of the United States for almost two and a half years. That spring he is grappling with the two seismic forces of the early 1960s: the proliferation of nuclear arms and the... | |
| 2015_DC_Coliseum | 46 | DC -- NoMa -- Washington Coliseum (Uline Arena) | |
| 2015_DC_Columbia_Square | 11 | DC -- Columbia Square building | |
| 2015_DC_Comey_151209 | 46 | Newseum -- National Security and the First Amendment (w/James B. Comey) incl reception
National Security and the First Amendment
7 p.m. Program in the Annenberg Theater
8 p.m. Reception in the ABC News Changing Exhibits Gallery
Join us for a rare public appearance by FBI Director James B. Comey. He will participate in a discussion with Newseum CEO Jeffrey Herbst on "National Security... | |
| 2015_DC_Cong_Cem | 102 | DC -- Congressional Cemetery | |
| 2015_DC_Cong_Cem_Goats | 19 | DC -- Congressional Cemetery -- Goats
Have you ever seen a green goat? Come to Historic Congressional Cemetery on Capitol Hill on Thursday, August 6th, and watch a herd of Browsing Green Goats in action. The goats will spend around two weeks at the cemetery helping to control invasive species that threaten this National Historic Landmark.... | |
| 2015_DC_Const_Gardens | 13 | DC -- Mall -- Constitution Gardens (incl Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence) | |
| 2015_DC_Costello_151015 | 64 | Sixth & I -- Elvis Costello ("Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink") w/Dan Kois
Elvis Costello In Conversation with Dan Kois
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had... | |
| 2015_DC_CourthousePk | 3 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Courthouse Park (John Marshall Park and the one north of it) | |
| 2015_DC_CRA50_150503 | 168 | Newseum -- 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Voting Rights Act (w/Barney Frank, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Steven Roberts)
50th Anniversary Celebration of the Voting Rights Act
Join Moment Magazine and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute for a celebration of the golden anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moderated by journalist Steven V. Roberts, the event will feature Former Congressman... | |
| 2015_DC_Crime | 3 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Museum of Crime & Punishment (575 7th St NW)
The museum was closing two days after these pictures were taken. I had visited the museum several years ago. Photography was allowed without any apparent restrictions and I did one of my normal obsessive jobs of photographing everything. Several years later, I got a cease and desist letter from them... | |
| 2015_DC_CrittersDC | 3 | DC -- Critters -- Squirrel
Cooling off squirrel | |
| 2015_DC_Crossroads_150515 | 83 | Wilson Center -- Panel (Is the United States at a Crossroads? Domestic and Global Dimensions) w/Madeleine Albright
Is the United States at a Crossroads? Domestic and Global Dimensions
Please join us for a half-day discussion with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and leading experts from journalism and academia, on the role of the United States in the world today and the future of U.S. immigration... | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_Din_150717 | 100 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Dinner | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_EH_150717 | 29 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Explore History!
Explore History! Discover how NMAH can bring history alive in your classroom. | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_Etc_150717 | 16 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Et cetera | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_OS_150717 | 62 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Objects Out of Storage
Objects Out of Storage; Learn more about our Military and Photographic History collections. Presented by the NMAH curatorial staff. | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_OT_150717 | 24 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Opening Talk
Opening Talk: Remarks from the CWT and NMAH. | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_PF_150717 | 31 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Price of Freedom
Price of Freedom: Explore the Exhibition. | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_Th_150717 | 33 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- Theater
When history comes to life
By NMAH, March 24, 2009
Like many of you, I love the idea of inanimate objects having a secret life. The people leave, the lights go out, the door closes and then— magic, stuffed animals, toy cowboys, and Teddy Roosevelt come to life. Hollywood is particularly good at... | |
| 2015_DC_CWT_Teachers_WW2_150717 | 41 | Civil War Teacher Institute (2015) in Washington DC -- World War II Memorial tour
w/James Percoco | |
| 2015_DC_Darlington | 3 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Darlington Memorial Fountain | |
| 2015_DC_DAR | 14 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- DAR Memorial Constitution Hall | |
| 2015_DC_DAR_Remembering | 72 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- DAR Memorial Constitution Hall -- Exhibit: Remembering the American Revolution 1776-1890 | |
| 2015_DC_Dateline_Saigon_150928 | 80 | Newseum -- "Dateline: Saigon" screening (w/Neil Sheehan, George Packer, and Thomas Herman) incl reception
The Newseum presents the Washington, D.C., premiere of the new documentary “Dateline – Saigon,” which profiles five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who covered the Vietnam War.
“Dateline – Saigon” chronicles the controversial and groundbreaking work of The New York Times’s David Halberstam, UPI’s... | |
| 2015_DC_DCJazz_150618 | 13 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- DC Jazz Composers Collective
Take 5! Jazz Series - DC Jazz Composers Collective
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an... | |
| 2015_DC_Decade_150127 | 47 | Natl Archives -- Joe Looby ("Decade of Discovery") w/Jason Baron, Gary Stern, and Anne Weismann
The Decade of Discovery
The Decade of Discovery follows events that unfolded between 2002 and 2012, when a government attorney took on a quest to find a better way to search White House email and a teacher took a stand for civil justice on the electronic frontier. Following the screening, there will be... | |
| 2015_DC_Decatur | 94 | DC -- Lafayette Square -- Decatur House (748 Jackson Place NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Decatur_Gingerbread | 48 | DC -- Decatur House -- Exhibit: White House Gingerbread | |
| 2015_DC_Deceit_151208 | 28 | Cato Institute -- "Deceit on the Road to War" (w/John Schuessler, etc)
Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy
Liberal democracy improves foreign policy. That, at least, is the view of most political scientists and the idea behind the U.S. Constitution’s assignment of war powers to both executive and legislative branches. The need for... | |
| 2015_DC_Decision_150623 | 53 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Panel Discussion: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition: Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
This film screening and symposium will bring together a panel of prominent historians to reflect on the decision to drop the atomic bombs and its implications. Free and open to the public.
Film screening of "The Bomb" from... | |
| 2015_DC_De_La_Torre_150503 | 106 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Einar and Jamex de la Torre (Distinguished Artists Talk)
Distinguished Artists Talk with Einar and Jamex de la Torre:
Living and working in both México and California, brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre became active in the glass-art world in the 1980s and are well known internationally for their colorful, assemblage style of work. Join the brothers as... | |
| 2015_DC_Diamant_150113 | 37 | Sixth & I -- Anita Diamant ("Boston Girl") w/Gayle Wald
Anita Diamant, In Conversation with Gayle Wald
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night comes The Boston Girl, a novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism, told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th... | |
| 2015_DC_Disabled_Mem | 14 | DC -- American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_DOC | 21 | DC -- Dept of Commerce Building (Herbert C. Hoover Bldg) | |
| 2015_DC_DOC_Budget_150205 | 54 | Dept of Commerce -- Event: Budget Briefing
Secretary Penny Pritzker, Deputy Secretary Bruce Andrews and Department of Commerce bureau heads participated in an all-hands employee meeting to discuss the Commerce Department’s FY2016 budget, which was released Monday, February 2. Secretary Pritzker delivered remarks about the budget and the... | |
| 2015_DC_DOC_SFT | 58 | DC -- Dept of Commerce Building (Herbert C. Hoover Bldg) -- Sculpture of Federal Triangle exhibit
Sculpture of Federal Triangle display. It's been there for years but I never photographed it. | |
| 2015_DC_DOJ | 24 | DC -- Dept of Justice Building (Robert F. Kennedy Dept of Justice Bldg) | |
| 2015_DC_Doonan_150209 | 67 | Sixth & I -- Simon Doonan ("The Asylum")
Simon Doonan, the creative ambassador for Barneys New York, has spent his entire career in fashion, so believe him when he says his peers in this multi-billion dollar industry are nuts. Style insiders see patterns and trends everywhere; they have a predilection for theatrical make-up and artfully... | |
| 2015_DC_Downtown | 9 | DC -- Downtown area (K Street environs -- between New Hampshire and New York, Penn and M) | |
| 2015_DC_Drawing_150213 | 22 | Reynolds Center -- Special -- Drawing At Dusk
Drawing at Dusk
Join us for a special evening session of our Draw and Discover! program. Sketch from a live clothed model in the Luce Foundation Center or take inspiration from one of the thousands of artworks on view. Basic drawing material are provided. Open to all ages and levels of artistic... | |
| 2015_DC_Dudziak_151210 | 58 | Library of Congress Kluge Center & National History Center -- Event: Mary Dudziak ("A Bullet in the Chamber")
“A Bullet in the Chamber: The Politics of Catastrophe and the Declaration of World War I”
As members of Congress gathered in April 1917 to decide whether to declare war on Germany, some legislators arrived with battle scars. For Civil War veterans, the memory of that catastrophic war would inform their... | |
| 2015_DC_Dupont_Fountain | 13 | DC -- Dupont Circle Fountain | |
| 2015_DC_Earth_Day_150418 | 60 | DC -- Rally: Earth Day (2015) @ Mall
Earth Day is throwing an all-day, star-studded 45th birthday bash on the Mall. Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day — part concert, part rally — will go heavy on an ending-poverty-and-climate-change message, and it won’t hold back on the music, either. This is one of just six shows that No Doubt, fronted by... | |
| 2015_DC_Earth_Day_FOB_150418 | 61 | DC -- Rally: Earth Day (2015) @ Mall -- Fall Out Boy
The band here was vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. | |
| 2015_DC_Eckington | 2 | DC -- Eckington neighborhood (incl Metro Yards) | |
| 2015_DC_EC_Seeway | 10 | DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: SEEWAY
SEEWAY, a collection of images reflecting Canadian artist Wanda Koop’s journey down the St. Lawrence Seaway
The Embassy of Canada will host SEEWAY, an exhibit from celebrated contemporary Canadian artist, Wanda Koop. In 2010, Koop joined the crew of the Canadian Steamship Line ocean freighter,... | |
| 2015_DC_EFF_Misc_150329 | 25 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Miscellanous Shots @ Carnegie Inst
Pictures taken between shows. | |
| 2015_DC_Eisenberg_151120 | 70 | Politics & Prose -- Jesse Eisenberg ("Bream Gives Me Hiccups")
Jesse Eisenberg - Bream Gives Me Hiccups:
To accomplishments that include writing and acting in plays—most recently with Vanessa Redgrave—publishing in The New Yorker, and being nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Social Network, Eisenberg now adds a lively collection of short fiction.... | |
| 2015_DC_Ejecta_150815 | 14 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Anthony Cervino and Shannon Egan
Luce Artist Talk with Anthony Cervino and Shannon Egan
Local artists discuss their work and process while relating what they do to artworks on view in the Luce Foundation Center. This series is presented in collaboration with CulturalDC’s Flashpoint Gallery. Free coffee or tea is available.
Sculptor... | |
| 2015_DC_Ellipse | 8 | DC -- Ellipse (President's Park South) | |
| 2015_DC_Ellis_150512 | 56 | Natl Archives -- Joseph Ellis ("Quartet")
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution:
In 1776, 13 American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Botswana | 8 | DC -- Embassy of Botswana
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_CanadaX | 10 | DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Outdoor Christmas Tree | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Canada | 15 | DC -- Embassy of Canada
Including the PRIDE flag as well as the Christmas tree. | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Colombia | 47 | DC -- Embassy of Colombia
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015
Come visit the Embassy of Colombia. We'll have food, dancing, a live concert and much more!
Special guests:
Juan Valdez, Verny Varela, El Tayrona | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Dominican | 16 | DC -- Embassy of Dominican Republic
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Egypt | 4 | DC -- Embassy of Egypt | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_France | 42 | DC -- Embassy of France
Tributes after Friday the 13th attacks in Paris: Terrorists had attacked various places in Paris about 48 hours beforehand. I don't know when these commemorative items were put up but some were still being installed when I was there. | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_KoreaR | 10 | DC -- Embassy of Korea -- Residence | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Latvia | 35 | DC -- Embassy of Latvia
Part of the EU Open House 2015
Discover Latvia through art, literature, and folklore! Enjoy Latvian folk music by the folk ensemble "Sudrabavots"! Dance along with folk dance group "Namejs"! Get to know Latvian contemporary literature by meeting Latvian writers! Explore Latvia through exiled painter... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Latvia_Art | 16 | DC -- Embassy of Latvia -- Exhibit: Laimonis Eglitis "Retrospective"
Explore Latvia through exiled painter Laimonis Eglitis’ art exhibit "Retrospective"! | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Libya | 5 | DC -- Embassy of Libya
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Malta | 4 | DC -- Embassy of Malta
Part of the EU Open House 2015
Discover Malta, a unique archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Experience our traditional hospitality and homemade sweets. Learn about Malta’s amazing collection of archives and manuscripts that preserve the history and heritage of the Maltese... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_MexCIX_25YrsO_150224 | 119 | DC -- Embassy of Mexico -- Mexican Cultural Institute -- Exhibit: 25 Years/25 Artists -- Opening Event
25 Years / 25 Artists:
February 24th through May 30th, 2015 at the Mexican Cultural Institute
"25 years 25 artists" is an exhibition celebrating the Mexican Cultural Institute's first 25 years. This visual arts exhibition presents works from several generations and artistic movements. From the... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_MexCIX_25Yrs | 50 | DC -- Embassy of Mexico -- Mexican Cultural Institute -- Exhibit: 25 Years/25 Artists
25 Years / 25 Artists:
February 24th through May 30th, 2015 at the Mexican Cultural Institute
"25 years 25 artists" is an exhibition celebrating the Mexican Cultural Institute's first 25 years. This visual arts exhibition presents works from several generations and artistic movements. From the... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Morocco | 9 | DC -- Embassy of Morocco
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Mozambique | 23 | DC -- Embassy of Mozambique
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Nicaragua | 40 | DC -- Embassy of Nicaragua
Part of Passport DC (Around the World) Open House 2015 | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Portugal | 18 | DC -- Embassy of Portugal
Part of the EU Open House 2015
Discover the West Coast of Europe during your visit to the Portuguese Embassy. Get acquainted with a variety of Portuguese products, and view a photography exhibition, “Looking for Portugal”, by Jorge Serpa. | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Romania | 26 | DC -- Embassy of Romania
Part of the EU Open House 2015
By visiting the Romanian Embassy to the U.S., you will not only be delighted to see one of the finest examples of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture, but also to discover Romania’s traditions and culture through tasting local food and drinks. Exciting performances of... | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Spain | 2 | DC -- Embassy of Spain | |
| 2015_DC_Emb_Turkey | 1 | DC -- Embassy of Turkey | |
| 2015_DC_Engine31 | 5 | DC -- Wakefield -- Engine Company 31 (Forest Hills Firehouse)
Sunset by the firehouse. | |
| 2015_DC_Enough_150617 | 34 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Film Talk: "Enough to Live On" (w/Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton)
Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton from 217 Films present the premiere of Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA. The film celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Art Project and tells the story of how the New Deal used the arts to bring a message of... | |
| 2015_DC_EPPV | 28 | DC -- East Potomac Park -- Views of the Potomac River | |
| 2015_DC_EWaste_150325 | 23 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Film: "E-Waste Tragedy" (w/Cosima Dannoritzer) @ Goethe-Institut
E-Waste Tragedy
Presented with the Embassy of Spain and the Goethe Institute
Every year millions of tons of discarded electronic waste – computers, television sets, mobile phones, household appliances – are shipped illegally to India, China or Africa. This film spans the world to reveal how greed and... | |
| 2015_DC_Explorers_Guild_151023 | 139 | NPC -- Kevin Costner, Jon Baird, and Rick Ross ("The Explorers Guild")
Kevin Costner along with co-authors Jon Baird and Rick Ross will discuss their new book "The Explorers Guild" on October 23 at 12:00 p.m. in the Conference Rooms.
The Explorers Guild, a clandestine group of adventurers who bravely journey to those places in which light gives way to shadow and reason... | |
| 2015_DC_Explorers_Guild_151024 | 112 | Politics & Prose -- Kevin Costner, Jon Baird, and Rick Ross ("The Explorers Guild") w/Keith Donohue
Kevin Costner, Jon Baird, Rick Ross - The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala
Costner, the actor, director, and producer, created The Explorers Guild with his Horizon co-writer, Jon Baird, who is a former editor of Harvard Lampoon and author of Day Job and Songs From Nowhere Near the... | |
| 2015_DC_Exposing_150315 | 73 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/MaryAnne Golon, Lucian Perkins and Michael Abramowitz (Exposing the Darkness)
Inside Media: Exposing the Darkness: Photography in Conflict Zones
Award-winning photographers MaryAnne Golon and Lucian Perkins share their experiences of recording crises around the world and putting themselves in harm’s way to capture conflict on the human level.
They will be joined by Michael... | |
| 2015_DC_ExtinctionR_150329 | 131 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Racing Extinction" -- Closing Reception @ Carnegie Inst
Racing Extinction
Closing Night, Premiere Screening, Award Presentation and Reception
Winner, Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy
An invitation to the Festival’s grand finale: the Washington, D.C. premiere of Racing Extinction with Oscar-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, who will receive the... | |
| 2015_DC_Extinction_150329 | 118 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Racing Extinction" -- Award and Q+A w/Louie Psihoyos, Leilani Münter, Kirk Johnson, and Gina Papabeis @ Carnegie Inst
Racing Extinction
Closing Night, Premiere Screening, Award Presentation and Reception
Winner, Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy
An invitation to the Festival’s grand finale: the Washington, D.C. premiere of Racing Extinction with Oscar-winning filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, who will receive the... | |
| 2015_DC_FallFD_Crafts_150912 | 62 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Fall Family Day (2015) -- Crafts
Celebrate the start of the fall season at American Art with an afternoon of festive activities and performers including: face painting, scavenger hunts, craft making, stilt walkers and a "cake walk".
Join local artist Susan Goldman in a printmaking workshop or kick up your heels to lively Americana... | |
| 2015_DC_FallFD_Music_150912 | 97 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Fall Family Day (2015) -- RockCandy Cloggers
Celebrate the start of the fall season at American Art with an afternoon of festive activities and performers including: face painting, scavenger hunts, craft making, stilt walkers and a "cake walk".
Join local artist Susan Goldman in a printmaking workshop or kick up your heels to lively Americana... | |
| 2015_DC_FallFD_Printing_150912 | 87 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Fall Family Day (2015) -- Printmaking
Celebrate the start of the fall season at American Art with an afternoon of festive activities and performers including: face painting, scavenger hunts, craft making, stilt walkers and a "cake walk".
Join local artist Susan Goldman in a printmaking workshop or kick up your heels to lively Americana... | |
| 2015_DC_Fantom_FCBD_150502 | 14 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Fantom Comics -- Event: Free Comic Book Day
Folks included Andrew Aydin and Jamie Noguchi | |
| 2015_DC_FCUCC | 2 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- First Congregational UCC (945 G St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_FDIC | 84 | DC -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Exhibit | |
| 2015_DC_Final_Journey_150418 | 46 | DC -- New York Avenue Presbyterian Church -- Event: Abraham Lincoln: The Final Journey
Abraham Lincoln – The Final Journey
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
1313 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005
This will be the first of the National Park Service's "funeral" stops commemorating the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train and return of his body to... | |
| 2015_DC_Fireworks_EDay_150416 | 8 | DC -- Emancipation Day (2015) -- Fireworks | |
| 2015_DC_Fire_Dog_Mem | 16 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Natl Fire Dog Memorial
I hadn't known until I started Googling to file in descriptions on the site, but the memorial had been vandalized back in March. Of course they had cleaned it up by the time I got around to seeing it again in August but apparently the dog had been sprayed with blue paint and the letters "KKK" had been... | |
| 2015_DC_First_Ladies_150423 | 116 | Natl Archives & C-SPAN -- Panel -- First Ladies; Private Lives, Public Image
First Ladies: Private Lives, Public Image:
Susan Swain, president and co-chief operating officer of C-SPAN, leads a discussion on all forty-five First Ladies—their lives, their ambitions, and their unique partnerships with their Presidential spouses. A book signing will follow the program.
