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2018_CA_Balboa20CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Miscellaneous Sites
2018_CA_CabrilloVC92CA -- San Diego -- Cabrillo Natl Monument -- VIsitor Center
2018_CA_CabrilloV16CA -- San Diego -- Views from Cabrillo
2018_CA_Cabrillo180CA -- San Diego -- Cabrillo Natl Monument
2018_CA_Coit_Murals2F64CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower -- Murals -- 2nd Floor Tour
2018_CA_Coit_Murals190CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower -- Murals
2018_CA_Coit_Murals_Tour5CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower -- Murals -- LaborFest tour
I had no idea that there was a LaborFest event going on here. Interesting folks talking about all of the murals, although I was desperate for time to see the ones I'd never seen before above the first floor.
2018_CA_Coit_Tower27CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower
2018_CA_Coit_Vistas21CA -- San Francisco -- Coit Tower -- Views from...
2018_CA_Crocker_Carrillo63CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Exhibit: Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo
Testament of the Spirit
Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo
June 24, 2018 — October 07, 2018
Eduardo Carrillo’s artwork has been described as mystical, realistic, surreal, and visionary. His imagery, whether grounded in the everyday world or infused with magical realism, reflects his relationship to his...
2018_CA_Crocker_Crockers32CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Exhibit: The Crockers and Their Era
2018_CA_Crocker_Cycle8CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Exhibit: The Cycle by Cyrus Tilton
The Cycle
by Cyrus Tilton
March 25, 2018 — July 15, 2018
Cyrus Tilton (1977–2017) grew up in a remote river valley northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, where vast expanses of open wilderness were always close at hand. After moving to the urban environment of Oakland, California, at age twenty-one, he grew...
2018_CA_Crocker_Gifts20CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Exhibit: Nature's Gifts: Early California Paintings from the Wendy Willrich Collection
Nature's Gifts
Early California Paintings from the Wendy Willrich Collection
April 22, 2018 — December 31, 2018
Bay Area art collector Wendy Willrich recently decided that the Crocker Art Museum should become the ultimate home for her collection of 41 early California paintings. The gift is...
2018_CA_Crocker_Modern148CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Modern Section
2018_CA_Crocker_Orig71CA -- Sacramento -- Crocker Art Museum -- Original Section
2018_CA_Donner_MemorialVC143CA -- Donner Memorial State Park -- Visitor Center
2018_CA_Donner_Memorial40CA -- Donner Memorial State Park
2018_CA_Fallbrook32CA -- Fallbrook
2018_CA_Ft_Point142CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate NRA -- Fort Point NHS
Parking on the weekend was tough. I had to park a half mile away to get in here.
2018_CA_Gaslamp_Museum89CA -- San Diego -- Gaslamp Museum
2018_CA_GGate_Bridge_SVC71CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Bridge (South Side) Visitor Center
2018_CA_GGate_Bridge_S33CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Bridge (South Side)
2018_CA_GGate_NRA_S42CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area (South Side)
2018_CA_Haight_Ashbury1CA -- San Francisco -- Haight Ashbury
2018_CA_Horton_PPk15CA -- San Diego -- Horton Plaza Park
2018_CA_I15_Barstow21CA -- I-15 @ Barstow -- Clyde V. Kane Rest Area
2018_CA_I15_Nipton20CA -- I-15 @ Nipton (northbound) -- Valley Wells Rest Area
2018_CA_I5_Newman5CA -- I-5 @ Newman -- California Aqueduct Vista Point
I thought I might get a nice sunset shot. Unfortunately, in the coming darkness on dark vista point, I hadn't counted on irresponsible dog owners who didn't bother cleaning up after their pet and ended up with dog poop all over one of my shoes that I couldn't wash off for hours. Dog owners! Just because...
2018_CA_I5_Westley7CA -- I-5 @ Westley, CA rest area
2018_CA_I80_Emigrant_Gap10CA -- I-80 @ Emigrant Gap -- Emigrant Gap Vista
2018_CA_Leland_Stanford69CA -- Sacramento -- Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park
Note: No photography is allowed in the house itself.
2018_CA_Livermore_Turbines4CA -- Livermore -- Wind Turbines
2018_CA_Lucas_Studio29CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Lucas Studio
I had not heard about this place and went on the weekend when it wasn't open so I couldn't get into the lobby (which is open M-F during business hours). The building isn't marked. The name "Lucas Studio" showed up on the Presidio maps and then Googling talked about the Yoda statue. While I was there,...
2018_CA_Mamas_WashSq4CA -- San Francisco -- Mama's on Washington Square
I didn't get into this local institution. The line was already an hour long at 9am on a Sunday.
2018_CA_Mingei3CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum
2018_CA_Mingei_Hawkins53CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: William L. Hawkins
William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography
Jun 09, 2018 - Aug 26, 2018
This traveling exhibition will present over 60 of Hawkins's exuberant paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Mingei International Museum presents WILLIAM L. HAWKINS – An Imaginative Geography, organized by the Figge Art Museum in...
2018_CA_Mingei_Israel36CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: Israel: 70 Years of Craft & Design
Israel: 70 Years of Craft & Design
Apr 21, 2018 - Sep 03, 2018
In recognition and celebration of the 70-year anniversary of the founding of Israel, Mingei International Museum and Balboa Park’s House of Israel will collaborate on a retrospective exhibition highlighting the nation’s diverse and lively...
2018_CA_Mingei_Student10CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: Student Craft: Form and Function
Student Craft: Form and Function
May 19, 2018 - Aug 19, 2018
STUDENT CRAFT is a biennial, juried exhibition of craft work created by San Diego high school students during the 2017-2018 school year.
STUDENT CRAFT – Form and Function echoes the Museum’s mission by focusing on beautiful objects made...
2018_CA_Mingei_Voluminous37CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: Voluminous Art
Voluminous Art: Treasures from San Diego's University Libraries
Mar 10, 2018 - Sep 03, 2018
This spring, Mingei International Museum will shine a spotlight on the lesser-known libraries of UC San Diego, San Diego State University and University of San Diego.
VOLUMINOUS ART – Treasures from San...
2018_CA_Rancho_PV3CA -- Rancho Palos Verdes
2018_CA_Rancho_PV_AC20CA -- Rancho Palos Verdes -- Abalone Cove Shoreline Park
2018_CA_Rancho_PV_PPTrump39CA -- Rancho Palos Verdes -- Marilyn Ryan Sunset Point Park and Trump National Golf Club
2018_CA_Sacramento7CA -- Sacramento
2018_CA_Sacramento_Art13CA -- Sacramento -- Public Art
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapGC40CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Govt Complex
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkCW9CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Civil War Memorial Grove
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkFF11CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- California Firefighters' Memorial
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkJS6CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Junipero Serra Tribute
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkMex6CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Mexican American Memorial
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkPOM16CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Peace Officers Memorial
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkUCB1CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- USS California Bell
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkVet17CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- California Veterans Memorial
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkVN54CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Vietnam War Memorial
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPkWP57CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- World Peace Rose Garden
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapPk43CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park
2018_CA_Sacramento_CapX45CA -- Sacramento -- State Capitol -- Exterior
2018_CA_Sac_Cath_of_BS1CA -- Sacramento -- Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
2018_CA_Santa_Rosa7CA -- Santa Rosa
2018_CA_San_Diego56CA -- San Diego -- Miscellaneous downtown sites
2018_CA_San_Fran3CA -- San Francisco
2018_CA_San_Fran_Art2CA -- San Francisco -- Public Art
2018_CA_SB_McDonalds31CA -- San Bernardino -- 1st McDonald's Site
Phil and Linda Yeh came by so we could meet up again.
2018_CA_Schulz_Gallery84CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Snoopy's Gallery and Gift Shop
2018_CA_Schulz_Hockey26CA -- Santa Rosa -- Snoopy's Home Ice
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum168CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Cases47CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Cases
There are four cases display cases in the center of the second floor gallery which probably don't change much. They are (1) Early Years, (2) Getting Started, (3) Sporting Times, and (4) military.
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Favs86CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Exhibit: My Favorite Peanuts
My Favorite Peanuts: Reflections of Family and Friends
March 17, 2017 to September 16, 2018
Downstairs Changing Gallery
All Peanuts fans have a favorite character, storyline, or drawing. In this exhibition of original comic strips, photographs, and memories shared, Charles Schulz’s wife, Jean, their...
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Frank37CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Exhibit: 50 Years of Franklin
50 Years of Franklin
January 13 through August 5, 2018
Upstairs Changing Gallery
Shortly after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman wrote to Charles Schulz about integrating the world of Peanuts. She believed that the popular comic strip...
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Infl20CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Influences
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Sally106CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Exhibit: The World According to Sally
The World According to Sally
May 23 through December 3, 2018
Strip Rotation Gallery
Sally Brown, Charlie Brown’s little sister, has a sweet innocent side, but also a more cynical view of life than most of the other characters in the Peanuts Gang. A favorite phrase of hers is, “Who cares?” and the...
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Stud30CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Sparky's Studio
Schulz’s Re-created Studio
Charles Schulz’s studio was the center of his working life; a refuge, a place where he often talked with friends and fellow cartoonists … and the place where he created Peanuts.
This permanent installation, on the second floor of the Museum, is a re-creation of Schulz’s...
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Time74CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Timeline
2018_CA_Schulz_Museum_Wrap14CA -- Santa Rosa -- Charles M. Schulz Museum -- Wrapped Snoopy House
Wrapped Snoopy House
An admirer of the extraordinary environmental artworks by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Schulz paid tribute to the artists in a November 30, 1978 Peanuts comic strip.
Twenty-five years later, Christo returned the compliment by creating Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse...
2018_CA_Schulz_Sculptures54CA -- Santa Rosa -- Public Art: Snoopy & Charlie Brown Sculpture
2018_CA_SDCCA137San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Artists
Artists shown here;

Preview Night:
Greg Koudoulian, Phil Ortiz, characters from "Barbie Rehab", Andrew Aydin, Dan DiDio, Jerry Beck, Marc Sparacio, Greg Evans, Luke McGarry, Maria Scrivan, Steve McGarry, Lynn Johnston, George Karalias, R.C. Harvey, Mark Evanier, Karen Green, Mark Badger, Billy...
2018_CA_SDCCP01_18071925San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Spotlight on Maggie Thompson Celebrating Comics Buyer's Guide
Spotlight on Maggie Thompson Celebrating Comics Buyer's Guide
Maggie Thompson (30-year co-editor of Comics Buyer's Guide) and CBG contributors Mark Evanier (writer, editor, entertainment expert, and News from ME blogger) and Scott Brick (actor, writer, and award-winning audiobook narrator) revisit...
2018_CA_SDCCP01_18072029San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: That '70s Panel
That '70s Panel
The seventies were a time of change for comics: Veteran creators were melding with new talent and new kinds of comics were emerging. Here's a discussion of those changing times with Marv Wolfman (Tomb of Dracula), Steve Leialoha (Warlock), Rick Hoberg (Star Wars), Richard Pini and Wendy...
2018_CA_SDCCP01_18072143San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: IGN's Heroes of Fandom
IGN's Heroes of Fandom
To celebrate the unique bond between artist and audience, IGN is bringing together the stars and content creators who have bridged the gap between fame and fandom, using their platform to reach their followers in groundbreaking and sometimes world-changing ways. Panelists will...
2018_CA_SDCCP01_1807223San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: The Annual Kirby Tribute
The Annual Kirby Tribute
As is done every year, fans gather to salute the man some called "The King of the Comics" and its most imaginative artist and creator. Discussing the life and work of Jack Kirby this year are animation producer Larry Houston, illustrator/historian Arlen Schumer, Rand Hoppe of...
2018_CA_SDCCP02_18071920San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Meet the Newest Cultural Ambassadors
Meet the Newest Cultural Ambassadors: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Animation
As comics, film, and popular arts increase in global appeal, so do the State Department's initiatives designed to build mutual understanding around the world. Learn about an anti-bullying film project between U.S. and...
2018_CA_SDCCP02_18072077San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Spotlight on Veronica Fish
Spotlight on Veronica Fish
Veronica Fish (Archie, Spider-Woman, Slam! and now Blackwood for Dark Horse) offers tips on how to stay sane working at home, meeting deadlines and collaborating with your spouse in this fun chat session moderated by her husband, Andy Fish (Dracula, Geeks & Greeks,...
2018_CA_SDCCP02_180721180San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Quick Draw!
Quick Draw
Come early and grab a seat for the most talked-about panel at Comic-Con, at least among its participants! Three lightning-fast cartoonists duel to the death right before your eyes armed, with nothing but Sharpies, drawing pads, overhead projectors, and their own lethal sense of humor. Your...
2018_CA_SDCCP02_18072288San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: LEGO Ninjago
LEGO Ninjago
If you think ninja and LEGO are cool, then this is the panel for you! Ninjago veterans Tommy Andreasen (co-creator/producer) and Michael Svane Knap (LEGO senior design manager) are joined by lead writer Bragi Schut, voice talents Brent Miller (voice of Zane), Kelly Metzger (voice of Nya),...
2018_CA_SDCCP03_18071912San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: The Forgotten Trio: A Spotlight on Letterers, Inkers, and Colorists
The Forgotten Trio: A Spotlight on Letterers, Inkers, and Colorists
Many think of the artist and the writer as the masterminds behind all great comics. Little do many know how much credit should go to the colorists, inkers, and letterers who put in hours of work, only to receive minimal recognition....
2018_CA_SDCCP03_18072055San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Pogo
POGO
Walt Kelly was one of the greatest cartoonists of all time, and his work is fast coming back into print and receiving a new recognition. Here's a discussion of that work and the man who created it with historian Maggie Thompson, comic expert R. C. Harvey, film critic Leonard Maltin, co-editor at...
2018_CA_SDCCP03_180721113San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 1
Cartoon Voices I
Once more, moderator Mark Evanier brings six top cartoon voice actors together to talk about their work, demonstrate their craft, and perform a script with insufficient prep time. This time out, the lineup includes J. P. Karliak (The Boss Baby: Back in Business, The New Looney Tunes),...
2018_CA_SDCCP03_180722127San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Cartoon Voices 2
Cartoon Voices II
Animation voice director Mark Evanier gathers another stageful of the top actors who speak for animated characters to demonstrate their skills. Appearing will be Elle Newlands (Adventure Time, Final Fantasy), Kiff Vandenheuvel (Star Wars Forces of Destiny, World of Warcraft), Vanessa...
2018_CA_SDCCP04_18071925San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Speechless: The Power of Wordless Comics
Speechless: The Power of Wordless Comics
Wordless comics allow for readers to infer meaning from the context of juxtaposed images, and inferences can vary, whether it's from the sequential woodcuts of Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel or the books for younger readers by Raymond Briggs and Shaun Tan. To...
2018_CA_SDCCP04_18072076San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Revolutionary Ink: The 50th Anniversary of Underground Comix
Revolutionary Ink: The 50th Anniversary of Underground Comix
Meet the radical creators who made underground comix a revolution in American art and culture! Emerging from the 1960s counterculture, Underground Comix threw out all the rules, developing a new ethic for comics that celebrated absolutely...
2018_CA_SDCCP04_18072153San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Chapters and Panels: Blizzard Publishing
Chapters and Panels: Blizzard Publishing
See how Blizzard's many worlds are crafted into compelling art and narrative through an array of books and comics. Some of the industry's best authors discuss how they bring to life compelling stories that expand and widen the universe of Blizzard's games, told...
2018_CA_SDCCP04_18072263San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Cover Story
Cover Story
More and more, the cover of a comic book exists both to sell the product and as a standalone work of art. What goes into designing a cover and what constitutes a good one? Those are the questions that your moderator Mark Evanier will put to this dais of gifted cover artists: William Stout,...
2018_CA_SDCCP05_18071946San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: DC: The New MAD
DC: The New MAD
An all-new MAD ness is descending on San Diego! Meet some of your favorite classic contributors as well as some of the new California staff for music, inside scoops, and insanity! The Usual Panel of Idiots will include Doug Thomson, Suzy Hutchinson, Dan Telfer, Allie Goertz, Paula...
2018_CA_SDCCP05_18072037San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Tarzan, Barsoom, and Joe Jusko: The Adventure Continues
Tarzan, Barsoom, and Joe Jusko: The Adventure Continues
Jim Sullos (president, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.), Cathy Wilbanks (vice president of operations, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.), writer Mark Evanier (Groo vs. Tarzan), and award-winning artist Joe Jusko discuss new projects featuring Tarzan, John...
2018_CA_SDCCP05_18072149San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Wonder Woman in the 1940s
Wonder Woman in the 1940s
Everyone knows William Marston as the writer-creator of Wonder Woman, but many of the classic Wonder Woman stories of the forties were co-written or wholly written by his uncredited and previously unknown assistant, Joye Hummel. Today, her name is Joye Murchison Kelly and she...
2018_CA_SDCCP05_18072234San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: The Business of Cartoon Voices
The Business of Cartoon Voices
Interested in how one breaks into a career providing voices for animated cartoons? This annual panel seeks to debunk some of the myths and the occasional con jobs that wanna-bes are subjected to and often harmed by. It's a panel with people who actually work in the field...
2018_CA_SDCCP06_18071940San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book: You Make the Call!
Graphic Novel or Illustrated Book: You Make the Call!
The debate has raged for years, and it's only getting more intense: Is a 200-page comic story a graphic novel? Or is it a long comic book? Is a novel that is 100% filled with illustrations a graphic novel? Or is it an elaborate picture book? A new...
2018_CA_SDCCP06_18072049San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Marvel Television: Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
Marvel Television: Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
San Diego will be getting a little taste of New Orleans! Meet series stars Olivia Holt, Aubrey Joseph, Emma Lahana, Ally Maki, and executive producer/showrunner Joe Pokaski of the new hit summer series that redefined the superhero genre, Marvel's Cloak &...
2018_CA_SDCCP07_18071957San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: Holy Hollywood History! Creating the Batman '66 Exhibit
Holy Hollywood History! Creating the Batman '66 Exhibit
In late 2017, Los Angeles Publicist Roger Neal launched the idea of having a salute to the 1966 "Batman" TV series featured at the legendary Hollywood Museum in the old Max Factor building in downtown Hollywood. With museum owner Donelle Dadigan's...
2018_CA_SDCCP07_180720106San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Panel: World Premiere of The Death of Superman
World Premiere of The Death of Superman
UPDATED: Thu, Jul 12, 09:25AM
The Man of Steel meets his ultimate match when Doomsday comes to Earth-hell bent on destroying everything and everyone in his path, including the Justice League-in the all-new, action-packed The Death of Superman. Produced by Warner...
2018_CA_SDCC193San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Miscellaneous
2018_CA_SDCC_Auction50San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Live Auction items
2018_CA_SDCC_Peanuts14San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Pop-up: Peanuts Global Artist Collective
2018_CA_SDCC_STDisc27San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Pop-up: Star Trek Discovery
2018_CA_SDCC_Tomb_Raider22San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Pop-up: Shadow of the Tomb Raider Exhibit
2018_CA_SD_Art28CA -- San Diego -- Public Art
2018_CA_SD_Art_TCB21CA -- San Diego -- Public Art: Traffic Control Boxes
2018_CA_SD_Automotive105CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- San Diego Automotive Museum
2018_CA_SD_Auto_Mattar26CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- San Diego Automotive Museum -- Exhibit: Louie Mattar's Fabulous Car
Louie Mattar's Fabulous Car
Feb 13, 2017 to Feb 13, 2020
A man, a car and a dream. Soon after purchasing his 1947 Cadillac, Louie Mattar began the process that resulted in the creation of this dream car. In 1952, he and two other men established a cross-country endurance record by driving the Cadillac...
2018_CA_SD_Auto_Steampunk83CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- San Diego Automotive Museum -- Exhibit: Steampunk with a Retro Twist
Steampunk!
Steampunk? What’s Steampunk?
Jun 08, 2018 - Oct 07, 2018
Generally defined as a subgenre of speculative fiction, Steampunk is science fiction and fantasy where early industrial technology is steam-powered and based in Victorian and Edwardian eras as epitomized in the works of Jules Verne...
2018_CA_SD_Bikeshare11CA -- San Diego -- Bike Sharing
The same dockless bikes and scooters are in San Diego like they are in DC and other cities now.
2018_CA_SD_Cantor21CA -- San Diego -- Tim Cantor Gallery
2018_CA_SD_CJones81CA -- San Diego -- Chuck Jones Gallery
2018_CA_SD_CJones_Kausen_18072162CA -- San Diego -- Chuck Jones Gallery -- Gallery Talk: Craig Kausen
I happened to be by during a presentation by the gallery owner -- Chuck Jones' grandson Craig Kausen.
Artists in the audience included Saratoga Sake.
2018_CA_SD_HardRock34CA -- San Diego -- Hard Rock Cafe
2018_CA_SD_LibraryV9CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Views from...
2018_CA_SD_Library39CA -- San Diego -- Public Library
2018_CA_SD_Library_CCTie18CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Exhibit: San Diego Comic-Con Tie-In
2018_CA_SD_Library_Extreme28CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Exhibit: A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
Art Exhibit: A Method for Reaching Extreme Altitudes
On exhibit through September 16, 2018
Featuring the work of eight San Diego artists exploring space art ranging from scientific to science fiction and otherworldly curiosities. Artists Adam Belt, Matthew Bradley, Sheena Rae Dowling, Andrew...
2018_CA_SD_Library_Rare51CA -- San Diego -- Public Library -- Rare Books Collection
2018_CA_SD_Motel64CA -- San Diego -- Motel 6
2018_CA_SD_Ped_Bridge6CA -- San Diego -- Harbor Drive Pedestrian Bridge @ Convention Center (incl views from)
2018_CA_SD_Ralphs12San Diego Comic-Con International (2018) -- Ralphs prepared for comic-con
2018_CA_SD_Spreckels3CA -- San Diego -- Spreckels Theater
2018_CA_SF_Lands_EndVC66CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate NRA -- Lands End -- VIsitor Center
2018_CA_SF_Lands_End109CA -- San Francisco -- Golden Gate NRA -- Lands End
2018_CA_SF_PresidioVC50CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Visitor Center
2018_CA_SF_Presidio37CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio
2018_CA_SF_Presidio_POC176CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Presidio Officer's Club
2018_CA_SF_Presidio_POC_Ex77CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Presidio Officer's Club -- Exhibit: Exclusion
EXCLUSION
The Presidio's Role in World War II Japanese American Incarceration
​Extended to Spring 2019
During World War II, the Presidio of San Francisco – the Army's Western Defense Command – played a pivotal role in the unjust incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, purportedly in the name of...
2018_CA_SF_Sts_PP_Church10CA -- San Francisco -- Saints Peter and Paul Church
2018_CA_SF_Wash_Sq31CA -- San Francisco -- Washington Square
2018_CA_Temecula61CA -- Temecula
2018_CA_Wayfarers_Chapel81CA -- Rancho Palos Verdes -- Wayfarers Chapel
2018_CA_WDFM10CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum
2018_CA_WDFM_9OldM9CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Exhibit: Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation
Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation
NOTE: No photography was allowed in the special exhibit.
May 17, 2018–Jan 7, 2019
The Walt Disney Family Museum is pleased to announce its newest special exhibition, Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation, on view to the public from May 17,...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0198CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 01: Small Beginnings and Dawn of a Career
1901–1923
Gallery 1
Early Beginnings

A Creative Voice:
Walt’s love for drawing began at an early age. So naturally, when he entered high school, he joined the staff of the student publication, The Voice. Creatively, he found his own voice by illustrating short stories, drawing cartoons about...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0292CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 02: Hollywood and Oswald, Mickey, and WD Studios
1923–1928
Gallery 2
The Move to Hollywood

Alice Comedies:
While other moviemakers were animating characters to interact with live action, Walt had a uniquely different idea. “So I reversed it. I said, ‘That’s a new twist’ and it sold.” It was the beginning of the Alice Comedies, an ongoing series...
2018_CA_WDFM_G03128CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 03: New Horizons in the 1930s
1928–1940
Gallery 3
Exploring New Horizons

The Development of Character:
Walt wanted to personify his characters. Starting with the 1933 Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs, he focused on giving them distinct personality traits through the way they moved. The art of personality animation would become...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0495CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 04: The Move to Features
1936–1938
Gallery 4
The Transition into Features

The Moviola:
The Walt Disney Studios’ first feature-length film was an enormous undertaking. Walt relied on the Moviola—an editor’s viewing machine—to study the animated dailies and shape the story he envisioned. Walt was a master storyteller—he...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0583CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 05: "We Were in a New Business"
1939–1940
Gallery 5
New Success & Greater Ambitions

The Perfection of Pinocchio:
Walt was always raising the bar. He set up the Character Model Department to help animators bring characters to life by keeping their animation consistent. Along with model sheets, the department produced...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0693CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 06: The Toughest Period
1941–1945
Gallery 6
Patriotic Contributions

Film for the War Effort:
Production changed dramatically when the government contracted The Walt Disney Studios for a gamut of military and propaganda films. The unusual animated feature Victory Through Air Power, based on Alexander de Seversky’s book,...
2018_CA_WDFM_G0753CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 07: Postwar Productions & Family Treasures
1946–1950
Gallery 7
Postwar Rebuilding

Disneylandia:
Walt was introduced to the world of miniatures in 1939. Over the years, he collected and crafted them with the idea in mind of building a traveling exhibition of dioramas depicting historic Americana—a hobby he relished. “When I work with these...
2018_CA_WDFM_G089CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 08: Walt & the Natural World
1948–1960
Gallery 8
Walt & the Natural World

True-Life Adventures:
Walt’s affinity for nature prompted him to send a small crew to film the Alaskan wilderness. What the footage revealed fascinated Walt—in particular, scenes of seals in the Pribilof Islands. In 1949 Seal Island became the first in...
2018_CA_WDFM_G09160CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 09: Disneyland & Beyond
1950–1965
Gallery 9
Disneyland & Beyond

Adventures in Transportation
From a vintage railroad to the futuristic Monorail, Walt shared his fascination with transportation by building various transport-themed attractions at Disneyland. For children, he created the Autopia so they could get behind the...
2018_CA_WDFM_G1055CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Gallery 10: Epilogue
1966
Gallery 10
Remembering Walt Disney

December 15, 1966:
Walt’s untimely death occurred 10 days after his 65th birthday. His accomplishments were countless, his contributions extraordinary, and his legacy a source of joy and inspiration to the world. All from a man who once hoped that we never...
2018_CA_WDFM_Keane78CA -- San Francisco -- Presidio -- Walt Disney Family Museum -- Exhibit: Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane
Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane
NOTE: No photography was allowed in the special exhibit itself.
Mar 8–Sep 3, 2018
The Walt Disney Family Museum is proud to introduce our newest original exhibition, Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane, showcasing the work of this influential Disney animator...
2018_DC_1000F2DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1000 F St NW block (near Petersen House)
2018_DC_10thSt_Park18DC -- Downtown -- 10th Street Park
2018_DC_1201Wisc2DC -- Georgetown -- PNC Bank (1201 Wisconsin Ave NW)
2018_DC_1301PA14DC -- Penn Qtr -- 1301 Penn Ave NW
2018_DC_1317F16DC -- Penn Qtr -- Sun Building (1317 F St NW)
2018_DC_1700M3DC -- Downtown -- 1700 M St NW
2018_DC_1stBaptist3DC -- Dupont Circle -- First Baptist Church of DC (1328 16th St. NW)
2018_DC_1stDiv8DC -- Ellipse -- First Division Monument
2018_DC_2Centuries_18062038Natl Museum of Amer History -- Event: Panel: Two Centuries of American Innovation and 10 Million Patents
Two Centuries of American Innovation and 10 Million Patents
Co-sponsor USPTO, CPIP
Signed by President George Washington, the first US Patent was issued in 1790. This June, the USPTO will issue patent number 10,000,000. These ten million utility patents represent two centuries of breakthroughs that...
2018_DC_300Mass2DC -- Judiciary Square -- 300 Mass. Ave NW (Healey 1890 Bldg)
2018_DC_500NJ36DC -- (East) East End -- 500 New Jersey Ave NW (National Association of Realtors)
2018_DC_900F3DC -- Penn Qtr -- 900 F St NW (Penn Qtr Courtyard, Riggs Bank)
2018_DC_Above_Beyond_18061567AFI Docs 2018 -- "Above And Beyond: NASA's Journey To Tomorrow" (w/Rory Kennedy, Charles Bolden, Ellen Stofan) @ National Air and Space Museum
AFI DOCS Special Screening of
ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA'S JOURNEY TO TOMORROW
A film by Rory Kennedy
Panel discussion following the screening with Emmy® Award-winning director Rory Kennedy and others from the film.

ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA'S JOURNEY TO TOMORROW
Rory Kennedy tells the stories of the...
2018_DC_Abrahms_18120546CSIS -- Book Launch: Max Abrahms' "Rules for Rebels"
Book Launch: Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History
The CSIS Transnational Threats Project cordially invites you to a book launch event for Dr. Max Abrahm's newly released Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History (Oxford University Press).
Moderated by Seth...
2018_DC_Abrams_18030726Natl Archives -- Jeanne E. Abrams ("First Ladies of the Republic")
First Ladies of the Republic
Jeanne E. Abrams takes a look at the First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role. The position of First Lady was not officially authorized or defined, but they worked to project a public persona...
2018_DC_AEI10DC -- Dupont Circle -- American Enterprise Institute (1789 Mass. Ave NW)
2018_DC_AERA_Brown_181025119AERA Brown Lecture In Education Research (15th) w/H. Richard Milner IV
15th Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research by American Educational Research Association
This year, the 2018 Brown Lecture will be given by H. Richard Milner IV, a leading scholar of urban education and teacher education. He is Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Education and Professor of...
2018_DC_AFLCIO112DC -- Downtown -- AFL-CIO Headquarters (815 16th Street NW)
2018_DC_AFLCIO_Copley15AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Exhibit: Richard Copley: Behind the Lens: Civil Rights Photography from Memphis to Present
2018_DC_AFLCIO_Tour_18050234AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Event: DC LaborFest tour
2018_DC_Afro_Bop_180517130Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- Afro Bop Alliance
Take 5! Afro Bop Alliance
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard every third Thursday. Stop by the Courtyard Café for refreshments. For added fun, borrow a board game to play during the concert.
Latin Grammy Award--winning drummer and bandleader Joe McCarthy leads the Afro Bop...
2018_DC_Aftermath_18011389DC -- DC in DC -- Panel: The Aftermath: Battle & Trauma In Comics
Panel: The Aftermath: Battle & Trauma In Comics
As part of the DC in D.C. event, this panel session is a thoughtful discussion about the lasting effects of battlefield trauma. DC’s Batman author and former CIA counter-terrorism operations officer Tom King takes on Jack Kirby’s Mister Miracle in a new...
2018_DC_AIA_Awards172DC -- AIA|DC -- Exhibit: 2018 Awards Show (plus tail-end of 2017 show)
The 2018 Awards Show
November 9 2018 to January 4 2019
This exhibition combines award-winning projects from two of AIA|DC’s largest competitions:
* Washingtonian Residential Design Awards
* Chapter Design Awards
Each year, our competitions recognize practitioners, educators, and students within...
2018_DC_AIA_Marvel6DC -- AIA|DC -- Exhibit: Marvel at the Magic of the Holiday Season
Marvel at the Magic of the Holiday Season
Season's Greetings, from the District Architecture Center
2018_DC_AIA_Portraits10DC -- AIA|DC -- Exhibit: Suman Sorg Gallery of architect portraits
2018_DC_Aiseirithe_18022819USCHS -- Lunch Talk: A J Aiséirithe (“Frederick Douglass’s Indelible Mark on Washington”)
2018 Black History Month Lecture Discusses Frederick Douglass
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will present a Black History Month lecture February 28. A J Aiséirithe, Ph.D. will present a lecture titled “Frederick Douglass’s Indelible Mark on Washington.”
A defier of convention in so many ways,...
2018_DC_Albright_18041644Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Madeleine Albright ("Fascism: A Warning") w/Jeffrey Goldberg
Madeleine Albright - Fascism: A Warning — with Jeffrey Goldberg
Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Madeleine Albright is the first woman ever to serve as U.S. Secretary of State. Over her long career as a diplomat, Albright watched Fascism rise and endure. In Fascism: A Warning, she shows us how its...
2018_DC_American_Legion17DC -- Downtown -- American Legion Bldg (1608 K St, with 1612 K sometimes)
They finally replaced the "The American Legion" sign. The second "A" in "American" fell off on September 11, 2017.
2018_DC_AmerInd8DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Outside Areas
2018_DC_Amerind_Amer_Act99DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Americans -- The Removal Act
Americans -- Room: The Removal Act: Trail of Tears: Not what you think. Not even close.
January 18, 2018 – 2022
American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, town names, advertising, and that holiday in...
2018_DC_Amerind_Amer_Gal87DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Americans -- Gallery
Americans -- Room: Gallery
January 18, 2018 – 2022
American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, town names, advertising, and that holiday in November. Americans invites visitors to take a closer look, and to...
2018_DC_Amerind_Amer_Que59DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Americans -- Queen of America
Americans -- Room: Queen of America: Why did Pocahontas captivate people in her own time and every generation that followed?
January 18, 2018 – 2022
American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, town names,...
2018_DC_Amerind_Amer_Win63DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Americans -- The Indians Win
Americans -- Room: The Indians Win: The Battle of Little Bighorn was one of the most shocking events in American history
January 18, 2018 – 2022
American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, town names,...
2018_DC_AmerInd_Design39DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Design Competition for National Native American Veterans Memorial
Five Designs Competing for the National Native American Veterans Memorial to built in Washington, D.C.
Five potential designs for a National Native American Veterans Memorial can be seen through May 30 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Washington, D.C. From the...
2018_DC_AmerInd_Int34DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Interior Areas Not Elsewhere Shown (such as Main Lobby)
Tourists posing in the prism light.
2018_DC_AmerInd_Nation33DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Nation to Nation
Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
September 21, 2014 – December 2021
From a young age, most Americans learn about the Founding Fathers, but are told very little about equally important and influential Native diplomats and leaders of Indian nations....
2018_DC_AmerInd_Tears78DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal
Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal
April 12, 2018 – January 2019
This powerful exhibition takes a deeper look at Indian removal from the Cherokee perspective. How did it happen? Who made the decisions? What was the human cost? Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal dispels misconceptions...
2018_DC_Andres_18091457Politics & Prose @ GWU Lisner -- José Andrés ("We Fed An Island") w/Tim Carman
José Andrés - We Fed an Island — in conversation with Tim Carman — at GW Lisner Auditorium
Four days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, José Andrés arrived on the island and started to cook. Andrés, whose 29 restaurants have earned him Michelin Stars and two James Beard “Outstanding Chef” awards,...
2018_DC_AnthropologieM9DC -- Georgetown -- Anthropologie (3222 M St NW)
2018_DC_APacFD_18051222Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Family Day
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Family Day
Bring the whole family for a day filled with art, performances from different regions, and a variety of crafting activities. Make a parol lantern from the Philippines, or a rubbing inspired by Korean artist Do Ho Suh:
2018_DC_Archives22DC -- Federal Triangle -- Natl Archives -- Exterior
Including being closed during the government shut-down.
2018_DC_Archives_VietCopters32DC -- Natl Archives -- Exhibit: Remembering Vietnam -- Helicopters on front lawn @ Veterans Day Week
2018_DC_Art_Chess_Players9DC -- Public Art: Chess Players (sculpture by Lloyd Little) @ Judiciary Square
The chess board between the two characters has been removed. It had been heavily vandalized over the years.
2018_DC_Art_Full_Count20DC -- Public Art: Full Count (sculpture by John Dreyfuss) @ Federal Reserve (Foggy Bottom)
2018_DC_Art_Gateway_Wings1DC -- Public Art: Gateway Wings (sculpture by Kent Bloomer) @ NY Ave Bridge
2018_DC_Art_Lobsterman5DC -- Public Art: The Waterman (sculpture by Victor Kahill) @ Waterfront
2018_DC_Art_Matter_18011383DC -- DC in DC -- Panel: The Art of the Matter: From Sketch to Screen
The Art of the Matter: From Sketch to Screen
Just how do our favorite DC Super Heroes fly from the page to the screen? As part of the DC in D.C. event, this behind-the-scenes panel discussion on the creative process provides an “origin story” of how some of DC’s greatest Super Heroes on the page have...
2018_DC_Art_Sky_Landscape6DC -- Public Art: Sky Landscape (by Louise Nevelson) @ 1101 VT Ave NW
2018_DC_AwesomeA80Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Artists
(Friday)
Carolyn Belefski, Fabian Nicieza, Buzz, Dan Parent, Andrew Aydin, Evan Keeling, Tom King, Colleen Doran, John Gallagher, Mark Mariano, Chris Mariano, Thom Zahler, S.L. Gallant, Joe Carabeo, Amy Chu, Robert Wilson, ???
(Saturday)
Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Neal Adams, Evan Keeling, Tom...
2018_DC_AwesomeM133Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Miscellaneous
Folks here include Evan Scola (Rocket Pop Inc.), some of the folks from District City, one of the folks from Metal Souls.
2018_DC_AwesomeP1_18033168Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Panel: Past, Present & Future: The 80th Anniversary of Superman
Past, Present & Future: The 80th Anniversary of Superman
From the son of Krypton's beginnings on the pages of Action Comics, to his rise to the silver screen, to series such as Smallville, come celebrate Superman's 80th annversary with the people that bring him to life. Join Comic Creator Scott Snyder...
2018_DC_AwesomeP1_18040129Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Panel: Star Trek: Michael Dorn & Rene Auberjonois Q&A
Star Trek: Michael Dorn & Rene Auberjonois Q&A:
Michael Dorn and Rene Auberjonois will discuss their exciting careers and answer audience questions.
2018_DC_AwesomeP2_18033145Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Panel: Netflix's Lost In Space Exclusive Screening and Discussion: The Future of Space Travel
Netflix's Lost In Space Exclusive Screening and Discussion: The Future of Space Travel
Netflix presents an exclusive screening of the first episode of its upcoming original series Lost in Space premiering April 13 worldwide. The screening will be followed by a special talk with scientists and Lost in...
2018_DC_AwesomeP2_18040117Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Kid Zone: The AaaaWoooooo Werewolf Workshop with Chris Flick
The AaaaWoooooo Werewolf Workshop with Chris Flick:
Have a howling good time as cartoonist, Chris Flick, shows you how to draw werewolves of all shapes and sizes.
2018_DC_AwesomeP3_18033110Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Kid Zone: Alien Art with Dawn Griffin
Alien Art with Dawn Griffin
The Kid Zone will be transformed into an alien factory when cartoonist, Dawn Griffin, shows you easy ways to draw wacky aliens.
2018_DC_Ayers_18043058National History Center -- Ed Ayers ("Thin Light of Freedom") @ Wilson Center
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
Edward Ayers, winner of the Lincoln Prize for 2018, will explore the American Civil War and its consequences from the ground up. Building on a pioneering digital archive that offers a comprehensive view of a Virginia...
2018_DC_BABA_181009124British-American Business Assn (BABA) -- An Evening with Jo Salter, Britain's First Female Fast Jet Pilot
An Evening with Jo Salter, Britain's First Female Fast Jet Pilot
Join BABA and PwC on October 9th at a reception featuring Jo Salter, an innovative and dynamic leader.
As the first female fast jet fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, Jo has first-hand experience of the many challenges in serving her...
2018_DC_Baise_18020574DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: Protests in Iran and US Public Diplomacy (w/Matthew Baise)
You are invited to attend the next monthly USC / PDC / PDAA.lunch forum on Monday, February 5th, at 12 noon, on Protests in Iran and U.S. Public Diplomacy.
Speaker:
* Matthew Baise, Director, Digital Strategy, Voice of America
2018_DC_BalletFD_Else_18120125Reynolds Center -- Holiday Ballet Family Day -- Crafts and Face Painting
Celebrate the holidays with SAAM and The Washington Ballet. Acclaimed Artistic Director Julie Kent gives an introduction of how the ballet of the nation's capital puts on their annual performance of The Nutcracker before dancers perform excerpts from the charming holiday classic.
Enjoy making festive,...
2018_DC_BalletFD_Perf_181201125Reynolds Center -- Holiday Ballet Family Day -- Performances
Celebrate the holidays with SAAM and The Washington Ballet. Acclaimed Artistic Director Julie Kent gives an introduction of how the ballet of the nation's capital puts on their annual performance of The Nutcracker before dancers perform excerpts from the charming holiday classic.
Enjoy making festive,...
2018_DC_Barry_Statue_180303245DC -- John A. Wilson Building -- Event: Unveiling of Marion Barry Statue
On Saturday, March 3, at 11 am, Mayor Bowser, Chairman Phil Mendelson and the DC Council, and other dignitaries will dedicate and unveil the historic statue of the late four-term Mayor of the District of Columbia, The Honorable Marion S. Barry, Jr., outside of the John A. Wilson Building. The eight-foot...
2018_DC_Best_180503128Renwick Gallery -- Artist Talk: David Best and The Temple Crew
Join artist David Best and his 'Temple Crew' as they discuss the ephemerality of the Burning Man temples and other site-specific work. Enjoy listening to the artist and his collaborators underneath the temple built specifically for the exhibition.
2018_DC_Bikeshare11DC -- Bike Sharing / Racks
They're now doing scooter rentals.
2018_DC_Bittman_18052063Politics & Prose -- Mark Bittman ("How to Grill Everything") w/Anna Spiegel
Mark Bittman - How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food — in conversation with Anna Spiegel
Written with Bittman’s signature clarity and verve, the latest in his How to Cook Everything series is a wide-ranging sampling of the possibilities of the grill. Featuring more than...
2018_DC_Blaine_House2DC -- Dupont Circle -- James G. Blaine Mansion (2000 Mass Ave., NW)
2018_DC_Blechman_18110343DC -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Event: An Afternoon with R. O. Blechman
An Afternoon with R. O. Blechman
The creator of what are now considered by many to be the earliest graphic novels, R. O. Blechman, will discuss his first work, The Juggler of Our Lady. This cartoon retelling of the medieval legend was first published in 1953 and later adapted into an award-winning...
2018_DC_Blight_18102957Politics & Prose -- David W. Blight ("Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom")
David W. Blight - Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Blight, the award-winning author of histories including American Oracle and Race and Reunion, is perhaps the foremost Frederick Douglass scholar at work today. He’s edited the annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies, and he...
2018_DC_Bloom_18022531Politics & Prose -- Amy Bloom ("White Houses")
Amy Bloom - White Houses
Bloom’s fourth novel is told from the point of view of Lorena Hickok and recounts her long relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. Starting with Hickok’s unhappy childhood in Wisconsin, the narrative follows her escape from an abusive home, her struggle to finish school, and the...
2018_DC_Bolivar_Statue15DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Simon Bolivar Equestrian Statue
2018_DC_Booth_18052545AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Event: "Heather Booth: Changing the World" (w/Heather Booth)
Heather Booth: Changing the World (with Paul Booth tribute) (LaborFest film)
The newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin is an inspiring look at how social change happens. Booth, a renowned organizer and activist, began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights...
2018_DC_Boot_18011760Natl Archives -- Max Boot ("The Road Not Taken")
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
In this biography of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, military historian Max Boot demonstrates how America’s giant military bureaucracy in Vietnam crushed Lansdale’s policy of diplomacy to win the trust of the Vietnamese...
2018_DC_Botanic11DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden
2018_DC_Botanic_CAC_18122726DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Performance: Christmas (2018) -- Capital Accord Chorus (choral performance)
Capital Accord Chorus (choral)
Capital Accord Chorus is a women's chorus performing four-part a cappella harmony in the barbershop style. Their fun and engaging repertoire ranges from jazz to pop, through standards and show tunes -- they sing it all
2018_DC_Botanic_Murals14DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Wall Flowers: Botanical Murals
Wall Flowers: Botanical Murals
January 31 - October 15, 2018
Stop and take a look at the murals covering our city walls and you'll notice plants are often featured. Plants in murals communicate the aesthetic, ecological, and historic importance of plants in the urban environment. This exhibit features...
2018_DC_Botanic_Orchids39DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Orchid Spectrum
Orchid Spectrum
February 23 - April 8, 2018
From February 23 through April 8, immerse yourself in the U.S. Botanic Garden's annual orchid show, presented in collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens. Found on every continent except Antarctica, orchids showcase a wide spectrum of diversity in color,...
2018_DC_Botanic_XMas387DC -- U.S. Botanic Garden -- Exhibit: Christmas (2018) -- "All Aboard!"
Season's Greenings: All Aboard!
November 22, 2018 - January 1, 2019
This year, explore America by train as our annual holiday show Season's Greenings showcases historic railroad stations across the country. In our model train show, trains chug around, below, through, and above plant-based recreations...
2018_DC_Branches37_180430118Nixon Legacy Forum & Natl Archives -- Building the Branches: How Nixon Worked with a Democratic Congress
Nixon Legacy Forum: Building the Branches: How Nixon Worked with a Democratic Congress
President Nixon achieved enviable legislative successes with a Congress dominated by Democrats. Today, a distinguished panel of Nixon Administration alumni including Tom Korologos, Wallace Johnson, and John Lehman,...
2018_DC_Brookland6DC -- Brookland neighborhood
2018_DC_Brown_18030560Natl Archives -- Panel -- "Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977-1981" w/Harold Brown, Charles Duncan, and Robert Work
Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977–1981
Edward Keefer, author of Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977–1981, will moderate a discussion on how the former Secretary of Defense Brown worked to counter the Soviet Union’s growing military strength during the...
2018_DC_Building_Sham14DC -- Natl Building Museum -- Exhibit: Vascular Form XI. Spirit (by Foon Sham)
Foon Sham was named the Asian Influence/American Design Visionary Artist of the 2018 Smithsonian Craft Show. As part of the award, he was commissioned to construct a piece which ended up on exhibit outside of the museum. This pine piece is called Vascular Form XI, Spirit.
2018_DC_Burke_Statue1DC -- Edmund Burke Statue
2018_DC_Burko_18110235Natl Academy of Sciences -- Event: Meet the Artist: Diane Burko
Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs: A Multi-Media Exhibition by Diane Burko
Diane Burko blurs the lines between art, science, and the environment. Since 2006, her practice has been devoted to communicating climate change issues. She synthesizes information from her own on-site investigations together...
2018_DC_Burns_18040590Library of Congress -- Event: National Cherry Blossom Festival Poster Talk w/Thomas Burns
Thomas Burns, creator of the 2016 National Cherry Blossom Festival poster, will present a lecture about the poster, including his design process and ideas for the poster, from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Memorial Building, 101...
2018_DC_Busch_18111446USCHS -- Lunch Talk: John Laurence Busch ("Steam Diplomacy: Sending a Subtle Message in Leutze's Westward Ho!")
John Laurence Busch, "Steam Diplomacy: Sending a Subtle Message in Leutze's Westward Ho!"
Busch will illustrate, through a combination of contextual and circumstantial evidence, why the artist Emanuel Leutze (of Washington Crossing the Delaware fame) painted a steamship in the Capitol's Westward the...
2018_DC_Bush_18120450DC -- U.S. Capitol -- State tribute for George H.W. Bush
The line to get in for the viewing was about 3 hours.
2018_DC_Cairo13DC -- Dupont Circle -- The Cairo (1615 Q St NW)
2018_DC_Califano_18031367Politics & Prose -- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.("Our Damaged Democracy")
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. - Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act
This authoritative and passionate primer on the three branches of government reveals the changes--political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional--that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the...
2018_DC_Callanan_18041514Politics & Prose -- Liam Callanan ("Paris by the Book")
Liam Callanan
Paris by the Book
Callanan’s third novel is a playful literary mystery that starts with the search for a missing man and ends in a family finding a new life as proprietors of a Paris bookstore. When Leah’s husband disappears, the only clues—if they are clues—are the manuscript of his...
2018_DC_Callbox49DC -- Callboxes
2018_DC_Canstruction434NBM -- Washington Architectural Foundation's Canstruction® 2018
Join the Washington Architectural Foundation at the National Building Museum to see the build-out for CANstruction 2018!
2018 Theme: CAN't Stop the Beet!
Build Out: Sunday, November 18
On View: Monday, November 19 - Sunday, November 25, 2018
Canstruction is a nationwide program that aims to raise...
2018_DC_CapitolX55DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior) -- Christmas Tree (2018)
2018 -- Noble Fir -- 82 feet (25 m) -- Willamette National Forest -- Oregon
The tradition of the Capitol Christmas Tree, or "The People’s Tree," began in 1964 when Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John W. McCormack (D-MA) placed a live Christmas tree on the Capitol lawn. This tree lived...
2018_DC_Capitol17DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior)
2018_DC_Capitol_Crossing31DC -- Penn Qtr -- Capitol Crossing (200/250 Mass. Ave NW) (formerly I-395 Overpass)
2018_DC_Capitol_Grounds10DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds
2018_DC_Capitol_GrpPhoto4DC -- U.S. Capitol (exterior) -- Group photos
Two group photographs including one with Congressman Jim Costa.
2018_DC_Capitol_I16DC -- U.S. Capitol (interior) -- Miscellaneous areas
2018_DC_Capitol_SenatePk3DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Senate Park (Fountain, Reflecting Pool)
2018_DC_Capitol_Signs17DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Signs
2018_DC_Carnegie_Lib5DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle -- Carnegie Library of Washington, DC (Exterior)
2018_DC_Cashin_18012244National History Center -- Sheryll Cashin ("Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America") @ Wilson Center
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin reveals the enduring legacy of America’s original sin, tracing how we transformed from a country without an entrenched construction of race to a...
2018_DC_Castro_18101592Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Julián Castro ("An Unlikely Journey") w/Jonathan Allen
Julián Castro - An Unlikely Journey — at Sixth & I
Julián Castro, former mayor of San Antonio and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama, is one of the American left’s rising stars. In this memoir, reminiscent of Barack Obama’s Dreams from my Father, Castro tells the story of his...
2018_DC_Catch_Wave_18102478Natl Archives & USAFMC -- Panel -- Catch the Wave: Voter Discontent During Wave Elections
Catch the Wave: Voter Discontent During Wave Elections
Are the 2018 midterms going to be a wave election? While the party controlling the White House traditionally loses congressional seats during midterm elections, there are numerous instances of wave elections, where one party suffers an...
2018_DC_Catharsis45DC -- Catharsis on the Mall
2018_DC_CBMSO33DC -- Penn Qtr -- Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office (437 7th St NW)
2018_DC_CBMSO_Doorsteps43Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Exhibit: War on Our Doorsteps
Special Exhibition – “War on Our Doorsteps”
When Alexander Gardner’s stunning photographs of the Antietam battlefield were publicly displayed in 1862, they changed how Americans saw war forever. For a limited time, you can relive that sobering exhibition at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers...
2018_DC_CBMSO_Placards9Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Exhibit: Standard Placards
2018_DC_CBMSO_PW94Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Peter Waddell Mural
Several visits including one during which Peter Waddell was working on the piece.
2018_DC_CBMSO_Tour_18111777Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office -- Event: Richard Lyons tours
Discovering Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office
Tour Clara Barton’s boardinghouse home and office with the man who saved it from destruction.
More than 20 years ago, Richard Lyons was on a routine inspection when he discovered a trove of 19th century artifacts tucked away in the attic of an old...
2018_DC_CB_Fireworks_18040749Fireworks -- Cherry Blossom Festival fireworks (2018)
2018_DC_CB_Parade_180414313DC -- Natl Cherry Blossom Festival -- Parade (2018)
A number of folks here include:
* Eleanor Holmes Norton
* Shinsuke Sugiyama, Japan's ambassador to the United States
* Miss USA Kara McCullough
* Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2018 Jessica Baeder
* Miss District of Columbia's Outstanding Teen and Miss Maryland's Outstanding Teen
* Carla...
2018_DC_CCapHill_BL_180618140USCHS -- Book Launch: "Creating Capitol Hill"
Please join us for an evening of living history!
The Official Launch of Creating Capitol Hill
Book-themed walking tour begins following program (appx. 6:30 PM)
Join us at USCHS Headquarters on the evening of June 18 to meet the authors, enjoy refreshments, and hear about the selection of the site for...
2018_DC_CCapHill_WT_18061818USCHS -- "Creating Capitol Hill"-themed walking tour
Please join us for an evening of living history!
The Official Launch of Creating Capitol Hill
Book-themed walking tour begins following program (appx. 6:30 PM)
2018_DC_CCP_Defining171DC -- Center for Contemporary Political Art -- Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump
Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump
Defining, the first open-call exhibition presented by Washington’s new Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPArt), invited artists from all fifty states and Puerto Rico to submit original work, challenging the artists to respond with art as powerful as...
2018_DC_Census_Succeed_18042334AEI -- Making the 2020 Census Succeed
The 2020 decennial census is critically important. Businesses rely on official statistics to make key decisions, and those statistics must be accurate. Policymakers rely on official statistics as well, for decisions as important as setting interest rates throughout the economy. And the research...
2018_DC_Charts_18121351Natl Endowment for Democracy & CIMA -- Reading the Charts: What Data Can Tell Us About Defending the Info Space
Reading the Charts: What Data Can Tell Us About Defending the Info Space
by Center for International Media Assistance
For nearly two decades, the Media Sustainability Index (MSI) has provided in-depth analysis of the conditions for independent media in 80 countries across the world.
The latest...
2018_DC_Cherry19DC -- Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin (2018)
2018_DC_Chuck_XParty_18120849Personal -- Chuck's Christmas Party
2018_DC_Cincinnati5DC -- Dupont Circle -- Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House)
2018_DC_Cincinnati_Hamilton63DC -- Dupont Circle -- Society of the Cincinnati (Anderson House) -- Exhibit: Alexander Hamilton's American Revolution
Alexander Hamilton's American Revolution
March 15 — September 16, 2018
Alexander Hamilton arrived in America in 1772 at the age of fifteen—a poor, self-taught, ambitious immigrant from the West Indies. He settled in New York City in the midst of the colonial crisis, when oppressive taxes and other...
2018_DC_City_CenterC3DC -- CityCenterDC -- Canopy
2018_DC_City_Center19DC -- CityCenterDC complex
2018_DC_City_Center_Loop34DC -- CityCenteDC -- Installation: LOOP
LOOP Comes to DC
August 8th - September 16th
CityCenterDC invites Washingtonians and visitors alike to discover Loop, an original interactive installation by world renowned artists Olivier Girouard and Jonathan Villeneuve. The installation, which was first presented as part of the 7th edition of...
2018_DC_City_Center_Winter61DC -- CityCenterDC -- Installation: Winter in Washington
Winter in Washington
Friday, December 7 - Sunday, December 9
Dreaming of snow this season? On Friday, December 7th at 4pm, CityCenterDC will bring winter to the city with a scenic snowy view of DC’s most beautiful monuments towering 12 feet high, built with over 50,000 pounds of ice. CityCenterDC’s...
2018_DC_City_Center_Xmas13DC -- CityCenterDC -- Installation: Christmas Decorations
2018_DC_Clapper_180523104Politics & Prose @ GWU Jack Morton Auditorium -- James Clapper ("Facts and Fears") w/Dana Bash
James Clapper - Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence — in conversation with Dana Bash — at the GW Jack Morton Auditorium
When he stepped down in January 2017 as United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama’s senior intelligence adviser for...
2018_DC_ClintonFB5DC -- Federal Triangle -- William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
2018_DC_Clinton_180607176Politics & Prose @ Warner Theater -- Bill Clinton and James Patterson ("The President is Missing") w/Paul Begala
Politics and Prose Presents Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Please join President Bill Clinton and the world’s bestselling author James Patterson as they discuss their forthcoming novel, The President is Missing, offering candid insights into their unique collaboration and research, as well as the...
2018_DC_Club_Elevate8DC -- NoMa -- Club Elevate (15 K St NE) including mural
2018_DC_Code_War_18102044Newseum -- Inside Media w/John Carlin and Garrett Graff ("Cyber Security Threat Against the United States")
Inside Media: The Cyber Security Threat Against the United States
The Russian attack on the 2016 election grabbed headlines, but it’s only the latest incident of America being attacked by adversaries in cyberspace following on the heels of assaults by China, North Korea and Iran.
In their new book,...
2018_DC_Coercive_18101834Cato Institute -- "Coercive Plea Bargaining" (w/Clark Neily, Somil Trivedi, Bonnie Hoffman, and Scott Hechinger)
Coercive Plea Bargaining
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has observed that “criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials.”
Although nowhere mentioned in the text of the Constitution, plea bargaining has become the default mechanism for resolving criminal...
2018_DC_Comey_18043046Politics & Prose @ GWU Lisner -- James Comey ("A Higher Loyalty") w/Mike Allen
James Comey - A Higher Loyalty — in conversation with Mike Allen — at GW Lisner
In A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares never-before-told experiences from the highest-stakes situations of his career. From prosecuting the Mob to changing U.S. policy on torture, overseeing the Clinton...
2018_DC_ConnAve_Overlook6DC -- Public Art: Connecticut Avenue Overlook @ Dupont Circle
2018_DC_Contemporary_180404120Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Contemporary Artists in Conversation with History: 1968 (w/Lava Thomas, Alfredo Jaar, and Sam Gilliam)
Contemporary Artists in Conversation with History: 1968:
April 4 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a defining moment in American history. How do issues of racial equality and civil rights reverberate through the practice of artists working today? Find...
2018_DC_Corc_SpikedC_181003128DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Event: “Spiked”: A Conversation with Rob Rogers & Ann Telnaes
“Spiked”: A Conversation with Rob Rogers & Other Editorial Cartoonists
by The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design @ GW
Join us on the evening of October 3 to hear Rob Rogers and Ann Telnaes in an intimate panel talk at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design on the issues of censorship, freedom of...
2018_DC_Corc_Spiked48DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Exhibit: Spiked
Spiked
July 18 - October 14, 2018
After 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired in June 2018. Prior to his dismissal, the newspaper refused to publish a series of cartoons produced over three months, starting in March 2018. We invite you to Spiked: The...
2018_DC_Corc_Truths41DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Exhibit: We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident
We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident
November 5, 2018 - December 15, 2018
The Corcoran School of the Arts of Design at the George Washington University is proud to partner with For Freedoms to present:

We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident
By Zoë Buckman and Natalie Gwen Frank

*Please be...
2018_DC_Core_180910110DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: U.S. Preparations for World's Fairs (w/Jim Core)
Our guest at the next next PDC / PDAA / USC Annenberg lunch forum will be Jim Core, Director of the International Expositions Unit in the State Department Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. His bio is at https://www.state.gov/r/expo/280204.htm
Also presenting was...
2018_DC_Costello_18022136USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Matthew Costello (American Sepulcher: George Washington's Tomb in the US Capitol)
American Sepulcher: George Washington’s Tomb will explore the history of the empty tomb beneath the Capitol Rotunda reveals how American hero worship evolved and transformed during the first half of the nineteenth century. Federalists attempted to fuse European hero worship traditions with American...
2018_DC_CrittersDC11DC -- Critters -- Squirrel, Hawk
Including a hungry squirrel outside of the Hirshhorn and a hawk (???) and a pigeon at the GAR memorial.
2018_DC_CSIS14DC -- Center for Strategic and International Studies
2018_DC_DALCA_18061310DC -- Rally: DALCA (Fix DACA, but mostly for Indian immigrants) @ U.S. Capitol
Very pro-Trump group including GOP reps. One sign said RHC 58%: Clear GC Backlog in 5 Yrs. We will pay $25B for the Wall. It sounded a lot like screw the others who are here for health and safety reasons but please keep up here for economic ones.

This was an odd protest. This group is protesting an...
2018_DC_Daniels_18120364Politics & Prose -- Stormy Daniels ("Full DIsclosure") w/Sally Quinn
Stormy Daniels - Full Disclosure — in conversation with Sally Quinn
Stormy Daniels offers a conversational, wide-ranging, and forthright account of her life in her new memoir, Full Disclosure. A bright kid from Louisiana who wanted to be a writer and loved horses, Daniels grew up in a dysfunctional...
2018_DC_Darlington7DC -- Judiciary Square -- Darlington Memorial Fountain
2018_DC_Davis_18021961Politics & Prose -- Lanny J. Davis ("The Unmaking of the President 2016")
Lanny J. Davis - The Unmaking of the President 2016: How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency
Davis’s analysis of the 2016 election argues that the contest was effectively over, decided in Trump’s favor, on October 28. That day James Comey informed Congress that the FBI would be...
2018_DC_Davis_180502101Washington Jewish Film Festival (2018) @ DCJCC -- "Sammy Davis Jr." opening night
Opening Night Sponsored by The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Dir. Sam Pollard | 100 min
Documentary United States 2017 English DC Premiere
Sammy Davis, Jr.’s career was indisputably legendary; so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope...
2018_DC_DCJCC2DCJCC -- Building
2018_DC_DCWaterHQ4DC -- Southeast -- The Yards -- DC Water HQ (125 O St SE)
2018_DC_DC_In_DC25DC -- DC in DC -- Miscellaneous
2018_DC_Defense_Budget_18112049Brookings Institution -- The Future Of The Defense Budget
The future of the defense budget
The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act raised the U.S. national defense budget to $716 billion for the current fiscal year 2019. This was an increase of $82 billion relative to 2017, and begins to reverse the seven-year budgetary effects of the Budget...
2018_DC_Diarists_181108126DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Event: 80 Years after Kristallnacht: Diarists of the Holocaust
Event: 80 Years after Kristallnacht: Diarists of the Holocaust
Eighty years after Kristallnacht, we reflect on the repercussions of this dangerous turning point in Holocaust history using the vivid observations of young diarists. Their accounts reveal the escalating persecution against Jews that...
2018_DC_Discourse_18102994Newseum -- First Amendment Center -- Religion in the National Discourse
Religion in the National Discourse
Americans today are divided on a range of issues at the intersection of religion and state power. So much of our national discourse has been centered on questions like: Can government officials use religion to justify government policies? Should politicians use...
2018_DC_Dish_Tell_181115115Sixth & I and WeWork -- Dish & Tell: Food Entrepreneurs’ Recipes for Success (w/Rose Previte, Chris Brady, Andrew Dana, and Daniel Pink)
Dish & Tell: Food Entrepreneurs’ Recipes for Success
Hosted by Daniel Pink
If you live to eat, eat to live, or want to make a living feeding others, hear from Rose Previte—owner of Maydan and Compass Rose—and Chris Brady and Andrew Dana—co-owners of Timber Pizza—about their unexpected paths to...
2018_DC_Disinformation_18091045CSIS -- Countering Disinformation: Interdisciplinary Lessons for Policymakers
Countering Disinformation: Interdisciplinary Lessons for Policymakers
With the growth of social media, disinformation has become an increasingly potent political tool. State and non-state actors from various countries, among them Russia and China, have become adept at manufacturing and spreading...
2018_DC_DouglassVC67DC -- Frederick Douglass NHS -- Visitor Center
2018_DC_DouglassVw8DC -- Frederick Douglass NHS -- Views from...
2018_DC_Douglass8DC -- Frederick Douglass NHS -- Exterior Images
2018_DC_Downtown11DC -- Downtown area (K Street environs -- between New Hampshire and New York, Penn and M)
2018_DC_Drawn2PurposeP_180315129Library of Congress -- Event: Drawn to Purpose (w/Whitney Sherman, Barbara Brandon-Croft and Jillian Tamaki)
“In Conversation with the Librarian of Congress: Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists” featuring Whitney Sherman, Barbara Brandon-Croft and Jillian Tamaki
Note: Carla Hayden was not available so curator Martha Kennedy from the Library of Congress moderated the panel.
Librarian...
2018_DC_Dreyfus_18102138DC -- Kennedy Center -- Mark Twain Prize (2018 -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
21st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor celebrating Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Sunday, October 21, 2018 8:00 PM
An outstanding lineup of entertainers will gather in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall to salute Julia Louis-Dreyfus, recipient of the 21st annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
At a...
2018_DC_Drury_18102926Natl Archives -- Bob Drury ("Valley Forge")
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: Valley Forge: The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury has written an inspiring account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution. At the end of 1777, the Continental Army was starving; the men were...
2018_DC_Duffin_18010870DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: How Cities Are Collaborating to Combat Violent Extremism (w/Michael Duffin)
“How Cities Are Collaborating to Combat Violent Extremism” with Michael Duffin of the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, author of https://blogs.state.gov/stories/2017/05/17/en/role-cities-countering-violent-extremism
Program:
* Adam C. Powell III,...
2018_DC_DumbartonO1DC -- Georgetown -- Dumbarton Oaks (1703 32nd St NW)
2018_DC_DumbartonO_BC1DC -- Georgetown -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Byzantine Collection
2018_DC_DumbartonO_Jug33DC -- Dumbarton Oaks Museum -- Exhibit: Juggling the Middle Ages
Juggling the Middle Ages
October 16, 2018–February 28, 2019
See how one tale has transformed over time, captivating medieval and modern audiences alike with its enduring messages. Art is miraculous!
A humble juggler-turned-monk struggles to think of a gift worthy of the Virgin Mary, before delivering...
2018_DC_DumbartonO_PC15DC -- Georgetown -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Pre-Columbian Gallery
2018_DC_Dumbarton_Br13DC -- Dumbarton Bridge
2018_DC_Dupont_Circle8DC -- Dupont Circle neighborhood (but not the fountain)
2018_DC_Dupont_Underground12DC -- Dupont Circle -- Dupont Underground
2018_DC_Dupont_WPP171DC -- Dupont Circle -- Dupont Underground -- Exhibit: World Press Photo
Dates: 27 Oct - 25 Nov (closed on Mondays and on Thanksgiving)
The World Press Photo Exhibition represents the year's best visual journalism. It is seen by 4 million people in 100 cities across the globe, every year. Lightscape brings the exhibition to Washington DC to bring perspective the complex...
2018_DC_Earth_Day_Pk4DC -- Earth Day Park (300-310 9th St SW)
2018_DC_EC_Belonging26DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Belonging to a Place: An Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts
Belonging to a Place: An Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts
February 15 to April 27, 2018
Fogo Island Arts is a residency-based contemporary art venue for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world. Since 2008, FIA has brought some of the most exciting...
2018_DC_EC_Comer44DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Hudson Bay
Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Hudson Bay
May 4 to July 20, 2018
Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Hudson Bay features artefacts, photographs, voice recordings and facial casts of the Inuit people that Captain George Comer (1858-1937) met and interacted with during his Arctic expeditions...
2018_DC_EC_Diversity39DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: Diversity and Identity: Renée duRocher
Diversity and Identity: Renée duRocher
July 30, 2018 through October 27, 2018
Renée duRocher has taken her place in the Canadian visual arts community through patience and determination. Her exhibition, Diversity and Identity, is inspired by a recent visit to northern Vietnam and the literary work of...
2018_DC_EC_NHL17DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: The 100 Greatest NHL Players
The 100 Greatest NHL Players
November 6, 2018 to February 28, 2019
The 100 Greatest NHL Players is a centerpiece in honoring 100 years of NHL hockey. A Blue Ribbon panel comprised of 58 distinguished members of the hockey community - including executives, media members and NHL alumni - selected the...
2018_DC_EC_WW1_Remembers7DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Exhibit: The World Remembers (1917/1918)
The World Remembers: The Display of Names of Those Killed in 1917

The World Remembers will display the names of those who lost their lives in names-display installations in participating nations. They will be seen in a network of schools or other organisations, on our website, and on phones and...
2018_DC_EFF_Benefit_180205191DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- Benefit Gala honoring Dr. Sylvia Earle @ Embassy of France in the US
Environmental Film Festival In The Nation's Capital invites you to attend the Benefit Gala.
This annual event raises critical funds for the upcoming Festival in Washington, DC from March 15-25, 2018.
Honoring Dr. Sylvia Earle as DCEFF’s Environmental Champion for her extraordinary work in ocean...
2018_DC_EFF_Filmmakers_180318108DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- Festival Filmmakers Reception @ Jefferson Hotel
Some of the filmmakers who were present included: Ashley Bell ("Love & Bananas"), David Schumacher ("The New Fire"), Eric Balaz ("Tatra Mountains -- Life on the Edge"), Kate Brooks ("The Last Animals"), Ilana Lapid and Kristi Drexler ("Yochi"), Peter Byck ("Earth Optimism Shorts; Soil Carbon...
2018_DC_EFF_Tesla25DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- Tesla cars exhibited @ Jefferson Hotel
2018_DC_EFF_VR15DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- Virtual Reality @ Carnegie Inst and @ Natl Geographic Society
2018_DC_Einberger_18100338USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Scott Einberger ("With Distance in His Eyes: The Environmental Life and Legacy of Stewart Udall")
Scott Einberger, "With Distance in His Eyes: The Environmental Life and Legacy of Stewart Udall"
One of the most significant players of the modern environmental movement, Stewart Udall served as the U.S. secretary of the interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. During these...
2018_DC_Einstein15DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Albert Einstein Memorial
2018_DC_Eisen_1809099Politics & Prose -- Norman Eisen ("The Last Palace")
Norman Eisen - The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Eisen’s rich profile of Prague’s Petschek Villa, now the residence of the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, combines political history and memoir for an illuminating look at Europe in the last century....
2018_DC_Eizenstat_18042495Politics & Prose -- Stuart Eizenstat ("President Carter: The White House Years")
Stuart E. Eizenstat: President Carter: The White House Years
The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments--drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.
Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his...
2018_DC_Ellis_18101740Natl Archives -- Joseph Ellis ("American Dialogue")
American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
The story of history is often a conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis focuses on the often-asked question, “What would the Founding Fathers think?” Ellis gives us a deeply...
2018_DC_Emb_Australia10DC -- Embassy of Australia
2018_DC_Emb_Bulgaria1DC -- Embassy of Bulgaria
EMBASSY OF BULGARIA
www.bulgaria-embassy.org
Explore the Cultural Heritage of Bulgaria at EU Open House.

Long lines. I didn't bother waiting to get in.
2018_DC_Emb_CanadaX33DC -- Embassy of Canada -- Outdoor Christmas Tree
2018_DC_Emb_Canada6DC -- Embassy of Canada
The Pride flag is out.
2018_DC_Emb_Cyprus20DC -- Embassy of Cyprus
EMBASSY OF CYPRUS
www.cyprusembassy.net
@CyprusEmbassyUS awaits you all to experience #Cyprus in DC at #EUOpenHouse in May!
2018_DC_Emb_Estonia1DC -- Embassy of Estonia
EMBASSY OF ESTONIA
www.estemb.org
In 2018 Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. You’re welcome to join the jubilee celebrations!
2018_DC_Emb_France10DC -- Embassy of France
2018_DC_Emb_Greece24DC -- Embassy of Greece
EMBASSY OF GREECE
www.mfa.gr/usa
“All Time Classic” places, gastronomy, culture on display: Explore the Greek way of life and enjoy unique flavors! Organized for the second consecutive year in collaboration with our partner, North Events -- Greece.
2018_DC_Emb_Luxembourg2DC -- Embassy of Luxembourg
EMBASSY OF LUXEMBOURG
www.washington.mae.lu/en
Discover not only the mansion, purchased in 1941 by H.R.H. Grand Duchess Charlotte, that hosts until today the Luxembourg Embassy to the US, but learn also about modern day Luxembourg.

Long lines. I didn't bother waiting to get in.
2018_DC_Emb_Mexico5DC -- Embassy of Mexico
2018_DC_Emb_Peru7DC -- Embassy of Peru
2018_DC_Emb_Peru_Beauty30DC -- Embassy of Peru -- Exhibit: Peruvian Beauty
"Peruvian Beauty" is a photographic project that, through a series of portraits of women from different social and geographical areas throughout Peru, seeks to redefine the concepts of beauty that determine how Peruvians perceive and value themselves.
Throughout his career, photographer Yayo Lopez, has...
2018_DC_Emb_Peru_Illum25DC -- Embassy of Peru -- Exhibit: Illumination (Enrique Polanco)
The art gallery of the Embassy of Peru in the United States is honored to present one of the most representative Peruvian painters of the last decades, Enrique Polanco, who will exhibit his pictorial work for the first time in the United States capital.
The paintings that make up the exhibition are, in...
2018_DC_Emb_Philippines6DC -- Embassy of Philippines
2018_DC_Emb_Thailand2DC -- Embassy of Thailand
2018_DC_Emb_Tunisia4DC -- Embassy of Tunisia
2018_DC_Emb_Uzbekistan4DC -- Embassy of Uzbekistan
2018_DC_Emory38DC -- Brightwood -- Emory United Methodist Church (by Fort Stevens)
2018_DC_Employment2_18120637Brookings Institution -- From Job Guarantees to Wage Subsidies: Panel 2 w/Edwin Dolan, Darrick Hamilton, Thea Lee, David Neumark, and Soumaya Keynes)
From job guarantees to wage subsidies: Exploring policy options to promote employment
A Hamilton Project policy forum
Even as the unemployment rate reaches a 50-year low, and businesses across the U.S. report more vacancies than ever, the economic recovery remains uneven for many Americans. In fact,...
2018_DC_Employment_18120671Brookings Institution -- From Job Guarantees to Wage Subsidies: Panel 1 w/Robert Rubin, Denis McDonough, Donald Cravins Jr., Stephanie Aaronson, Emily Martin, Jay Shambaugh
From job guarantees to wage subsidies: Exploring policy options to promote employment
A Hamilton Project policy forum
Even as the unemployment rate reaches a 50-year low, and businesses across the U.S. report more vacancies than ever, the economic recovery remains uneven for many Americans. In fact,...
2018_DC_Engine025DC -- Penn Qtr -- Engine Company 02 (500 F St NW)
2018_DC_Engine0313DC -- (East) East End -- Engine Company 03 (439 NJ Ave NW)
2018_DC_Engine164DC -- Downtown -- Engine Company 16 (1018 13th St., NW)
2018_DC_EPPV1DC -- East Potomac Park -- Views of the Potomac River
2018_DC_Equality3_18042554Newseum Institute’s Power Shift Project & Press Forward -- Equality in Newsrooms: Panel 2: Newsroom Leadership
Press Forward and the Newseum Institute’s Power Shift Project invite you to a Conversation:
Equality in Newsrooms: Ending Sexual Harassment & Redefining Respect

Transition Remarks:
* Dianna Pierce Burgess, co-founder Press Forward, former ABC News producer

Panel II: Newsroom Leadership:...
2018_DC_Equality_18042577Newseum Institute’s Power Shift Project & Press Forward -- Equality in Newsrooms: Panel 1: Equality in Newsrooms
Press Forward and the Newseum Institute’s Power Shift Project invite you to a Conversation:
Equality in Newsrooms: Ending Sexual Harassment & Redefining Respect

Welcoming Remarks:
* Jan Neuharth, chair and CEO, The Newseum Forum
* Dianna Pierce Burgess, co-founder Press Forward, former ABC...
2018_DC_Equitable2DC -- Penn Qtr -- Equitable Bank Bldg (915 F St NW)
2018_DC_Faberge_18051061Wilson Center -- Faberge Rediscovered
Faberge Rediscovered
Since its founding in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Faberge’s creations have entranced the world with their beauty and intricacy. Thanks to the recent opening of Russian archives along with technological advancements, there has been a flurry of discoveries related to Faberge’s...
2018_DC_Facebook_18040562New America -- Facebook After Cambridge Analytica: What Should We Do Now?
Facebook After Cambridge Analytica: What Should We Do Now?
The recent scandal over how political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was able to access personal information about tens of millions of Facebook users has turbo-charged the public conversation about online privacy generally and Facebook’s...
2018_DC_Facial_Recog_181206107Brookings Institution -- Facial Recognition w/Brad Smith
Facial recognition: Coming to a street corner near you
Facial recognition technology raises issues that go to the heart of fundamental human rights protections, like privacy and freedom of expression. As this technology advances and is adopted at a global pace, we need to ensure that it is used in a...
2018_DC_Falun52DC -- Protest: Falun Gong protesters @ Pennsylvania Avenue
2018_DC_Fernandez_18042359DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez (MBN President)
CCLP Washington D.C. Forum with Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez
Join CCLP for a discussion with Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez, the president of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN). In this role, he oversees MBN’s multimedia operations in the U.S. and across the Middle East, including...
2018_DC_Fire_Dog_Mem7DC -- Judiciary Square -- Natl Fire Dog Memorial
2018_DC_Fitzgerald_18102344Politics & Prose @ Union Market -- Ali Fitzgerald ("Drawn to Berlin")
Ali Fitzgerald - Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe — at Politics and Prose at Union Market
Fitzgerald spent eight years in Berlin teaching her illustrating craft to centers asylum seekers from countries like Syria and Afghanistan – people who have...
2018_DC_Fleming_18110726Politics & Prose @ The Wharf -- Crystal M. Fleming ("How to Be Less Stupid about Race")
Crystal M. Fleming - How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf
The U.S. exists in a state of racial ignorance, Fleming contends, noting that the same attitudes that justified slavery, let Jim Crow control the South, and...
2018_DC_Foggy_Bottom4DC -- Foggy Bottom neighborhood
2018_DC_Folger4DC -- Capitol Hill -- Folger Shakespeare Library (201 E Capitol St SE)
They're doing maintenance work on the outside.
2018_DC_Folger_Beyond30DC -- Folger Shakespeare Library -- Exhibit: Beyond Words: Book Illustration in the Age of Shakespeare
Beyond Words: Book Illustration in the Age of Shakespeare
Feb 24 – Jun 03, 2018
The Folger exhibition Beyond Words: Book Illustration in the Age of Shakespeare shows how images in early modern books are as full of meaning as the text they illustrate. Explore portraits, views of daily life, maps, and...
2018_DC_Folger_Churchill79DC -- Folger Shakespeare Library -- Exhibit: Churchill's Shakespeare
Churchill's Shakespeare
Oct 06, 2018 – Jan 06, 2019
Mon–Sat: 10am–5pm | Sun: noon–5pm
A towering leader during World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was also a lifelong admirer of Shakespeare. Compelling materials from Cambridge’s Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill’s home Chartwell, and...
2018_DC_Folklife_ArmeniaP_18062853Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2018) -- Armenia -- Performance: Panali
PANALÎ means "key" in Armenian. Made up of six members of Armenian Navy Band and led by GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist and percussionist Arto Tunçboyaciyan, PANALÎ performs avant garde Armenian folk.
2018_DC_Folklife_Armenia95Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2018) -- Armenia
2018_DC_Folklife_Cata_18062865Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2018) -- Catalonia
2018_DC_Folktales_18011060Natl Archives -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Maria Tatar ("The Annotated African American Folktales") w/A'Lelia Bundles
African American Folktales
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Maria Tatar will discuss their book, The Annotated African American Folktales. The illustrated book celebrates nearly 170 stories across several continents and is a kaleidoscopic study of the African American folklore tradition. It presents fairy...
2018_DC_Fourth_Estate_18051576AFI Docs 2018 -- "The Fourth Estate" (w/Liz Garbus, Jenny Carchman, Justin Wilkes, Elisabeth Bumiller, Peter Baker, Michael Shear) @ Naval Heritage Center
AFI Docs Film Series
The American Film Institute invites you and a guest to The Fourth Estate.
See the first episode of the four-part Showtime® documentary series the Fourth Estate.
Followed By A Conversation With:
* Liz Garbus – Director And Producer, The Fourth Estate
* Jenny Carchman –...
2018_DC_FPlaza3DC -- Freedom Plaza (incl Pulaski statue)
2018_DC_FRB6DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Federal Reserve Building (Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Bldg) (2051 Const Ave. NW)
2018_DC_FTC9DC -- Federal Triangle -- Federal Trade Commission building (600 Penn Ave NW)
2018_DC_Ft_Ricketts12DC -- Circle Forts -- Battery Ricketts
2018_DC_Ft_Stevens26DC -- Circle Forts -- Fort Stevens Park
2018_DC_Gandhi2DC -- Dupont Circle -- Mohandas Gandhi statue (2100 Q St NW)
2018_DC_Gates_1811016DC -- Cellist Benjamin Gates @ L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station
2018_DC_GeorgetownU67DC -- Georgetown University
2018_DC_Georgetown8DC -- Georgetown neighborhood
2018_DC_Georgetown_Amazon16DC -- Georgetown -- Amazon Books (store)
I finally visited the one that opened in Georgetown. Gees, it's huge!
2018_DC_Georgetown_Glow79DC -- Georgetown Glow (Outdoor Light Art Exhibition) (2018)
The popular holiday celebration returns for its fifth edition, featuring outdoor public light art installations lit nightly from 5 p.m.–10 p.m., inviting visitors to re-imagine the season of light.