Carl... | |
| 2015_DC_Foggy_Bottom | 11 | DC -- Foggy Bottom neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_Folger | 2 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Folger Shakespeare Library (201 E Capitol St SE) | |
| 2015_DC_Folger_Decoding | 22 | DC -- Folger Shakespeare Library -- Exhibit: Decoding the Renaissance
Decoding the Renaissance
500 Years of Codes and Ciphers
November 11, 2014–February 26, 2015
The Renaissance was the first great age of mass communication, but it was also the period when the art of secret writing came into its own. The new science of codes and ciphers produced some of the period’s... | |
| 2015_DC_Folklife_Peru | 152 | Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2015) -- Peru
Perú: Pachamama
Crisscrossed with paths connecting communities across geography and history, Peru boasts a stunning vertical landscape that integrates a diversity of ecosystems and cultures.
Peru is one of the world’s most biodiverse nations, containing ninety microclimates across extreme variances of... | |
| 2015_DC_Fords | 45 | DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Theatre, Lobby)
That new collage portrait is gorgeous! | |
| 2015_DC_Fords_150A_150414 | 31 | Ford's Theatre -- 150th anniversary daytime
The Lincoln Tribute
April 14-15, 2015
This around-the-clock event will mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination.
First-Person Accounts
Throughout the day and night
Living historians will provide first-person accounts about the end of the Civil War, the experience being inside the... | |
| 2015_DC_Fords_150V_150414 | 102 | Ford's Theatre -- 150th anniversary candlelight vigil
Candlelight Vigil
April 14 at 10:15 p.m.
On Tenth Street in front of Ford’s Theatre
Beginning at 10:15 p.m., Ford’s will host more than 150 Civil War living historians on Tenth Street to recreate the all-night vigil for Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the night, the historians will share first-person... | |
| 2015_DC_Fords_Bricks | 9 | DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Sidewalk Bricks)
Donor bricks outside of Ford's Theatre. | |
| 2015_DC_Fords_Museum | 15 | DC -- Ford's Theatre NHS (Museum) | |
| 2015_DC_Fords_Wreath_150415 | 143 | Ford's Theatre -- Lincoln's Death Wreath Laying
Wreath-Laying Ceremony
April 15 at 7:22 a.m.
On Tenth Street in front of the Petersen House
On the morning of April 15, Ford’s Theatre Society and the National Park Service will host a wreath-laying ceremony beginning at 7:22 a.m. on the steps of the Petersen House (the house where Lincoln died). The... | |
| 2015_DC_Francis_CaseVw | 43 | DC -- Francis Case Memorial Bridge -- View from... | |
| 2015_DC_Friedlander_151130 | 45 | Politics & Prose -- Judah Friedlander ("If the Raindrops United")
Judah Friedlander - If the Raindrops United: Drawings and Cartoons:
A stand-up comic and actor, Friedlander appeared in American Splendor and is best known for his work in 30 Rock. But he’s not just a multi-talented performer—Friedlander has written the karate primer, How to Beat Up Anybody, and he’s... | |
| 2015_DC_Friendship_Arch | 1 | DC -- Chinatown -- Friendship Arch | |
| 2015_DC_Frohman_151017 | 32 | Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Artist Talk: Jesse Frohman (photographer)
A former protégé of Irvin Penn, photographer Jesse Frohman discusses his works on view in "Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze." Meet at the exhibition entrance on the first floor, south galleries. | |
| 2015_DC_FTC | 15 | DC -- Federal Trade Commission building (600 Penn Ave NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Ft_DeRussy | 11 | DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort DeRussy | |
| 2015_DC_Ft_Slocum | 7 | DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort Slocum | |
| 2015_DC_Ft_Totten | 20 | DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort Totten | |
| 2015_DC_G40_Art | 201 | G-40: The Summit art show (2015) @ Whino on H -- Art
Presented by Art Whino, the annual G40 Art Summit group art show brings together world-renowned artists for a month long exhibition, with works in Low Brow and street culture expression, that reflect a particular theme.
The 2015 G40 event will once again be a building ‘takeover,’ showcased at a 20,000... | |
| 2015_DC_G40_Opening_150912 | 20 | G-40: The Summit art show (2015) @ Whino on H -- People @ Opening Reception
Presented by Art Whino, the annual G40 Art Summit group art show brings together world-renowned artists for a month long exhibition, with works in Low Brow and street culture expression, that reflect a particular theme.
The 2015 G40 event will once again be a building ‘takeover,’ showcased at a 20,000... | |
| 2015_DC_GAHF_Gala_1Rec_151029 | 106 | DC -- German-American Heritage Foundation -- 2015 Distinguished German-American of the Year gala event -- 1 Reception and Silent Auction | |
| 2015_DC_GAHF_Gala_5Post_151029 | 90 | DC -- German-American Heritage Foundation -- 2015 Distinguished German-American of the Year gala event -- 2 Dinner and Final Photos | |
| 2015_DC_GAHM | 11 | DC -- German-American Heritage Museum | |
| 2015_DC_GAHM_Hollywood_150620 | 38 | DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Event: 100 Years of Hollywood Panel Tie-In
Delve into 100 years of Hollywood history and learn about the contributions and achievements made by German-Americans this Saturday at our guided tour and film screening at the GAHM!
Stop by and celebrate the opening of this exciting new exhibit with us on Saturday, June 20th, 2015, from 11:00 AM -... | |
| 2015_DC_GAHM_LaemmleO_150618 | 173 | DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Opening: 1915 – 2015: 100 Years of Hollywood – The “Laemmle Effect“ | |
| 2015_DC_GAHM_Laemmle | 203 | DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Exhibit: 1915 – 2015: 100 Years of Hollywood – The “Laemmle Effect“
Exhibition: 1915 – 2015: 100 Years of Hollywood – The “Laemmle Effect“
June 18 - September 30, 2015
This multimedia traveling exhibition explores the influence of German immigrants on the American film and entertainment industry from 1915 to today, and pays tribute to Hollywood visionary Carl Laemmle,... | |
| 2015_DC_GAHM_Unity | 81 | DC -- German-American Heritage Museum -- Exhibit: Path to German Unity
THE PATH TO GERMAN UNITY
Travel back in time to the peaceful revolution of 1989, the fall of the wall, and the abolition of the East-German state.
Washington, DC: On display until December 31, 2015
Exhibition Summary:
This poster exhibit was created by the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der... | |
| 2015_DC_Gallaudet | 71 | DC -- Gallaudet University | |
| 2015_DC_Gallaudet_ADA | 5 | DC -- Gallaudet University -- ADA steps
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_Gallery_PlaceJ | 7 | DC -- Gallery Place building -- Jumbotrons | |
| 2015_DC_Gallery_Place | 12 | DC -- Gallery Place building | |
| 2015_DC_GamerFDP_150815 | 56 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Gamer Family Festival -- Performance by Mega Ran and K-Murdock
Gamer Family Festival
Imagine a whole day inspired by the video games in the museum’s collection! Play the game Flower; create pixel art and other crafts; catch up with our partners at MAGFest, who will be bringing multiple console stations and games including Pong, Duck Hunt, Sonic Adventure 2, Super... | |
| 2015_DC_GamerFD_150815 | 156 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Gamer Family Festival
Gamer Family Festival
Imagine a whole day inspired by the video games in the museum’s collection! Play the game Flower; create pixel art and other crafts; catch up with our partners at MAGFest, who will be bringing multiple console stations and games including Pong, Duck Hunt, Sonic Adventure 2, Super... | |
| 2015_DC_Gannon_150608 | 19 | Newseum -- Journalism/Works -- Kathy Gannon
Journalism/Works: A Conversation with Kathy Gannon:
A conversation with Kathy Gannon, veteran Associated Press correspondent who was shot and seriously wounded in Afghanistan in 2014 in an attack by an Afghan policeman in which her AP colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, was killed. Gannon will... | |
| 2015_DC_Gardeners_150329 | 81 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Gardeners of Eden" (w/Kristin Davis and Rob Brandford) incl reception @ Carnegie Inst
Gardeners of Eden
Africa’s elephants are hurtling toward extinction as fuel for the worldwide ivory trade. While conservationists howl and corrupt governments fail to address the ongoing slaughter, one brave family has manned the front lines for decades, rescuing one elephant at a time. Go inside... | |
| 2015_DC_GAR | 16 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Indiana Plaza -- GAR Memorial
Snow and a spring day. | |
| 2015_DC_Gateway_150203 | 76 | Natl Archives -- Eric Foner ("Gateway to Freedom") w/Ed Ayers, Edna Greene Medford, and Adam Rothman
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner builds on fresh evidence, including a secret, detailed record of slave escapes, to tell the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Ed Ayers, President of... | |
| 2015_DC_Gellman_150922 | 84 | DC -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission & City Club of Washington: Irwin Gellman ("President and the Apprentice")
The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission & City Club of Washington cordially invite you to a presentation and book signing by author Dr. Irwin F. Gellman on his newly released book.
Sequence of Events:
* Reception
* National... | |
| 2015_DC_GeorgetownL | 31 | DC -- Georgetown -- Library
Including a visit to the Peabody Room. | |
| 2015_DC_Georgetown | 14 | DC -- Georgetown neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_Georgetown_Lutheran | 6 | DC -- Georgetown -- Georgetown Lutheran Church (1556 Wisconsin Ave, NW) | |
| 2015_DC_GNSI_Sequential_150916 | 36 | Natl Museum of Natural History -- Event: GNSI-DC Sequential Art in Science Communication
GNSI-DC Sept 16th - Sequential Art in Science Communication by David Clarke
The word “comics” might bring to mind well-thumbed copies of Scrooge McDuck, Spiderman, or the newspaper's Sunday funny pages, but today sequential art is being used to communicate and teach subjects such as science, medicine... | |
| 2015_DC_Goldstein_150404 | 8 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Early Spring Gallery Talk: Guy Goldstein | |
| 2015_DC_Gompers_Mem | 13 | DC -- Samuel Gompers Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_Grand_Review_150517 | 102 | DC -- Grand Review of the Armies Parade
Join over 1,500 marchers, and spectators in viewing this commemoration of the Grand Review of the Armies
On May 23, 1865, the Army of the Potomac would march down Pennsylvania Avenue. Soldiers of the armies of Georgia and the Tennessee would take center stage the next day. In all, more than 150,000... | |
| 2015_DC_Grant_Mem | 35 | DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Ulysses S. Grant Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Lisner | 15 | DC -- GWU -- Lisner Auditorium | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Museum_Bldg | 10 | DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Building | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Museum_Making | 81 | DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Exhibit: Civil War & Making of Modern Washington
The Civil War and the Making of Modern Washington
March 21–October 15, 2015
Washington, D.C. underwent remarkable changes, both physically and politically, as a result of the American Civil War. The Civil War and the Making of Modern Washington examines the city’s transformations from the beginning of... | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Museum_Seat | 53 | DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Exhibit: Seat of Empire
Seat of Empire: Planning Washington, 1790–1801
March 21–October 15, 2015
Washington, D.C. was the result of political compromise and artistic imagination. In 1792, George Washington charged French-born architect Peter L’Enfant with a momentous task: to envision the capital of a new nation from a swath... | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Museum_Textile | 24 | DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Exhibit: Unraveling Identity
Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories
March 21–August 24, 2015
The largest exhibition in Textile Museum history, Unraveling Identity unites textiles from across cultures to explore expressions of individual, cultural, political, and social identity throughout the ages.
Throughout time and... | |
| 2015_DC_GWU_Museum_Treasure | 2 | DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Exhibit: Treasures from the Albert H. Small Collection | |
| 2015_DC_HalloweenFDC_151017 | 122 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Halloween -- Crafts
Ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my! Get in the Halloween spirit with spooky craft activities, scavenger hunts, and live music and performances. Whether in new costume or an old favorite, all are welcome to arrive wearing their Halloween best!
This program is generously supported by Booz Allen... | |
| 2015_DC_HalloweenFDJ_151017 | 93 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Halloween -- Junk Man
Ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my! Get in the Halloween spirit with spooky craft activities, scavenger hunts, and live music and performances. Whether in new costume or an old favorite, all are welcome to arrive wearing their Halloween best!
This program is generously supported by Booz Allen... | |
| 2015_DC_HalloweenFDM_151017 | 40 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Halloween -- Magician
Ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my! Get in the Halloween spirit with spooky craft activities, scavenger hunts, and live music and performances. Whether in new costume or an old favorite, all are welcome to arrive wearing their Halloween best!
This program is generously supported by Booz Allen... | |
| 2015_DC_Hancock_Mem | 9 | DC -- General Winfield Scott Hancock (Ellicott) Memorial
Including Hancock memorial in the snow. | |
| 2015_DC_HandiHour_150723 | 228 | Reynolds Center & James Renwick Alliance -- Event: Handi-Hour
Handi-hour
DC’s premier DIY hour is back for a fun evening of all-you-can-craft activities. Enjoy craft beers specially selected for the event and live music by Practically Einstein. Use paint pens to create your own coffee mug design and concoct a tea blend you can enjoy from your mug with teas from... | |
| 2015_DC_Hart_150720 | 68 | Politics & Prose -- Gary Hart ("Republic of Conscience")
Gary Hart - The Republic of Conscience:
Hart, Colorado senator from 1975 to 1987 and currently the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland, is both a political progressive and a self-described “political…fundamentalist.” In his latest work of political theory, the author of The Courage of Our... | |
| 2015_DC_Hart_SOB | 68 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Hart Senate Office Building | |
| 2015_DC_Hayden_150503 | 81 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys Takoma -- Tom Hayden ("Listen, Yankee!") w/John Angelos
@ Busboys and Poets Takoma: Tom Hayden - Listen, Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters
As Cuba and the U.S. look ahead to rapprochement, Hayden fills in the revolutionary background—of both nations. The author of the seminal Port Huron Statement and a former California state legislator, Hayden gives an... | |
| 2015_DC_Haygood_151010 | 31 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Wil Haygood ("Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America")
Inside Media: The Life of Thurgood Marshall
Best-selling author Wil Haygood talks about his new book, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America.”
The book profiles the first African American Supreme Court justice using the contentious five-day Senate hearing to... | |
| 2015_DC_HeritageV | 40 | DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_Heritage | 13 | DC -- Heritage Foundation | |
| 2015_DC_Hess_150118 | 103 | Politics & Prose -- Stephen Hess ("Professor and the President")
Stephen Hess - The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House:
Having served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan may have seemed an unlikely choice to advise Nixon on social policies. Nixon brought the liberal academic on board shortly... | |
| 2015_DC_HeurichV | 4 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Christian Heurich House Museum (The Brewmaster's Castle) (1307 New Hampshire Ave NW) -- View from Fire Escape | |
| 2015_DC_Heurich | 132 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Christian Heurich House Museum (The Brewmaster's Castle) (1307 New Hampshire Ave NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Holiday_Market | 16 | DC -- Downtown Holiday Market by the Reynolds Center | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust | 15 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_151109 | 59 | Library of Congress -- Event: Writing the Holocaust (w/Anthony Pitch and Nancy Geise) @ Madison Bldg
The Library’s European Division and its Hebrew Language Table will host "Writing the Holocaust," a discussion with authors Anthony Pitch and Nancy Geise, moderated by Michlean Amir of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Pitch will discuss his book, "Our Crime Was Being Jewish," featuring vivid memories... | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_Action | 8 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Exhibit: From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide
From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide:
“When we say ‘never again,’ what does it mean?”
—Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor
From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide introduces visitors to the concept and law of genocide, and to three contemporary cases of... | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_Neighbors | 190 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Exhibit: Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust
Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust:
Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party leaders is indisputable. Less well... | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P0_Vilna | 18 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (0) Eishishok (near Vilna) | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P1_Begin | 98 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (1) Beginnings | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P2_Union | 94 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (2) Anschluss (Union) | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P3_War | 57 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (3) War! | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P4_Final | 107 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (4) Final Solution | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P5_Warsaw | 34 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (5) Warsaw Uprising | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P6_Camps | 142 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (6) The Camps | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P7_Exterm | 54 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (7) Extermination Camps | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P8_Resist | 124 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (8) Resistance | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_P9_After | 61 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Permanent: (9) Afterwards | |
| 2015_DC_Holocaust_Protocols | 40 | DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Exhibit: A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
Prejudice against or hatred of Jews—known as antisemitism—has plagued the world for more than 2,000 years. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is... | |
| 2015_DC_Holodomor_MemD | 15 | DC -- Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 -- Dedication-related items
The dedication event was the next day but the designer, Larysa Kurylas, and Michael Kiminski, whose field in Manitoba provided the basis for the wheat sculpted, were in Union Station in preparation. Also around for the weekend events was the Holodomor National Awareness Tour, a project conceived by the... | |
| 2015_DC_Holodomor_Mem | 75 | DC -- Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 | |
| 2015_DC_Holzer_150214 | 25 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
Inside Media: Lincoln and the Power of the Press
Harold Holzer talks about his new book, “Lincoln and the Power of the Press,” which examines how the president used the press to shape public opinion.
The program coincides with opening weekend of the Newseum’s newsest exhibit “President Lincoln is... | |
| 2015_DC_Holzer_150215 | 54 | Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Harold Holzer ("Lincoln and the Power of the Press")
Meet the Author: Harold Holzer:
Harold Holzer is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. Join Holzer in America's Presidents as he discusses his latest book Lincoln and the power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion. | |
| 2015_DC_Honors_151206 | 223 | DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2015)
Folks here include: Niara Iman (Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2015), Jane Harman (Woodrow Wilson Center), Susan Collins, Patrick Leahy, Norah O'Donnell and Geoff Tracy ("Chef Geoff"), James Billington, ???, Lynda Carter, Robert Altman, Ken Salazar, Mark Warner, Vernon Jordan, Carol Schwartz, Julie... | |
| 2015_DC_Hornaday_150221 | 42 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Ann Hornaday (Oscar Preview)
Inside Media: Oscar Preview With Washington Post Film Critic Ann Hornaday
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday previews the 87th annual Academy Awards and discusses some of the biggest hits — and misses — of the year.
The program will feature clips from some of the Oscar-nominated... | |
| 2015_DC_Horton_150307 | 137 | DC -- New York Avenue Presbyterian Church -- Event: An Evening with Bobby Horton
An Evening with Bobby Horton
At the New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, Lincoln's church, 7:30 p.m. Bobby Horton will lead us in songs of the Civil War soldier, northern and southern.
A seasoned performer, Horton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and music historian. He has performed with... | |
| 2015_DC_Hot_Type_150619 | 52 | AFI Docs 2015 -- "Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation" (w/Barbara Kopple) @ Newseum
HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION
Two-time OscarŽ winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) focuses on the esteemed weekly The Nation. Founded in 1865 by abolitionist Republicans, the iconic progressive publication accepts no revenue from advertisers, enabling its ahead-of-the-pack critiques of the... | |
| 2015_DC_Hubble_150425 | 64 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/John Mace Grunsfeld and Zoltan Levay (25th Anniversary of the Hubble Telescope)
Inside Media: The 25th Anniversary of the Hubble Telescope
On the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope, veteran astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, and Zoltan Levay of the Space Telescope Science Institute offer their... | |
| 2015_DC_Ike_MemD | 7 | DC -- Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial Exhibit @ City Club of Washington (Columbia Square) | |
| 2015_DC_Innov_FD_Crafts_150502 | 161 | Reynolds Center w/U.S Patent and Trademark Office -- Family Day -- Innovation Family Festival -- Crafts and Technology
Innovation Family Festival
Highlighting themes of invention and containers, Saturday’s Innovation Family Day presents an array of activities—from the Bash the Trash’s instrument building and performance to demonstrations by Oasis Island Sounds and the All New Genetically Altered Jug Band to our... | |
| 2015_DC_Innov_FD_Hist_150502 | 96 | Reynolds Center w/U.S Patent and Trademark Office -- Family Day -- Innovation Family Festival -- Historical Figures
Innovation Family Festival
Highlighting themes of invention and containers, Saturday’s Innovation Family Day presents an array of activities—from the Bash the Trash’s instrument building and performance to demonstrations by Oasis Island Sounds and the All New Genetically Altered Jug Band to our... | |
| 2015_DC_Innov_FD_Perf_150502 | 113 | Reynolds Center w/U.S Patent and Trademark Office -- Family Day -- Innovation Family Festival -- Performers
Innovation Family Festival
Highlighting themes of invention and containers, Saturday’s Innovation Family Day presents an array of activities—from the Bash the Trash’s instrument building and performance to demonstrations by Oasis Island Sounds and the All New Genetically Altered Jug Band to our... | |
| 2015_DC_Inskeep_150914 | 56 | Natl Archives -- Steve Inskeep ("Jacksonland")
Monday, September 14, at noon
William G. McGowan Theater & US National Archives YouTube Channel
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Journalist Steve Inskeep’s Jacksonland is the story of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief... | |
| 2015_DC_Intellectucool | 14 | DC -- Public Art: Intellectucool | |
| 2015_DC_Intersection_151023 | 137 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Irving Penn at the Intersection of Art, Fashion and Photography
Irving Penn at the Intersection of Art, Fashion and Photography Forum:
Join us for a series of talks by experts and scholars who explore Penn’s legacy and how his work bridged the gap between art and fashion. Speakers include Vince Aletti, photography critic for The New Yorker; Charles Churchward,... | |
| 2015_DC_Italiana | 53 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Holy Rosary Church and Casa Italiana (595 3rd St. NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Italian_FDCH_151205 | 35 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Italian Holiday Family Festival (2015) -- Capital Hearings
Co-sponsor: Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute
Celebrate the wonders of the holiday season and Italian culture. Enjoy colorful performances by The Italian Fairy and traditional Italian bagpipers, the lively theatrics of a commedia dell’arte troupe, festive craft activities, face... | |
| 2015_DC_Italian_FDC_151205 | 41 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Italian Holiday Family Festival (2015) -- Crafts and other
Co-sponsor: Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute
Celebrate the wonders of the holiday season and Italian culture. Enjoy colorful performances by The Italian Fairy and traditional Italian bagpipers, the lively theatrics of a commedia dell’arte troupe, festive craft activities, face... | |
| 2015_DC_Italian_FDF_151205 | 40 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Italian Holiday Family Festival (2015) -- FLUSSO dance project
Co-sponsor: Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute
Celebrate the wonders of the holiday season and Italian culture. Enjoy colorful performances by The Italian Fairy and traditional Italian bagpipers, the lively theatrics of a commedia dell’arte troupe, festive craft activities, face... | |
| 2015_DC_Italian_FDIF_151205 | 47 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Italian Holiday Family Festival (2015) -- Italian Fairy
Co-sponsor: Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute
Celebrate the wonders of the holiday season and Italian culture. Enjoy colorful performances by The Italian Fairy and traditional Italian bagpipers, the lively theatrics of a commedia dell’arte troupe, festive craft activities, face... | |
| 2015_DC_Italian_FDZ_151205 | 25 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Italian Holiday Family Festival (2015) -- Zampognari (Italian Pipes)
Co-sponsor: Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute
Celebrate the wonders of the holiday season and Italian culture. Enjoy colorful performances by The Italian Fairy and traditional Italian bagpipers, the lively theatrics of a commedia dell’arte troupe, festive craft activities, face... | |
| 2015_DC_JAWilson | 27 | DC -- John A. Wilson Building | |
| 2015_DC_JBond_Tribute_150822 | 123 | DC -- Honoring Julian Bond @ MLK Memorial
People Around The World Come Together To Remember Julian Bond
We are saddened with the passing of Julian Bond, who inspired Aviva Kempner to make the film when he talked about Julius Rosenwald at a lecture at the Hebrew Center 12 years ago on the Vineyard. The family is spreading his ashes in Florida... | |
| 2015_DC_Je_Suis_Charlie_150107 | 97 | Je Suis Charlie vigil @ Newseum
In light of the horrendous attack that killed 12 people in Paris today, let's get together to stand peacefully in support of Charlie Hebdo and for freedom of the press. Bring your pencils and pens. #jesuischarlie
Suite a l'attaque qui a tuee 12 personnes a Paris aujourd'hui, regroupons nous ce soir... | |
| 2015_DC_JMem_150608 | 106 | Newseum -- Special -- Journalists Memorial Ceremony (2015) w/Kathy Gannon
Each year, the Newseum rededicates its Journalists Memorial in recognition of the dangers in the profession of journalism and those who have died in pursuit of news and information. This year’s ceremony recognizes 14 journalists who represent those who died in 2014.
Kathy Gannon is an award-winning... | |
| 2015_DC_Juarez_Statue | 5 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Benito Juarez (statue) | |
| 2015_DC_Judiciary | 34 | DC -- Judiciary Square neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_JUnder_Attack_150111 | 52 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Delphine Halgand and Nikahang Kowsar (Journalists Under Attack)
Inside Media: Journalists Under Attack
In the wake of Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Paris that targeted the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the Newseum presents a special program exploring free expression and the dangers journalists face worldwide.
Delphine Halgand, U.S. director of... | |
| 2015_DC_JZimmerman_150820 | 21 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- James Zimmerman Ensemble
Take 5! Jazz Series - James Zimmerman Ensemble
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an... | |
| 2015_DC_Kaku_150303 | 72 | Sixth & I In partnership with the 92nd Street Y’s 7 Days of Genius -- Michio Kaku ("Future of the Mind")
In The Future of the Mind, Dr. Michio Kaku—a theoretical physicist, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science— tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. Dr. Kaku brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling... | |
| 2015_DC_Kalb_151109 | 101 | NPC -- Kalb Report: "Sunday Talk" (w/Chuck Todd and John Dickerson)
For more than 60 years, Americans have turned to network television on Sunday morning for intelligent, insightful discourse on issues of politics and public policy. A proud history, however, does not guarantee future success in a digital world and a dramatically changing television landscape. On this... | |
| 2015_DC_Kaling_150917 | 120 | Sixth & I -- Mindy Kaling ("Why Not Me?") w/Laura Lippman
Mindy Kaling In Conversation with Laura Lippman
From the author of the New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal.
In Why Not Me?, Kaling... | |
| 2015_DC_Kalman_151111 | 31 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys Takoma -- Maira Kalman ("Beloved Dog") w/Jane Mayer
@ Busboys and Poets 14th & V: Maira Kalman - Beloved Dog
Kalman’s distinctive artwork has graced untold numbers of The New Yorker and she’s illustrated books ranging from Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style to Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. Her own books are favorites of both young and adult readers... | |
| 2015_DC_Kal_Exhibit_150507 | 15 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Exhibit | |
| 2015_DC_Kal_P_150507 | 62 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Presentation (w/Donald E. Graham)
The Herb Block Foundation cordially invites you to The Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture.
Prize Winner: Kevin Kallaugher (KAL)
Lecturer: Donald E. Graham
Finalist: Mike Luckovich, Editorial Cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kevin Kallaugher (Kal)
Editorial cartoonist for The... | |
| 2015_DC_Kal_R_150507 | 142 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Reception
Folks here include: Michael Cavna, Teresa Roberts Logan, Tom Toles, Joe Carabeo, Carolyn Belefski, Steve Artley, Gwen Ifill, George Stevens Jr., Matt Wuerker, Donald Graham, Clarence Page, ???, Kevin Kallaugher, Ann Telnaes, Joe Sutliff, Donna Lewis, Amy Lago, Mike Rhode, and Barry Blitt. | |
| 2015_DC_Katrina10_150819 | 57 | Newseum -- Hurricane Katrina: 10 Years Later (w/Douglas Brinkley, Mark Morial, and Shepard Smith)
Hurricane Katrina: 10 Years Later
Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive hurricane in American history. It made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, packing 127-mph winds, shredding the Mississippi coast and putting 80 percent of New Orleans under water.
On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150124 | 30 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Including some photos of the artist Phyllis Plattner. | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150404 | 20 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring I Opening Reception (Public)
Including V. Ramesh with one of his favorite pieces. | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150425 | 5 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B2 Spring II Opening Reception (Public) | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150612 | 11 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Opening Reception (Member) | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150911 | 96 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
Artists who spoke tonight included Walter McConnell, Gerhardt Knodel, and Mary Shaffer. The contemporary Chinese art community was represented by artists Shaowei Deng and Jie Wang, and BG Muhn helped the delegation. | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenO_150912 | 65 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Artists who spoke tonight included Gerhardt Knodel and Mary Shaffer. The contemporary Chinese art community was represented by artists Shaowei Deng and Jie Wang, and BG Muhn helped the delegation. Other artists present included Chawky Frenn and Pat Goslee. | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Byington | 25 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibitions: Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows
Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows
January 24 through March 15, 2015.
Composed of a dense profusion of original and appropriated images, Dean Byington's paintings recall surrealist collage and the assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic that began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the San... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Identidad | 10 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibitions: Identidad by Silvia Levenson
Identidad by Silvia Levenson
January 24 through March 15, 2015.
In her exhibition Identidad, Silvia Levenson channels her identity as a survivor of the Argentinian Dirty War and her emotional connection to the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in order to push the bounds of her skills as a glassmaker... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Plattner | 22 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibitions: Phyllis Plattner: Gods of War!
Phyllis Plattner: Gods of War!
January 24 through March 15, 2015
Some wage war in the name of God. All fight with the belief that God is on their side. Phyllis Plattner's art is a painted meditation, appropriating images of war and religion from art history and photojournalism to contrast the... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015A_Sourced | 1 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibitions: Locally Sourced
Locally Sourced
January 24 through March 15, 2015
Curated by Victoria Reis, Transformer
The first in the Do You Know Where Your Art Comes From? four-part exhibition series curated by Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director of Transformer, and presented at American University's Katzen Art Center... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B2 | 48 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B2 Spring II Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2015 Late Spring exhibitions:
* Stone, Silence and Speech: Sculptures by Sy Gresser
* Blueprint: MFA Thesis Exhibition
* Lost and Found: Young Art from Lithuania
Stone, Silence and Speech: Sculptures by Sy Gresser
Curated by Ori Z. Soltes
On view April 25 – August 16
Over... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015B | 104 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015B Spring Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2015 Spring exhibitions:
* YES! Glue: A Half-Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner
* Transcription of Blue: Guy Goldstein
* V. Ramesh: Remembrances of Voices Past
* Drawings: Walter Kravitz
* [Insert Non-Pretentious Title Here]: MFA First Year Exhibition
YES! Glue: A... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C | 99 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2015 Summer exhibitions:
* Michael Gross: Abstraction
* Outliers: Kurt Godwin and Betsy Packard
* Realism Transformed: John Winslow's Wild New World
* Visvaldis Ziedins: Travels in the Imagination
* Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
Michael... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015C_Atomic | 244 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Exhibitions: Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
Hiroshima-Nagaski: Atomic Bomb Exhibition
June 13 through August 16, 2015
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the attacks, this powerful show will include 20 artifacts collected from the debris of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as 6 large folding screens that depict... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D | 47 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2015 Early Fall exhibitions:
* Blood Mirror --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin! --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Pulse of the Future -->... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_10Years | 29 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: 10th Year Wall | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Blood | 8 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: Blood Mirror
Blood Mirror
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Blood Mirror, organized by artist Jordan Eagles, seeks to create an open dialogue and effect change around the US Food & Drug Administration's current discriminatory policy on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
In 2015, Jordan Eagles... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Knodel | 11 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin!
Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin!
September 12 through October 18, 2015
In Gerhardt Knodel’s latest work, gaming-based strategies provide both a visual and conceptual point of entry. Like game playing, involvement often yields unexpected consequences. Approached as pure entertainment, games can... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_McConnell | 11 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens
Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens
September 12 to October 18, 2015
A series of male figures derived from familial models are central to Walter McConnell’s installation Of Fable and Facsimile. Rendered in moist, unfired clay and sealed in terrarium-like plastic enclosures, McConnell’s earthen bodies... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Pulse | 37 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: Pulse of the Future
Pulse of the Future
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Contemporary Chinese Art captured the world's attention in the 1980s. Now the next generation is coming of age and staking its own claim for artistic precedence. | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Shafer | 39 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibitions: Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions
Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions
September 12 through October 18, 2015
Influential sculptor Mary Shaffer creates a site-specific glass and metal “tool-wall” installation for her solo-exhibition to feature her fascination with discarded tools. "I take lovingly crafted, hand-forged tools —... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E | 33 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibitions
Pieces from these 2015 Late Fall exhibitions:
* Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Beverly Ress: The World Is a Narrow Bridge
* Joseph White: Post-It --> SHOWN SEPARATELY
* Susanne Kessler: Jerusalem
* Micheline Klagsbrun: Free Fall Flow
* Art and Design: Two Designers... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Design | 2 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibitions: Art and Design: Two Designers and Their Art
Art and Design: Two Designers and Their Art
Michael Graham and Marc Pekala
November 7 through December 13, 2015
Michael Graham and Marc Pekala both trained in graphic design programs and went on to careers in teaching and commercial design. Their design educations provided a foundation and language... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_Vesper | 44 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibitions: Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project
Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project
November 7 through December 13, 2015
This installation is a massive sculptural statement which weaves the artist's own work into the walls of a 19th century American house. Kaphar's most ambitious expression to date, The Vesper Project is a culmination of an intense... | |
| 2015_DC_KatzenX_2015E_White | 10 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015E Late Fall Exhibitions: Joseph White: Post-It
Joseph White: Post-It
November 7 through December 13, 2015
A retrospective of DC artist Joseph White shows the diversity of his work from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition includes large-scale representational paintings, works on paper and his latest paintings based on Post-It drawings. | |
| 2015_DC_Katzen | 52 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Art Center | |
| 2015_DC_Kennedy_CenterVw | 35 | DC -- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_Kennedy_Center | 145 | DC -- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | |
| 2015_DC_Kennedy_C_Yellin | 22 | DC -- Kennedy Center -- Exhibit: Dustin Yellin: Psychogeographies
Dustin Yellin: Psychogeographies
Commissioned and originally exhibited by New York City Ballet
Wednesday, April 1 - Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Born in California and raised in Colorado, Dustin Yellin (1975– ) now lives in Brooklyn, NY. In 2010, he founded Pioneer Works, a social sculpture and... | |
| 2015_DC_Kilmeade_151106 | 32 | DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Brian Kilmeade ("Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates")
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History:
Brian Kilmeade and his co-author Don Yaeger return with another fascinating historical narrative. Like their bestseller George Washington's Secret Six, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates sheds light on a... | |
| 2015_DC_King_150318 | 136 | Newseum -- Members' Night -- A Life in Broadcasting: A Conversation with Larry King (w/Leon Harris)
A Life in Broadcasting: A Conversation With Larry King
In a special members-only event at the Newseum, legendary broadcaster Larry King recounts some of the biggest stories and interviews of his career. The program also incorporates footage of King’s most famous interviews.
From 1985 to 2010, King... | |
| 2015_DC_Klein_151020 | 24 | Politics & Prose -- Joe Klein ("Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home")
Joe Klein - Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home
In his seventh book, Klein, author of the legendary Primary Colors and the award-winning Time “In the Arena” columnist, tells the inspiring story of Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL who was eager to put his military... | |
| 2015_DC_Klemm_150114 | 69 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Reception: Photographer Barbara Klemm
Invitation: Opening Reception with Photographer Barbara Klemm:
This solo exhibition presents photographs by one of Germany’s most distinguished women photographers. Spanning forty years, Barbara Klemm’s works bear witness to Germany’s recent history, and to a country that was divided for decades. Many... | |
| 2015_DC_Klobuchar_150908 | 50 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys 14&V -- Senator Amy Klobuchar ("The Senator Next Door")
Senator Amy Klobuchar - The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
The senior senator from Minnesota, Klobuchar was elected in 2006—the first woman to serve her state as a U.S. senator. Her forthright and often funny account of her career is as much a chronicle of politics as it is the story of... | |
| 2015_DC_Kloss_150624 | 47 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: William Kloss (Nineteen American Masterworks)
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a "coming-of-age" period in American art. Gilded Age expatriate artists such as John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt pioneered impressionist styles abroad, challenging long-standing practice and rivaling their French counterparts. After 1900,... | |
| 2015_DC_Knight_151007 | 42 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Christopher Knight ("Warhol's Wig") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
Warhol's Wig: Cracking the Pop Art Code with critic Christopher Knight
A thorough analysis of the specific images chosen by Pop art's leading artists demonstrates that Pop’s actual subject is art culture, not pop culture. Commercial imagery drawn from mass media provided a relevant visual language with... | |
| 2015_DC_Koppel_151112 | 88 | Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Ted Koppel ("Lights Out") w/Robert Siegel
Ted Koppel - Lights Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath:
During nearly four decades with ABC News, the last two as Nightline anchor, Koppel has been a bureau chief and has served variously as a foreign, domestic, and war correspondent, winning numerous Emmy Awards in the... | |
| 2015_DC_Lafayette_Square | 37 | DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area
Including the "Black Aggie" statue (the illegal knock-off of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Grieving memorial) which had been at the Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, MD until it was moved here in 1987. | |
| 2015_DC_Law | 10 | DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Officers Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_LA_Small | 23 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum
The building is going to get moved again in preparation of the I395 work. | |
| 2015_DC_Legacy_Pk | 54 | DC -- Fort Totten -- Legacy Memorial Pk (5801 South Dakota NE)
The park opened a week prior to this visit. Legacy Memorial Park pays tribute to the nine victims, first responders and others whose lives were altered by the collision of two southbound Metro trains between the Takoma and Fort Totten Metro stations on June 22, 2009. | |
| 2015_DC_LEnfant | 22 | DC -- Southwest (L'Enfant Plaza area) | |
| 2015_DC_Levenson_150124 | 40 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Artist Talk: Silvia Levenson
Introductions were made by Cecilia Nahón, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the United States of America | |
| 2015_DC_Lewis_150125 | 53 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Fantom Comics -- Event: Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin ("March Book Two") | |
| 2015_DC_Lewis_150225 | 54 | Newseum -- Civil Rights Superhero: An Evening with John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Civil Rights Superhero: An Evening with John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
As the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery approaches, Rep. Lewis will recount his involvement and also talk about his new graphic novel “March: Book Two.” Joining Lewis is the book’s co-author... | |
| 2015_DC_Lewis_151202 | 31 | DC -- Upshur Books -- Tom Lewis ("Washington: A History of our National City")
Join us for a presentation by historian Tom Lewis about our home town and its role in the history of the nation.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Lewis paints a sweeping portrait of the capital city whose internal conflicts and promise have mirrored those of America writ large. Breathing life into the men and women... | |
| 2015_DC_Lichtblau_150120 | 49 | Natl Archives -- Eric Lichtblau ("Nazis Next Door")
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men
Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II. But as Pulitzer Prize–winning author Eric Lichtblau explains in The Nazis Next Door, the CIA and FBI brought thousands of former... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_2nd_Misc_150307 | 108 | DC -- Lincoln Memorial -- Sesquecentennial of Lincoln's Second Inaugural -- Miscellaneous
150th Anniversary of Lincoln's Inaugural Observed at Lincoln Memorial
Washington –Chuck Todd, moderator of NBC's Meet the Press and former chief White House correspondent for NBC News, will deliver the keynote address for a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's second... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_2nd_Pgm_150307 | 165 | DC -- Lincoln Memorial -- Sesquecentennial of Lincoln's Second Inaugural -- Formal Program
Formal Program:
* Musical Prelude -- United States Marine Band Brass Quintet -- ??? Not Present ???