(1) RUN BEYOND
Angelo Bonello, Italy
In collaboration with Light Art Collection and Amsterdam Light...
2018_DC_Georgetown_WFPk8DC -- Georgetown Waterfront Park (and Views from...)
2018_DC_Getty_Address155_18111995Library of Congress -- Event: Gettysburg Address 155 -- Letters to Lincoln Challenge
On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Library of Congress will recognize the 155th anniversary of this historic speech with a one-day celebration, including work stations for a hands-on experience transcribing Lincoln documents using the...
2018_DC_Gillibrand_18111369Politics & Prose @ St. Paul's Lutheran Church -- Kirsten Gillibrand ("Bold & Brave") w/Symone Sanders
Kirsten Gillibrand - Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote—at St. Paul's Lutheran Church
United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand presents an uplifting collection of short biographies of American suffragists, inspired by the women who, one hundred years ago, won the right to vote, as...
2018_DC_Gingrich_18052238DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Newt Gingrich ("Trump's America")
Trump’s America: The Truth About Our Nation’s Great Comeback
Featuring The Honorable Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Hosted by: Kay Coles James, President, The Heritage Foundation
No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and...
2018_DC_GI_Jews3_18050647Washington Jewish Film Festival (2018) @ NMAJMH-- "GI Jews" Meet and Greet (w/Lisa Ades, Amanda Bonavita and James E. Young)
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
550,000 Jewish American men and women served in World War II. Lisa Ades’ GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WWII is a loving ode to their memory.
Like all American soldiers, they fought against fascism, but also waged a more personal fight—to save their brethren in...
2018_DC_GI_Jews_18050660Washington Jewish Film Festival (2018) @ DCJCC-- "GI Jews" (w/Lisa Ades, Amanda Bonavita and James E. Young)
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
550,000 Jewish American men and women served in World War II. Lisa Ades’ GI Jews: Jewish Americans in WWII is a loving ode to their memory.
Like all American soldiers, they fought against fascism, but also waged a more personal fight—to save their brethren in...
2018_DC_Glen_Echo_18051796Natl Archives -- Panel -- Before the Freedom Riders: The Fight to Integrate Glen Echo Amusement Park
Before the Freedom Riders: The Fight to Integrate Glen Echo Amusement Park
See exclusive, advance clips from Emmy award–winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman’s documentary in progress, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (2019). The film will tell a little-known and groundbreaking story of the integration of...
2018_DC_Glover_Archbold47DC -- Glover-Archbold Park
I kept hearing about the condemned railroad trestle that is ultimately going to be torn down instead of repaired and I wanted to get a few pictures before it disappeared.
2018_DC_Goethe_Projecting18Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Early UFA Film Posters: Projecting Women
Early UFA Film Posters: Projecting Women
03/01/2018 - 04/30/2018
Posters from famous as well as rarely seen or lost Berlin UFA films from the 1920s and 30s portray women as heroines or seductresses, debutantes or harlots. From Sumurun to Metropolis, women are vying for power in male-dominated...
2018_DC_Golden18DC -- Edison Place Gallery -- Exhibit: Golden
Art Impact™ International's Third Annual Juried Exhibition "GOLDEN" will come to a close on May 30, 2018. The artwork being exhibited during National American Elders Month features 81 Artists from over fourteen countries including Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guyana, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New...
2018_DC_Golden_Haiku40DC -- Golden (Triangle) Haiku (2018)
I started photographing these whenever I saw them this year.
Over 6 days of Golden Haiku photography excursions this year, I photographed 38 unique signs out of something like 200.
2018_DC_Golden_Sham19th3DC -- Public Art: Rain Gardens Sculptures (by Foon Sham) on 19th Street
2018_DC_Golway_18121158Natl Archives -- Terry Golway ("Frank and Al")
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance that Created the Modern Democratic Party
In his latest book, Frank and Al, editor and author Terry Golway tells the untold story of an unlikely political partnership—between a to-the-manor-born Protestant (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and a Lower East...
2018_DC_Goodwin_18101883Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Doris Kearns Goodwin ("Leadership in Turbulent Times") w/Ezra Klein
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Leadership in Turbulent Times — at Sixth & I
Few people have studied leadership more closely than Doris Kearns Goodwin. A world-acclaimed presidential historian, she has devoted five decades to best-selling and critically acclaimed works of history that include The Bully Pulpit,...
2018_DC_Gotham_180112123DC -- DC in DC -- Panel: Batman: World Premiere of Gotham By Gaslamp
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight Premiere Screening (18+)
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight Premiere Screening (For Mature Audiences 18+ Years of Age) — Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment provide a new take on Batman as a steampunk Dark Knight hunts Jack the Ripper through the shadows of turn of the...
2018_DC_Grace_Episcopal1DC -- Georgetown -- Grace Episcopal Church (1041 Wisc Ave, NW)
2018_DC_Graham_1802287DC -- U.S. Capitol -- State tribute for Billy Graham
The outdoor lines only. I wasn't interested in seeing him lying in state.
2018_DC_Grant_Mem21DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
I wanted to get some shots of the Capitol tree in the background. The Capitol dome worked out pretty well too.
2018_DC_Greyhound10DC -- Penn Qtr -- Greyhound Bus Station (1100 New York Ave NW)
2018_DC_GWU_Brady_Venice35DC -- GWU -- Brady Art Gallery -- Exhibit: Howard Hodgkin in Venice & Italy Inspiration
Howard Hodgkin in Venice
British painter Howard Hodgkin (1923-2017) completed over one hundred twenty lithographs, etchings, and screenprints during his career. The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery recently received a gift of ten prints including the breathtaking series “Venetian Views” (1995). This suite...
2018_DC_GWU_Churchill45DC -- GWU -- The National Churchill Library and Center
2018_DC_GWU_ElliottVw38DC -- GWU -- Elliott School of International Affairs -- View from...
2018_DC_GWU_Lisner3DC -- GWU -- Lisner Auditorium
2018_DC_GWU_Museum_Eye152DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Exhibit: Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.'s Past
Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.'s Past
Through December 23, 2018
This exhibition examines the evolution of Washington, D.C., through two newly commissioned panoramic landscape paintings by local artist Peter Waddell and related works. One painting shows the grand city that planner Peter...
2018_DC_GWU_Museum_FD_18111048DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Event: Family Day: I Can See My House From Here! (w/Peter Waddell)
Family Day: I Can See My House From Here!
Featuring Peter Waddell, "Eye of the Bird" artist and historian
Washington looks quite grand, even from above. Enjoy a day of family-friendly activities designed to help you see D.C. from a bird’s eye perspective. Contribute to our three-dimensional map by...
2018_DC_GWU_Waddell_18120353DC -- GWU -- Museum and Textile Museum -- Event: Painting L’Enfant’s Washington (w/Peter Waddell)
Lecture: Painting L’Enfant’s Washington
Peter Waddell, "Eye of the Bird" artist and historian
See Washington, D.C., as it looked more than 200 years ago, through new bird’s eye view paintings depicting the city’s origins, on view in Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.’s Past. Artist Peter...
2018_DC_Hate_Speech_18101622DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Panel: Will America Ban Hate Speech?
Will America Ban Hate Speech?
#OurConstitution
Featuring (seated left to right):
* John York, (Moderator) Policy Analyst, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, The Heritage Foundation
* Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School, Former...
2018_DC_Hechelhammer_18041046Goethe-Institut -- Event: Bodo Hechelhammer ("Double Agent Heinz Felfe Discovers America")
Presentation “Double Agent Heinz Felfe Discovers America”
Dr. Bodo Hechelhammer, the Chief Historian of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), will give a presentation at the Goethe-Institut on his new book about the double agent, Heinz Felfe. In addition to his talk, he will show photos and...
2018_DC_Hefner_Awards_180604196Newseum -- Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards (2018)
Christie Hefner cordially invites you to attend the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards on June 4, 2018 at the Newseum.
This year's panel of judges consisted of Michael Bamberger, Senior Counsel at Denton's and General Counsel at Media Coalition, Shelby Coffey III, Vice Chair of Newseum and Senior...
2018_DC_Heidler_18102440USCHS -- Lunch Talk: David and Jeanne Heidler ("The Rise of Andrew Jackson")
October 24: David and Jeanne Heidler, "The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics"
Andrew Jackson’s improbable ascent to the White House occurred because of the activities of handlers and propagandists. One of their most effective tactics was to attack President...
2018_DC_HeritageV10DC -- Heritage Foundation -- Views from...
2018_DC_Hidden_Figures_18031475Library of Congress -- Event: Hidden Figures conversation w/Margot Lee Shetterly and Donna Gigliotti
“In Conversation with the Librarian of Congress: Hidden Figures” featuring Margot Lee Shetterly and Donna Gigliotti
Note: Carla Hayden was sick and Marie Arana handled the moderating duties for the evening.
Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story...
2018_DC_Hill_18021347DC -- Black Power: Comic Art by Sean Damian Hill @ UDC -- Opening Reception
Opening reception for "Black Power: Comic Art by Sean Damian Hill"
The opening reception for "Black Power: The Art of Sean Damian Hill" is February 13, 6:30-8 pm, University of the District of Columbia: Gallery 42. Building 42, Room A-12. The show is in celebration of Black History Month and features...
2018_DC_HI_Washington2DC -- Downtown -- HI Washington DC hostel (1009 11th St NW)
2018_DC_Holiday_Market16DC -- Downtown Holiday Market by the Reynolds Center
Including performing by Split String Soup (bluegrass).
2018_DC_Holocaust3DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
2018_DC_Holocaust_Americans281DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Exhibit: Americans and the Holocaust
Americans and the Holocaust
Opened April 23, 2018
This exhibition is a portrait of American society that shows how the Depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism shaped responses to Nazism and the Holocaust. It reveals how much information was available to Americans at the time and...
2018_DC_Holocaust_Witnesses19DC -- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Exhibit: American Witnesses
American Witnesses
In April 1945, young Americans serving in the US military encountered the Nazi concentration camps. Few, even those hardened in battle, expected such a shock. “I do not know words that are strong enough or expressive enough to describe the horror I saw in those few days,” one US Army...
2018_DC_Holodomor_Mem7DC -- Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933
2018_DC_Honors_181202276DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2018)
Folks here include: (Rehearsal) Amanda Seyfried, Melissa Peterman (Barbara Jean on "Reba"), Charles Kelley (from Lady Antebellum), Bobby Bones ("Dancing with the Stars"), Christopher Neal Jackson ("Hamilton" and "Bull"), Emilio Estefan, Christopher Neal Jackson, Kristin Chenoweth, Joe Lovano, Esperanza...
2018_DC_Hotel_Monaco4DC -- Penn Qtr -- Hotel Monaco (700 F St. NW)
I never noticed they had put up banners to emulate the front of the Donald Reynolds Center.
2018_DC_Howard2DC -- Howard University
2018_DC_Howard_Theatre2DC -- Shaw -- Howard Theatre (and Duke Ellington "Encore" Statue) (620 T St., NW)
2018_DC_Howard_Theatre_WOF11DC -- Shaw -- Howard Theatre -- Walk of Fame
2018_DC_HRC9DC -- Dupont Circle -- Human Rights Campaign HQ (1640 RI Ave, NW)
2018_DC_HVA_1918Cadillac52DC -- Mall -- Historic Vehicle Association display -- 1918 Cadillac U.S. 1257X
April 24 – 30: 1918 Cadillac Type 57 - U.S. 1257X
Before the Jeep became the standardized and ubiquitous military vehicle, the United States military tried a little of everything. WWI saw an interesting mishmash of cars on the battlefield, but it was the Cadillac Type 57 that was predominantly favored...
2018_DC_HVA_Bullitt23DC -- Mall -- Historic Vehicle Association display -- 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback – Bullitt – '559
April 17 – 23, 2018:
1968 Ford Mustang Fastback – Bullitt – '559
The “Highland Green” Mustang piloted by legendary car enthusiast and actor Steve McQueen through the streets of San Francisco in the visceral cops-and-mobsters flick Bullitt has become an indelible part of international car culture. By...
2018_DC_HVA_ModelT55DC -- Mall -- Historic Vehicle Association display -- 1927 Fifteen-Millionth Ford
April 3 – 9: 1927 Ford Model T - Fifteen-Millionth Ford
The impact of the Ford Model T on American history is undisputed. This touring car, with hand stamped VIN 15000000, marked the end of “Tin Lizzy’s” almost 19-year production run that totaled over 15 million Fords. On May 26, 1927, Edsel and Henry...
2018_DC_IDBCC_Fashioning51DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: Fashioning the Future: Argentine Designers on the Edge of Tomorrow
IDB presents Fashioning the Future: Argentine Designers on the Edge of Tomorrow
Installation features contemporary Argentine fashion that merges science, technology, and creativity
The IDB Cultural Center presents Fashioning the Future: Argentine Designers on the Edge of Tomorrow in recognition of the...
2018_DC_IDBCC_Questions43DC -- IDB Cultural Center -- Exhibit: A City of Questions: DC Artists Encouraging Inclusive Development
A City of Questions: DC Artists Encouraging Inclusive Development
Art can make us see hidden realities, hear silenced voices, and discover forgotten narratives. It has the power to make us stop, think, and potentially change our mind. With the rise of digital technology and connectivity, access to...
2018_DC_IDB_SAAG_6x670DC -- IDB Staff Assn Art Gallery -- 6 x 6 Ceramic Tile Exhibition
6 x 6 Ceramic Tile Exhibition
6x6 is the IDB Staff Association's (SA) first project of collective artists through the IDB Staff Association Art Gallery and the Country Offices (COFs). With 6x6, we intend to link the cultures, thoughts, and aesthetic concepts common in member countries of the IDB...
2018_DC_IDB_SAAG_Pisces27DC -- IDB Staff Assn Art Gallery -- Exhibit: Fiat Pisces -- The photos of Pedro Genaro
Pedro Genaro (Dominican Republic)