* Master of Ceremonies -- Bob Vogel, Regional Director National Capital Region, National Park Service
* Welcome -- Karen Needles, President, Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia
*... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_Anderegg_151119 | 56 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Michael Anderegg ("Lincoln and Shakespeare") w/Michele Osherow
Join us Thursday, November 19 for our Cottage Conversation with Michael Anderegg and Michele Osherow. Together they will discuss Abraham Lincoln's fascination with William Shakespeare and what that reveals about the 16th president.
Dr. Anderegg, author of the new book Lincoln and Shakespeare, is... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_Cottage | 35 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home)
President Lincoln’s Cottage Draped in Black
April 18-30, 2015. President Lincoln’s Cottage, 140 Rock Creek Church Road, NW Washington DC. Within days of President Lincoln’s death in 1865, staff and residents of the Soldiers’ Home (now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home) draped the Cottage in... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Belief | 84 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center -- Exhibit: American By Belief
American by Belief:
October 2015 through October 2017
On July 4, 1864, the same day the Lincoln family moved to the Cottage for the last time, Abraham Lincoln signed into law An Act to Encourage Immigration. This legislation cemented Lincoln and the Republican Party’s platform pledging that... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Death | 4 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center -- Exhibit: Final Goblet & Death Arm Band
originALs: Memorial Objects From The Collection
March 2015 through August 2015
Funeral Gloves and Arm Bands: Private Albert Nelson See served in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidential Guard (Company K, 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers) at the Cottage and White House. He wore these gloves and arm bands to... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_CVC_Risk | 31 | DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center -- Exhibit: Not An American Practice: Lincoln's Life at Risk
Not an American Practice: Lincoln’s Life at Risk
January 2015 through September 2015
Abraham Lincoln risked his and his family’s safety to live at the Cottage for more than a quarter of his presidency. However, for much of this time, Lincoln rode to and from the White House alone and unguarded,... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_Flannery | 3 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Abraham Lincoln (Flannery) Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_Mem | 23 | DC -- Lincoln Memorial
Including a couple who had just gotten engaged when I got there and a cat on a leash. | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_VisitsC_151203 | 63 | DC -- U.S. Capitol -- Lincoln Visits the Capitol for Illinois Statehood Day
On behalf of the Illinois State Society of Washington DC and the Abraham Lincoln Association, we invite you to celebrate Illinois Statehood Day with a visit by Illinois’s greatest citizen, Abraham Lincoln (in the person of renowned Lincoln presenter George Buss from Freeport, Illinois).
When Abraham... | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_VisitsH_151203 | 10 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Hart Senate Office Building -- Event: Lincoln Visits for Illinois Statehood Day | |
| 2015_DC_Lincoln_VisitsV_151203 | 132 | DC -- Abraham Lincoln press conference @ VFW on Illinois Statehood Day
MISTER LINCOLN GOES TO WASHINGTON
Illinois Statehood Day, Thursday, December 3, 2015, will be commemorated with a presentation of “Abraham Lincoln – A Press Conference” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The event will take place at noon in Ketchum Hall of the VFW Building at 200 Maryland Avenue, NE,... | |
| 2015_DC_Little_Nemo_150918 | 106 | Library of Congress -- Event: Josh O’Neill, Andrew Carl and Chris Stevens ("Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream") @ Madison Bldg
Book talk- DRAWING ON HISTORY - Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream
Josh O’Neill, Andrew Carl and Chris Stevens of Locust Moon Press tell the fascinating story of the creation of the 2015 Eisner Award winning volume, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream.
In 2014, Locust Moon Press started a Kickstarter... | |
| 2015_DC_LIUNA | 4 | DC -- Downtown -- Laborers International Union of North America (905 16th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Loconte_150917 | 18 | DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Joseph Loconte ("A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War")
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
Featuring author Joseph Loconte
The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West.... | |
| 2015_DC_LocVw | 9 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC | 2 | DC -- Library of Congress (a couple of images I couldn't figure a location for) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Adams | 98 | DC -- Library of Congress John Adams Bldg | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Apostles | 29 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Apostle's Edition of Saint John's Bible
The Apostle's Edition of the Saint John's Bible:
For the new millennium, Saint John's University and Abbey in Minnesota commissioned an illuminated, handwritten Bible, the first of its kind since Gutenberg printed the Bible in 1454.
This contemporary Bible is at once old and new: a masterpiece of the... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Bay_Psalm | 51 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American Printing
First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American Printing
June 4, 2015–January 2, 2016
In 1640, less than two years after landing in Massachusetts Bay, Stephen Daye printed The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, known as the Bay Psalm Book, the first... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Bibles | 11 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Bible Collection
Library of Congress Bible Collection
Ongoing exhibition, opened April 11, 2008.
In the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, two monumental Bibles face each other as if in dialogue: one, the Giant Bible of Mainz, signifies the end of the handwritten book—and the other, the Gutenberg Bible, marks the... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Chamber_Music | 53 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Performing Arts): Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
August 13, 2015—January 23, 2016
In 1925 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864–1953) established the Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress, an unprecedented gift that ensured her support for contemporary music would continue for many... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_CRA1964 | 29 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit:The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
September 10, 2014–January 2, 2016
This exhibition, which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, explores the events that shaped the civil rights movement, as well as the far-reaching impact the act had... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Engaging | 22 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Engaging Nature
Engaging Nature:
Expeditions headed by topographical engineer and future politician John C. Fremont (1813-1890) in the 1840s helped open the American Far West to pioneer new residents. Laborers of many nationalities went seeking work. Investors sought wealth through railroads and natural resources,... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_European | 21 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: 2nd Floor European Reading Room | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Exploring | 57 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Exploring the Early Americas
Exploring the Early Americas
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 12, 2007.
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_GHX | 12 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall -- Holiday Display | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Herblock | 77 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Herblock Gallery (2015)
Herblock Looks at 1965: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons, Part II
Exhibition dates: September 26, 2015–March 19, 2016
After winning a landslide victory in the 1964 presidential election, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) promoted legislation that improved education, medical care, retirement... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Hispanic | 21 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Hispanic Reading Room (2nd Floor) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Illusion | 62 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Performing Arts): Grand Illusion: The Art of Theatrical Design
Grand Illusion: The Art of Theatrical Design
February 12–July 25, 2015
Grand Illusion: The Art of the Theatrical Design journeys from the Baroque courts of Europe to the Broadway stages of the United States. The exhibit draws from collections that document virtually all genres of theater: ballet,... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_JrFellows | 16 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Junior Fellows Program
A variety of exhibit cases from the Junior Fellows Program | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Madison | 10 | DC -- Library of Congress Madison Bldg | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Mahogany | 17 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Mahogany Row (1st Floor, by Kluge Center) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_NCS_KingM_150522 | 69 | Library of Congress -- Event: Cartooning and Our Culture @ Madison Bldg -- Mingling
The National Cartoonists Society and the LOC's Prints and Photographs Division present
Cartooning and Our Culture: A Panel of Top King Features Cartooning Talents Celebrating the Syndicate's Centennial
Panel:
* Patrick McDonnell -- Mutts
* Jeff Keane -- The Family Circus
* Brian Walker -- Hi and... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_NCS_KingP_150522 | 182 | Library of Congress -- Event: Cartooning and Our Culture @ Madison Bldg -- Presentation
The National Cartoonists Society and the LOC's Prints and Photographs Division present
Cartooning and Our Culture: A Panel of Top King Features Cartooning Talents Celebrating the Syndicate's Centennial
* Patrick McDonnell -- Mutts
* Jeff Keane -- The Family Circus
* Brian Walker -- Hi and Lois
... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_NCS_KingX_150522 | 36 | Library of Congress -- Event: Cartooning and Our Culture @ Madison Bldg -- LOC sampler
The National Cartoonists Society and the LOC's Prints and Photographs Division present
Cartooning and Our Culture: A Panel of Top King Features Cartooning Talents Celebrating the Syndicate's Centennial | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_NWCorner | 15 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Northwest Corner (Maps) Art (2nd Floor) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_NWGal | 14 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Northwest Gallery (Early Americas) Art (2nd Floor) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Parks | 30 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Rosa Parks | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Pointing | 152 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Graphic Arts): Pointing Their Pens: Herblock and Fellow Cartoonists Confront the Issues
Pointing Their Pens: Herblock and Fellow Cartoonists Confront the Issues
March 21, 2015–March 19, 2016
Editorial cartoonists, like all Americans, do not always agree with one another. Issues on which the nation was particularly divided in the twentieth century—the question of U.S. intervention prior... | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_SPX | 31 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Small Press Expo Collection | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_SWGal | 7 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Southwest Gallery (2nd Floor) | |
| 2015_DC_LOC_Veterans | 19 | DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Faces of the Veterans History Project | |
| 2015_DC_LP_Ukraine_150125 | 23 | DC -- Protest: Ukraine @ Lafayette Park | |
| 2015_DC_Macys_Xmas | 25 | DC -- Macy's Holiday Windows (2015)
This was just after the 2015 windows unveiling. Santa and Snoopy headlined the Downtown-Metro Center Macy's holiday window unveiling on Saturday Nov.14, 2015 in Washington D.C. The department store is dedicating its window displays this year to Charles Schultz's Peanuts cartoon creations in... | |
| 2015_DC_Mall | 45 | DC -- Natl Mall area
Still working to rehab the Mall. | |
| 2015_DC_Manzano_150906 | 40 | Politics & Prose @ Busboys Takoma -- Sonia Manzano ("Becoming Maria")
Busboys and Poets Takoma: Sonia Manzano - Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Writer and recently retired Sesame Street star Manzano remembers her journey from a thoroughfare in the Bronx to the most beloved street on television. A colorful yet complicated childhood provided both... | |
| 2015_DC_Maraniss_150929 | 34 | Politics & Prose -- David Maraniss ("Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story")
David Maraniss - Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story:
Journalist, historian, biographer, and a Washington Post associate editor, the award-winning Maraniss has written critically acclaimed books on events including the Vietnam War and the 1960 Rome Olympics, and turned out thorough, even definitive... | |
| 2015_DC_Mari_Vanna | 11 | DC -- Mari Vanna
Mari Vanna Russian restaurant | |
| 2015_DC_Marra_151016 | 78 | Politics & Prose -- Anthony Marra ("Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories")
Anthony Marra - The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories
Marra’s stunning first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, won the National Book Critics Circle inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and Politics & Prose’s inaugural Carla Cohen Literary Prize. His second... | |
| 2015_DC_Marshall_Statue | 3 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- John Marshall Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Marsudi_150922 | 43 | Wilson Center -- Retno L.P. Marsudi, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
A Conversation with Her Excellency Retno L.P. Marsudi, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo swept to power in 2014 on a wave of popular support based on his promises for bold change. As leader of the world’s fourth largest country, third largest democracy, and largest... | |
| 2015_DC_Marvel_150422 | 50 | Natl Archives -- William Marvel ("Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton")
Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton
Edwin Stanton wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. William Marvel reexamines Stanton's life, career, and legacy. A book signing follows the... | |
| 2015_DC_Mason | 6 | DC -- George Mason Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_MasurMcP_150513 | 51 | Politics & Prose -- Louis Masur ("Lincoln's Last Speech") and James McPherson ("War That Forged A Nation")
Louis P. Masur - Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion & James M. McPherson - The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
Lincoln oversaw the start of the Civil War but was not there for its end or, more importantly, for the Reconstruction of the... | |
| 2015_DC_Mays_150621 | 39 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Andrea Mays ("In Search of Shakespeare’s Greatest Works")
Inside Media: In Search of Shakespeare’s Greatest Works
Author Andrea Mays talks about her new book, “The Millionaire and the Bard,” which tells the story of the making of William Shakespeare’s First Folio and the obsessive hunt three centuries later by American industrialist Henry Folger to track it... | |
| 2015_DC_MBT | 2 | DC -- Metropolitan Branch Trail | |
| 2015_DC_McCloud_150206 | 110 | Politics & Prose -- Scott McCloud ("The Sculptor") w/Michael Cavna
Scott McCloud - The Sculptor
Would you sell your soul for art? Faust did, and in McCloud’s update on the deal-with-the-devil theme the young and ambitious David Smith, does too. This powerful and moving story by the award-winning comics artist follows Smith as he trades life-span for the ability to... | |
| 2015_DC_McCullough_150511 | 70 | Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- David McCullough ("Wright Brothers")
David McCullough:
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were... | |
| 2015_DC_McDonald_151017 | 104 | Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Identify: Martha McDonald
IDENTIFY: Martha McDonald
Identify is the National Portrait Gallery’s first-ever performance art series, which focuses attention on activism, visibility and experimentation through portrayal. Martha McDonald is known for her work featuring handcrafted costumes and objects that are activated through... | |
| 2015_DC_McGowan_151118 | 101 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- 11th Annual McGowan Forum on Communications ("Drawn from the Headlines") w/David Sipress, Tom Toles, Jen Sorensen, Keith Knight, and Signe Wilkinson
11th Annual McGowan Forum on Communications
Drawn from the Headlines: Communication and Political Cartoons
A panel of award-winning political cartoonists discuss their work, inspiration, and motivation, as well as how these cartoons affect the political community and the public, and how technology has... | |
| 2015_DC_MC_and_Const_150615 | 65 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- Magna Carta and the Constitution
Magna Carta Day: Magna Carta and the Constitution
The National Archives and the Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) present a discussion on the influence of Magna Carta on American constitutionalism, from the nation’s earliest days to the present. Moderated by Judge Royce Lamberth, Senior United... | |
| 2015_DC_Mellon_Fountain | 53 | DC -- Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain
The National Gallery of Art had gotten permission from the National Park Service to take over maintenance of the fountain. The first steps involved sealing off the area and removing dead and rotting trees which is what they were working on today. I talked to a staffer and he said they hoped they could... | |
| 2015_DC_Metro_GAP | 37 | Metro Station -- Georgia Avenue-Petworth | |
| 2015_DC_Metro_RI_Bridge | 11 | Metro Station -- Rhode Island Avenue -- Pedestrian Bridge | |
| 2015_DC_Million_Man_151010 | 17 | DC -- Rally: Million Man March @ National Mall | |
| 2015_DC_Mingering_150227 | 106 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Mingering Mike, Roundtable Remix
Mingering Mike, Roundtable Remix
Exhibition curator Leslie Umberger sits down with the ever enigmatic Mingering Mike (in costume, of course); Dori Hadar, the man who saved the Mingering Mike collection; Tom Patterson, writer and art curator; and Carroll Hynson Jr., local radio personality and ‘60s and... | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DCM_150826 | 142 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off 1 (1 of 2) -- Haely Jardas to Miss America Pageant @ Gallery Place Residences -- Mingling
Join us!
Miss DC 2015, Haely Jardas Miss American Send Off Party.
Buffet by Tony Cheng's. Special performance by LaTiDo. | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DCM_150827 | 70 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off 2 (1 of 3) -- Haely Jardas to Miss America Pageant @ John A Wilson Bldg -- Mingling
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, and US Senator Paul Strauss cordially invite you to join them for a reception honoring:
Haely Jardas
Communications Director for the DC Statehood Congressional Delegation and the reigning 2015/2016 Miss District of Columbia... | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DCP3_150827 | 73 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off 2 (3 of 3) -- Haely Jardas to Miss America Pageant @ John A Wilson Bldg -- Posed Photos w/Haely Jardas
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, and US Senator Paul Strauss cordially invite you to join them for a reception honoring:
Haely Jardas
Communications Director for the DC Statehood Congressional Delegation and the reigning 2015/2016 Miss District of Columbia... | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DCP_150826 | 106 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off 1 (2 of 2) -- Haely Jardas to Miss America Pageant @ Gallery Place Residences -- Presentation and Posed Photos Afterward
Join us!
Miss DC 2015, Haely Jardas Miss American Send Off Party.