Fiat Pisces (Dominican Republic)
The photos of Pedro Genaro

The show speaks of the intricate and mythical relationship between man and the sea. The images are full of symbolisms evoking beliefs and common elements between distant and close cultures such as the...
2018_DC_Ideas_Forum_180413112DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Lincoln Ideas Forum (2018)
Towards the end of his Second Annual Message to Congress in 1862, Abraham Lincoln implored his countrymen to remember that future generations would be looking back at the Civil War era:
"Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history," he wrote."We of this Congress and this Administration will be...
2018_DC_Ike_Mem36DC -- Eisenhower National Memorial
2018_DC_InclusionAM_180914156Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Symposium: Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa: Talks on Art, Inspiration, and the History of Burning Man -- (Page 1 of 2) Morning Sessions
Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa: Talks on Art, Inspiration, and the History of Burning Man
Join SAAM, five of the original founders of Burning Man, artists from No Spectators: the Art of Burning Man, and other Burners for a day of storytelling, short films, and discussions about the history...
2018_DC_InclusionPM_180914263Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Symposium: Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa: Talks on Art, Inspiration, and the History of Burning Man -- (Page 2 of 2) Afternoon Sessions
Radical Inclusion and Tales from the Playa: Talks on Art, Inspiration, and the History of Burning Man
Join SAAM, five of the original founders of Burning Man, artists from No Spectators: the Art of Burning Man, and other Burners for a day of storytelling, short films, and discussions about the history...
2018_DC_Italiana3DC -- Judiciary Square -- Holy Rosary Church and Casa Italiana (595 3rd St. NW)
2018_DC_Jaisohn_Mem7DC -- Philip Jaisohn Memorial
2018_DC_James_18061472AFI Docs 2018 -- Guggenheim Symposium Honoring Steve James @ Natl Museum of American History
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM HONORING STEVE JAMES
Interviewed by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Including The East Coast Premiere Of Episode One Of The Starz Original Docu-Series AMERICA TO ME
The AFI DOCS Charles Guggenheim Symposium honors masters of the non-fiction art form who inspire...
2018_DC_James_Monroe_Pk4DC -- US Reservation 29 -- James Monroe Park (20th and Penn Ave)
2018_DC_JAWilson39DC -- Federal Triangle -- John A. Wilson Building
2018_DC_JHU_SAIS9DC -- Dupont Circle -- Johns Hopkins University -- SAIS (1740 Mass. Ave. NW)
2018_DC_JMem_18060493Newseum -- Special -- Journalists Memorial Ceremony (2018) w/Holly Williams
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 18 journalists who represent those who died in 2017.
Keynote speaker: CBS News...
2018_DC_Jones_Day15DC -- (East) East End -- Jones Day Bldg (51 Louisiana Ave NW)
2018_DC_JRA_Annual_181105102James Renwick Alliance Annual Meeting @ Katzen Arts Center
James Renwick Alliance Annual Meeting
You're invited! Come learn about the James Renwick Alliance as we announce the donations and awards we have made in support of our mission. Hear about exciting programs, upcoming trips, and the ways that you can get more involved. Socialize with other members, meet...
2018_DC_Kalb_18111976Politics & Prose -- Marvin Kalb ("Enemy of the People") w/Andrea Mitchell
Marvin Kalb - Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy — in conversation with Andrea Mitchell
For Kalb, a journalist and media observer for more than six decades, when Trump called the press an “enemy of the American people,” alarm bells...
2018_DC_KatzenO_18012782DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Opening Reception (Public)
Including photographs of artists Brian Dailey, Erik Thor Sandberg, Kateřina Vincourová, and Frank DiPerna.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18041366DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Opening Reception (Member)
Artists here this evening included Michael Clark, Jiha Moon, and Carol Brown Goldberg. Other folks present included Diane Rehm and Aviva Kempner.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18061671DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Opening Reception (Public)
Opening Reception
Mix and mingle with fellow museum patrons and meet the artists and curators behind the four new Summer exhibitions at the Opening Reception. Free and open to the public.
Folks shown here include several artists in the exhibit Kiley Ames and ???.
Also shown are folks who came for the...
2018_DC_KatzenO_18090743DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
The artist talk and Artifacts performance are on other pages. Check the links above.
Folks here include Jack Rasmussen, Sylvia Mathews Burwell (American University President), Carol Brown Goldberg, Joann Moser, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Dalya Luttwak, and Lowell Gilbertson.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18110923DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Opening Reception (Member)
Ian Jehle and Laura Roulet were here as well as members.
2018_DC_KatzenO_18111046DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Opening Reception (Public)
Ian Jehle and Laura Roulet were here as well as some of their subjects. Also Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Melvin Hardy and others.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_18090767DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Members Gallery Talk: Emilie Brzezinski, Dalya Luttwak, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, and Mika Brzezinski
Folks in the audience included Aviva Kempner, Joe Scarborough, Jack Rasmussen, Sharon Wolpoff, Carol Brown Goldberg, etc.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_4NoGood_1806214DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Screening of "For No Good Reason" documentary
Katzen -- Screening of "For No Good Reason"
Made over the course of fifteen years, For No Good Reason explores the connection between life and art through the eyes of the last original Gonzo visionary, Ralph Steadman. Take a trip through the wild and dark days of Steadman’s time with Hunter S. Thompson...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Artif_18090756DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Member's Party w/The Artifacts
Members' Preview
Join us for a private reception and gallery talk on the life and work of Robert D’Arista before closing out the night with a jam session by our Director’s band, The Artifacts.
The members of the band: CAS Dean Peter Starr, Museum Director Jack Rasmussen, Courtney Surls, ...
Folks in...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Goldberg_18042685DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Gallery Talk: Carol Brown Goldberg
Gallery Talk: Carol Brown Goldberg
Washington artist Carol Brown Goldberg will discuss the intersection of philosophy and poetry in her ethereal images of densely-packed foliage. Free and open to the public.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Kaufman_18110919DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Joshua J. Kaufman ("The Art of Deception: Art Fakes and Forgeries")
Museum members are invited to join Joshua J. Kaufman, Esq. in taking a closer look at our ongoing exhibition Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity. Kaufman will examine the dark side of the art world in his lecture:
“The Art of Deception: Art Fakes and Forgeries.”
In this lecture,...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Sandberg_18020136DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Gallery Talk: Erik Thor Sandberg
Erik Thor Sandberg
This exhibition features a series of new paintings by American artist Erik Thor Sandberg within the context of selected earlier works. Sandberg is known internationally for pushing the skillful illusionism of master oil painting to the current edge of Magic Realism on...
2018_DC_KatzenXT_SteadS_18063051DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Skype Session with Ralph Steadman and reception
Bring your sketchbook for some lunchtime inspiration! Guests will tour Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective before enjoying refreshments while Skyping with Ralph.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Stead_180616103DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Artist Talk: Ralph Steadman
Gallery Talk with Ralph Steadman
Join us for a lively session about the diverse and wide-ranging span of works in Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective. Ralph Steadman will be joined by Anita O'Brien from the Cartoon Museum in London, who curated the exhibition.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Tilahun_18012744DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Gallery Talk: Abel Tilahun
Artist Abel Tilahun and curator Meskerem Assegued lead a tour of this immersive exhibition Vital Signs. Free and open to the public.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Toledo_18041347DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Gallery Talk: Toledo Múltiple w/Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga
Museum Members are invited to attend a special evening viewing of our new exhibitions, featuring a talk by the curator of Toledo Múltiple, Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga.
Introductory comments were made by Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández, the Mexican ambassador to the United States.
2018_DC_KatzenXT_Tribe_18111063DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Gallery Talk: Tribe
Tribe Gallery Talk
Join Curator Janet Bellotto and co-curator Dr. Woodman Taylor in conversation with several artists featured in our late fall exhibition Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World. This talk will explore broad, culturally specific themes as well as innovation by the...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Arteria16DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Kateřina Vincourová: Arteria
Kateřina Vincourová: Arteria
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Czech artist Kateřina Vincourová focuses on the fragile nuances of interpersonal relations and at the same time abstracts such notions into an examination of networks and shifts in time and space. The exhibition Arteria thus becomes a holistic...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_DiPerna3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Frank DiPerna Retrospective
Frank DiPerna Retrospective
January 27 — March 11, 2018
Sponsored by: Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Frank DiPerna Retrospective is a comprehensive survey of the artist's photographic work over more than forty years. Comprised of multiple bodies of work beginning in 1974 continuing through...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Downing4DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Thomas Downing and the Sublime Decorative
Thomas Downing and the Sublime Decorative
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Downing’s distinctive geometrically organized canvases, executed during the height of the “Washington Color School,” that glorious moment in American painting born in Washington, DC in the late 1950s and 1960s, constitute a singular...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Sandberg83DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Erik Thor Sandberg
Erik Thor Sandberg
January 27 – March 11, 2018
This exhibition features a series of new paintings by American artist Erik Thor Sandberg within the context of selected earlier works. Sandberg is known internationally for pushing the skillful illusionism of master oil painting to the current edge of...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Vital25DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Vital Signs
Vital Signs
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Curated by Meskerem Assegued
Abel Tilahun, a multidisciplinary artist from Ethiopia, explores universal human experience through the manifold meanings we associate with the human body, its parts, its sustenance, and its loftiest ambitions in Vital Signs. The...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018A_Words10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018A Winter Exhibit: Brian Dailey, WORDS
Brian Dailey, WORDS
January 27 – March 11, 2018
Brian Dailey’s multi-screen video installation WORDS is the artist’s investigation into the relationship between language, culture, and national identity and the challenges we face in our efforts to communicate key concepts across linguistic boundaries...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Ando1DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Kumo: Miya Ando
Kumo: Miya Ando
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Curated by Aria Gannon
Miya Ando's artwork ranges from monochrome to subtle color palates, offering a glimpse of the immense calming energy of the infinite. Ando creates an immersive work that engages the viewers, bringing nature to mind, reminding the viewers...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Clark11DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: (Alper) Michael Clark: Washington Artist
Michael Clark: Washington Artist
April 3 – May 27, 2018
Sponsored by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Michael Clark (a.k.a. Clark Fox) has been an influential figure in the Washington art world for more than 50 years, despite dividing his time equally between the capital and New York City....
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Goldberg23DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement
Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Carol Brown Goldberg's exhibition Entanglement offers vivid evidence of her artmaking as the convergence of intellect, emotion, and technique. Her paintings in the current exhibition-marked by images of dense, imagined foliage-are rooted in a...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_MFA_1Yr19DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Master of Fine Art First Year and Thesis Exhibitions
Master of Fine Art First Year and Thesis Exhibitions
April 3 - April 25 and May 5 - May 27, 2018
AU's Department of Art presents a two-part exhibition featuring the work of first and second year MFA candidates working in diverse media. The first-year experience is riddled with experimentation,...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Moon23DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here
Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here
April 3 - May 27, 2018
Jiha Moon's works address the intersection of imagery native to Korea, Japan, and China and elements of the West in order to explore cross-cultural perceptions. Originally from Korea and presently based out of Atlanta, Georgia,...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018B_Toledo39DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018B Spring Exhibit: Francisco Toledo: Toledo Múltiple
Francisco Toledo: Toledo Múltiple
April 3 - May 27, 2018
As Mexico's most prolific and influential graphic artist, Francisco Toledo has been exploring the fantastical and expanding the expressive range of his printmaking over more than 50 years. This exhibition encompasses a wide range of Toledo's...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Figures21DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: FIGURES: Kiley Ames, Janice Nowinski, Kyle Staver, Jo Weiss
FIGURES: Kiley Ames, Janice Nowinski, Kyle Staver, Jo Weiss
June 16 - August 12, 2018
Four women artists convincingly place human figures in space, each reaching that high-water mark of Western Art in their own way. Kiley Ames has a seemingly rational, systematic technique akin to pointillism that on...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Latitude42DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit:(Alper) Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987
Latitude: The Washington Women's Arts Center 1975-1987
June 16 to August 12, 2018
The Washington Women's Arts Center (WWAC), located at 1821 Q Street NW, then at the Lansburgh Cultural Center, was created in 1975 as a non-profit organization to provide professional support and opportunities for women...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Steadman654DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
June 16 – August 12, 2018
Originally curated by Anita O'Brien at the Cartoon Museum, London, the Ralph Steadman Retrospective offers phenomenal insights into the genius of one of the world's most acclaimed artists. This exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018C_Unseen6DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018C Summer Exhibit: Things Unseen: The Fluency of Abstraction
Things Unseen: The Fluency of Abstraction
June 16 - August 12, 2018
Artists featured in this exhibition use abstraction as a conduit to express their keen observations. The broad implications of the exhibition signify the fluency of abstraction and its many interpretations. What is absent is present....
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Artery102DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Selections from the Artery Collection
Selections from the Artery Collection
September 4-December 16, 2018
The Artery Organization Collection was conceived as a corporate collection in the early 1980s to support Washington-area artists and enhance the real estate offices of the company in Artery Plaza, the first large building in Bethesda....
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_DArista3DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Robert D'Arista: A Portrait
Robert D'Arista: A Portrait
September 4-December 16, 2018
"When we look at one of his untitled figure paintings, we can feel the exactness of the model’s weight distribution and her turn in space, but the details of the environment and the identity of the individual model eludes us. Instead, we must...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Legacy10DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D Early Fall Exhibit: D'Arista Legacy
D'Arista Legacy
Carlton Fletcher, Lowell Gilbertson, Edith Kuhnle, Dale Loy, Katy Murray, Marci Nadler, Lee Newman, Iris Osterman, Maggie Siner, Jo Weiss, Diane Wilson, and Susan Yanero
September 4-October 21, 2018
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Robert D’Arista taught in the...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Path24DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Finding a Path: Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak: A Conversation
Finding a Path: Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak: A Conversation
September 4-December 16, 2018
Curated by Aneta Georgievska-Shine
Emilie Brzezinski and Dalya Luttwak have much in common as artists, yet they have never shown their works together. Brzezinski’s massive, rough-hewn wood sculptures...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018D_Sanborn29DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018D/E Early/Late Fall Exhibit: Jim Sanborn: Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity
Jim Sanborn: Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity
September 4-December 16, 2018
In Without Provenance Jim Sanborn has given us all a rare gift of artistic provocation. Certainly there is an abundance of beauty in this exhibition, but it is beauty that provokes thought and...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018E_Jehle18DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Exhibit: (Alper) Ian Jehle: Dynamical Systems
Ian Jehle: Dynamical Systems
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
November 10 - December 16, 2018
Curated by Laura Roulet
Ian Jehle, a DC-based artist and American University faculty member, has long been known for his sensitive, large scale portraits of members of the Washington art...
2018_DC_KatzenX_2018E_Tribe51DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2018E Late Fall Exhibit: Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World
Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World
November 10-December 16, 2018
Curated by Janet Bellotto and Dr. Woodman Taylor
Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World is an exhibition highlighting a selection of artists published within the eight editions of Tribe—a magazine founded...
2018_DC_Kennedy_18090517Politics & Prose @ The Wharf -- Martha H. Kennedy ("Drawn to Purpose")
Martha H. Kennedy - Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf
Kennedy’s ground-breaking survey presents in detail the lives and work of eighty women illustrators from the late nineteenth century to today. Starting with Golden Age artists Mary...
2018_DC_Kerry_180908138Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- John Kerry ("Every Day is Extra") w/David Ignatius
John Kerry - Every Day Is Extra — at Sixth & I
John Kerry has devoted his life to public service. Since he testified in front of Congress as a decorated young Vietnam veteran disillusioned with the war, he’s placed himself at the heart of American political life, serving as a five-term Senator and as...
2018_DC_Kingsolver_18101765Politics & Prose @ Sidwell Friends -- Barbara Kingsolver ("Unsheltered") w/Diane Rehm
Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered — in conversation with Diane Rehm at Sidwell Friends Meeting House
Since she published The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver has been not only a bestselling novelist but a strong moral voice for our country. Her novels have won the National Humanities Medal, the...
2018_DC_Kinney_181104107Politics & Prose @ UDC Theater of the Arts -- Jeff Kinney ("The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13)")
Jeff Kinney - The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13) — UDC Theater of the Arts
Countdown to The Meltdown! In celebration of the launch of Diary of a Wimpy Kid #13: The Meltdown, join us for an imaginative evening at Wimpy Kid Live: The Meltdown Show, an interactive author experience hosted by JEFF...
2018_DC_Klepper_180323100Newseum -- A Conversation with Jordan Klepper
Comedy Central and the Newseum invite you to "A Conversation with Jordan Klepper"
Join us as Jordan Klepper, host of Comedy Central's "The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper" discusses his daily late-night series.
The program, which debuted in September 2017, satirizes the hyperbolic, conspiracy-laden noise...
2018_DC_Kurtz_18021743Newseum -- President and the Press: Howard Kurtz ("Media Buzz")
The President and the Press: Fox News Channel’s Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz,” talks about his new book, “Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth.”
The book chronicles what happened behind the scenes of some of the biggest controversies...
2018_DC_Kurtz_Phelan_18041578Politics & Prose -- Daniel Kurtz-Phelan ("The China Mission") w/Evan Thomas
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan - The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 — in conversation with Evan Thomas
In 1945 Truman dispatched General George Marshall to China as his special presidential envoy. Marshall was charged with negotiating peace between the Chinese Nationalists and...
2018_DC_Kyte_18111938Brookings Institution -- The New Dynamics Of Global Energy And Climate (w/Rachel Kyte)
The new dynamics of global energy and climate
A conversation with CEO of Sustainable Energy for All Rachel Kyte
On November 19, the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate will host Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte in discussion with Initiative Co-Chair David G. Victor on...
2018_DC_LaborFest_Roses_18041742DC LaborFest @ Busboys Takoma -- Bread & Roses: DC LaborFest 2018 Sneak Preview!
Get an earlybird look at this year’s LaborFest! We’ll show trailers from the DC Labor FilmFest and preview the LaborFest schedule, plus Save The Date cards will be available and all attendees get a free pair of passes to the FilmFest!
2018_DC_Lafayette_Square6DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area
2018_DC_Last_AnimalsR_180315172DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- "The Last Animals" -- Receptions and Preparation @ Natl Geographic Society
The Last Animals
Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation.
The Last Animals follows the conservationists, scientists, and activists battling poachers and criminal networks to save elephants and rhinos from the edge of extinction.
Director: Kate Brooks
(US/UK, 2017, 92 min.) DC...
2018_DC_Last_Animals_18031597DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- "The Last Animals" -- Program @ Natl Geographic Society
The Last Animals
Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation.
The Last Animals follows the conservationists, scientists, and activists battling poachers and criminal networks to save elephants and rhinos from the edge of extinction.
Director: Kate Brooks
(US/UK, 2017, 92 min.) DC...
2018_DC_LawVCH178DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Exhibit: History Time Capsules
History Time Capsules
Travel through time in this exhibit which showcases historical artifacts from the Museum’s collections. Learn about law enforcement officers across all eras of American history, including colonial days, the Wild West, the Prohibition Era, the Civil Rights movement, and into the...
2018_DC_LawVCM127DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Inside Areas Not Covered Elsewhere
2018_DC_LawVCR42DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Exhibit: Reel to Real
Reel to Real
Law Enforcement in Pop Culture
Reminisce as you browse mementos of law enforcement in pop culture – including toys, props, and memorabilia from some of the most iconic cop shows and movies over the years.
2018_DC_LawVC4DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum (Outside)
2018_DC_LawVC_ETT11DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Exhibit: Eliminate The Threat
2018_DC_LawVC_TTC55DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Exhibit: Take the Case
2018_DC_Law10DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
2018_DC_Law_OpeningCD_18101373DC -- Natl Law Enforcement Museum -- Event: Grand Opening Community Day
Join us for a free Grand Opening Community Day celebration 10 am until 5 pm as we proudly open our Museum doors to the public for the first time. There’ll be plenty to see and do inside and out.

We’re starting our Community Day with a celebration so big, we’ve taken over the block! This free event...
2018_DC_Law_Thunder_18052645DC -- Rolling Thunder @ Natl Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
2018_DC_LA_Small6DC -- Judiciary Square -- Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
2018_DC_LeDuff_18052461Politics & Prose -- Charlie LeDuff ("Sh*tshow!")
Charlie LeDuff - Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Detroit, didn’t predict the Trump presidency, but already in 2013 he sensed the country was at a breaking point. To document this, he set out on a...
2018_DC_Liberty_Plaza14DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Liberty Plaza (between USTR and CFPB on 17th St. NW)
2018_DC_Lincoln_CottageVC9DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Visitor Center
2018_DC_Lincoln_Cottage26DC -- Lincoln Cottage (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home)
2018_DC_Lincoln_CVC_DOI6DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Exhibit @ Visitor Center: Declaration of Independence
2018_DC_Lincoln_LestP_180410111DC -- Mall -- Event: Lest We Forget Exhibition Opening Program
LEST WE FORGET Exhibition Opening on the National Mall
For the Days of Remembrance, German-Italian artist Luigi Toscano, in partnership with the German Embassy, and with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is mounting a unique photographic installation along the Lincoln...
2018_DC_Lincoln_Lest143DC -- Mall -- Exhibit: Lest We Forget
LEST WE FORGET Exhibition Opening on the National Mall
For the Days of Remembrance, German-Italian artist Luigi Toscano, in partnership with the German Embassy, and with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is mounting a unique photographic installation along the Lincoln...
2018_DC_Lincoln_Other_18031732Abraham Lincoln 2018 Symposium @ Fords Theatre -- Other
Abraham Lincoln Institute
Twenty-First Annual Symposium - March 17, 2018
"The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship"

Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc..
2018_DC_Lincoln_Speakers_180317128Abraham Lincoln 2018 Symposium @ Fords Theatre -- Speakers
I don't do mornings anymore so I just covered the afternoon sessions.

Abraham Lincoln Institute
Twenty-First Annual Symposium - March 17, 2018
"The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship"

Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc.

Presentation of the Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize
*...
2018_DC_Lipman_18020359Newseum -- Inside Media w/Joanne Lipman ("That's What She Said")
Inside Media: "That's What She Said": Closing the Gender Gap in the Workforce
Joanne Lipman, former editor in chief of USA TODAY, talks about her new book, “That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together.”
With reports of sexual harassment and assault...
2018_DC_Lipman_18022035Politics & Prose -- Joanne Lipman ("That's What She Said") w/Susan Page
Joanne Lipman - That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together — in conversation with Susan Page
Lipman’s groundbreaking handbook for achieving gender parity in the workplace grew out of her 2014 Wall Street Journal article, “Women at Work: A Guide for...
2018_DC_Literary_HillBF_180506268Literary Hill BookFest (2018) @ Eastern Market
Literary Hill BookFest 2018
Celebrating Books & Authors on Capitol Hill
he Literary Hill BookFest is a celebration of Capitol Hill authors, booksellers, publishers, libraries, and other book-related groups held annually at Eastern Market.