Buffet by Tony Cheng's. Special performance by LaTiDo. | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DCP_150827 | 103 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Send-Off 2 (2 of 3) -- Haely Jardas to Miss America Pageant @ John A Wilson Bldg -- Presentation
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, and US Senator Paul Strauss cordially invite you to join them for a reception honoring:
Haely Jardas
Communications Director for the DC Statehood Congressional Delegation and the reigning 2015/2016 Miss District of Columbia... | |
| 2015_DC_Miss_DC_America_150408 | 309 | 2014 Miss District of Columbia Reception Honoring Miss America @ Capital Hill Club
Miss America 2014, Kira Kazantsev, was honored at this reception. | |
| 2015_DC_MLKLib | 5 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Martin Luther King Memorial Library (901 G St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_MLKLib_Beatles | 11 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Martin Luther King Memorial Library -- Exhibit: Beatles Invade | |
| 2015_DC_MLKLib_Selznick | 69 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Martin Luther King Memorial Library -- Exhibit: Brian Selznick
An exhibit to explore Selznick's images and process is on view in the Great Hall of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library from March 22-June 21. Featuring images from Selznick's books, historical photographs from the Library's Washingtoniana department, multimedia stations and interactive... | |
| 2015_DC_MLKLib_Wash | 42 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Martin Luther King Memorial Library -- Washingtoniana section
Various things in the Washingtoniana section | |
| 2015_DC_MLK_Mem | 15 | DC -- Martin Luther King Jr. Natl Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_MoeR_150319 | 46 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award Finalists and Winner -- Reception @ Natl Geographic Society
Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award
Shorts Program
National Geographic Society 7:30pm, March 19th
SEEDING A DREAM (USA, 2014, 15 min.) Sheepscot General Store and Uncas Farm were revitalized into a thriving community food hub by ambitious young farmers. The farmers tackle challenges while bringing... | |
| 2015_DC_Moe_150319 | 141 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award Finalists and Winner ("Silent River") w/Steve Fisher and Jason Jaacks @ Natl Geographic Society
Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award
Shorts Program
National Geographic Society 7:30pm, March 19th
SEEDING A DREAM (USA, 2014, 15 min.) Sheepscot General Store and Uncas Farm were revitalized into a thriving community food hub by ambitious young farmers. The farmers tackle challenges while bringing... | |
| 2015_DC_Moment_Gala2_151115 | 54 | DC -- Moment Magazine's 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala @ French Embassy -- Auditorium Presentation
The 2015 Moment 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala, held at the French Embassy November 15, is Moment’s major benefit of the year. Proceeds support Moment, an influential, Washington, DC-based independent magazine known for its first-rate journalism, and its Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism... | |
| 2015_DC_Moment_Gala3_151115 | 48 | DC -- Moment Magazine's 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala @ French Embassy -- Dinner Presentation
The 2015 Moment 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala, held at the French Embassy November 15, is Moment’s major benefit of the year. Proceeds support Moment, an influential, Washington, DC-based independent magazine known for its first-rate journalism, and its Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism... | |
| 2015_DC_Moment_Gala_151115 | 206 | DC -- Moment Magazine's 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala @ French Embassy -- Mingling
The 2015 Moment 40th Anniversary Dinner and Gala, held at the French Embassy November 15, is Moment’s major benefit of the year. Proceeds support Moment, an influential, Washington, DC-based independent magazine known for its first-rate journalism, and its Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism... | |
| 2015_DC_Monsoon_150327 | 79 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Monsoon" (w/Sturla Gunnarsson) @ Natl Museum of Natural History
Monsoon: Winner, Polly Krakora Award For Artistry in Film
This visually stunning meditation on the annual rains that descend upon India explores their alternately disastrous and beneficial impact on Indian society, economy, agriculture and individual lives. Chasing the monsoon throughout the country,... | |
| 2015_DC_Montrose_Pk | 8 | DC -- Georgetown -- Montrose and Dumbarton Park | |
| 2015_DC_Monument_150915 | 120 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- 9th Annual Charles Guggenheim Tribute Pgm (Monument to the Dream)
9th Annual Charles Guggenheim Tribute Program: Monument to the Dream
Tonight's Guggenheim Documentary Center Tribute Program features Monument to the Dream, Charles Guggenheim’s third Academy AwardŽ-nominated film. Recently restored by the National Park Service and Guggenheim Productions, Inc., the... | |
| 2015_DC_Moore_151116 | 40 | AFI Docs 2016 -- "Where To Invade Next" (w/Michael Moore, Tia Lessin, and Jason Dick) @ Landmark E Street Cinema
YOU AND A GUEST ARE INVITED TO THE AFI DOCS SCREENING OF THE NEW COMEDY FROM MICHAEL MOORE
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
Academy AwardŽ-winning director Michael Moore returns with what may be his most provocative and hilarious film yet: Moore tells the Pentagon to "stand down" — he will do the invading for... | |
| 2015_DC_MoultrieCH | 3 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Carl Moultrie Courthouse (DC Superior Court) (500 Indiana Ave NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Mt_Vernon | 78 | DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_Muni_Center | 5 | DC -- Judiciary Square -- Henry J. Daly Building (DC Municipal Center) | |
| 2015_DC_Murals | 1 | DC -- Public Murals (not shown by artist) | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_ACrawley | 2 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Aton or Antarah Crawley | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_BTierney | 3 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Brandon Tierney | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_Chelove | 1 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Miss Chelove | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_CStowers | 4 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Cory Stowers | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_EricB | 5 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Eric B. Ricks | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_Ever | 5 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Nicolas Romero (Ever) | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_KHO | 2 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Kyle Hughes Odgers | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_MHammond | 5 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Michael Hammond | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_Momo | 3 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Benjamin Roudet (MOMO) | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_Pose2 | 2 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Daniel Hopkins (POSE 2) | |
| 2015_DC_Murals_PWaddell | 2 | DC -- Public Art: Murals by Peter Waddell | |
| 2015_DC_Murphy_151018 | 60 | DC -- Kennedy Center -- Mark Twain Prize (2015 -- Eddie Murphy)
Folks pictured here include Sam Moore (of Sam and Dave), Kevin Nealon, David Rubenstein, Jay Pharoah, Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes), Sam Moore (again), George Schlatter, Bruce Vilanch, Joe Piscopo, ???, Trevor Noah, Brittany Howard (again), Dick Gregory, Kathy Griffin, Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle,... | |
| 2015_DC_Nag_Champa_151210 | 48 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Performance -- Luce Unplugged -- Nag Champa
Luce Unplugged with Nag Champa:
Monthly concert series Luce Unplugged brings D.C.’s best up-and-coming acts to play in the museum’s Luce Foundation Center following an art talk on a work selected by the band. Nag Champa are a progressive, beat-driven electronic jazz and R&B group that, as D.C. Music... | |
| 2015_DC_Nationals10_150824 | 107 | Newseum -- Members' Night: Nationals at 10: Baseball Makes News (w/Mark Lerner, Mike Rizzo, Thomas Boswell, and Charlie Slowes) incl reception
Washington Nationals principal owner Mark Lerner and general manager and president Mike Rizzo talk about the history of the Nationals at a special members-only event at the Newseum.
Joining them will be Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell and Nationals radio play-by-play announcer Charlie... | |
| 2015_DC_Naval_BlessingF_150411 | 90 | Naval Heritage Center -- Blessing of the Fleets (2015) -- Outdoor ceremony
Blessing of the Fleets 2015
Washington, D.C. (March 18, 2015)– Passed down through generations of mariners and navies, the U.S. Navy Memorial’s 24th annual Blessing of the Fleets will take place on Saturday, April 11, 2015 from 1:00-4:00 pm. A popular attraction during the National Cherry Blossom... | |
| 2015_DC_Naval_USNR | 34 | DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Exhibit: Year of Navy Reserves Centennial
April 2015 - April 2016
The United States Navy Memorial is proud to recognize the long and storied contributions of the United States Navy Reserve Centennial with a year-long celebration. Get involved and become a supporter of the National Exhibit! | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Aldrin_150905 | 33 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin, selected by NASA as one of the early astronauts, made the historic Apollo XI moon walk with Neil Armstrong in 1969. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he lectures and travels throughout the world to pursue and discuss the latest concepts and ideas for exploring the universe.... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Anderson_150905 | 3 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Gerald Anderson and Susan Orlins
Still Standing: How an ex-con found salvation in the floodwaters of Katrina | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Appy_150905 | 6 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Christian G. Appy
Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of three books on the Vietnam War, including “Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam” and “Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides,” which won the Massachusetts Book... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Atkinson_150905 | 12 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Rick Atkinson
A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Rick Atkinson has received acclaim for both his contemporary journalism as well as his historical writing. Atkinson has been a reporter for The Kansas City Times and The Washington Post. His first book was “The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Baldacci_150905 | 13 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David Baldacci
David Baldacci is the best-selling author of more than 25 novels, of which several have been adapted for film and television. His books have been published and sold in over 45 languages and 80 countries, and have more than 110 million copies in print worldwide. A tireless advocate for literacy and the... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Bell_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Cece Bell
A Virginia-born author and illustrator, Cece Bell enjoys limeade and lives in an old church. She majored in art at the College of William and Mary, where she met her author-illustrator husband, Tom Angleberger. Her works include “Bee-wigged,” “Itty Bitty,” “Food Friends,” “Busy Buddies” and the Sock... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Bray_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Libba Bray
Libba Bray is the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, “Beauty Queens,” and the young adult novel “Going Bovine,” a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. She has also written the Diviners series, whose latest addition is “Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel” (Hachette). In her spare time she sings and plays... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_CSpan_150905 | 9 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Book TV on C-Span2
Folks here include Ray Suarez and Evan Osnos
Ray Suarez is a broadcast journalist and currently the host of the daily program “Inside Story” on Al Jazeera America. He has been a senior correspondent for PBS “NewsHour,” host of the international news program “America Abroad,” host of the NPR program... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Ellis_150905 | 36 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Joseph Ellis w/David Rubenstein
Joseph Ellis, a professor teaching in the Leadership Studies program at Williams College, is a nationally recognized historian whose work focuses on the founders of the United States. The author of nine books, he has received the National Book Award in Nonfiction for "American Sphinx: The Character of... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Fenn_150905 | 7 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Elizabeth A. Fenn
Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth A. Fenn is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a distinguished scholar whose studies focus on the early American west, epidemic disease, Native American history and environmental history. Her dissertation was published in... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Geronimo_150905 | 10 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Harlyn Geronimo
Harlyn Geronimo is a Mescalero and Chiricahua Apache medicine man and the great-grandson of legendary Chiricahua Apache Chief Geronimo. He belongs to the Eastern Chiricahua Apaches known as Shá'i'ánde whose homelands are the Gila wilderness. The book “In Geronimo’s Footsteps: A Journey Beyond Legend”... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Gordon_Reed_150905 | 7 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history at Harvard University, is one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars. She received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" (Norton). Her first book was the acclaimed "Thomas... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Graphic1_150905 | 184 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Graphic Novels Part 1: Knight, Alcaraz, Stantis w/Michael Cavna
Keith Knight is a musician and cartoonist. His works include The K Chronicles, (Th)ink and The Knight Life series. He has received the Comic-Con Inkpot Award for career achievement, multiple Glyph Awards for best comic strip and the Harvey Kurtzman Award for best syndicated comic strip. His art has... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Graphic2_150905 | 76 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Graphic Novels Part 2: Noomin, Lasko-Gorss, Robbins
Diane Noomin is a comics artist best known as the creator of Didi Glitz. She is one of the original contributors to Wimmen's Comix and is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters. Her work has appeared in many books, magazines and underground comic publications, including Weirdo, Young Lust,... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Herrera_150905 | 10 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera is the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. In 2012, he was named poet laureate of California. Herrera is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “Half the World in Light” and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Holm_150905 | 8 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jennifer L. Holm
Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times best-selling children’s author inspired by her own childhood. She has written the Newbery Honor-receiving novels “Turtle in Paradise,” “Penny from Heaven” and “Our Only May Amelia,” as well as the “Boston Jane” series. Instead of fighting with him for the comics... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Hope_150905 | 7 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan ("Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland")
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Jordan is an author and a national correspondent at The Washington Post, where she has covered a wide range of subjects including style, education and politics. For several years Jordan was the founding editor and moderator for Washington Post Live. She has hosted... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Isaacson_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in the District of Columbia. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. His biography of the visionary former head of Apple Inc., “Steve Jobs,” is a... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_James_150905 | 1 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Marlon James
Teacher and author Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He has written the novels “The Book of Night Women” and “John Crow’s Devil.” His most recent work is “A Brief History of Seven Killings” (Riverhead), which explores the political turmoil of late 1900s Jamaica through multiple perspectives.... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Larson_150905 | 4 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Edward J. Larson
Historian and author Edward J. Larson is a professor of history and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He received the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.” His other... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Leo_Ghost_150905 | 7 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Christian Robinson and Mac Barnett ("Leo: A Ghost Story")
Christian Robinson is an illustrator and animator. He has worked with Pixar Animation Studios and The Sesame Street Workshop. Robinson is the illustrator of several best-selling and acclaimed picture books, including “Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker,” “Gaston,” “Last Stop on Market... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Manzano_150905 | 7 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Sonia Manzano
Sonia Manzano has touched the lives of millions since the early 1970s as the actress who defined the role of Maria on the acclaimed television series “Sesame Street.” She has won 15 Emmy Awards for her television writing and is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Arts and... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Maraniss_150905 | 21 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David Maraniss
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post who has recently published “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story” (Simon & Schuster). Maraniss is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then presidential... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_McCullough_150905 | 36 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- David McCullough
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has called David McCullough the "citizen chronicler" for his meticulously researched and beautifully written historical books, such as the Pulitzer Prize winners "Truman" and "John Adams," the latter of which became an Emmy Award-winning miniseries on HBO. He is... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Misc_150905 | 53 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Miscellaneous | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Moses_150905 | 6 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Shelia P. Moses
Poet, author, playwright and producer Shelia P. Moses was raised the ninth of 10 children. She is the co-author of Dick Gregory's memoir, "Callus on My Soul," as well as the award-winning author of several books for young readers: "The Legend of Buddy Bush," "The Return of Buddy Bush," "Joseph's Grace,"... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Mosley_150905 | 4 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is the author of more than 40 books, including the critically acclaimed Easy Rawlins mystery series. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and spans genres including literary fiction, science fiction, mystery and young adult novels. His first Easy Rawlins novel, “Devil... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Nafisi_150905 | 4 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national best-seller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," a vivid portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. She is the executive director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Pastis_150905 | 97 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Stephan Pastis w/Michael Cavna
Stephan Pastis used to be a lawyer. Now, he is the award-winning cartoonist who creates “Pearls Before Swine,” a syndicated daily comic strip that runs in 750 newspapers around the world. The humorous comic strip’s host of friends—Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra—deliver a smart, witty and painfully honest... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_PP_150905 | 9 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Politics and Prose Area | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Reed_150905 | 4 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Ishmael Reed
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist for two National Book Awards, Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, editor, lyricist and essayist with more than 25 published books. His works include “Yellow Black Radio Broke-Down,” “The Last Days of Louisiana Red,” “Mixing It Up: Taking on the... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Scieszka_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jon Scieszka
Jon Scieszka was the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a program sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and the Children’s Book Council. His zany, somewhat subversive sense of humor is evident in such best-sellers as “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Sis_150905 | 4 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Peter Sis
Peter Sis is a critically acclaimed children’s author, illustrator and filmmaker. He is a MacArthur Fellow and has received three Caldecott Honors, a Robert Silbert Medal, four Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. His books include “The Wall: Growing up... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Tahir_150905 | 3 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Sabaa Tahir
Best-selling author Sabaa Tahir spent her childhood reading and listening to the radio in the Mojave Desert and dreaming of growing up as a pirate or bear. After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, she became an editor for the Washington Post. Her wildly popular debut novel, “An... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Theoharis_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jeanne Theoharis
A professor of political science at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College, Jeanne Theoharis is also an author of literature on civil rights struggles and political issues surrounding race in the U.S. Her latest work, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” (Beacon Press), is a 2014 NAACP... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Thomas_150905 | 20 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Evan Thomas w/David Rubenstein
Noted journalist and best-selling author Evan Thomas is well-known to viewers of the Washington public affairs show “Inside Washington,” which ceased production in 2013. He has worked for Time magazine, and has been editor-at-large at Newsweek since 2006. His book “The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge,... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Wiencek_150905 | 2 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Henry Wiencek
Henry Wiencek is a journalist, historian, editor and author of “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His other books include “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White,” which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography, and “An... | |
| 2015_DC_NBF_Winik_150905 | 5 | Natl Book Festival 2015 -- Jay Winik
Best-selling author Jay Winik is a senior scholar of history and public policy at the University of Maryland who is best known for his book “April 1864: The Month That Saved America.” He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and his work is often published in The New York Times and The... | |
| 2015_DC_NBW_7th | 12 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- National Bank of Washington (301 7th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Nelson_150619 | 52 | Natl Archives & AFI Docs 2015 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Stanley Nelson @ National Archives
GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM
For over 25 years Stanley Nelson has dedicated himself to creating a series of profound, intelligent and revealing documentaries on long neglected or misinterpreted chapters of African American History. These powerful works have made him one of the most acclaimed and important... | |
| 2015_DC_Nelson_Party_150620 | 84 | DC -- Party for Stanley Nelson @ Aviva Kempner's | |
| 2015_DC_NewseumMOH_151205 | 7 | Newseum -- Winter Member Open House
Join fellow members for an afternoon at the Newseum. Beat the cold and enjoy cookies and cocoa in our private members' lounge, explore our newest exhibits, attend a special program presented by the Newseum Institute and stay after-hours for a members-only gallery talk in our newest exhibit.
2... | |
| 2015_DC_NewseumV | 52 | DC -- Newseum -- Views from terrace | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum | 4 | DC -- Newseum
Including the Michel du Cille memorial. | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_40Chances | 6 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (2) 40 Chances | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_ADA | 12 | DC -- Newseum -- ADA steps
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Curators_150407 | 36 | Newseum -- Members' Evening with the Curator: Discovering Treasures at the Newseum
The Newseum invites you and a guest to an exclusive Evening with the Curator: Discovering Treasures at the Newseum
With more than 35,000 newspapers and magazines spanning six centuries, the Newseum collection holds many historic treasures.
But our recent discovery of an unknown edition of the April... | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Ferguson | 8 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) Protesting Ferguson | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_FreedomWk_150922 | 58 | DC -- Newseum -- Freedom Week banners go up | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_GMen | 182 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (C) G-Men and Journalists | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_JMemorial | 11 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Journalists Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Lincoln_Dead | 125 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (6) President Lincoln Is Dead
“President Lincoln Is Dead: The New York Herald Reports the Assassination”
On display through Jan. 10, 2016
To mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the Newseum will display an unparalleled collection of New York Herald special editions from April 15, 1865.
The... | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Marlette | 31 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Doug Marlette: In Your Face | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Murrow | 15 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Edward R. Murrow | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer | 2 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Rights50 | 43 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) Civil Rights at 50 (1965)
“1965: Civil Rights at 50”
On Display Through Jan. 4, 2016
“There have been other landmarks in the decade of the Negro’s militancy … but none had the power of Selma in 1965.” — Life magazine, March 26, 1965
The epic struggle to win voting rights for African Americans peaked on a bridge in Selma,... | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_Troopers_150424 | 10 | Newseum -- Stormtroopers Come for Private Event | |
| 2015_DC_Newseum_WorldNews | 45 | DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) World News Gallery | |
| 2015_DC_Newsies_150613 | 44 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Ken Cerniglia and W. Joseph Campbell (The Making of "Newsies")
Inside Media: The Making of “Newsies”
Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg and literary manager of Disney Theatrical Group, talks about the making of “Newsies,” the Tony Award-winning musical about a group of newsboys in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
Cerniglia will be joined by W. Joseph... | |
| 2015_DC_News_Lose_150204 | 129 | Newseum -- News We Could Lose: New Threats to Journalism and Press Freedom (w/panel)
The News We Could Lose: New Threats to Journalism and Press Freedom
In conflict and crisis, journalists put themselves in peril to bring news to the world. With journalists being killed and imprisoned in record numbers, the Newseum presents a special program examining these threats and the rise of new... | |
| 2015_DC_NGAAH | 28 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection | |
| 2015_DC_NGAP | 70 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings | |
| 2015_DC_NGASG | 14 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- Sculpture Garden | |
| 2015_DC_NGAS | 10 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture | |
| 2015_DC_NGA_Corcoran | 62 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: American Masterworks from the Corcoran, 1815-1940
American Masterworks from the Corcoran, 1815-1940
February 7 – May 3, 2015
In 2014 the National Gallery of Art assumed stewardship of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s renowned collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs. Two installations featuring highlights... | |
| 2015_DC_NGA_Flesh | 35 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh
Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh
June 7 – October 4, 2015
Prints were a primary form of artistic expression in sixteenth-century Italy. Better than any other art form, prints satisfied an exploding demand for the images of the day. They ranged from depictions of the... | |
| 2015_DC_NGA_Florentine | 30 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- From the Library: Florentine Publishing in the Renaissance
From the Library: Florentine Publishing in the Renaissance
February 1 – August 2, 2015
With neither a unified state nor even a common vernacular language among the various regions of the Italian peninsula, printing presses were established in every city and in many smaller towns. The needs of the... | |
| 2015_DC_NGA_Memory | 32 | DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund
May 3 – September 13, 2015
The Memory of Time presents work by contemporary artists who investigate the richness and complexity of photography’s relationship to time,... | |
| 2015_DC_NGS_Admin | 25 | DC -- Downtown -- Natl Geographic Society -- Admin Bldg (1146 16th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_NGS_Indiana_JonesA | 95 | DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology -- Artifact portion
Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
May 14, 2015 – January 3, 2016
For over 30 years, audiences around the world have followed Indiana Jones on his quests for adventure, fortune, and glory. The exhibition features real fascinating archaeological artifacts, along with an extensive... | |
| 2015_DC_NGS_Indiana_JonesF | 192 | DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology -- Film portion
Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
May 14, 2015 – January 3, 2016
For over 30 years, audiences around the world have followed Indiana Jones on his quests for adventure, fortune, and glory. The exhibition features real fascinating archaeological artifacts, along with an extensive... | |
| 2015_DC_NGS_Monster_Fish | 93 | DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants
Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants
March 26, 2015 – October 11, 2015
Beneath the surface of the world’s rivers swim mysterious giants. Join Zeb Hogan, National Geographic explorer and host of the Nat Geo WILD series Monster Fish, on a journey to find and protect the world’s largest... | |
| 2015_DC_NGS_Spinosaurus | 5 | DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous
September 12, 2014 – April 12, 2015
Meet Spinosaurus. At over 50 feet long, 20 feet high and weighing in at 6 tons, Spinosaurus is the largest predatory dinosaur to ever roam the Earth — even bigger than T. rex. This bus-sized dino’s extraordinary features... | |
| 2015_DC_NMWA_NYASP | 20 | DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- New York Avenue Sculpture Project -- Magdalena Abakanowicz
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Sep 27, 2014 - Sep 27, 2015
This installation included a range of figurative works by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. Her monumentally-scaled sculptures of grouped human figures and birds in flight exemplify issues universal to humankind: the power of nature, the force of... | |
| 2015_DC_NoMa | 14 | DC -- North of Massachusetts Avenue (NoMa) neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_NoMa_UPass | 3 | DC -- NoMa -- Metro Underpasses | |
| 2015_DC_North_Cleveland_Pk | 1 | DC -- North Cleveland Park neighborhood (between Albemarle, Rodman + Quebec, Wisconsin + Nebraska, Connecticut) | |
| 2015_DC_NPCV | 10 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Press Club -- Views from the top floor | |
| 2015_DC_NPC | 5 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Press Club (529 14th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_NPC_Bookfair_151117 | 121 | NPC -- 38th Annual Book Fair & Author's Night (2015)
Pictured here (in sequence): Stephen Hess, Garrett Peck, David Maraniss, Wil Haygood, Stephanie Steinberg, Eleanor Herman, Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Roland Mesnier, Paul Dickson, Jen Chaney, Garrett Peck (again), Evan Thomas, Marvin Kalb, Lisa Leff, David Maraniss (again), Eleanor Herman... | |
| 2015_DC_NPC_USWWI_150521 | 95 | Natl World War I Memorial -- Event: Announcement of competition @ Natl Press Club
NEW DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR ONE MEMORIAL
WASHINGTON, DC: On May 21st, 2015, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will open a design competition for a National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC.