This year's author list:
Brett Abrams, Richard Agemo, Nick...
2018_DC_LOCVw11DC -- Library of Congress -- Views from...
The view from the Prints and Photographs section overlooks the residential section of DC.
2018_DC_LOC_16thSt20DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
2018_DC_LOC_Baseball219DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Baseball Americana
Baseball Americana
June 29, 2018–Summer 2019
Americans had been playing baseball long before they agreed on the rules or even settled on how to spell it.
Base-Ball (1787)
base-ball (1799)
base ball (1818)
Base Ball (1845)
baseball (1899)
They didn't always call it baseball either—in some...
2018_DC_LOC_Bibles17DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Bible Collection
They set up new cases for the bibles.
2018_DC_LOC_Cherry_Posters36DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Cherry Blossom Festival Posters
2018_DC_LOC_Comics16DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Comics Yesterday / Comics Today
2018_DC_LOC_Douglass31DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Frederick Douglass Bicentennial
February 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, touted by Abraham Lincoln as "the most meritous man in the United States." After escaping from slavery, Douglass risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer and writer. In 1847 he founded the North Star,...
2018_DC_LOC_Drawn2Purpose100DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Graphic Arts): Drawn To Purpose
I went through the public comment book to see what people might have drawn. Barbara Dale's drawing is still winner and champion!
2018_DC_LOC_Exploring16DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Exploring the Early Americas
2018_DC_LOC_Ext2DC -- Library of Congress -- Exterior Images
2018_DC_LOC_Frankenstein21DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
2018_DC_LOC_Geppi52DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Stephen A. Geppi Collection of Comics and Graphic Arts
Stephen A. Geppi Collection of Comics and Graphic Arts
The Library of Congress has a new display of select items from the Stephen A. Geppi Collection of Comics and Graphic Arts from Nov. 6, 2018, through Feb. 11, 2019
The Library of Congress announced in May that collector and entrepreneur Stephen A....
2018_DC_LOC_GHX42DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: The Great Hall -- Holiday Display
This year, the tree wasn't in the Great Hall. They had to place it one floor above because putting it in the Great Hall conflicted with Paul Ryan's farewell event. Pictures also include the wreaths set up by some of the shops downstairs.
2018_DC_LOC_Herblock54DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Herblock Gallery (2018)
Herblock Looks at 1968: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons
Currently on exhibit: March 17–September 8, 2018
In 1968, during the fourth and final year of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, Herblock focused on the presidential election. Having called attention to Richard M. Nixon’s...
2018_DC_LOC_L2L21DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Letter to Lyrics (Hamilton)
2018_DC_LOC_Mapping32DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit: Mapping a Growing Nation: Southeastern States / Midwestern States
They keep rotating items.
2018_DC_LOC_NWCorner17DC -- Library of Congress -- Room: Northwest Corner (Maps) Art (2nd Floor)
2018_DC_LOC_Rudolph18DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Century of Architect Paul M. Rudolph
2018_DC_LOC_Tunnel17DC -- Library of Congress -- Tunnels
2018_DC_LOC_Wonderful17DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): It's a Wonderful Life
2018_DC_Logan2DC -- Logan Circle neighborhood (but not Logan Statue)
2018_DC_Long_ConvoS1A_181207176Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 1 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, David Skorton, Larisa Martinez, Michael Govan, Obi Felten, Danny Hillis, Liz Cottrell, Carla Hayden, Cheech Marin, Jacqueline Suskin, and Mily Treviño-Sauceda @ Arts and Industries Bldg
#TheLongConvo
What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind...
2018_DC_Long_ConvoS2A_181207204Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 2 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, David Rubenstein, Scott Bolton, Jessica O. Matthews, Roy Wood Jr., Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Bei Yang, Naomi Wadler, Alfre Woodard, Bruce Friedrich, Laura Esserman, Sasha Velour, and Malak Wazne @ Arts and Industries Bldg
#TheLongConvo
What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind...
2018_DC_Long_ConvoS3A_181207169Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Session 3 (of 3) w/Rachel Goslins, Malak Wazne, David Brooks, Jon Grinspan, Hawah Kasat, Troy Carter, Nick Pyenson, Spike Gjerde, Jean Bennett, and C. Brian Williams @ Arts and Industries Bldg
#TheLongConvo
What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind...
2018_DC_Long_Convo_18120734Smithsonian -- Long Convo -- Miscellaneous Images @ Arts and Industries Bldg
#TheLongConvo
What do award-winning actor Alfre Woodard, NYT's David Brooks, drag queen Sasha Velour, NASA’s mission head to Jupiter, and one of the world’s leading cancer surgeons have in common? They all know something that makes them hopeful for the future. Come find out what at this one-of-a-kind...
2018_DC_LP_Nigeria_18043021DC -- Rally: Biafran Protest Aganst Nigerian President @ Lafayette Park
Thousands of Igbo, an ethnic group in Southeastern Nigeria, have begun arriving Washington DC for a major protest against 75-year old Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari.
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) would storm the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC on April 30 when...
2018_DC_Lunch_1805082Personal -- Lunch with Randy, Xavier, and John
2018_DC_M4O_18060993DC -- Rally: March for the Ocean (M4O) @ Washington Monument
March for the Ocean is about the survival of our blue planet. But it’s also about the fact that it’s not too late to turn the tide - restore and protect what we love.
March for the Ocean - for water - for our future and say NO to offshore oil testing, leasing, drilling and spilling; YES to Corporate...
2018_DC_Macys_XMas21DC -- Macy's Holiday WIndows (2018)
2018_DC_Mall3DC -- Natl Mall area
Interesting human inflated balls.
2018_DC_Mall_Carousel15DC -- Mall -- Carousel
2018_DC_Mall_Floodwall2DC -- Natl Mall area -- 17th Street Levee (Floodwall)
2018_DC_Mann_18020121Politics & Prose -- Charles C. Mann ("The Wizard and the Prophet") w/Scott Stossel
Charles C. Mann - The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World — in conversation with Scott Stossel
Mann’s award-winning histories, 1491 and 1493, looked back to Columbus and his world-changing expeditions. His new book profiles two...
2018_DC_Marching_18042387March on Washington Film Festival -- Marching to Progress: Women in 2018 @ NYU
Marching to Progress: Women in 2018 is presented by The March on Washington Film Festival, Raben_Impact, and the NYU Brademas Center. This event will commemorate the Women’s March and assess how we are moving women from marching to voting and further activism. Clips from Robin Hamilton's Fannie Lou...
2018_DC_March_4RL_180324172DC -- Rally: March For Our Lives (2018) -- Penn Ave
2018_DC_March_4RL_Folk_18032419DC -- Rally: March For Our Lives (2018) -- Folks and Friends
I ran into several people I knew at the march this time -- Flo Stone (founder of the Environmental Film Festival), Joan Eisenstodt and Joel Levy, Nikahang Kowsar (political cartoonist), and Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central's The Opposition with...).
2018_DC_March_4RL_Items_1803248DC -- Rally: March For Our Lives (2018) -- Items
I didn't pick up many things at the March because I was busy taking pictures. What I did pick up:
* A pair of Evil Eye Gloves (including a note from the three knitters in New Haven),
* An Evil Eye patch (this one with the name of Aaron Feis, the football coach who tried to shield students during...
2018_DC_March_4RL_NewsV_1803234DC -- Newseum -- Views from terrace of March For Our Lives (2018) prep
2018_DC_March_4RL_NewsV_18032493DC -- Newseum -- Views from terrace of March For Our Lives (2018)
2018_DC_March_4RL_Prep_18032314DC -- Rally: March For Our Lives (2018) -- Preparation
2018_DC_March_4RL_Trucks_18032379DC -- Rally: March For Our Lives (2018) -- Advertising Trucks
Richard Kirkman who does the "Baby Blues" comic strip reached out for someone to photograph some billboard trucks they had worked on for the March. I'm always game!
2018_DC_Marines_Tet_180125120Newseum -- Panel -- The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War
The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War
To mark the opening of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War,” the Newseum looks back at the 1968 Battle of Huê´, the bloodiest single battle of the Tet Offensive and a turning point that...
2018_DC_Marsh_1810248Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Joanna Marsh (Conversation Pieces)
SAAM -- Conversation Pieces
Want to deepen your understanding and appreciation of contemporary art? Join Joanna Marsh, senior curator of contemporary interpretation, for this popular ongoing series of gallery talks. Marsh uses a single artwork from the museum’s collection to spark conversation and...
2018_DC_Masur_18022658DC -- Lincoln Cottage -- Event: Kate Masur ("They Knew Lincoln")
Cottage Conversation: They Knew Lincoln
Join us as historian Kate Masur, along with co-presenter and President Lincoln’s Cottage Executive Director, Erin Carlson Mast, discuss Masur’s most recent project, They Knew Lincoln.
Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew...
2018_DC_Mayer_Brown9DC -- Mayer Brown LLP (1999 K St NW)
2018_DC_MBT1DC -- Metropolitan Branch Trail (DC portion)
2018_DC_McChrystal_18110362Politics & Prose -- Stanley McChrystal ("Leaders: Myth and Reality") w/Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone
Stanley McChrystal - Leaders: Myth and Reality — in conversation with Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone
McChrystal, a retired four-star general and now a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, has studied leadership intensively, both in the military and in other fields. In this...
2018_DC_McCormack_180521114NYU, Embassy of Ireland, and Solas Nua -- Salon Series: A Conversation with Author Mike McCormack w/Alice McDermott and Sarah Davis-Goff
Salon Series: A Conversation with Author Mike McCormack
NYU Washington, DC, the Embassy of Ireland, Solas Nua, and the EU Delegation European Month of Culture present acclaimed author Mike McCormack.
Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from County Mayo in Ireland. His...
2018_DC_McMillan9DC -- McMillan Sand Filtration Site
2018_DC_Mearsheimer_18101756CSIS -- Book Launch: John Mearsheimer's "The Great Delusion" (w/Seth Jones, and Charles Glaser)
CSIS hosts Book Launch: The Great Delusion
The CSIS Transnational Threats Project cordially invites you to a book launch event for John J. Mearsheimer’s newly released The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Yale University Press).
Featuring:
* John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell...
2018_DC_Mellon_Fountain3DC -- Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain
2018_DC_Memory_Palace_18010656Sixth & I -- Memory Palace w/Nate DiMeo
The Memory Palace
The Memory Palace tells short, surprising stories from the dustier corners of American history, set to music. They’re sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterical, and often a bit of both. Its host and creator, Nate DiMeo, is a journalist, television writer, and author of an actual...
2018_DC_Metro_FW6Metro Station -- Farragut West
2018_DC_Metro_GAP7Metro Station -- Georgia Avenue-Petworth
2018_DC_Metro_GP5Metro Station -- Gallery Place
A new canopy is going up over the escalator.
2018_DC_Metro_NM6Metro Station -- Archives Navy Memorial Penn Quarter
2018_DC_Meyers_181209121National Gallery of Art -- Artist talk: linn meyers: work
linn meyers: work
linn meyers, artist and cofounder, STABLE, in conversation with Jonathan Frederick Walz, director of curatorial affairs and curator of American art, Columbus Museum
Artist linn meyers creates works that reveal the expansive potential of drawing. In monumental installations drawn...
2018_DC_Midterms2_18112938NYU Law -- Sidney Austin Forum: Assessing the 2018 Election Results -- (Page 2 of 3) Panel 1 w/Bob Bauer, Megan Mcardle, Sam Stein, and Ben Wittes
Assessing the 2018 Election Results: Governance and Political Implications
Sidley Austin Forum
Sidley Austin LLP and NYU School of Law are proud to host the 3rd Annual Sidley Austin Forum.
The program will examine the results of the 2018 congressional midterms and state and local contests around the...
2018_DC_Midterms3_18112946NYU Law -- Sidney Austin Forum: Assessing the 2018 Election Results -- (Page 3 of 3) Panel 2 w/David Axelrod, Emily Ekins, Ronald Klain, and Doug Thornel
Assessing the 2018 Election Results: Governance and Political Implications
Sidley Austin Forum
Sidley Austin LLP and NYU School of Law are proud to host the 3rd Annual Sidley Austin Forum.
The program will examine the results of the 2018 congressional midterms and state and local contests around the...
2018_DC_Midterms_18112926NYU Law -- Sidney Austin Forum: Assessing the 2018 Election Results -- (Page 1 of 3) Keynote w/Henry Olsen
Assessing the 2018 Election Results: Governance and Political Implications
Sidley Austin Forum
Sidley Austin LLP and NYU School of Law are proud to host the 3rd Annual Sidley Austin Forum.
The program will examine the results of the 2018 congressional midterms and state and local contests around the...
2018_DC_Midterm_Wrap_18111039Newseum -- Inside Media w/Chris Cillizza And Leigh Munsil (Midterm Election Wrap-Up)
Inside Media: Midterm Election Wrap-Up With CNN’s Chris Cillizza And Leigh Munsil
CNN’s Chris Cillizza and Leigh Munsil analyze the results of the 2018 midterm elections which saw Democrats regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Republicans increase their majority in the U.S....
2018_DC_Minority_Voters_18110144Brookings Institution -- The Role of Minority Voters in the 2018 Midterm Elections
The Role of Minority Voters in the 2018 Midterm Elections
High levels of minority voter turnout were credited with swinging the results of several high-profile special elections over the past year. As this year’s midterm elections draw near, it is clear that the votes of minority...
2018_DC_MLKLib15DC -- Penn Qtr -- Martin Luther King Memorial Library (901 G St NW)
2018_DC_MLK_Mem12DC -- Martin Luther King Jr. Natl Memorial
This was the day after the 50th anniversary of his assassination so there were some wreaths at the memorial, including one from the Embassy of Venezuela.
2018_DC_Moe_1803226DC Env Film Festival (2018) -- Eric Moe Award Winner -- "Water Warriors" wMichael Premo @ Tabard Inn
WATER WARRIORS
Winner: Eric Moe Award for Best Short on Sustainability
Water Warriors is the story of a community’s successful fight against the oil and natural gas industry in New Brunswick, Canada, A multicultural group of unlikely warriors set up a series of road blockades, sometimes on fire,...
2018_DC_Molesworth_18091274Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Helen Molesworth (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
Join Helen Molesworth, former chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, for a lecture exploring the work of sculptor Ruth Asawa.
 The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art highlight excellence and innovation in American art through evenings with an outstanding artist,...
2018_DC_Moment_Dinner_18111171DC -- Moment Magazine's 2018 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Dinner and Post-Event Mingling
Folks here include Nina Totenberg, Robert Siegel, Diane Rehm, Jack Rasmussen, Aviva Kempner, Brent Glass, Brenda Pascal, Jane Mayer, Joan Nathan, Carol Brown Goldberg, Esther Coopersmith.
2018_DC_Moment_Pgm_181111111DC -- Moment Magazine's 2018 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Ceremony Itself
Moment’s Gala & Awards Dinner
Honoring Amazing Women
Master of Ceremonies: Robert Siegel
Award presentations to:
* Esther Coopersmith, Former U.S. Representative to the UN
* Carol Brown Goldberg, Visionary Artist -- Introduced by Diane Rehm
* Jane Mayer, Investigative Reporter and Author
*...
2018_DC_Moment_Pre_181111114DC -- Moment Magazine's 2018 Gala and Awards Dinner @ National Press Club -- Pre-dinner mingling
Folks here include: Robert Siegel, Bert Foer, Diane Rehm, Carol Brown Goldberg, Aviva Kempner, Joan Nathan, Jane Mayer, Jack Rasmussen, and Judy Woodruff.
2018_DC_MoultrieCH7DC -- Judiciary Square -- Carl Moultrie Courthouse (DC Superior Court) (500 Indiana Ave NW)
2018_DC_Mt_Vernon7DC -- Mt Vernon Triangle neighborhood
2018_DC_MuertosFD_18110142Reynolds Center -- Family Day (NPG) -- El Día de los Muertos Celebration
El Día de los Muertos Celebration
Join us for an evening of music, dancing and crafts in celebration of Latin American heritage, including special performances by the DC-based band Los Gallos Negros and dancers from the Maru Montero Dance Company.
2018_DC_MuertosFD_Ballet_181027172Reynolds Center -- Dia de los Muertos Family Day -- Ballet Folklorico Mi Herencia Mexicana
Dia de los Muertos Family Day
Celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with SAAM! Enjoy Mexican folk dance performances throughout the day and leave your handmade ofrendas (offerings) including paper marigolds, calaveras (skull masks), and paper monarch butterflies on our Day of the Dead...
2018_DC_MuertosFD_Else_181027106Reynolds Center -- Dia de los Muertos Family Day -- All else
Dia de los Muertos Family Day
Celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with SAAM! Enjoy Mexican folk dance performances throughout the day and leave your handmade ofrendas (offerings) including paper marigolds, calaveras (skull masks), and paper monarch butterflies on our Day of the Dead...
2018_DC_MuertosFD_MADC_18102726Reynolds Center -- Dia de los Muertos Family Day -- Mariachi Aguila DC
Dia de los Muertos Family Day
Celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with SAAM! Enjoy Mexican folk dance performances throughout the day and leave your handmade ofrendas (offerings) including paper marigolds, calaveras (skull masks), and paper monarch butterflies on our Day of the Dead...
2018_DC_Murals33DC -- Public Art: Murals (not shown by artist)
2018_DC_Murals_Aniekan2DC -- Public Art: Murals by Aniekan Udofia
2018_DC_Murals_Astro3DC -- Public Art: Murals by Astro (AstroGraff.com)
2018_DC_Murals_Birdcap1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Birdcap (Michael Roy) (Memphis, Tennessee)
2018_DC_Murals_BKing3DC -- Public Art: Murals by Bryan King
2018_DC_Murals_BPeck1DC -- Public Art: Murals by G. Byron Peck
2018_DC_Murals_BroCoLoco7DC -- Public Art: Murals by BroCoLoco
2018_DC_Murals_Chelove5DC -- Public Art: Murals by Miss Chelove
2018_DC_Murals_CJP4DC -- Public Art: Murals by Charles Jean-Pierre (Chuck Brown mural)
2018_DC_Murals_GBaker20DC -- Public Art: Murals by Garin Baker
2018_DC_Murals_GRabbit12DC -- Public Art: Murals by Golden Rabbit Silent Monkey (Henley Bounkhong)
2018_DC_Murals_Hoxxoh4DC -- Public Art: Murals by Hoxxoh
2018_DC_Murals_Insa1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Insa (UK)
2018_DC_Murals_JBullough6DC -- Public Art: Murals by JBAK (James Bullough and Karl Addison)
2018_DC_Murals_JGress2DC -- Public Art: Murals by Jeff Gress (Hawai'i)
2018_DC_Murals_JPineda3DC -- Public Art: Murals by Juan Pineda (CRI)
2018_DC_Murals_KFleming1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Kate Fleming (Arlington, Virginia)
2018_DC_Murals_KHO2DC -- Public Art: Murals by Kyle Hughes Odgers
2018_DC_Murals_KTowles3DC -- Public Art: Murals by Kelly Towles
2018_DC_Murals_Living2DC -- Public Art: Murals by It's a Living
2018_DC_Murals_Marcella1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Marcella Kriebel
2018_DC_Murals_Maxx2DC -- Public Art: Murals by Maxx Moses
2018_DC_Murals_MSwift4DC -- Public Art: Murals by Martin Swift
2018_DC_Murals_Persue14DC -- Public Art: Murals by Persue
2018_DC_Murals_Richt1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Richt (Rich Thorne) (Bristol, England)
2018_DC_Murals_RJaffe4DC -- Public Art: Murals by Rose Jaffe (sometimes with Kate DeCiccio)
2018_DC_Murals_Rylsee1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Rylsee (Cyril Vouilloz) (Berlin + Geneva)
2018_DC_Murals_Taj1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Taj Tenfold (Taj Francis) (Kingston, Jamaica)
2018_DC_Murals_TRAV1DC -- Public Art: Murals by TRAV
2018_DC_Murals_VLewton1DC -- Public Art: Murals by Val Lewton (Air Shaft Tunnel mural @/Mayer Mitchell Bldg @ H and 3rd NW)
2018_DC_Murals_Waone4DC -- Public Art: Murals by Waone (of Interesni Kazki)
2018_DC_Murals_Wingchow7DC -- Public Art: Murals by Wingchow (Christina Wing Chow) (Richmond, VA)
2018_DC_Murals_Zunzima9DC -- Public Art: Murals by Zunzima (Takashi Nakajima)
2018_DC_Murrow_Park3DC -- Downtown -- US Reservation 31 -- Edward R. Murrow Park
Jack Champions untitled piece from the No Spectators: Beyond the Renwick has been installed in the park.
2018_DC_Museum_18050612Washington Jewish Film Festival (2018) @ DCJCC -- "The Museum" (w/Ran Tal)
The Museum
A striking account of Israel’s most important cultural institution that explores the Israeli soul through the galleries, storerooms, and visitors of the Israel Museum. The documentary eschews the dry formula one might expect for such an undertaking however— managing to unpack the mysteries...
2018_DC_Nader_18092374Politics & Prose -- Ralph Nader ("To the Ramparts")
Ralph Nader - To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency, and Why It Isn't Too Late to Reverse Course
Since the release of Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965, Nader has led the charge against destructive and exploitative corporate power. The co-founder of public interest groups...
2018_DC_NAOscA_1803033Natl Archives -- Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominees
The National Archives hosts the 14th annual free screenings of the Academy Award® nominees in four categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film. The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in partnership...
2018_DC_NAS20DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg
2018_DC_NAS_Art62DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Art Highlights
2018_DC_NAS_Board_Room31DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Board Room
2018_DC_NAS_Endangered30DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Exhibit: Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs: A Multi-Media Exhibition by Diane Burko
Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs: A Multi-Media Exhibition by Diane Burko
August 15, 2018 - January 31, 2019
Diane Burko blurs the lines between art, science, and the environment. Since 2006, her practice has been devoted to communicating climate change issues. She synthesizes information from her...
2018_DC_NAS_Great_HallX9DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Great Hall Xmas Display
2018_DC_NAS_Great_Hall36DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Great Hall
2018_DC_NAS_Ground_Truth28DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Exhibit: Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks
Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks
An Exhibition by Julie Anand and Damon Sauer
September 24, 2018 - February 22, 2019
In this series of photographs of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe....
2018_DC_NAS_Members_Room14DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Members' Room
2018_DC_NAS_Recep_18121362Natl Academy of Sciences -- Event: AGU Art and Science Gallery Talks and Reception w/Diane Burko, Julie Anand, and Damon Sauer
AGU Art and Science Gallery Talks and Reception
by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
Join Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Geophysical Union Art and Science Committee for a private reception celebrating the exhibitions Endangered: From Glaciers...
2018_DC_NAS_Service47DC -- National Academy of Sciences Bldg -- Exhibit: In Service to the Nation
2018_DC_Naval_91131DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Exhibit: The Navy After 9-11
2018_DC_Naval_LS1DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Lone Sailor Corridor
2018_DC_Naval_MCPON19DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Exhibit: Year of the MCPON
2018_DC_Naval_Memorial4DC -- U.S. Navy Memorial
A wreath was out for the anniversary of the Battle of Midway.
2018_DC_Naval_NCM34DC -- U.S. Naval Heritage Center -- Exhibit: National Chief's Mess
2018_DC_NBF_Albright_18090112Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Madeleine Albright w/David Rubenstein
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright served from 1997 until 2001 as the first woman secretary of state. She was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and her family immigrated to the United States in 1948. She followed in her father’s footsteps by also becoming a diplomat. Prior to being secretary of...
2018_DC_NBF_Chernow_18090115Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Ron Chernow w/Colleen Shogan
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, “The House of Morgan,” won the National Book Award. “Washington: A Life” won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and “Alexander Hamilton”—the inspiration for...
2018_DC_NBF_CK_EAD_18090129Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Conversation: Founders and Their Slaves w/Catherine Kerrison and Erica Armstrong Dunbar w/Eric Deggans
Catherine Kerrison
Catherine Kerrison is an associate professor of history at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in colonial and revolutionary America and women's and gender history. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from the College of William and Mary. Her...
2018_DC_NBF_Coll_18090113Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Steve Coll
Steve Coll
Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation (2007-2012). He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication on politics, national security and the media. Coll is also the...
2018_DC_NBF_CSpan_18090129Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Book TV on C-Span2
Folks here include Doris Kearns Goodwin and Alfredo Corchado being interviewed by Peter Slen (Host, C-Span)

Alfredo Corchado
Alfredo Corchado is the Mexico border correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and author of “Midnight in Mexico.” He is a Nieman, Lannan, USMEX, Woodrow Wilson and...
2018_DC_NBF_Eizenstat_18090117Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Stuart E. Eizenstat w/David Rubenstein
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Stuart E. Eizenstat is a diplomat and an attorney. His work as a lawyer focuses on resolving international trade problems and business disputes between the United States and other governments. Eizenstat was the U.S. ambassador to the European Union in 1993-1996 and deputy secretary...
2018_DC_NBF_Gay_18090115Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Graphic Novels 4 of 4: Roxane Gay w/Michael Cavna
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in “Best American Mystery Stories 20140,” “Best American Short Stories 2012,” “Best Sex Writing 2012,” and the magazines Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review and many others....
2018_DC_NBF_Goodwin_18090123Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Doris Kearns Goodwin w/David Rubenstein
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s interest in leadership began more than half a century ago as a teacher at Harvard. Her experiences working for LBJ in the White House and later assisting him on his memoirs led to “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.” She followed up with the Pulitzer...
2018_DC_NBF_Grabenstein_1809013Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein is the No, 1 New York Times best-selling author of “Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library,” “Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics,” “Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race” and “The Island of Dr. Libris.” He has co-written numerous bestselling books with James Patterson....
2018_DC_NBF_Ignatius_1809016Natl Book Festival 2018 -- David Ignatius w/Stephanie Merry
David Ignatius
David Ignatius is an associate editor for The Washington Post. Since 2003, he has been the author of a twice-weekly, globally distributed column on global politics, economics and international affairs. He has held important positions at the International Herald Tribune and The Wasll...
2018_DC_NBF_KD_HB_18090110Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo is the beloved author of many books for children, including “Flora & Ulysses” and “The Tale of Despereaux,” both of which received Newbery Medals. Her most recent middle-grade novel, “Raymie Nightingale,” was an instant No. 1 New York Times best-seller and a National Book...
2018_DC_NBF_Kilmeade_1809019Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade
One of the co-hosts of “Fox & Friends,” Brian Kilemeade is also an author of history books such as “George Washington’s Secret Six” and “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.” His new work, “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny”...
2018_DC_NBF_McDonnell_18090154Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Graphic Novels 1 of 4: Patrick McDonnell w/Michael Cavna
Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the comic strip “Mutts,” which is syndicated in more than 700 newspapers in 20 countries. He is also the author of the children’s books “The Gift of Nothing” and a Caldecott Honor book “Me . . . Jane,” among others.
2018_DC_NBF_Meacham_18090117Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. A contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor of Time magazine, he is the author of the New York Times best-sellers “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,”...
2018_DC_NBF_Meltzer_18090113Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of “The Inner Circle,” “The Book of Fate” and nine other best-selling thrillers, including “The Tenth Justice,” “The First Counsel,” “The Millionaires” and “The President’s Shadow.” His newest book is “The Escape Artist” (Grand...
2018_DC_NBF_Misc_18090121Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous things. The Poltics and prose book sale area, the Pavilion of States, the Library of Congress Town Square, etc.
Folks include Carla Hayden, Michelle Krowl, Martha Kennedy, Joe Wos, Robert Pohl, Stephanie Stebich, Peter Slen (the C-Span interviewer), and Carlos Lozada.
2018_DC_NBF_Monumental_18090117Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Panel: Monumental Decisions w/Kirk Savage, Kristin Ann Hass, Brent D. Glass, and James Reston Jr.
Kirk Savage
Kirk Savage has been writing about public monuments and collective memory for over 30 years. He is the author of “Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America” (Princeton University), now available in a new edition, and “Monument Wars: Washington...
2018_DC_NBF_PB_TW_18090179Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Graphic Novels 2 of 4: Pénélope Bagieu and Tillie Walden w/Michael Cavna
Pénélope Bagieu
Pénélope Bagieu was born in Paris in 1982 to Corsican and Basque parents. She is a best-selling graphic novel author, and her editorial illustrations have appeared all over the French media. In America, her graphic novels include “Exquisite Corpse,” “California Dreamin’” and, most...
2018_DC_NBF_Piskor_18090153Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Graphic Novels 3 of 4: Ed Piskor w/Michael Cavna
Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor is the writer and artist behind “X-Men: Grand Design” (Marvel). This deeply personal and heavily researched reimagining of the origins of the world famous X-Men incorporates the past 40 years of the title’s history and has been met with critical acclaim from all corners of the...
2018_DC_NBF_PP_18090112Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Politics and Prose Area
2018_DC_NBF_Proulx_18090137Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Annie Proulx w/Carla Hayden and Marie Arana
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx is the 2018 recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Her novel “The Shipping News” won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was adapted into a major motion picture. Her short story “Brokeback Mountain” (from the story collection...
2018_DC_NBF_Selznick_18090118Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Brian Selznick w/Barrie Hardymon
Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick’s books have garnered countless accolades worldwide and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He is the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the No. 1 New York Times best-sellers “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” adapted into Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie...
2018_DC_NBF_Sotomayor_18090144Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Sonia Sotomayor w/Carla Hayden
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in the Bronx, New York. She earned a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She served as assistant district attorney in New York County and then as a litigator...
2018_DC_NBF_Swanson_1809018Natl Book Festival 2018 -- James L. Swanson
James L. Swanson
James L. Swanson is the award-winning author of the best-seller “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer.” His other books include his newest: “Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin” (Scholastic). Swanson has also written “Chasing Lincoln's...
2018_DC_NBF_Tan_18090110Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Amy Tan w/Marie Arana
Amy Tan
Amy Tan is the author of “The Valley of Amazement,” “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Kitchen God’s Wife,” “The Hundred Secret Senses,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” and “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life.” She has also penned two children’s books: “The Moon Lady” and “Sagwa,” which has...
2018_DC_NBF_Wood_18090111Natl Book Festival 2018 -- Gordon S. Wood w/David Rubenstein
Gordon S. Wood
An emeritus professor of history at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood is the author of “Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787,” which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for...
2018_DC_NBW_14th18DC -- Penn Qtr -- National Bank of Washington (699 14th St NW)
2018_DC_NCath_I38DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Interior Images (except stained glass)
Including the temporary marker for Matthew Shepard.
2018_DC_NCath_O45DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Outside Images
2018_DC_NCath_Views57DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Views from...
2018_DC_NCath_WWI_181111131DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Event: WWI Commemorative Service
WWI COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE
Sunday, November 11, 2018 | 10:00am
November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Together with the World War One Centennial Commission, Washington National Cathedral hosts this sacred interfaith worship service. Through special music, prayers and...
2018_DC_NCath_Xmas148DC -- Washington Natl Cathedral -- Christmas Creches
2018_DC_NED_4thE_18061943Natl Endowment for Democracy & CIMA -- Supporting the Fourth Estate: What's Been Done to Bolster Independent Media?
An initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy
The Center for International Media Assistance is pleased to invite you to a discussion on
Supporting the Fourth Estate: What's Been Done to Bolster Independent Media?
The world has reached a tipping point in the state of vibrant news media. Press...
2018_DC_NewseumV30DC -- Newseum -- Views from terrace
2018_DC_Newseum9DC -- Newseum
Al Neuharth's typewriter is on display now.
2018_DC_Newseum_Dunnigan14DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) Remembering Alice Allison Dunnigan
Remembering Alice Allison Dunnigan: Pioneering White House Reporter
September 21, 2018 - December 16, 2018
On Sept. 21, a new sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first African American woman to receive press credentials to cover the White House and Congress, will go on display at the...
2018_DC_Newseum_MS_JH44DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (3) Cartoons of Michael Sloan and Jake Halpern
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize–Winning Editorial Cartoons of Michael Sloan and Jake Halpern
The heartbreaking yet hopeful saga of two families who fled civil war in Syria for a better life in the United States became “Welcome to the New World,” a graphic narrative that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for...
2018_DC_Newseum_POYi3DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (6) Pictures of the Year (2018)
Setting up for the new exhibit.
2018_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer6DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs
2018_DC_Newseum_Rights5069DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (4) Civil Rights at 50 (1968)
“1968: Civil Rights at 50”
On display through Jan. 2, 2019 | Level 4
“1968: Civil Rights at 50” explores the tumultuous events that shaped the civil rights movement in 1968, when movement leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, unleashing anger and anguish across the country. Historic...
2018_DC_Newseum_Tet47DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (2) Marines and Tet
“The Marines and Tet”
On display through July 8, 2018
On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, “The Marines and Tet: The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War” will showcase the work of John Olson, a young photographer with Stars and Stripes who spent three days with the Marines at the 1968 Battle...
2018_DC_New_Power_18041553Politics & Prose -- Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms ("New Power")
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms - New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
If you compare traditional institutions like the military, hospitals, and schools to digital-age organizations like Black Lives Mater, Airbnb, and Reddit, you get a snapshot of two...
2018_DC_NGAEW_Outliers83DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Outliers and American Vanguard Art
January 28 – May 13, 2018
Self-taught artists—variously termed folk, primitive, visionary, naïve, and outsider—have played a significant role in the history of modernism, yet their contributions have been largely disregarded or forgotten. Again and again in the...
2018_DC_NGAEW_Whiteread80DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- East Wing -- Exhibit: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread
September 16, 2018 – January 13, 2019
As the first comprehensive survey of the work of British sculptor Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), this exhibition brings together some 100 objects from the course of the artist’s 30 year career, including drawings, photographs, architecture-scaled...
2018_DC_NGAP25DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Paintings
2018_DC_NGAS28DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Sculpture
2018_DC_NGA_Barye39DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Antoine-Louis Barye Animal Sculptor
2018_DC_NGA_Cezanne81DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Cézanne Portraits
Cézanne Portraits
March 25 – July 1, 2018
Cézanne Portraits is the first exhibition devoted to the famed post-impressionist’s portraits. The exhibition explores the unconventional aspects of his portraiture, the role his portraits play in the development of his radical style and method, and the range...
2018_DC_NGA_Chiaroscuro75DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
October 14, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Chiaroscuro woodcuts—color prints made from the successive printing of multiple blocks—flourished in 16th-century Italy, interpreting designs by leading masters such as Raphael, Parmigianino, and Titian, while boasting...
2018_DC_NGA_Corot54DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Corot: Women
Corot: Women
September 9 – December 31, 2018
Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the impressionist movement of the 1870s. His figure paintings constitute a much smaller, less well-known portion of...
2018_DC_NGA_Daumier3661DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Daumier's Portrait Busts (36 French Leaders)
2018_DC_NGA_Garfield9DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- James Garfield Signs
2018_DC_NGA_Global_18060474DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: Tiffany Shackelford, NGA Global
You are invited a lunch forum on "Governors as the New Ambassadors: Public Diplomacy at the State Level" at the George Washington University Elliott School;.
The sudden expansion of governors and states in global culture, energy, environment and scientific exchange and outreach will be discussed by...
2018_DC_NGA_Heavenly22DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna
Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna
February 25 – July 8, 2018
The Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (1612) depicts the monastery and dramatic rocky terrain of La Verna, the site where Saint Francis received the stigmata. The gifted baroque draftsman Jacopo Ligozzi was hired to...
2018_DC_NGA_Humor186DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sense of Humor
Sense of Humor
July 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Humor may be fundamental to human experience, but its expression in painting and sculpture has been limited. Instead, prints, as the most widely distributed medium, and drawings, as the most private, have been the natural vehicles for comic content....
2018_DC_NGA_Joan_Of_Arc31DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Joan of Arc series (Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel)
2018_DC_NGA_Mann20DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
March 4 – May 28, 2018
For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s...
2018_DC_NGA_Parks14DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950
November 4, 2018 – February 18, 2019
During the 1940s American photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional shooting for...
2018_DC_NGA_Sharing123DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints Into Maiolica and Bronze
April 1 – August 5, 2018
Inspired by the acquisition of the important William A. Clark maiolica (glazed Italian ceramics) collection from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and drawing largely on the Gallery’s newly expanded holdings, this...
2018_DC_NGA_Sittow28DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe
January 28 – May 13, 2018
Considered Estonia's greatest Renaissance artist, Michel Sittow (c. 1469–1525) was sought after by the renowned European courts of his day, including those of King Ferdinand of Aragón and Queen Isabella of...
2018_DC_NGA_Water77DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Exhibit: Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
July 1 – November 25, 2018
The Dutch rose to greatness from the riches of the sea. During the seventeenth century they became leaders in marine travel, transport, commerce, and security as their massive cargo carriers and warships...
2018_DC_NGS15DC -- Downtown -- Natl Geographic Society -- Explorers Hall (1145 17th St NW)
2018_DC_NGS_Titanic334DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Titanic: The Untold Story
Titanic: The Untold Story
Discover the surprising link between a top secret Cold War mission and the 1985 discovery of the sunken Titanic by legendary oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Robert Ballard in our fascinating exhibition. Developed in collaboration with the National...
2018_DC_NGS_Tomb93DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience
Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience
November 15, 2017 - January 06, 2019
Be virtually transported to Jerusalem and discover the fascinating history of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in an immersive 3-D experience unlike anything you’ve seen in a museum before. Your groups...
2018_DC_NGS_XSH151DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here
National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here
Permanent Exhibition
Where and when did exploration get its start at National Geographic?
Find out in "National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here," a permanent exhibition showcasing the greatest hits from our long and storied history of discovery. Go on...
2018_DC_NHC_Trade_18062949National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of U.S. Trade Policy @ Cannon House Office Bldg
The National History Center invites you to attend our
Congressional Briefing on the History of U.S. Trade Policy
The president's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and threats to impose other protectionist measures have sparked renewed controversy over US trade policy. But debates over free trade...
2018_DC_NMAJMH63DC -- Dupont Circle -- Natl Museum of American Jewish Military History (1811 R Street NW)
2018_DC_NMWA50DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts (1250 New York Ave NW)
2018_DC_NMWA_Bound46DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Exhibit: Bound to Amaze
Bound to Amaze: Inside a Book-Collecting Career on view July 20–November 25, 2018
This focus exhibition celebrates the vision of Krystyna Wasserman, curator emerita, who assembled NMWA’s collection of more than 1,000 artists’ books over a thirty-year period. Although Wasserman also procured exquisite...
2018_DC_NMWA_House42DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Exhibit: Women House
Women House on view March 9–May 28, 2018
Featuring work by thirty-six global artists, Women House challenges conventional ideas about gender and the domestic space. The exhibition is inspired by the landmark project Womanhouse, developed in 1972 by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. With works that...
2018_DC_NMWA_Hung_Liu21DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Exhibit: Hung Liu In Print
Hung Liu In Print on view January 19–July 8, 2018
Hung Liu In Print invites viewers to explore the relationship between the artist’s multi-layered paintings and the palpable, physical qualities of her works on paper. To make her prints, Liu (b. 1948) uses an array of printing and collage techniques,...
2018_DC_NMWA_Living33DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Library Exhibit: Making a Living: Women Artists Illustrating Books
Making a Living: Women Artists Illustrating Books
MAR 26 2018–JULY 27 2018
Many women artists in the first half of the twentieth century found work illustrating books. Working for large or niche publishing houses, creating cartoons or caricatures, or writing and illustrating their own books, these...
2018_DC_NMWA_NYASP34DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- New York Avenue Sculpture Project -- Betsabeé Romero
Betsabeé Romero
Sep 28, 2018 - Sep 20, 2020
The dynamic works of Mexico City-based Betsabeé Romero (b. 1963) form the next chapter in the New York Avenue Sculpture Project. To create her four sculptures developed expressly for this installation, Romero assembled carved and painted tires into totemic...
2018_DC_NMWA_Rodarte225DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Exhibit: Rodarte
Rodarte on view November 10, 2018–February 10, 2019
The celebrated American luxury fashion house Rodarte, founded by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, is featured this fall in the first fashion exhibition organized by NMWA. Rodarte showcases the designers’ visionary concepts, impeccable craftsmanship,...
2018_DC_NoMa11DC -- NoMa (North of Massachusetts Avenue) neighborhood
2018_DC_NoMa_UPass6DC -- NoMa -- Metro Underpasses
In April 2015, the NoMa Parks Foundation announced that Thurlow Small and NIO architecten had been selected to create a design for the M Street Underpass.
The LED light installation, called Rain, was installed in late October 2018. It features 4,000 polycarbonate tubes with LED lights. The lights...
2018_DC_Norway_Xmas_18112983DC -- Union Station -- Norway's Christmas tree lighting ceremony (2018)
Holiday Celebration at Union Station
Co-presented by Washington Performing Arts, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce - Mid-Atlantic Chapter, the Bach Project, and Union Station
Presented in association with Brightest Young Things, the Library of Congress, the...
2018_DC_NPC4DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Press Club (529 14th St NW)
2018_DC_NPC_Bookfair_181102105NPC -- 41st Annual Book Fair & Author's Night (2018)
The Capitol region’s premiere holiday book event is back for the 41st year! The National Press Club Journalism Institute is once again partnering with landmark local book seller Politics & Prose for a night of pols, pundits and prose.

Daniel de Visé -- The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of...
2018_DC_NSO_Orch_18010666Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Event: NSO Day of Music and Art at the National Portrait Gallery
NSO Day of Music and Art at the National Portrait Gallery:
Enjoy a day of performances and educational activities that explore the connections between music and portraiture. The program is organized in partnership with the National Symphony Orchestra.
2018_DC_OAS29DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Organization of American States -- Main Bldg + Museum Exterior
2018_DC_OAS_AOTA73Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Art of the Americas
Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States
On view August 17, 2017-October 28, 2018
The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas announces the second in a series of exhibitions accompanying Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of...
2018_DC_OAS_Szyszlo17Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Fernando de Szyszlo: A Memory
Fernando de Szyszlo: A Memory
The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of Peru to the OAS announce Fernando de Szyszlo: A Memory, an exhibition of work by the Peruvian master. This exhibition features works by Szyszlo from the AMA’s permanent collection, and archival papers...
2018_DC_OAS_Transformers17Art Museum of the Americas -- Exhibit: Transformers
Transformers: New Contemporary Sculpture by Darío Escobar and Patrick Hamilton
Christian Viveros-Fauné, Curator
April 19 - July 8, 2018

Washington, DC: The Organization of American States (OAS) AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, in collaboration with Embassy of Chile in Washington, the Permanent...
2018_DC_Octagon40DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Octagon House and American Institute of Architects Bldg
2018_DC_Octagon_Lundy45DC -- Octagon House -- Exhibit: Victor Lundy: Artist Architect
We're excited to share that this week marks the opening of a new exhibit at the Octagon:
Experience an exhibit featuring the work of architect and artist Victor Lundy, FAIA, before it’s catalogued by the Library of Congress. An immersive gallery showcases drawings, images, and works from his Beaux Arts...
2018_DC_Octagon_Young56DC -- Octagon House -- Exhibit: 50 Years After Whitney Young Jr.
Few individuals have had as lasting an impact on AIA as civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr.
​From his monumental AIA speech in 1968 to the architecture award that bears his name, Young’s legacy continues to challenge architects to create a more responsible and equitable field.
Exhibit on...
2018_DC_Old_Post3DC -- Federal Triangle -- Old Post Office / Trump Finger -- Outside
2018_DC_Old_Post_Museum31DC -- Old Post Office -- Exhibit: Museum
It hadn't been finished the first time I visited.
2018_DC_Ollies40DC -- Penn Qtr -- Ollie's Trolley (425 12th St NW)
2018_DC_Opioid_Diaries_18030669Newseum -- Opioid Diaries - Photographs by James Nachtwey
The Opioid Diaries - Photographs by James Nachtwey
TIME photographer James Nachtwey has spent decades documenting war, famine and terrorism around the world. In a special new TIME project, Nachtwey turns his lens on the crippling epidemic at home.
The Newseum and TIME present a program featuring...
2018_DC_OPL83DC -- Mall -- Exhibit: Ocean Plastics Lab
Ocean Plastics Lab coming to Washington’s National Mall, June 4-17
NOAA sponsored exhibit showcases global problem and solutions to ocean plastic pollution
May 16, 2018
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is among the U.S. sponsors and participants of the Ocean Plastics Laboffsite...
2018_DC_ORourke_18090626Cato Institute -- "None of My Business" (w/P.J. O'Rourke)
None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He’s Not Rich and Neither Are You
P. J. O’Rourke, America’s leading political satirist and Cato H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, has been dubbed “the funniest writer in America” by the Wall Street Journal. In...
2018_DC_OToole_18050839Wilson Center -- Patricia O'Toole ("The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made")
The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made is a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson. In domestic affairs, Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented...
2018_DC_Overby_18111945USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Marvin Overby ("Calling It Quits! Voluntary Departures from the U.S. Senate, 1919-2018")
Calling It Quits! Voluntary Departures from the U.S. Senate, 1919-2018
Marvin Overby, fellow at the Library of Congress' Kluge Center, explores the rise of the voluntary departures as the primary source of Senate turnover. This talk, which compliments the exhibit, Congress and the Separtaion of Powers,...
2018_DC_Pageant_1Other_180617522018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (1 of 10) -- Other
2018_DC_Pageant_2Welcome_180617612018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (2 of 10) -- Welcome
2018_DC_Pageant_3Betweens_1806171412018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (3 of 10) -- In-Between Presentations
2018_DC_Pageant_4Swimwear_1806171082018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (4 of 10) -- Swimsuit
The end of an era for this portion of the competition, possibly in reaction to Donald Trump's behavior with the MIss USA contest.
2018_DC_Pageant_5Inter_180617972018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (5 of 10) -- Interviews
The interviews were conducted by Shayna Rudd.
2018_DC_Pageant_6Talent_1806171532018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (6 of 10) -- Talent
This section was moderated by Haely Jardas
2018_DC_Pageant_7Evening_1806171282018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (7 of 10) -- Evening Wear
Host: Teresa Davis.
2018_DC_Pageant_8Awards_1806171242018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (8 of 10) -- Crowning (Allison Farris)
Miss District of Columbia Class of 2018:

* ALLISON FARRIS -- 2018 Miss District of Columbia

* Katelynne Cox
* Alexandra Curd
* Lily Donaldson
* Daisy Flores
* Sydney Hall
* J'Lyn Henderson
* Courtney Hocog
* Laetitia Hua
* Emma Lutton
* Judy Mabone
* Mikayla Oberlton
*...
2018_DC_Pageant_9APost_180617962018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (9 of 10) -- Post-Award Shots on Stage
2018_DC_Pageant_9BPost_1806171342018 Miss District of Columbia Competition (10 of 10) -- After Party
2018_DC_Paglen_180620126Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Artist Talk: Trevor Paglen (The Planet is a Sensor)
Celebrating the opening of the new exhibition, Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, artist Trevor Paglen presents a series of projects exploring planet-scale sensing systems. From fiber optic cables under the earth’s oceans and reconnaissance satellites in earth’s orbit, to the autonomous vision systems and...
2018_DC_Panic_18121162Brookings Institution -- Premiere of "Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis"
Washington, D.C. premiere of ‘Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis’
On Tuesday, December 11, Brookings will host a screening of “Vice Special Report: Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis.” The film is a collaboration of Vice and HBO that “provides the definitive look...
2018_DC_Panther_18102522NMAAHC -- Press Preview: Black Panther costume
Media Availability: First Display of Black Panther Costume At Smithsonian African American Film Festival
Smithsonian African American Film Festival organizers will be available to discuss the inaugural Film Festival. The Black Panther costume will also be on-site during the availability for its...
2018_DC_Parkland_1Month_180314106DC -- Rally: Gun control one month after Parkland Shooting @ U.S. Capitol
Speakers in the Congressional Solidarity Walk-Out included Chris Van Hollen, Al Green, Steny Hoyer, Bernie Sanders, Ted Deutch, Jamie Raskin, Eleanor Holmes Norton, John Lewis, and lots of students. There were also others who spoke before I got there.
2018_DC_Patterson7DC -- Dupont Circle -- Patterson House
2018_DC_Peace_Mon3DC -- U.S. Capitol Grounds -- Peace Monument (Civil War Sailors Monument) (1st and Penn, NW)
2018_DC_Pelecanos_18090966Politics & Prose -- George Pelecanos ("The Man Who Came Uptown")
George Pelecanos - The Man Who Came Uptown
In some twenty mystery-thrillers, Pelecanos has created unforgettable and utterly human characters, placed them in situations offering no obvious right choices, and has illuminated the life of D.C. neighborhoods better than any sociology text could. In his...
2018_DC_Penn_18041511Politics & Prose -- Sean Penn ("Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff") w/Laura Lippman
Sean Penn - Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff — in conversation with Laura Lippman
Ironically named and brilliantly drawn, Bob Honey, the protagonist of Penn's first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, is bitter about his divorce, fed up with Tweets, and tired of being mined for Big Data. He has a day job...
2018_DC_Penn_Qtr5DC -- Penn Quarter neighborhood
2018_DC_Pershing10DC -- Pershing Park (became National World War I Memorial in 2021)
2018_DC_Personal_Stmt2_18061373AFI Docs 2018 -- "Personal Statement" (w/Juliane Dressner, Edwin Martinez, Karoline, Enoch and Christine) @ Newseum -- Presentation
For its 16th edition, AFI’s annual celebration of documentary film in the nation’s capital will open with the world premiere of PERSONAL STATEMENT (DIRS Juliane Dressner and Edwin Martinez)
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they...
2018_DC_Personal_Stmt_180613109AFI Docs 2018 -- "Personal Statement" (w/Juliane Dressner, Edwin Martinez, Karoline, Enoch and Christine) @ Newseum -- Receptions
For its 16th edition, AFI’s annual celebration of documentary film in the nation’s capital will open with the world premiere of PERSONAL STATEMENT (DIRS Juliane Dressner and Edwin Martinez)
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they...
2018_DC_Petersen_House3DC -- Penn Qtr -- Petersen House (House Where Lincoln Died) (516 10th St NW)
2018_DC_Petworth7DC -- Petworth neighborhood
2018_DC_Philbrick_18030853Politics & Prose -- Nathaniel Philbrick ("Second Wind")
Nathaniel Philbrick - Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together
Originally published in 1999, Philbrick’s warm and engaging memoir is a personal odyssey of sorts, charting the author’s adjustment to midlife changes. The narrative unfolds during the spring...
2018_DC_Pieper_18101839Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Take 5! -- Paul Pieper and Band
Take 5! Paul Pieper and Band
Relax and Take 5! with free, live jazz in the Kogod Courtyard. Stop by the Courtyard Cafe for refreshments. For added fun, borrow a board game to play during the concert.
Guitarist Paul Pieper presents the DC premiere of his group the ‘Paul Pieper New Sextet’, in a...
2018_DC_Playoffs_18060452DC -- Rally: Capitals Play-Offs @ Gallery Place
Various crowd things related to the play-offs that were going on that night. I couldn't care less about sports but it was hard to avoid this.
2018_DC_Politico_2Crises_18101874DC -- POLITICO @ Newseum -- Tale of Two Crises (Opiods and Diabetes)
Diabetes and opioid abuse are two complex and significant health crises plaguing the U.S. More than a third of Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes. And an estimated 115 people die each day as a result of opioid abuse. In order to effectively respond to these crises, the public and private sectors...
2018_DC_POYI_Ceremony_180405166Newseum -- Special -- Pictures of the Year 75th Reception and Ceremony
The Newseum invites you to the Pictures of the Year Opening Reception.
Join us for a special preview and reception of "Pictures of the Year: 75 Years of the World's Best Photography."
The groundbreaking photography show features seven decades of award-winning images from the archives of Pictures of...
2018_DC_PProse12DC -- Chevy Chase -- Politics & Prose (Main Store @ 5015 Connecticut Ave NW)
The new addition is open.
2018_DC_PProse_UM10DC -- Union Market District -- Politics & Prose
2018_DC_PProse_Wharf14DC -- Southwest (District Wharf) -- Politics & Prose
Including the new mural done by Juana Medina.
2018_DC_Prescribed_18041422DC -- Mall -- Exhibit: Prescribed to Death Memorial
Facing an Everyday Killer
NSC Prescribed to Death Memorial Visits D.C. April 12-18
One in four Americans has been directly impacted by the opioid crisis, but 40% still do not consider it to be a threat to their family, according to National Safety Council poll results.
In an attempt to end this...
2018_DC_PresFD_18021760Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Presidential Family Fun Day
Celebrate President's Day and fifty years of our hallmark exhibition America's Presidents with live music, art activities, tours with historians, and a special appearance by Washington Nationals' Running Presidents. Also featured was music from the past five decades: "Original" Moonligjhters band....
2018_DC_Press_1803257Politics & Prose -- Bill Press ("From the Left")
Bill Press - From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire
Press grew up in a segregated working-class Delaware town. Part of a Catholic family, he was raised to believe that divorce, abortion, and homosexuality were sins, and he entered a seminary to prepare for a lifetime of defending his faith. Yet instead...
2018_DC_Press_Freedom_18011798Newseum & CPJ -- Panel -- Journalism in the Trump Era: Assessing Press Freedom in the United States (w/Jim Acosta, Melinda Henneberger, John Roberts, and April Ryan)
Journalism in the Trump Era: Assessing Press Freedom in the United States 
As the nation marks the first year of the Donald Trump administration, a panel of journalists will examine the state of press freedom in the United States.
Introduction:
* Jan Neuharth, chief executive officer, Freedom...
2018_DC_Pride_18011378DC -- DC in DC -- Panel: The Pride Of DC: The Art Of LGBTQ Inclusion
The Pride Of DC: The Art Of LGBTQ Inclusion
As part of the DC in D.C. event, this wide-ranging panel discussion with Warner Bros. Television creatives and DC writers explores inclusion for LGBTQ characters.On December 8, history was made with the debut of Freedom Fighters: The Ray, a new animated...
2018_DC_Race_In_America_18011585Politics & Prose -- Panel -- "Race in America Today" (5th) w/April Ryan, Mary Frances Berry, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Wesley Lowery, and Jason Riley
Race in America Today
A Panel Discussion with Mary Frances Berry, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Wesley Lowery, and Jason Riley
Moderated by April Ryan
Join April Ryan for the fifth in an ongoing series of discussions focusing on race in America. As in previous presentations, Ryan will moderate a panel of...
2018_DC_Rad_Girls_180911101Politics & Prose -- Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl ("Rad Girls Can") w/Mary Beth Tinker
Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl - Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women — In conversation with Mary Beth Tinker
What do the young women in this book have in common? Quite simply, they're amazing. The real-life heroines profiled are making it happen in a range of fields:...
2018_DC_Rall_18021816Busboys Takoma -- Event: Ted Rall ("Meet the Deplorables")
Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome political cartoonist Ted Rall to Takoma.
Legendary infiltration journalist HARMON LEON is at it again, this time teaming up with ferocious political cartoonist TED RALL to answer the question most of America has been asking: "What the hell happened in...
2018_DC_Rawlins_Statue22DC -- Foggy Bottom -- US Reservation 13 (General John A. Rawlins Statue)
2018_DC_Rayburn_HOB17DC -- Capitol Hill -- Rayburn House Office Bldg
2018_DC_Rayburn_SARDAA3DC -- SARDAA Schizophrenia Exhibit @ Rayburn House Office Bldg
Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America (SARDAA) presents...
This was their interactive audio/visual installation in the Rayburn Office Building Foyer.
2018_DC_Red_Cross12DC -- Foggy Bottom -- American Red Cross Natl Headquarters
The ARC building is being acquired by the State Department and they're moving over the staff and outside installation pieces.
2018_DC_Reel_Story_18030755NYU -- The Reel Story: Reporting in Washington
The Reel Story: Reporting in Washington
WH Press Corps
Reporting in Washington is so glamorous that Hollywood wants in. Good and bad journalism make great and awful movies. It's more than The Post and All The President's Men. There's Shock and Awe, Broadcast News, Shattered Glass, The Pelican Brief,...
2018_DC_Reeves_18061340Natl Archives -- John Reeves ("The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee")
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
In his latest book, The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee, historian John Reeves tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual...
2018_DC_Reliable_Tavern11DC -- Reliable Tavern
2018_DC_Remembering_18111487Natl Archives -- Panel -- Remembering Vietnam: A Conversation About What Happens after Duty, Honor, Country
Remembering Vietnam: A Conversation About What Happens after Duty, Honor, Country
As part of a week-long schedule of activities to celebrate and honor Vietnam War veterans, ...
2018_DC_RFK_Human_180605237Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Awards (2018) @ Russell Senate Office Bldg
Robert F. Kennedy 2018 Human Rights Award
Mrs. Robert Francis Kennedy & The Board Of Directors Of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Invite You To Honor The Youth Activists Of Today
* Color of Change
* The International Indigenous Youth Council
* March for Our Lives
* United We Dream
Recipients Of...
2018_DC_RFK_Journalism_180522251Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards (2018) @ Newseum
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights celebrated World Press Freedom Day by announcing the winners of its 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards. The winning book selection and first place winners in 13 categories as well as the Journalism Grand Prize winner and the John Seigenthaler Prize for Courage...
2018_DC_Rich_180513117Washington Jewish Film Festival (2018) @ DCJCC -- "Life is Rich" (w/Bonnie Rich) and "Under the Bar" (w/Craig Shattner and Inna Korpel)
Life Is Rich
Dir. Bonnie Rich | 46 min
A real-life comedy about Bonnie Rich, a filmmaker and Jewish mom on a mission—to persuade her millennial daughters to raise her unborn grandchildren Jewish.
While her daughters see little need for Jewish ritual that doesn’t involve food, Bonnie wants them to see...
2018_DC_Rise_Up_18060589Newseum -- Rise Up: Politics and the Gay Rights Movement (w/Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, and Joshua Johnson)
Rise Up: Politics and the Gay Rights Movement
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) appear together for a conversation on legislative and societal challenges and victories that helped shape the long struggle for LGBTQ rights.
Baldwin was elected to the Senate in 2012 and...
2018_DC_Rise_Up_18120697Newseum -- Rise Up: A Conversation with Judy and Dennis Shepard (w/Jonathan Capehart)
Rise Up: A Conversation With Judy And Dennis Shepard
Join us, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, for a conversation with Judy and Dennis Shepard who will talk about their work honoring their son Matthew, whose tragic murder in 1998 brought national...
2018_DC_Riverfront_Rev_18041971Capitol Riverfront Speaker Series: River Revitalization @ Earth Conservation Corps Pump House
Capitol Riverfront Speaker Series: River Revitalization
by Capitol Riverfront BID
2018 marks the "Year of the Anacostia," an invitation to celebrate the Anacostia River and its nearby communities, to honor its history, and to envision its future. The river serves as a valuable asset to the Capitol...
2018_DC_Roberts_18032957Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Eldredge Prize: Jennifer L. Roberts ("The Moiré Effect: Print and Interference")
Jennifer L. Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, was awarded the 2017 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for her book, Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America. Join her for a talk entitled “The Moiré Effect: Print and Interference.”
2018_DC_Rock_Creek_Cem147DC -- Rock Creek Cemetery
2018_DC_Role_18121370Newseum -- First Amendment Center -- Increasing Role Of Women As Heads Of Religious Freedom Organizations
Increasing Role Of Women As Heads Of Religious Freedom Organizations
We have recently seen several long-time leaders in the field of religious freedom — with various political perspectives and of diverse faiths — step down from their positions, some to seek other opportunities and others to enjoy a...
2018_DC_Rosenstein_18050158Newseum -- Law Day Conversation With Rod Rosenstein (w/Ron Collins)
A Law Day Conversation With Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General of the United States
To commemorate Law Day, the Newseum Institute presents a special program featuring Rod Rosenstein, deputy attorney general of the United States, in a wide-ranging discussion on the rule of law, the First Amendment...
2018_DC_Roulette_180327135Politics & Prose @ GWU Jack Morton Auditorium -- Michael Isikoff and David Corn ("Russian Roulette")
At GW Jack Morton Auditorium
Star journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn have made headlines with their reports on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia—and made it into Rep. Nunes’ memo on surveillance to the House Intelligence Committee. In Russian Roulette, they present the incredible account of...
2018_DC_RRB2DC -- Federal Triangle -- Ronald Reagan Building (Exterior Images)
2018_DC_Russell_SOB10DC -- Capitol Hill -- Russell Senate Office Bldg
2018_DC_Ryan_18090444Politics & Prose -- April Ryan ("Under Fire")
April Ryan - Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
Ryan has been a White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Networks since the Clinton administration, but with Trump’s arrival she has become part of the story she’s covering. Her new book is both a reporter’s...
2018_DC_SAAM_JAM_18040737Reynolds Center -- Family Day -- Jazz Family Day
Come and jam at SAAM during Jazz Appreciation Month! SAAM celebrates jazz’s influence on artists with activities and performances. Improvise with your own jazz-themed crafts, complete a swinging scavenger hunt, and bop to jazz performances throughout the day.
Listen to a range of jazz songs from Billie...
2018_DC_SAAM_Staff_18011191Reynolds Center -- Staff -- American Art Staff Recognition Party
2018_DC_Science_March_180414115DC -- Rally: March for Science @ National Mall
From Washington D.C. to Abuja, Nigeria, science supporters across the globe are mobilizing. March for Science events energize science advocates from multiple spheres to create tangible change and call for greater accountability of public officials to enact evidence-based policy that serves all...
2018_DC_Scovell_180325101Politics & Prose -- Nell Scovell ("Just the Funny Parts") w/Alexandra Petri
Nell Scovell - Just the Funny Parts...and a Few Hard Truths about Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys' Club — in conversation with Alexandra Petri
With more than thirty years of experience as a writer, producer, and director, Scovell knows how the entertainment industry works. She came to Hollywood as a...
2018_DC_See_ChangeP1_18062653DC -- See Change: Climate in National Parks @ Long View Gallery -- (Page 1 of 3) Panel 1: David O'Sullivan, Maros Sefcovic, Sally Jewell, Sherri Goodman
See Change: Climate in National Parks
A special conversation with
EU Energy Union Vice President Maros Sefcovic
and
Sally Jewell. U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2013-2017)
and photo gallery opening showcasing the impact of climate change through glaciers, coral reefs and forests.

Pictures...
2018_DC_See_ChangeP2_18062673DC -- See Change: Climate in National Parks @ Long View Gallery -- (Page 2 of 3) Panel 2: Gary Machlis, Gilles Kleitz, Mark Wenzler, Sally Jewell
See Change: Climate in National Parks
A special conversation with
EU Energy Union Vice President Maros Sefcovic
and
Sally Jewell. U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2013-2017)
and photo gallery opening showcasing the impact of climate change through glaciers, coral reefs and forests.

Pictures...
2018_DC_See_ChangeP3_18062631DC -- See Change: Climate in National Parks @ Long View Gallery -- (Page 3 of 3) Exhibition Viewing
See Change: Climate in National Parks
A special conversation with
EU Energy Union Vice President Maros Sefcovic
and
Sally Jewell. U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2013-2017)
and photo gallery opening showcasing the impact of climate change through glaciers, coral reefs and forests.