This represents a rare opportunity for the public to witness - and... | |
| 2015_DC_NPR | 55 | DC -- NoMa -- National Public Radio building (1111 North Capitol St NE) | |
| 2015_DC_NY_Pres | 85 | DC -- Downtown -- New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (1313 New York Ave, NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Oak_Hill | 19 | DC -- Oak Hill Cemetery | |
| 2015_DC_OAS_Hidden | 16 | Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Hidden Identities
Hidden Identities: Paintings and Drawings by Jorge Tacla
On view October 22, 2015- January 31, 2016
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Curated by María José Bunster Baeza (Museo de la Memoria)
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, in partnership with the Embassy of Chile in Washington, the Permanent Mission of... | |
| 2015_DC_OAS_Streams | 24 | Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Streams of Being
Streams of Being: Selections from the Art Museum of the Americas
On view October 22, 2015- January 31, 2016
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Drawn from the permanent collection of AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Streams of Beings brings to light a multiplicity of ideas and identities emerging within... | |
| 2015_DC_OAS_Waterweavers | 60 | Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Waterweavers
Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture
On view June 24 - September 27, 2015
Organized by the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City. Curated by José Roca, with Alejandro Martín.
This presentation of Waterweavers at the OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas... | |
| 2015_DC_Octagon_Gold_Medal | 65 | DC -- Octagon House -- Exhibit: AIA Gold Medal Award | |
| 2015_DC_Octagon_Up | 45 | DC -- Octagon House -- Exhibit: Up from the Past | |
| 2015_DC_OEOB | 6 | DC -- Downtown -- Eisenhower Executive Office Building (Old Executive Office Building) (1650 Penn Ave NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Old_Post | 8 | DC -- Old Post Office / Trump Finger -- Outside | |
| 2015_DC_Old_Stone | 41 | DC -- Georgetown -- Old Stone House (part of Rock Creek Park) | |
| 2015_DC_Organissimo_150521 | 91 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- Organissimo
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert.
Organissimo
Organissimo’s trio presents new, original music that is instantly identifiable yet constantly evolving, infusing elements of... | |
| 2015_DC_OStraus_Mem | 13 | DC -- Oscar Straus Memorial @ Ronald Reagan Bldg | |
| 2015_DC_Oswalt_150111 | 96 | Sixth & I -- Patton Oswalt ("Silver Screen Fiend") w/Dan Kois
Patton Oswalt In Conversation with Dan Kois
From the New York Times bestselling author, multifaceted comedian and actor comes Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film, a memoir of coming of age as a performer and writer while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary... | |
| 2015_DC_Otto_150820 | 31 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Reception: hyder flares w/Justine Otto
Opening of hyder flares with artist Justine Otto and Vesela Sretenovic, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection
Leading German contemporary figurative painter Justine Otto (b. Poland 1974) won The Phillips Collection’s second annual Emerging Artist Prize following... | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_1Other_150614 | 142 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (1 of 9) -- Other | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_2Welcome_150614 | 55 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (2 of 9) -- Welcome | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_3Betweens_150614 | 95 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (3 of 9) -- In-Between Presentations | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_4Swimsuit_150614 | 62 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (4 of 9) -- Swimsuit | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_5Talent_150614 | 107 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (5 of 9) -- Talent | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_6Evening_150614 | 81 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (6 of 9) -- Evening Wear | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_7Inter_150614 | 87 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (7 of 9) -- Interviews | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_8Awards_150614 | 82 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (8 of 9) -- Crowning (Haely Jardas)
Miss District of Columbia Class of 2015:
* HAELY JARDAS -- 2015 Miss District of Columbia
* Micah Ernst
* Maya Everett
* DeJanee Fennell
* Gianna Gagliardi
* Emily Gentile
* Kiersten Gonzalez
* Sydney Hall
* Charlene Jean
* Judy Mabone
* Cara Marrero
* Alana Morrell
*... | |
| 2015_DC_Pageant_9Post_150614 | 116 | 2015 Miss District of Columbia Pageant (9 of 9) -- Post-Crowning Photos
Posed Haely Jardas post-award photos. | |
| 2015_DC_Paglen_150909 | 68 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Trevor Paglen ("How to See the Surveillance State") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: How to See the Surveillance State with artist Trevor Paglen:
From tapped fiberoptic cables at the bottom of the sea to football field-sized antennas in deep space, the architecture of state surveillance is as ubiquitous as it is invisible. In this talk, artist... | |
| 2015_DC_Parker_151123 | 61 | Sixth & I -- Mary-Louise Parker ("Dear Mr. You") w/David Plotz
Mary-Louise Parker In Conversation with David Plotz
"Dear Mr. You" renders the singular arc of a woman’s life through letters Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. The literary debut from the Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winning actress and... | |
| 2015_DC_Park_Van_Ness | 26 | DC -- Forest Hills -- Park Van Ness (formerly Van Ness Square) | |
| 2015_DC_Partisan_150121 | 76 | Natl Archives & USAFMC -- Panel -- Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis
The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis
Is Congress incapable of reforming itself? Former chairs of the Democratic and Republican House campaign committees, Tom Davis (R-VA) and Martin Frost (D-TX), in their book The Partisan Divide, dissect the causes of legislative gridlock and argue a common-sense,... | |
| 2015_DC_Patentees | 17 | DC -- Settlers (Original Patentees) of the District of Columbia Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_Penn_Qtr | 20 | DC -- Penn Quarter neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_Pershing | 42 | DC -- Pershing Park (became National World War I Memorial in 2021)
This is where the National World War I Memorial will be placed. | |
| 2015_DC_Picture_Book_151108 | 109 | Politics & Prose -- Panel --"Too Good to Miss -- Picture Books for Older Readers" w/Julie Danielson, Jason Chin, Christopher Myers, John Parra, Chris Soentpiet, and Jacqueline Woodson
Third Annual Picture Book Panel: Too Good to Miss—Picture Books for Older Readers:
Two years ago, a spellbinding event with author and editor David Levithan and author Jacqueline Woodson made us eager to hear more conversations between major figures in children's and young adult literature. To create... | |
| 2015_DC_PlanetaryR_150328 | 215 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) and World Wildlife Fund -- "Planetary" -- Reception and Earth Hour @ Natl Geographic Society
Planetary
Premiere, Planetary Experience and Earth Hour Celebration
Presented with World Wildlife Fund
Join us for the Washington, D.C. premiere of PLANETARY, a stunning visual portrait of our planet, followed by a reception with a Planetary Experience and celebration of Earth Hour, a global annual... | |
| 2015_DC_Planetary_150328 | 136 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) and World Wildlife Fund -- "Planetary" -- Program @ Natl Geographic Society
Planetary
Premiere, Planetary Experience and Earth Hour Celebration
Presented with World Wildlife Fund
Join us for the Washington, D.C. premiere of PLANETARY, a stunning visual portrait of our planet, followed by a reception with a Planetary Experience and celebration of Earth Hour, a global annual... | |
| 2015_DC_Plate_150312 | 68 | Natl Archives -- Libby O'Connell, Corby Kummer ("American Plate")
American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites
In conjunction with the National Archives Museum’s “Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History” exhibit, Libby O’Connell, chief historian and a senior vice president for the History Channel and A&E networks, discusses American culinary history,... | |
| 2015_DC_PlowShares | 27 | DC -- Guns into Plowshares Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Pokalova_151005 | 11 | Wilson Center -- Elena Pokalova (Russia's War against Terror)
Russia’s War against Terror: the North Caucasus and Beyond:
While the West is anxiously following Russia’s moves in Syria, the Russian government has once again declared its readiness to support the global struggle against terrorists. Dr. Elena Pokalova will address Russia’s experience combatting... | |
| 2015_DC_PresFD_Corps_150215 | 89 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day (2015) -- Linton Hall Fife and Drum Corps
Presidential Family Fun Day
Celebrate President’s Day weekend during a patriotic family day at the National Portrait Gallery. Enjoy a variety of crafts and performances dedicated to our nation’s famous past-leaders.
Meet Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in person and enjoy several art... | |
| 2015_DC_PresFD_Crafts_150215 | 29 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day (2015) -- Crafts etc
Presidential Family Fun Day
Celebrate President’s Day weekend during a patriotic family day at the National Portrait Gallery. Enjoy a variety of crafts and performances dedicated to our nation’s famous past-leaders.
Meet Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in person and enjoy several art... | |
| 2015_DC_PresFD_GWAL_150215 | 22 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day (2015) -- George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Family Fun Day
Celebrate President’s Day weekend during a patriotic family day at the National Portrait Gallery. Enjoy a variety of crafts and performances dedicated to our nation’s famous past-leaders.
Meet Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in person and enjoy several art... | |
| 2015_DC_PresFD_Heads_150215 | 58 | Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day (2015) -- Washington Nationals' Racing Presidents
Presidential Family Fun Day
Celebrate President’s Day weekend during a patriotic family day at the National Portrait Gallery. Enjoy a variety of crafts and performances dedicated to our nation’s famous past-leaders.
Meet Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in person and enjoy several art... | |
| 2015_DC_Press_Access_150110 | 43 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Sally Buzbee and Susan Page (Press Access and the Obama White House)
Inside Media: Press Access and the Obama White House
Associated Press Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page discuss restrictions on press access to President Obama.
In recent months, the Washington press corps has spoken out against what they call... | |
| 2015_DC_Price_150302 | 56 | Politics & Prose -- Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt) ("The Whites")
Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt) - The Whites
Writing as Harry Brandt, Price has concocted a fast-paced literary thriller that pays homage as much to Melville as it does to today’s urban realities. Billy Graves has barely hung on in the NYPD since he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy nearly... | |
| 2015_DC_Public_Eye_150617 | 62 | Newseum Institute -- Panel -- In the Public Eye: Police, Cameras and the Constitution
In the Public Eye: Police, Cameras and the Constitution:
When body cams, dash cams and other citizen cams combine with news media cameras to record public situations, questions arise about the balance between accountability, police procedures, public access to government records and privacy concerns.... | |
| 2015_DC_PuppyA_150326 | 30 | Sixth & I and Washington Humane Society -- Pet Adoption Event
Susan Orlean and Alexandra Horowitz:
Following National Puppy Day on March 23, join two funny, highly acclaimed, award winning authors – Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and staff writer for The New Yorker, and Alexandra Horowitz, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside... | |
| 2015_DC_Puppy_150326 | 86 | Sixth & I and Washington Humane Society -- Susan Orlean and Alexandra Horowitz
Susan Orlean and Alexandra Horowitz:
Following National Puppy Day on March 23, join two funny, highly acclaimed, award winning authors – Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and staff writer for The New Yorker, and Alexandra Horowitz, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside... | |
| 2015_DC_Quixote_Rolph | 9 | DC -- Public Art: Don Quixote (sculpture by Miles Stafford Rolph, II) @ 18th and G NW (Foggy Bottom)
Miles Stafford Rolph, II life-size welded steel Don Quixote sculpture (1981) is located at 1776 G St. at 18th St. in Washington, DC | |
| 2015_DC_Racing_Extinct_150224 | 98 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- "Racing Extinction" @ Warner Theatre
In Racing Extinction a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet.
Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. The international wildlife trade... | |
| 2015_DC_Rawlins_Statue | 16 | DC -- General John A. Rawlins Statue | |
| 2015_DC_Raymond_150624 | 50 | Natl Archives -- Emilie Raymond ("Stars for Freedom")
Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement:
The Stars for Freedom–a handful of celebrities both black and white–risked their careers by crusading for racial equality. Focusing on the “Leading Six” trailblazers—Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Sammy Davis, Jr.,... | |
| 2015_DC_Reich_151002 | 67 | Politics & Prose -- Robert B. Reich ("Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few")
Robert B. Reich - Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Reich’s distinguished career spans three administrations, including a tenure as Clinton’s secretary of labor. He has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for work in economic and social thought, and is the author of a dozen books,... | |
| 2015_DC_Reinvigorating_151015 | 107 | Newseum -- First Amendment Center -- First Amendment in the 21st Century: Reinvigorating Old Rights for New Times
The First Amendment in the 21st Century: Reinvigorating Old Rights for New Times
In Europe and America, liberty is not in good shape. Hate-speech laws continue to proliferate; universities are beset by campus speech codes; the religious are told that their faith is discriminatory; and the press is... | |
| 2015_DC_Religious_Freedom_150416 | 40 | Newseum -- First Amendment Center -- Religious Freedom & Foreign Policy
Religious Freedom & Foreign Policy
The British Council, the Religion Newswriters Foundation, the Center on Religion and the Professions at Missouri School of Journalism, Lancaster University (UK), and the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute invite you to join us for a timely and... | |
| 2015_DC_Remember_150616 | 151 | DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015C Summer Panel Discussion: To Remember and Reflect
Panel Discussion: To Remember and Reflect:
In conjunction with the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, this panel brings together several artists who have addressed war-related suffering in their own work. Panelists include Kristine Yuki Aono, Kitty Klaidman, Miriam Morsel Nathan, and Aida... | |
| 2015_DC_ReportingP_150521 | 87 | Newseum -- Members' Opening for Reporting Vietnam exhibit -- Presentation
Eyewitness to History: Reporting Vietnam
To mark the opening of its new exhibit “Reporting Vietnam,” the Newseum presents a special invitation-only program featuring four veteran journalists who will share their memories of reporting the Vietnam War.
Bob Schieffer was a reporter at the Fort Worth... | |
| 2015_DC_ReportingR_150521 | 72 | Newseum -- Members' Opening for Reporting Vietnam exhibit -- Reception
Eyewitness to History: Reporting Vietnam
To mark the opening of its new exhibit “Reporting Vietnam,” the Newseum presents a special invitation-only program featuring four veteran journalists who will share their memories of reporting the Vietnam War. Speakers:
* Bob Schieffer was a reporter at the... | |
| 2015_DC_Reporting_150523 | 100 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Jan Scruggs and Steve Northup (Reporting Vietnam)
Inside Media: “Reporting Vietnam” Opening Weekend
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s new exhibit, “Reporting Vietnam,” Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund founder and president Jan Scruggs and former UPI photographer Steve Northup share their memories of the Vietnam War.
Scruggs, a wounded and... | |
| 2015_DC_Ricard_150613 | 110 | Sixth & I -- Matthieu Ricard ("Altruism")
Matthieu Ricard:
In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard—a French-born Buddhist monk who left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism in the Himalayas over 45 years ago—demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness... | |
| 2015_DC_Rock_Creek_Pk | 3 | DC -- Rock Creek Park | |
| 2015_DC_Rock_Creek_Stables | 16 | DC -- Rock Creek Park -- Stables | |
| 2015_DC_Rosenberg_150205 | 96 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- Forum on the Rosenberg Case
Forum on the Rosenberg Case
Journalist Marvin Kalb moderates a discussion on the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The panel will examine how the Soviet spy network that Julius Rosenberg set up worked and how it helped the Soviets. Panelists include Ronald Radosh, co-author of The Rosenberg... | |
| 2015_DC_RRBVw | 24 | DC -- Ronald Reagan Building -- Views from... | |
| 2015_DC_RRB_ADA | 6 | Ronald Reagan Bldg -- Exhibit (Moynihan Plaza): ADA steps
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_RRB_Las_Bicicletas | 13 | Ronald Reagan Bldg -- Exhibit (Moynihan Plaza): Las Bicicletas
LAS BICICLETAS
March 5 - April 5
Moynihan Plaza
LAS BICICLETAS is an urban art exhibit created by Mexican artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro. It comprises 250 bicycle sculptures in black, white, red and orange; colors that were used by the Mayan culture to symbolize the four cardinal points. Our mission... | |
| 2015_DC_Samora_151015 | 75 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- Samora Pinderhughes Ensemble
Take 5! Jazz Series: Samora Pinderhughes Ensemble
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an... | |
| 2015_DC_Selznick_150508 | 109 | MLK Memorial Library -- Event: Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Featuring Brian Selznick
Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Featuring Brian Selznick
Love Is a Dangerous Angel: Thoughts on Queerness and Family in Children's Books
The DC Public Library is proud to host the 2015 May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture sponsored by The Association for Library Service to Children on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Martin... | |
| 2015_DC_Seventies_150625 | 34 | Newseum & CNN -- The Seventies (w/Wolf Blitzer, Adam Kinzinger and Tulsi Gabbard)
CNN will be hosting a special screening of “The Seventies” at 7pm on Thursday, June 25th here at the Newseum. Following the screening will be a special discussion featuring Wolf Blitzer, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). | |
| 2015_DC_Sewall_Belmont | 41 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Sewall-Belmont House and Museum | |
| 2015_DC_Shimonura_150820 | 38 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Roger Shimomura ("An American Diary")
Artist Roger Shimomura’s work juxtaposes everyday images with racially charged imagery as he confronts Asian American political and ethnic issues. Shimomura discusses paintings, prints and experimental theater pieces that span his career. This program is a collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art... | |
| 2015_DC_Shirley_151019 | 20 | DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Craig Shirley ("Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan")
Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan featuring author Craig Shirley
His name in American politics is more cited than any other president. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are radically different today, mainly as a result of Ronald Reagan and the force of his ideas.... | |
| 2015_DC_Shorts_150329 | 30 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Living Wild: Wildlife Shorts Program (w/Robin Moore and Roshan Patel) @ Carnegie Inst
Living Wild: Wildlife Shorts Program
THE FROG PHOTOGRAPHER (USA, 2014, 17 min.) Conservation biologist, amphibian specialist and nature photographer Robin Moore documents some of the smallest four-legged creatures in the Costa Rican rainforest on the Osa Peninsula, home to 2.5 percent of all the... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_AALens | 130 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Through the African American Lens
Through the African American Lens: A Preview of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
May 8, 2015 – TBA
In this preview of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, see a sampling of artifacts that demonstrate the richness and diversity of the African American... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_ADA | 18 | Natl Museum of Amer History -- ADA steps and booths
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_BigBand | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Big Band
Big Band
March 31, 2015 – Indefinitely
“Big Band” is by American painter LeRoy Neiman, who was known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians and sporting events. Completed in 2005, this work depicts performers he saw in concert from the 1950-80s.... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Bldg | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exterior Shots | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Counter | 9 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Landmark Object: Greensboro Lunch Counter | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_CWDraft | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Landmark Object: Civil War Draft Wheel | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Enterprise | 45 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: American Enterprise | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_EV1 | 11 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: EV1 Electric Car
EV1 Electric Car
June 10, 2015 – September 30, 2015
The EV1 was the first modern electric car designed for a mass market. Beginning in 1996, General Motors built 1,117 of the cars and leased most of them to consumers in California, Arizona, and Georgia. The EV1 became the focal point of a national... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Fantastic | 66 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Dibner Library Exhibit: Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1780-1910
Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction, 1780-1910
July 1, 2015 – February 26, 2017
This exhibition explores the intersecting influences of science, innovation, industry, and the Victorian creative imagination through books from the Smithsonian Libraries and selected historical objects from Smithsonian... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Fischer_150724 | 4 | Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Chuck Fischer ("White House Pop-Up Book")
Chuck Fischer was on-hand to sign his "White House Pop-Up Book". | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Gunboat | 47 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Gunboat Philadelphia | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Hart_Celler | 23 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Hart-Celler Act
Hart-Celler Act
October 2, 2015 – January 20, 2016
The Hart-Celler Act had far-reaching effects upon immigration to the United States by opening the possibility of coming to this nation for many people from around the world. Passage of the Act in 1965 was a water-shed event in configuring contemporary... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_InnovationL | 4 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: LEGO flag (from Innovation wing opening) | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_InnovationL_150701 | 19 | Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Innovation Wing opening -- LEGO flag
Including the two LEGO masters who worked on the flag -- father and son team Dan and Chris Steininger | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_InnovationO_150701 | 65 | Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Innovation Wing opening
Inlcuding the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Quintet, DJ Will Eastman, and the ribbon cutting ceremony along with some crowds.