Pictures...
2018_DC_Sentry_Tower20DC -- Southeast -- Sentry Tower
2018_DC_SeparationP1_18092538USCHS & US CVC -- "Congress and the Separation of Powers" -- Panel 1: Audacious Vision
Congress and the Separation of Powers: Audacious Vision, Uneven History, and Uncertain Future
Panel 1 - Audacious Vision: Why a Separation of Powers?
Seated left to right:
* John Haskell (moderator)
* Gene Healy
* Alison LaCroix
* James I. Wallner

Join us for this discussion that will bring...
2018_DC_SeparationP2_18092541USCHS & US CVC -- "Congress and the Separation of Powers" -- Panel 2: Uneven History
Congress and the Separation of Powers: Audacious Vision, Uneven History, and Uncertain Future
Panel 2 - Uneven History: Separation of Powers and the Struggle for Equal Rights
* Ron Elving (moderator)
* Jesse J. Holland
* Yuval Levin
* Victoria Frances Nourse

Join us for this discussion that...
2018_DC_SeparationP3_18092539USCHS & US CVC -- "Congress and the Separation of Powers" -- Panel 3: Uncertain Future
Congress and the Separation of Powers: Audacious Vision, Uneven History, and Uncertain Future
Panel 3 - Uncertain Future: Party Polarization and Legislative-Executive Balance
* James A. Thurber (Moderator)
* Norman Ornstein
* Manu Raju
* Sarah Binder

Join us for this discussion that will...
2018_DC_Shades_18011393DC -- DC in DC -- Panel: The Many Shades Of Heroism: Through The African American Lens
The Many Shades Of Heroism: Through The African American Lens
As part of the DC in D.C. event, this panel discussion will look beyond the super suit to the African-American men and women who are heroes to their community. 2018 will not only bring Black Lightning, a new African-American DC Super Hero to...
2018_DC_Sheridan8DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood
2018_DC_SIAH_AmCult52DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Ruby Slippers and American Culture Displays
Ruby Slippers and American Culture Displays
October 19, 2018 – Indefinitely
Dorothy's Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz return to view as one of eight installations displaying American history through culture, entertainment, and the arts. Other artifacts on view include a New York Yankee Stadium...
2018_DC_SIAH_Art_Industry30DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Art in Industry
Art in Industry
March 22, 2018 – TBA
Art in Industry looks back at a time when Americans embraced artistic skills as a way to build a consumer-oriented industrial economy. This display features artistic industries as varied as publishing and pottery from the 1830s to the 1930s through three lenses:...
2018_DC_SIAH_Batmobile79DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: The Batmobile
Partway through the year, they replaced the reflective floor under the Batmobile with a patterned floor. This had been planned for awhile. They said the mirror-like flooring before showed up dirt and fluff too easily so this was easier to maintain.
2018_DC_SIAH_Bldg1DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exterior Shots
2018_DC_SIAH_City_Hope49DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
December 15, 2017 – Indefinitely
City of Hope commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s daring vision to end poverty in the United States. With newly discovered photographs and videos, the exhibition encourages visitors to...
2018_DC_SIAH_Cultivating47DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Dibner Library Exhibit: Cultivating America's Gardens
Cultivating America's Gardens
May 4, 2017 – August 2018
Using books and objects from Libraries and Gardens collections of the Smithsonian, Cultivating America’s Gardens highlights early horticulture publications; 19th century popular and new “exotic plants”; prominent landscape designers; changing...
2018_DC_SIAH_Get_It_Right53DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Let's Get It Right: Work Incentive Posters of the 1920s
Let's Get It Right: Work Incentive Posters of the 1920s
July 27, 2018 – November 2018
Let’s Get It Right: Work Incentive Posters of the 1920s explores how employers encouraged their workforce. The display features 16 posters from the early 20th century including a WWI poster and posters from Mather...
2018_DC_SIAH_Giving45DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Giving in America
The exhibit had been updated with Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton costume.
2018_DC_SIAH_Gowns11DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: First Ladies
I had not seen the Melania Trump gown since it had been installed.
2018_DC_SIAH_LEGO_Liberty14DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: LEGO Statue of Liberty
2018_DC_SIAH_Listening39DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: America's Listening
America's Listening
October 19, 2018 – TBA
America's Listening tells the story of recorded sound and five of the innovations that contributed to how we consume music and movies today. Artifacts on view include Thomas Edison’s phonograph, Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone, Emile Berliner’s...
2018_DC_SIAH_Moreno12DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Luisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno
July 20, 2018 – January 2019
A temporary display, Luisa Moreno, in the permanent American Enterprise exhibition examines the lasting legacy of Moreno, the Guatemala-born labor organizer, who brought together more than 100 groups in 1938 for El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the...
2018_DC_SIAH_Perf10DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Historical Reenactors and Performers
2018_DC_SIAH_SpecialO24DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Wall Case Exhibit: Special Olympics at 50
Special Olympics at 50
July 10, 2018 – June 2019
Special Olympics has been in operation for 50 years, using sports competition to expose and react against societal discrimination of adults and children with intellectual disabilities. This highlights case explores Special Olympics through five case...
2018_DC_SIAH_Storage_18062311Natl Museum of American History -- Items from Storage (Solstice Saturday)
2018_DC_SIAH_Superheroes54DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Superheroes
Superheroes
November 20, 2018 – TBA
This showcase display presents artifacts from the museum’s collections that relate to superheroes, including comic books, original comic art, movie and television costumes and props, and memorabilia.
2018_DC_SIAH_TTelevision29DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: T is for Television
T is for Television
November 27, 2017 – September 4, 2018
From the earliest days of television to today, performers and producers have created beloved characters that teach children about getting along with others and understanding the world around them. This exhibition features treasured objects from...
2018_DC_SIAH_Waterloo_Boy13DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Waterloo Boy
Waterloo Boy
Ongoing
In the early 1900s farmers switched from horses to tractors. While much of the world continued to rely on human brawn or draft animals, Americans adopted the new technology of gasoline-powered tractors.
The development and use of gasoline-powered tractors in the early 1900s...
2018_DC_SIAH_YCollect58DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Dibner Library Exhibit: Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect
Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect
November 7, 2018 – July 1, 2020
The impulse to collect is human. We collect for many reasons: to gather information about the world, to preserve the past, and to follow our interests and desires. For some, it is a lifelong pursuit. Pioneering collectors shaped...
2018_DC_SIAIR_Barmecide105DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum --Temporary Exhibit: The Barmecide Feast (2001: A Space Odyssey room) (in Gallery 104)
2001: A Space Odyssey Immersive Art Exhibit
April 8, 2018 – May 28, 2018
Immerse yourself in “The Barmecide Feast,” a fully realized, full-scale reflection of the iconic, neo-classical hotel room from the penultimate scene of Stanley Kubrick’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s landmark film, 2001: A Space...
2018_DC_SIAIR_Bldg11DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- General
2018_DC_SIAIR_Enterprise25DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 108: U.S.S. Starship Enterprise Model
2018_DC_SIAIR_Foodcourt11DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Food Court
The last time I'd been in the foodcourt area was when it was a McDonald's. My brother Kevin and his wife and granddaughter were in town on June 27, 2014. Summer museum lines were long and they needed to eat. Since they were already in the Air and Space Museum, we ate at the McDonald's which they said...
2018_DC_SIAIR_Gall100A31DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 100: (a) Milestones of Flight
2018_DC_SIAIR_Gall104A33DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 104/204: (a) Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
2018_DC_SIAIR_Gall110A4DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 110: (a) Looking at Earth
The gallery has been closed for the renovation.
2018_DC_SIAIR_Gall210A5DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 210: (a) Apollo to the Moon
Another one of the galleries closed for the renovation.
2018_DC_SIAIR_Jurassic10DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Jurassic World LEGO set
2018_DC_SIAIR_POP28DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory
2018_DC_SIAIR_Spruce_Goose18DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Temporary Exhibit: Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose
2018_DC_SIAIR_SWPromo6DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Star Wars Last Jedi Costume (Promo)
2018_DC_SIAM11DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2018_DC_SIAM_ACM5034DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017
Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017
September 15, 2017 – January 6, 2019
For fifty years, the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM) has pushed the boundaries of what “museum” means. Conversations with neighbors have shaped exhibitions and...
2018_DC_SIAM_Key8DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: Key to the Community
2018_DC_SIAM_Right140DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: A Right to the City
A Right to the City
April 21, 2018 – April 20, 2020
How Washingtonians have shaped and reshaped their neighborhoods in extraordinary ways
After a half-century of population decline and disinvestment, Washington, DC, today is home to a rapidly growing population, rising rents and home prices, major...
2018_DC_SIAM_River11DC -- Anacostia Community Museum -- Exhibit: Capturing the Anacostia River
Capturing the Anacostia River
To mark the Year of the Anacostia—an effort to celebrate the rich history of the Anacostia River and progress toward its cleanup and sustainable health—the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum opens the photographic exhibition, “Capturing the Anacostia River,” that...
2018_DC_SIBG23DC -- Smithsonian Gardens: Pollinator Garden (Butterfly Habitat Garden) @ Natural History Museum
2018_DC_Sidwell10DC -- Cleveland Park -- Sidwell Friends School
2018_DC_Sidwell_Gilliam15DC -- Cleveland Park -- Sidwell Friends School -- Exhibit: Sam Gilliam Selected Works
Sam Gilliam Selected Works from the art collection of The Honorable Ann Brown '55 and Mr. Don Brown.
2018_DC_SIFG12DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
The high winds blew down one of the outside banners.
2018_DC_SIFG_Screens23DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: For Love of Place: Japanese Screens
For Love of Place: Japanese Screens
May 5, 2018 – November 4, 2018
Japanese landscape paintings on folding screens had religious and political purpose as early as the eleventh century. Surrogates for the land, these works were employed in rituals to secure the realm’s prosperity.
Throughout ensuing...
2018_DC_SIFG_Spreading28DC -- Freer Gallery of Art -- Exhibit: Spreading the Word: Buddhist Art in Japan
Spreading the Word: Buddhist Art in Japan
May 18, 2018 – November 12, 2018
For centuries after the Historical Buddha’s death, his followers continued to share his teachings, the dharma. Crossing land and sea, disciples, monks, and pilgrims carried the dharma from its origins in India across Asia. Even...
2018_DC_Sight_Machine_181025122Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Performance -- Sight Machine with Kronos Quartet and Trevor Paglen
Sight Machine with Kronos Quartet and Trevor Paglen
SAAM presents Sight Machine, a collaboration of Trevor Paglen and the Kronos Quartet. Come see the string quartet’s performance as it’s run through artificial intelligence surveillance algorithms developed by Paglen and projected onto a screen above....
2018_DC_Signs62DC -- Temporary Signs
Including Facebook disclaimers and Reject Kavanagh signs near the Capitol.
2018_DC_SIHIRO_Wish_Tree13DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Outside) -- Exhibit: Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
June 23, 2018 – September 3, 2018
A summer favorite, Ono’s interactive artwork “Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.” invites visitors to tie handwritten wishes to branches of a living Japanese dogwood tree in the museum’s sculpture garden. Starting June 23 through Labor Day...
2018_DC_SIHIR10DC -- Hirshhorn Museum (Inside)
The new Dolcezza Coffee and Hiroshi Sugimoto lobby. Plus the $20 suggested donation box, which I'd never seen in a Smithsonian museum before.
2018_DC_SIHIR_Anthology24DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016
Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016
Mar 06–May 28, 2018
Anthology 2014–2016 is an installation of thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirety, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely...
2018_DC_SIHIR_Baselitz85DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Georg Baselitz: Six Decades
Georg Baselitz: Six Decades
June 21, 2018 – September 16, 2018
Georg Baselitz is the first major US retrospective in more than twenty years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking the artist’s 80th birthday. With more than 100 works highlighting every phase of Baselitz’s six-decade career...
2018_DC_SIHIR_Brand_New128DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s
February 14, 2018 – May 13, 2018
It’s the 80s as you’ve never seen it before. Explore the iconic decade when artwork became a commodity and the artist, a brand. Razor-sharp, witty, satirical and deeply subversive, these nearly 150 works examine the origins and...
2018_DC_SIHIR_Pulse23DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
November 1, 2018 – April 28, 2019
Three major installations from Lozano-Hemmer’s “Pulse” series and six public-art documentaries come together for the first time in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse, filling the museum’s entire second-floor galleries with evocative, immersive...
2018_DC_SIHIR_Von_Heyl48DC -- Hirshhorn Museum -- Exhibit: Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes
Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes
November 8, 2018 – January 27, 2019
The largest U.S. museum survey to date of work by painter Charline Von Heyl (b. Mainz, Germany, 1960; active in New York and Marfa, TX). The exhibition explores Von Heyl’s groundbreaking practice since 2005, presenting deeply visceral...
2018_DC_SINH_Bldg19DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History
Including lines outisde for spring break and the new cafe area. I had no idea it had been moved.
2018_DC_SINH_Outbreak149DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
May 18, 2018 – 2021
Our world is more interconnected than ever before—by global travel and trade, by technology, and even by our viruses.
When people move into or change an environment, pathogens—microbes that cause illness—can “jump” from wildlife to humans...
2018_DC_SINH_Sea_Monsters88DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas
Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas
November 9, 2018 – 2020
Stunning fossils from Angola reveal an ancient ocean ecosystem where giant reptiles ruled the waves. After the South Atlantic Ocean basin formed 120 million years ago, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and sea turtles thrived along...
2018_DC_SINMAA1DC -- NMAAHC -- Exterior Images
Long lines to get in.
2018_DC_SINMAA_Oprah128DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit (Concourse Level): Watching Oprah
Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture
June 8, 2018 – June 30, 2019
This exhibition explores the era that shaped Oprah Winfrey’s life and early career in TV, her talk show that dominated daytime TV for 25 years, and the ways in which she has influenced American popular culture. It...
2018_DC_SINMAA_Vw6DC -- NMAAHC -- View from...
2018_DC_SIPG_5Decades21DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting
Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting
June 15, 2018 – June 2, 2019
The 2018 installation of the Daguerreian Gallery celebrates the National Portrait Gallery’s golden anniversary by highlighting fifty years of daguerreotype collecting by the museum. Included are portraits of such iconic figures as...
2018_DC_SIPG_Almost_Home57DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Do Ho Suh: Almost Home
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home
March 16, 2018 – August 5, 2018
Do Ho Suh’s immersive, dreamlike work explores the nature and meaning of home, fastening ties between personal space and shared experience. Encountering his large-scale fabric sculptures is both deeply familiar and profoundly alien as the ordinary...
2018_DC_SIPG_Anthony3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recognize: Marc Anthony
Recognize
May 3, 2018 – June 3, 2018
In April, the Portrait Gallery invited its followers to cast their votes across the museum’s social media platforms for one of three portraits of celebrities who are turning 50 in 2018 and whose portraits are included in the museum’s permanent collection. The...
2018_DC_SIPG_BBush3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Barbara Bush, 1925-2018
In Memoriam: Barbara Bush
April 18, 2018 – April 29, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of Barbara Bush with a photograph by Diana Walker taken in 1989.
Admired for her candor and down-to-earth approach to public life, Bush enjoyed considerable popularity as the...
2018_DC_SIPG_Beaten51DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Off the Beaten Track
Off the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art
December 8, 2017 - June 3, 2018
Join us on a road trip through the Archives of American Art. The photographs, sketches, diaries, correspondence, and video recordings on view reveal how artists have shaped and are shaped by their...
2018_DC_SIPG_Black_Out108DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
May 11, 2018 – March 10, 2019
Silhouettes—cut paper profiles—were a hugely popular and democratic form of portraiture in the 19th century, offering virtually instantaneous likenesses of everyone from presidents to those who were enslaved. The exhibition explores...
2018_DC_SIPG_Bldg15DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Building
2018_DC_SIPG_Bush81DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: George Herbert Walker Bush, 1924-2018
In Memoriam: George Herbert Walker Bush
December 1, 2018 – January 1, 2019
In memory of George Herbert Walker Bush, the National Portrait Gallery has added a drape to his portrait in the America's Presidents gallery. Visitors may pay their respects and record their thoughts in a journal next to the...
2018_DC_SIPG_Courtyard1DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Kogod Courtyard
2018_DC_SIPG_CW4DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Civil War
2018_DC_SIPG_Daguerre_Mon10DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Monument to Louis Daguerre (outside)
2018_DC_SIPG_Discord_AJ21DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Faces of Discord -- Andrew Johnson
2018_DC_SIPG_Eye2IPP_18110120DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: Eye 2 I exhibit
2018_DC_SIPG_Eye2I88DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today
November 4, 2018 – August 18, 2019
Drawing from the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition explores and thinks critically about how American artists have chosen to portray themselves over the past two centuries....
2018_DC_SIPG_Graham3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Reverend Billy Graham, 1918-2018
In Memoriam: Reverend Billy Graham
February 22, 2018 – March 25, 2018
The National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and accomplishments of Rev. Billy Graham with a photograph by Yousuf Karsh taken in 1972. Evangelical Protestantism has been a major religious movement, as well as a social and...
2018_DC_SIPG_King3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
Martin Luther King Jr.
April 4, 2018 – April 30, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying his likeness by Jack Lewis Hiller. Under King’s inspired leadership, nonviolent protest became the defining feature of the modern...
2018_DC_SIPG_Korea26DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Portraits of the World: Korea
Portraits of the World: Korea
December 14, 2018 – November 17, 2019
Pioneering feminist artist Yun Suk Nam (born 1939) uses portraiture to gain insights into the lives of women, past and present. A wood assemblage portrait of her mother is the centerpiece of this exhibition, which includes portraits...
2018_DC_SIPG_Krim3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Mathilde Krim, 1926-2018
In Memoriam: Mathilde Krim
January 22, 2018 – TBA
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and accomplishments of AIDS research pioneer Dr. Mathilde Krim with a photograph by Annie Leibovitz. In Leibovitz’s bust-length photo taken in 1998, Krim wears a looped AIDS-awareness pin...
2018_DC_SIPG_Lacks6DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks
May 15, 2018 – November 4, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of Henrietta Lacks with the installation of a 2017 portrait by Kadir Nelson. It was jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African...
2018_DC_SIPG_Love4Ward10DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Kelsey Montague's "Love It Forward"
2018_DC_SIPG_McCain7DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Senator John S. McCain III, 1936-2018
In Memoriam: Senator John S. McCain III
August 27, 2018 – September 9, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and legacy of late Senator and former presidential nominee John S. McCain III with a photograph by the British-born photographer Steve Pyke.
McCain, who was born...
2018_DC_SIPG_PaglenPP_18062048DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Press Preview: Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen exhibit
Press preview for the exhibition “Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen”
Trevor Paglen is an award-winning artist whose work blurs the lines between art, science and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world around us. “Trevor Paglen: Sites...
2018_DC_SIPG_Paglen159DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
June 21, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Artist Trevor Paglen’s work explores surveillance, state secrecy, data collection, and the ways in which technology is altering humans’ relationship with the land around us. His subtly unnerving photographs are rooted in classical landscape...
2018_DC_SIPG_Portrait25DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Portraits
2018_DC_SIPG_Pres57DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents
Former President Barack Obama by Artist Kehinde Wiley
On February 13, 2018, the official portraits of the 44th President, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama were installed in America’s Presidents and Recent Acquisitions, respectively.
Barack Obama made history in 2009 by becoming the first...
2018_DC_SIPG_Pres_Obamas55DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents -- Lines for Barack and Michelle Obama
Visitor traffic in the Donald Reynolds Center (Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery) has been huge!
In 2017, DRC was the 7th most popular Smithsonian museum at 1.3 million visitors:
#1 = National Air and Space Museum[7m],
#2 = National Museum of Natural History [6m],
#3 =...
2018_DC_SIPG_Pushing59DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art
Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art
August 10, 2018 – January 4, 2019
Beginning in the 1960s, artists from around the world looked to the postal system as an alternative means of producing, distributing, and receiving art. Mail art (alternatively called “correspondence...
2018_DC_SIPG_Recent30DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2018)
Recent Acquisitions
November 16, 2018 – November 3, 2019
The Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald were just two of several prized artworks acquired by the National Portrait Gallery during its 50th anniversary. As the Portrait Gallery turns the corner on a new decade of its legacy, the...
2018_DC_SIPG_RFK2DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Remembering Robert F. Kennedy
Remembering Robert F. Kennedy
June 6, 2018 – July 8, 2018
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery celebrates the life and legacy of Robert (“Bobby”) Kennedy with a portrait created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1968, commissioned for the cover of Time magazine.
After winning the California presidential...
2018_DC_SIPG_Shange2DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Ntozake Shange, 1948-2018
2018_DC_SIPG_Tour_18060911DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Tour: Garrett Peck
2018_DC_SIPG_Traylor99DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
September 28, 2018 – March 17, 2019
Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history: the Civil War, Emancipation,...
2018_DC_SIPG_UnSeenPP_18032264DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar
As the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery marks its 50th anniversary, it will not only honor the past with special exhibitions but also shape the museum’s next chapter. The first contemporary exhibition of the museum’s anniversary season, “UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus...
2018_DC_SIPG_UnSeen73DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar
UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar
March 23, 2018 – January 6, 2019
The exhibition highlights the work of two leading contemporary artists who grapple with the under- and misrepresentation of certain minorities in portraiture and American history. Gonzales-Day and...
2018_DC_SIPG_UnSeen_Book35DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar -- Comment Book
I was impressed that after just 4-1/2 days, both of the comment books were already 80-90% full.
2018_DC_SIPG_Vaquero_Move33DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Building -- Vaquero statue reinstall
They reinstalled the statue. I was covering the Washington Ballet event during the actual move but there's during and after here.
2018_DC_SIPG_Wolfe3DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: In Memoriam: Tom Wolfe, 1930-2018
2018_DC_SIPG_Yr1968PP_18062833DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Press Preview: One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey exhibit
Press preview for “One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey”
Speakers:
* Kim Sajet, director, National Portrait Gallery
* James Barber, historian, National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents “One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey,” an exhibition highlighting a time of...
2018_DC_SIPG_Yr196834DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey
One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey
June 29, 2018 – May 19, 2019
As part of a series of installations celebrating its golden anniversary, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey, a one-room exhibition that looks back at an extraordinarily important and...
2018_DC_SIPM1DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2018_DC_SIPM_Badge108DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 5): Behind the Badge
2018_DC_SIPM_Hamilton62DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 7): Alexander Hamilton: Soldier, Secretary, Icon
Alexander Hamilton: Soldier, Secretary, Icon
May 25, 2018 – March 3, 2019
Explore the extraordinary life of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) through original mail sent and signed by him in his role as the first Secretary of the Treasury and through portraits of him and his contemporaries on postage and...
2018_DC_SIPM_Her_Words20DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): In Her Words: Women's Duty and Service in World War I
In Her Words: Women's Duty and Service in World War I
February 2, 2018 – May 8, 2018
World War I was a watershed for global political, economic, and social change, and for women’s rights and labor in the United States. During the war, women officially served in and alongside the military in...
2018_DC_SIPM_Lennon9DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Case): John Lennon: The Green Album
John Lennon: The Green Album
September 7, 2018 – February 3, 2019
John Lennon’s boyhood stamp album—including 565 stamps on more than 150 pages are on display. The exhibition coincides with the U.S. Postal Service’s issuance of the John Lennon Forever stamp, honoring the legendary singer and...
2018_DC_SIPM_Mail_Call_WWI32DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 7): Mail Call: My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
April 6, 2017 – November 29, 2018
Through personal correspondence written on the frontlines and home front, this centennial exhibition uncovers the history of America’s involvement in World War I. The compelling selection of letters illuminates emotions and...
2018_DC_SIPM_Mail_Marks30DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (Gross Gallery 3): Mail Marks History
2018_DC_SIPM_Postmen_Skies47DC -- Natl Postal Museum -- Exhibit (MIA Galleries 2A): Postmen of the Skies
Postmen of the Skies
May 1, 2018 – May 27, 2019
Level 1: Mail in America Galleries
May 15, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the world’s first regularly scheduled airmail service. President Wilson was on hand in Washington, DC to watch the historic take off. At first the service only operated...
2018_DC_SIPM_StampC_18050188Natl Postal Museum -- Event: U.S. Postal Service First Day Stamp Issue: Air Mail
U.S. Postal Service First-Day-of-Issue Ceremony (Stamp Dedication)
The U.S. Postal Service will honor the beginning of airmail service by dedicating two U.S. Air Mail Forever stamps this year. The first, depicted in blue, commemorates the pioneering spirit of the brave pilots who first flew the mail in...

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2024_03_23A1_Lincoln181Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 1 of 2)
Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium “The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship” Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed)
2024_04_09A2_Ghosts205Library of Congress -- Event: Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts
Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts Event to Feature Panel with Asher Grodman, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Rebecca Wisocky, Román Zaragoza, Library Items Curated for Each Ghost’s Time Period and Special Episode Screening The Library of Congress will host cast members from CBS’s hi... (Partially reviewed)
2024_03_23A4_Lincoln4179Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 2 of 2)
Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium “The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship” Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed)
2024_01_14B1_Gonna_Take196Labor Heritage Foundation @ McGinty's Public House -- MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" (Page 1 of 2)
MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" Recommit to Dr. King’s dream of equality and justice for all and celebrate Elise Bryant’s well-deserved retirement from LHF! By Labor Heritage Foundation Tickets are now FREE! Thanks to the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO, AFSCME 112, the International Association of Heat ...
2024_02_13B1_USCHS_Freedom218USCHS -- Freedom Award (2024) to Cheryl L. Johnson (Page 2 of 2) Everything else
We look forward to your attendance at the Freedom Award Reception honoring Cheryl L. Johnson, the 36th Clerk of the House of Representatives The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is honored to present its 2023 Freedom Award to Cheryl L. Johnson to recognize her exceptional leadership and pivotal role ... (Partially reviewed)
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