Ribbon cutters included Michelle K. Lee (Director of the USPTO), John Gray (director of the American History Museum), and Richard Kurin (Under Secretary of History,... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Innovation | 20 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Innovation Wing | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Int | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Miscellaneous Interior Shots | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Inventing | 53 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Inventing in America | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_LCarriage | 15 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Lincoln's Carriage
Lincoln's Carriage
March 23, 2015 – May 25, 2015
A special display of the carriage that transported the President, Mary Todd Lincoln, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865; on loan from the Studebaker National Museum.
The open barouche model carriage... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_On_Move | 490 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: America on the Move | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_Civil | 196 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- Civil War | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_Cold | 106 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- Cold War (Korea, Vietnam, etc) | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_Exp | 111 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- Expansion/Imperialism | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_Ind | 153 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- Independence (American Revolution, War of 1812) | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_Misc | 25 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- Miscellaneous (Intro, Terror, Medal of Honor) | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_WW1 | 22 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- World War I | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Price_WW2 | 229 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Price of Freedom -- World War II | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Sinatra | 9 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Frank Sinatra at 100
Frank Sinatra at 100
November 20, 2015 – March 2016
The National Museum of American History marks the centennial of one of the giants of the entertainment world, Frank Sinatra (1915-98), with a display focused on his popular music, jazz, and motion picture career. This display showcases Sinatra’s... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Storage_150717 | 34 | Natl Museum of American History -- Items from Storage (Civil War)
Various Civil War-related items were pulled out of storage to show the visiting teachers. | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Stories | 65 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: American Stories
Including the mini-exhibit Giving in America
December 1, 2015 – Indefinitely
The two Giving in America preview cases explore civic philanthropy over the past century. By the turn of the 20th century, a new generation of wealthy Americans increasingly supported secular as well as religious-based... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Toys | 18 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Toys and Childhood
Toys and Childhood
November 20, 2015 – Ongoing
In time for the winter holidays, this showcase presents a selection of cast-iron and tinplate toys from the museum’s collection dating from the 1870s to the 1950s, illustrating the ever-evolving nature of American childhood and home life and bringing to... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Value | 62 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Value of Money | |
| 2015_DC_SIAH_Voice | 51 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Hear My Voice
"Hear My Voice": Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound
January 26, 2015 – October 25, 2015
Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered as the inventor of the telephone, but he was also instrumental in the development of sound recording at his Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. See... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIB | 70 | DC -- Arts and Industries Bldg
This was the first time I'd been inside since 2004. | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Above | 54 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Above and Beyond (in Gallery 211)
Above and Beyond
August 1, 2015 – January 3, 2016
Above and Beyond celebrates the power of innovation. Packed with interactive challenges; vehicle concept models and prototypes; immersive media presentations; and inspiring innovator stories, this exhibition invites you to experience what it takes to... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Airport_Tower | 49 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Art of the Airport Tower (in Gallery 104)
Art of the Airport Tower
November 11, 2015 – November 2016
Art of the Airport Tower explores contemporary and historic air traffic control towers in the United States and around the world. This exhibition brings a heightened awareness to the simple beauty of these architectural structures and a call... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Bldg | 10 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- General | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Elephant | 10 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Why Is This Elephant In This Room? | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall100A | 170 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 100: (a) Milestones of Flight
The Spirit of St. Louis was being checked out so it was on the floor of the museum for the first time in decades. | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall105A | 117 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 105: (a) The Golden Age of Flight | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall106A | 61 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 106: (a) Jet Aviation | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall107A | 111 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 107: (a) Early Flight | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall108A | 12 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 108: (a) Welcome Center | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall109A | 19 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 109: (a) How Things Fly | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall114A | 149 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 114: (a) Space Race | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Gall210A | 45 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 210: (a) Apollo to the Moon | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Norfleet_150429 | 3 | Natl Air and Space Museum -- Event: James Norfleet signing
George Norfleet was in the building promoting his book "A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman Curtis Christopher Robinson" | |
| 2015_DC_SIAIR_Outside | 35 | DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity (in Gallery 211)
Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity
January 8, 2015 – June 8, 2015
Extra-vehicular activity, or EVA—working outside a spacecraft—changed the nature of human spaceflight. It made possible walking on the Moon, servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, and building the International... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAM_12Years | 194 | DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Twelve Years that Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963-1975
Twelve Years that Shook and Shaped Washington: 1963-1975
December 14, 2015 – October 23, 2016
During this period, Washingtonians experienced their first meaningful presidential vote, elected a city council and mayor for the first time in a century, and became the largest majority African American city... | |
| 2015_DC_SIAM_CWChanged | 177 | DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: How the Civil War Changed Washington
How the Civil War Changed Washington
February 2, 2015 – November 15, 2015
This exhibition examines the social and spatial impact of the Civil War on Washington, DC and the resulting dramatic changes in social mores, and in the size and ethnic composition of the city’s population. The population of the... | |
| 2015_DC_SIFG_Aramaki_150328 | 11 | Freer Gallery of Art -- Event: Shinji Aramaki
Cherry Blossom Anime: "Harlock: Space Pirate"
In person: Shinji Aramaki, director 3D screening! Watch the trailer. Inspired by a wildly popular 1970s television series, Harlock: Space Pirate is a 3D sci-fi adventure with eye-popping CGI effects. It tells the story of a mysterious loner who battles the... | |
| 2015_DC_Signs | 3 | DC -- Temporary Signs | |
| 2015_DC_SIHG | 48 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens: Enid A. Haupt Garden @ Smithsonian Castle | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIRO | 39 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside)
Including annual maintenance on Juan Munoz, Last Conversation Piece, 1994-95 | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR | 3 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside) | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Hub | 42 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection
In celebration of the Museum’s 40th anniversary, the Hirshhorn recently completed the first comprehensive renovation of the Third Level galleries, returning the sweeping, majestic spaces to architect Gordon Bunshaft’s original design.
The first exhibition in the new galleries is At the Hub of Things:... | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_LeOnde | 18 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence
Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence (1914-1971)
August 22, 2015 – January 3, 2016
This exhibition of nearly 20 works from the museum’s collection follows Italian contributions to the transnational evolution of abstraction, through movements and tendencies such as futurism, spatialism, op art, and... | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Shirin | 96 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Shirin Neshat: Facing History
Shirin Neshat: Facing History
May 18, 2015 – September 20, 2015
In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b. Qazvin, 1957) examines the nuances of power and identity in the Islamic world—particularly in her native country of Iran, where she lived until 1975. Shirin... | |
| 2015_DC_SIHIR_Speculative | 17 | DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Speculative Forms
Speculative Forms
Drawn from the Hirshhorn’s expansive collection, Speculative Forms reconsiders the historical development of sculpture since the early twentieth century and its critique of the autonomy of the object. Including more than fifty works, this two-floor exhibition collapses conventional... | |
| 2015_DC_SIMLRG | 38 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens: Mary Livingston Ripley Garden (Between Hirshhorn & Arts and Industries Bldg) | |
| 2015_DC_Simon_150207 | 23 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Joel Simon ("The New Censorship")
Inside Media: Journalists Under Threat
Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about his new book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom.”
The book examines how journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Into_Africa | 79 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Into Africa
National Geographic Into Africa: The Photography of Frans Lanting
June 4, 2015 – Summer 2016
Take a personal journey into the wonders of wild Africa as seen through the lens of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. Over the past three decades his images have created an enduring vision of the... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Last | 130 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Last American Dinosaurs
The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World
November 25, 2014 – 2018 (TBA)
Explore how we learn about past ecosystems and organisms through the study of their fossils and take a peek "behind the curtain" to see what goes into making a new, large-scale fossil exhibition. See “Hatcher” the... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Natures_Best | 152 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Nature's Best International Photography Awards (2015)
Nature's Best Photography: Windland Smith Rice International Awards Presents: The Best of the Best
October 24, 2015 – Fall 2016
Enjoy 20 years of nature's finest moments in the "Best of the Best" photo exhibition. Selected from nearly 500,000 images submitted by photographers from around the globe,... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Orchids | 77 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids: Interlocking Science and Beauty @ Natural History Museum
Orchids: Interlocking Science and Beauty
January 24, 2015 – April 26, 2015
Explore the rich crossroads where orchid botany, horticulture, and technology connect. Featuring orchids from the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection and the United States Botanic Garden Orchid Collection, the exhibit looks... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Primordial | 43 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed
Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed
July 2, 2015 – April 2017, TBA
Photographer Feodor Pitcairn and poet Ari Trausti Guđmundsson reveal a land of fire, ice, hardy life, and natural beauty. Experience the remote beauty of Iceland, a land sculpted by the elements and forged by active geologic... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Qrius_NOAA_150617 | 16 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Q?rius -- NOAA
The Search for Captain America Began with Surveying the Ocean!
When Captain America crashed the Hydra bomber in the Arctic, how did Howard Stark begin the search? It started on the ocean floor, with hydrographic surveying. Learn how we may our oceans and use exixting charts to help with... | |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Rotunda | 47 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Rotunda
African Elephant
September 4, 2015 – Permanent
Our iconic 8-ton, 14-foot-tall African Elephant has undergone a remake! The elephant made its debut in 1959 and has been restored several times since then. The newest setting explores the evolution of elephants from their earliest predecessors to the... | |
| 2015_DC_SINMAA | 19 | DC -- NMAAHC -- Exterior Images | |
| 2015_DC_SINMAA_CFC_1511 | 145 | NMAAHC -- Event: Commemorate Freedom Corona Projection
A dynamic 3D visual presentation projected on the Corona, our Museum’s signature façade, on the south (Madison Drive) and west (15th street facing Washington Monument) sides. The video presentation will explore the legacy of the African American Experience and how it has helped America live up to it... | |
| 2015_DC_SINMAA_CFP_151116 | 127 | NMAAHC -- Event: Commemorate Freedom Program
Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director, of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cordially invites you to an outdoor program and video screening honoring three milestones in America’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality
2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the... | |
| 2015_DC_SINZ_125th | 4 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Signage: 125th Anniversary | |
| 2015_DC_SINZ_Art | 1 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Public Art | |
| 2015_DC_SINZ_Main | 6 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Parts not covered elsewhere | |
| 2015_DC_SINZ_PandaVC | 43 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Giant Panda Visitor Areas (David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat) | |
| 2015_DC_SINZ_Panda | 13 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Giant Pandas | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_ADA | 19 | Reynolds Center -- ADA steps
Honoring leaders of the Disability Rights Movement on steps across Washington DC.
On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities abandoned their crutches and wheelchairs to pull themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building and demanded passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Black_Books | 44 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM archives) -- Exhibit: Little Black Books
Little Black Books: Address Books from the Archives of American Art
August 7, 2015 – November 1, 2015
This exhibition showcases a selection of personal address books of influential American artists, from Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to Joseph Cornell and Ad Reinhardt. Like diaries, these... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Bldg | 41 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Building | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Bravo | 2 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Bravo!
They're refurbishing both the Champions and Bravo! exhibit space. | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Carlin | 1 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: George Carlin, 1937-2008
George Carlin
March 27, 2015 – July 5, 2015
Our “Recognize” wall seeks to commemorate Americans who have influenced politics, history, and culture. The public voted to honor comedian George Carlin for the Portrait Gallery’s most recent Recognize selection. | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Carving | 22 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Direct Carving
Direct Carving
February 5, 2015 – Indefinitely
The exhibition includes approximately 24 sculptures from across the twentieth century, nearly all from the museum’s permanent collection. Direct carving is an unusual method of sculpting in which an artist works directly with a piece of stone or wood,... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Champions | 4 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Champions
They're refurbishing both the Champions and Bravo! exhibit space. | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_CW | 23 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Civil War | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Fellows_150508 | 65 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Fellows' Lectures in American Art
Fellows’ Lectures in American Art
Join the 2014–2015 Smithsonian American Art Museum fellows as they present new scholarship on topics ranging from John Sloan to Bruce Nauman, from depictions of the American frontier in nineteenth-century worlds’ fairs to the rise of self-taught artists in the... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Gehring_150522 | 38 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Bo Gehring
Modern dance company Pilobolus will fill the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard with movement, music and performance while artist Bo Gehring projects video portraits of the troupe on the courtyard’s walls at this special Friday before Memorial Day event. Join free dance workshops open to all or watch... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Lincoln_150414 | 30 | Reynolds Center -- Event: Lincoln 150th Event
Screening of Spielberg’s Lincoln
At the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Join us for a free screening at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery of Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln.
Spielberg directs two-time Academy AwardŽ winner Daniel Day-Lewis in this revealing drama that focuses... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Masterworks | 25 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Masterworks
Special Installation of 19 American Masterworks
April 17 through August 16, 2015
Nineteen major paintings lent from the private collection of Thelma and Melvin Lenkin of Chevy Chase, MD, will be on view on the second floor galleries of the museum as part of a special installation from April 17 through... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Measured | 37 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
July 3, 2015 – February 19, 2017
This one-gallery exhibition reveals the inner workings of the studio of Hiram Powers (1805-1873), who was among the most innovative sculptors of the nineteenth century, eagerly adapting long-standing sculpture traditions... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Obama3D | 11 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: 3-D Portrait of President Obama
3-D Portrait of President Obama
February 13, 2015 – February 16, 2015
In 2014, President Barack Obama became the first President to be scanned using 3-D technology. Data from the scan were used to create his portraits, and a 3-D printed bust will be on view for Presidents Day weekend Friday, Feb. 13,... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_PennPP_151022 | 48 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Press Preview: Irving Penn "Beyond Beauty" Exhibit
Press Preview for Irving Penn "Beyond Beauty" exhibit
Welcoming remarks by:
* Elizabeth (Betsy) Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director
Guest Curatorial discussion by:
* Merry Foresta | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Pilobolus_150522 | 21 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Pilobolus
Modern dance company Pilobolus will fill the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard with movement, music and performance while artist Bo Gehring projects video portraits of the troupe on the courtyard’s walls at this special Friday before Memorial Day event. Join free dance workshops open to all or watch... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Portrait | 56 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Portraits | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Pres | 26 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Recent | 34 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2015)
Recent Acquisitions
November 6, 2015 – October 30, 2016
From Frederick Douglass, Bob Hope, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Aretha Franklin to Rita Moreno, Matilde Krim, Hank Aaron, Willie Nelson, and Rubén Blades, this annual exhibition features 29 objects that tell the story and identity of America... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Sculpture | 6 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Sculpture | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Take5_150917 | 14 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- ArtJamz @ US Army Blues Band
Take 5! Jazz Series: U.S. Army Blues
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an opportunity... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Take5_151015 | 6 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- ArtJamz @ Samora Pinderhughes Ensemble
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an opportunity to paint your own canvas while you... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Token | 23 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: From Token to Ornament: Indian Peace Medals and the McKenney-Hall Portraits
From Token to Ornament: Indian Peace Medals and the McKenney-Hall Portraits
June 19, 2015 – June 5, 2016
Beginning with George Washington’s administration, presidential portrait medals were created to promote peace and friendship between Euro-Americans and Native Americans. Made in multiple sizes at... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Tour | 4 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Tour: Garrett Peck | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Unplugged_150522 | 154 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Performance -- Luce Unplugged -- Pleasure Curses and Young Rapids
Explore the center’s thousands of artworks while listening to sets by local bands Pleasure Curses and Young Rapids, selected with the help of the Washington City Paper’s arts editor Christina Cauterucci. DC brewery Hellbender Brewing Company will be on hand to provide free tastings of select beers (ages... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Volunteer_150406 | 38 | Reynolds Center -- Staff -- Volunteer Appreciation Event | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Watch_This | 8 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
April 24, 2015 – September 7, 2015
Creative and commercial innovations in hi-fidelity stereo, broadcast television, videotape and satellite technologies ignited a frenetic pace of social change through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, simultaneously shattering and... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPG_Yasuo | 31 | DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM archives) -- Exhibit: Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art
Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art
March 30, 2015 – July 10, 2015
In 1906, when Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1952) was just 16, he emigrated by himself from Japan to the United States with two hundred dollars in his pocket. Kuniyoshi eventually made his way to New York... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM | 22 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Not Covered Elsewhere | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Binding | 45 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 2): Binding the Nation (incl Pony Express) | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Elephant | 30 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Why is This Elephant in This Room? | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_FreedomO_150212 | 98 | Natl Postal Museum -- Event: Freedom Just Around the Corner Opening
Opening Reception: Freedom Just Around the Corner
Reception
Remarks:
* Allen Kane, Director, Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
* Richard Kurin, Under Secretary of History, Art, Culture, Smithsonian Institution
* Ron Stroman, Deputy Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service
Ribbon Cutting... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Freedom | 165 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Galleries 7): Freedom Just Around the Corner
Freedom Just Around the Corner: Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights
February 12, 2015 – January 15, 2016
A chronicle of the African American experience told from the perspective of stamps and mail. Includes letters carried by enslaved Americans, mail to and from famous leaders of the civil... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Moving | 21 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 1): Moving the Mail | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_NYStamps | 37 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 6): New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art
New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art
December 10, 2015 – March 13, 2017
Level 1: Mail in America Galleries
This exhibition of original artwork explores the diversity of topics highlighting the cultural heritage of New York City. The exhibition provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Owney | 7 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog
Art of the Stamp: Owney the Postal Dog
July 20, 2011 – August 5, 2012
Bill Bond's original painting of Owney, created for the Owney commemorative postage stamp, is accompanied by 6 sketches of Owney in various poses that Bond created as he developed his final portrait. As background for his stamp art,... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_PostSecret | 113 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 2A): PostSecret: The Power of a Postcard
PostSecret: The Power of a Postcard
August 3, 2015 – September 2016
Level 1: Mail in America Galleries
The exhibition communicates a contemporary narrative of mail and the postal service, highlighting the aesthetics of the communication tool itself and the juxtaposition between anonymity and shared... | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Stamps_Globe | 135 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 6): Stamps Around the Globe | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Stamp_Salon | 72 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 5): National Stamp Salon | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Tour_150213 | 3 | Natl Postal Museum -- Event: Director's Tour
Allen Kane, the museum's director, was taking around a group. | |
| 2015_DC_SIPM_Xmas | 10 | DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit: Holiday tree | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Bldg | 37 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Bldg | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Festival_151114 | 143 | Renwick Gallery -- Event: Renwick Opening Festival (WONDER)
Experience the Renwick Gallery as never before, with craft making, artist demonstrations, musical performances, and more. Come see the new contemporary art installations of the WONDER exhibition and enjoy a fun-filled day with activities for all ages.
Events:
* Stilt walkers at entrance
* John... | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_HandiHour_151113 | 101 | Renwick Gallery -- Event: Handi-Hour (2015, WONDER)
DC's premier DIY happy hour returns home! Get your craft on with three crafting stations where you can make jewelry inspired by Maya Lin's Folding the Chesapeake, stationery with cars and ink pads inspired by Chakaia Booker's work, and make a holiday wreath inspired by Patrick Dougherty's pods, with the... | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Oct | 43 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Octagon Room (when not part of another exhibit) | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Opening2_151113 | 64 | Renwick Gallery -- Event: Reopening Day -- Folks Inside (WONDER) | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Opening3_151113 | 52 | Renwick Gallery -- Event: Reopening Day -- Entertainers (WONDER)
Presentations by:
* Amy Conley, piano
* The Matt Richardson String Trio
* Drymill Road, bluegrass
* Excelsa Quartet
* Book signing with Nicholas Bell, Nora Atkinson, and Charles Robertson
* Opera Performance with University of Maryland School of Music
* Josanne Francis, steel pan jazz | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Opening_151113 | 65 | Renwick Gallery -- Event: Reopening Day -- Ribbon Cutting (WONDER)
The 10am ribbon cutting ceremony was shorter than expected because of a Vice Presidential motorcade that was due at 10:15. Ribbon cutters:
* Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
* David Skorton, Secretary of the Smithsonian
* David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle... | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_WonderPP_151110 | 93 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Press Preview: WONDER Exhibit
Renwick Gallery Reopens Nov. 13 Following Major Renovation of Historic Building with Inaugural Exhibition "WONDER"
The Renwick Gallery, home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's craft and decorative arts program, will open to the public Friday, Nov. 13, following a comprehensive two-year... | |
| 2015_DC_SIRG_Wonder | 218 | DC -- Renwick Gallery -- Exhibit: WONDER
WONDER
November 13, 2015 – July 10, 2016 (2nd Floor section closes May 8, 2016)
WONDER, the opening exhibition at the newly renovated Renwick Gallery, features site-specific installations that transform the galleries into a contemporary “cabinet of wonders.” Nine major contemporary artists, Jennifer... | |
| 2015_DC_SISG | 2 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Not Covered Elsewhere | |
| 2015_DC_SISG_Art_Gift | 19 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Art of the Gift: Recent Aquisitions
Art of the Gift: Recent Aquisitions
July 25, 2015 – December 13, 2015
The beauty and diversity of Asian art are evident throughout the collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Since the opening of the Freer in 1923 and the Sackler in 1987, generous gifts and funds... | |
| 2015_DC_SISG_Baladi | 13 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Perspectives: Lara Baladi
Perspectives: Lara Baladi
August 29, 2015 – June 5, 2016
Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi (born 1969) experiments with the photographic medium, investigating its history and its role in shaping perceptions of the Middle East—particularly Egypt, where she is based. This installation centers on Oum... | |
| 2015_DC_SISG_Lucre | 69 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre
Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre
May 16, 2015 – November 29, 2016
Filthy Lucre, an immersive installation by painter Darren Waterston, reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room—an icon of American art—as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative... | |
| 2015_DC_SISG_Shiota | 6 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Perspectives: Chiharu Shiota
Perspectives: Chiharu Shiota
August 30, 2014 – June 7, 2015
Haunted by the traces that the human body leaves behind, the work amasses personal memories of lost individuals and past moments through an accumulation of discarded shoes and notes collected by the artist. Shiota studied at Kyoto Seike... | |
| 2015_DC_SISG_Travellers | 65 | DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Traveler's Eye: Scenes of Asia
The Traveler's Eye: Scenes of Asia
November 22, 2014–May 31, 2015
Travel shapes how we see the world. Long after a trip has ended, images made to guide, track, and represent travelers and their journeys continue to influence our views of other cultures and our own cultural identities. Featuring more... | |
| 2015_DC_Sixth_I | 1 | DC -- Chinatown -- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (600 I St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Sixth_Wall | 95 | Sixth & I -- Wall of Fame | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle | 7 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_BldgH | 67 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Exhibit: History of Castle | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_BS | 24 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Backstage items
Including the mace upstairs. | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_Discovery | 36 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Exhibit: Preview: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder
Preview: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder
March 20, 2015 – Indefinitely
Preview the upcoming exhibition: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder. The upcoming exhibition will introduce the history of the Smithsonian and explore its museums, research, and public programs in... | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_Earliest | 12 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Exhibit: Earliest Known Photograph of the Castle
The Earliest Known Photograph of the Castle
August 10, 2015 – Indefinitely
Brothers William and Frederick Langenheim of Philadelphia introduced a new process in 1849 they called hyalotype to produce glass lantern slides. These slides were mounted for individual viewing or projected using a magic... | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_M | 2 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Photo Mosaic | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Castle_Views | 22 | DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Exhibit: Views from the Tall Tower
Views from the Tall Tower
August 1, 2012 – Indefinitely
In 1863, artist Titian Ramsey Peale took a series of 8 photographs from the roof of the Castle’s tall north tower that form a panoramic view of Washington. A corresponding set of 8 images, taken from the exact same vantage points in 2012, shows a... | |
| 2015_DC_SI_Secretary_151019 | 214 | Smithsonian Installation of David J. Skorton as 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution @ Arts and Industries Bldg
The Board of Regents cordially invites you to attend the Installation of David J. Skorton as the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The ceremony will take place on Monday, October 19th at 3:00 p.m. in the Arts and Industries Building. Smithsonian staff, contractors, volunteers, fellows and... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_B_Crane_150131 | 97 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- (3) Ichabod Crane
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_B_Ghosts_150131 | 64 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- (1) Intros and Ghosts
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_B_Group_150131 | 86 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- (4) Group and Dance
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_B_Laundry_150131 | 96 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- (2) Laundry Dance
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_Class_Garl_150131 | 42 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- Class: Garland Dance
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_Class_Warm_150131 | 42 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- Class: Warmup
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Sleepy_Misc_150131 | 154 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Sleepy Hollow Ballet -- Crafts, Audience, Etc
Sleepy Hollow: Ballet and American Art
American Art is excited to collaborate with The Washington Ballet and artistic director Septime Webre for a production of Sleepy Hollow. Dancers perform never-before-seen excerpts from the upcoming world premiere of the full-length ballet based on Washington... | |
| 2015_DC_Smiley_150410 | 58 | Natl Archives -- Tavis Smiley ("My Journey with Maya") w/Michel Martin
My Journey with Maya with Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley, the host of PBS's “Tavis Smiley” and Public Radio International's “The Tavis Smiley Show,” recounts the story of his enduring friendship with Maya Angelou. Michel Martin, National Public Radio journalist, joins Smiley. Presented in partnership with... | |
| 2015_DC_Smiley_150411 | 53 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Tavis Smiley ("My Journey with Maya")
Inside Media: Tavis Smiley: My Journey With Maya
Author and broadcaster Tavis Smiley shares the story of his 28-year friendship with renowned author, poet and activist Maya Angelou, the subject of his new book, “My Journey With Maya.”
Smiley first met Angelou when he accompanied her on a trip to Ghana... | |
| 2015_DC_Smith_151009 | 91 | Politics & Prose @ GWU Lisner -- Patti Smith ("M Train") w/Maureen Corrigan
Patti Smith - M Train — at GW Lisner Auditorium
Musician, writer, poet—the artist known as Patti Smith is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has a record on the list of top 100 albums of all time. The French Ministry of Culture has declared her a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and she... | |
| 2015_DC_Songs_150912 | 59 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/Hugo Keesing ("Next Stop is Vietnam")
Inside Media: Songs From the Vietnam War Era
Music historian Hugo Keesing talks about and samples songs inspired by the Vietnam War.
The broad range of protest songs from the Vietnam era covered a wide spectrum of viewpoints, from the war’s strongest advocates to its most passionate... | |
| 2015_DC_Sonny_Bono | 4 | DC -- Dupont Circle -- Sonny Bono Memorial Park | |
| 2015_DC_Southwest | 7 | DC -- Southwest neighborhood | |
| 2015_DC_So_Called_151213 | 192 | Sixth & I and Story District Productions -- My So-Called Jewish Life (2015)
My So-Called Jewish Life
A Story District Production
ASL interpreter provided
During Chanukah, join us for the 7th annual night of funny, poignant, powerful, and peculiar autobiographical stories about all things Jewish, not-so-Jewish, and wanna-be Jewish. Storytellers include (in sequence):
*... | |
| 2015_DC_Specter_150618 | 33 | Natl Archives -- Jeffrey Kimball and William Burr ("Nixon’s Nuclear Specter")
Nixon’s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War:
In 1969, Nixon and Kissinger used coercive diplomacy and excessive military force, including the specter of nuclear force, in their initial efforts to end the Vietnam War. Authors Jeffrey Kimball and William Burr... | |
| 2015_DC_Star_Wars_DanceA | 82 | DC -- Whino on H -- Star Wars Dance Party -- Art
Storm troopers and Jedis from galaxies far and near rejoice for Art Whino's: Star Wars Dance Party! Show us your best moves as you traverse through our intergalactic 9000sqft terrain as we celebrate the release of the much anticipated movie. Grab a frosty beverage at Chalmun's Cantina while you watch... | |
| 2015_DC_Star_Wars_DanceP_151219 | 125 | DC -- Whino on H -- Star Wars Dance Party -- People
Storm troopers and Jedis from galaxies far and near rejoice for Art Whino's: Star Wars Dance Party! Show us your best moves as you traverse through our intergalactic 9000sqft terrain as we celebrate the release of the much anticipated movie. Grab a frosty beverage at Chalmun's Cantina while you watch... | |
| 2015_DC_Steinem_151028 | 123 | Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Gloria Steinem ("My Life on the Road") w/Maxine Waters
Gloria Steinem In Conversation with Congresswoman Maxine Waters
In her first book in over twenty years, Steinem—writer, activist, and organizer—offers a candid account of how her early years led her to an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change.
In My... | |
| 2015_DC_Stiles_151102 | 33 | Politics & Prose -- T. J. Stiles ("Custer's Trials")
T. J. Stiles - Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America:
Stiles won multiple awards for his debut biography on Jesse James. With his next work, The First Tycoon, a life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, he earned both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. Now, in his eagerly awaited third... | |
| 2015_DC_Streetcar | 4 | DC -- DC Streetcar | |
| 2015_DC_St_Johns | 53 | DC -- Downtown -- St John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square (1525 H St., NW) | |
| 2015_DC_St_Patrick | 27 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- St Patrick's Catholic Church (619 10th St. NW) | |
| 2015_DC_St_Stephen | 21 | DC -- Foggy Bottom -- St Stephen Martyr Catholic Church (2436 Penn. Ave., NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Supersonic_Crafts_150314 | 168 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Supersonic Rewind -- Crafts and Mingering Mike
Supersonic Rewind::
Put on your dancing shoes and join the party as we travel back in time. Our DJ spins the soul hits of the 1960s and 70s that influenced Mingering Mike’s work. Meet the artist and check out his self-made album covers in our exhibition, Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits to... | |
| 2015_DC_Supersonic_Vybe_150314 | 127 | Reynolds Center -- Performance -- Supersonic Rewind -- Vybe and Dancers
Supersonic Rewind::
Put on your dancing shoes and join the party as we travel back in time. Our DJ spins the soul hits of the 1960s and 70s that influenced Mingering Mike’s work. Meet the artist and check out his self-made album covers in our exhibition, Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits to... | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtI | 37 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Interior | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtX_Capture | 30 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibit: Capturing Justice: Judicial Portraits by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Capturing Justice: Judicial Portraits by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Through public monuments and memorials, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 – 1907) helped to establish American sculpture as a successful and popular art medium. Capturing Justice celebrates the sculptor's rich talent as seen in his depictions... | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtX_Hughes | 36 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibit: Power of Image: Charles Evans Hughes
The Power of Image: Charles Evans Hughes in Prints, Photographs, and Drawings
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) was one of the most accomplished public figures of the 20th century, and today is best remembered as Chief Justice from 1930-1941. From the moment in 1905 when he entered public life as a New... | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtX_Ratner | 10 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibit: Ratner Sculpture of Warren Court | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtX_Reading | 60 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibit: Reading the Law: Legal Education in America
Reading the Law: Legal Education in America
From apprenticeships to modern day law schools, Reading the Law: Legal Education in America explores the evolution of legal education teaching methodologies, beginning with the Inns of Court and continuing into the 20th century. Although attending law school... | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_CtX_Temple | 99 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exhibit: America’s Temple of Justice | |
| 2015_DC_Supreme_Ct | 67 | DC -- Supreme Court Building -- Exterior | |
| 2015_DC_Surratt_Boarding | 3 | DC -- Chinatown -- Surratt Boarding House (604 H St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Swanson_150412 | 37 | Newseum -- Inside Media w/James Swanson (Lincoln Assassination)
Inside Media: James Swanson on the Lincoln Assassination
To mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, author and historian James Swanson looks back at the event that shocked the nation.
Swanson is the author of the New York Times best-seller “Manhunt: The 12-Day... | |
| 2015_DC_SweetARTS_150213 | 52 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Event: SweetARTS and Valentines
SweetARTS and Valentines
Need something special for your sweetie? Looking for a snarky card to send to your BFF? Tired of the same ol’ Valentine’s Day options? Look no further; American Art has what you need. Come on by to make the perfect, personalized card—we supply all the necessary materials at no... | |
| 2015_DC_Symantec_150415 | 33 | Symantec Government Technology Summit
Morning Keynote
Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of the FBI (2001-2013)
Robert S. Mueller, III is a partner at WilmerHale in Washington, DC, where his practice focuses on investigations, crisis management, privacy, and cyber security work.
Mr. Mueller served as the sixth Director of the FBI from... | |
| 2015_DC_Taft_Br | 8 | DC -- Taft Bridge | |
| 2015_DC_Temperance | 12 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Indiana Plaza -- Temperance Fountain | |
| 2015_DC_Temperance_150331 | 36 | Natl Archives -- Panel -- Temperance and Woman Suffrage
Temperance and Woman Suffrage: Reform Movements and the Women Who Changed America
The temperance and woman suffrage movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries created opportunities for women to organize for social, economic, and political change. Support for the temperance movement through the... | |
| 2015_DC_THIS_Jazz_150424 | 389 | THIS for Diplomats All That Jazz Gala @ Embassy of Korea Residence
THIS for Diplomats and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea are delighted that you will join us for… All That Jazz Gala!
At the Residence of His Excellency Ahn Ho-Young and Madame Ahn.
Other ambassadors who were present: Joseph Henry Smith (Ghana) and Walter Cutler (retired) . | |
| 2015_DC_Toynbee | 37 | DC -- Public Art: Stikman Robots | |
| 2015_DC_TPC | 98 | DC -- The Phillips Collection | |
| 2015_DC_TPC_Duncan | 8 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: David Duncan: Collector and Patron | |
| 2015_DC_TPC_Migration | 13 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series | |
| 2015_DC_Trails_CW2CR | 69 | DC Heritage Trails: Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail | |
| 2015_DC_Trails_FTriangle | 138 | DC Heritage Trails: Make No Little Plans: Federal Triangle Heritage Trail | |
| 2015_DC_Trails_GreaterH | 19 | DC Heritage Trails: Hub, Home, Heart: Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail | |
| 2015_DC_Trails_Shaw | 9 | DC Heritage Trails: Midcity at the Crossroads: Shaw Heritage Trail | |
| 2015_DC_Trails_SW | 6 | DC Heritage Trails: River Farms to Urban Towers: Southwest Heritage Trail | |
| 2015_DC_Transatlantic_150916 | 93 | Wilson Center -- Filipe VI King of Spain (Transatlantic Conversation) plus panel
Transatlantic Conversation: Confronting Common Security Challenges
Special Keynote by His Majesty the King of Spain
Confronting common threats and security challenges, the United States and Europe are more and more at pains to find common solutions. Speaking at the Wilson Center, His Majesty the King... | |
| 2015_DC_Treasury | 1 | DC -- Dept of Treasury building | |
| 2015_DC_Union_StationI | 35 | DC -- Union Station (Interior) | |
| 2015_DC_Urschel_150909 | 21 | Natl Archives -- Joe Urschel ("The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt that Changed the Nation")
The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt that Changed the Nation
It’s 1933 and George “Machine Gun” Kelly, one of the most celebrated gangsters of the era, set his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman Charles Urschel. Joe Urschel, executive director of the... | |
| 2015_DC_USRes196 | 11 | DC -- MT Vernon Triangle -- US Reservation 196 (NJ Ave between 1st and F St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_US_Army_Blues_150917 | 66 | Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- U.S. Army Blues
Take 5! Jazz Series: U.S. Army Blues
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments and borrow a board game to play during the concert. Feeling inspired to create? Local artists from ArtJamz set up a temporary studio, offering an opportunity... | |
| 2015_DC_US_Holodomor | 195 | DC -- Union Station -- Exhibit: National Holodomor Memorial
November 1-14, 2015
The 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine
On the occasion of the unveiling of the National Holodomor Memorial, this exhibit is dedicated to the victims of the man-made famine-genocide. The memorial will for eternity speak for them. This exhibit will help inform about what happened... | |
| 2015_DC_Veterans_151105 | 55 | Natl Archives & USAFMC -- Panel -- In Honor of Our Veterans: Caring for Our Heroes
In Honor of Our Veterans: Caring for Our Heroes:
What has Congress done to aid active service members, veterans, and their families? What lessons can we learn from how veterans from previous conflicts were supported upon their return? What challenges do we face as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... | |
| 2015_DC_VFW | 11 | DC -- Capitol Hill -- Veterans of Foreign Wars-US (200 Maryland Ave NE) | |
| 2015_DC_Victims | 4 | DC -- Victims of Communism Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_Vietnamerica_151017 | 207 | Newseum -- “Vietnamerica” Screening, Reception and Panel
“Vietnamerica” Screening, Reception and Panel
The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation and the Newseum present the Washington, D.C., premiere of the new documentary “Vietnamerica,” which tells the story of how more than 2 million Vietnamese fled to America in the years following the Vietnam... | |
| 2015_DC_Viet_Wall | 15 | DC -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial | |
| 2015_DC_VOA_Murals | 51 | DC -- Voice of America -- Murals Tour | |
| 2015_DC_Waggaman | 1 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Waggaman Auctioneer Bldg (917 F St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Waller_151025 | 45 | Politics & Prose -- Douglas Waller ("Disciples")
Douglas Waller - Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan
Waller, a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time, and the author of A Question of Loyalty and other books of military and intelligence history, follows up his biography of Wild Bill Donovan... | |
| 2015_DC_Walsh_150424 | 83 | Natl Archives -- Kenneth T. Walsh ("Celebrity in Chief")
Celebrity in Chief: A History of the Presidents and the Culture of Stardom:
Award-winning White House correspondent and Presidential historian Kenneth T. Walsh looks at the history of America’s Presidents. He argues that modern Presidents need to be celebrities, building on their fame to rally public... | |
| 2015_DC_Warner_TheatreT | 87 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Warner Theatre -- Tiles | |
| 2015_DC_Warner_Theatre | 21 | DC -- Penn Qtr -- Warner Theatre (513 13th St NW) | |
| 2015_DC_Wash_Circle | 15 | DC -- Washington Circle (George Washington Equestrian Statue) | |