Whether you’re familiar with her story or just getting to know her for the first time, you’re in for a real treat with the museum’s “From Exile to Avant-Garde: The Life of Princess Natalie Paley.” This show delves deeply into the relationships, revolutions and fashions that shaped Paley, a woman who seemed to be at the nexus of the most intriguing people and events of the last century.
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The Phillips Collection’s latest special exhibition offers an immersive and deeply satisfying look at the work and legacy of Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha. “Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line” surveys his entire career, with over 100 works from the Mucha Trust Collection on display.
The Hirshhorn’s new 50th-anniversary celebration rethinks and revitalizes the museum’s permanent collection in a dizzying, must-see show.
For anyone who delights in color and light on canvas, the Phillips Collection’s latest exhibition can’t be missed. Bonnard’s Worlds
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art offers a vivid exploration of urban life in 19th-century Europe through the eyes of American-born artist James McNeill Whistler.
A dynamic and vibrant traveling exhibition now on at the Phillips Collection showcases the work of fifty extraordinary African and African American artists during an era of incredible social and political change.
Hillwood Museum’s latest exhibition celebrates form, function and beauty as it invites visitors to reimagine an everyday material. Glass takes
Thirteen sculptures of fired clay, ranging from two to nearly six feet tall, emerge from the depths below the Kreeger Museum’s staircase, offering a stark and meditative vision of desert landscapes within this often-overlooked D.C. gem.
In the Phillips Collection’s latest exhibition, gold leather shoelaces burst out of a reimagined Statue of Liberty. The intoxicating scent of Stargazer lilies fills the next room. A dazzling display of seashells, bones and prosthetic glass eyes beckons visitors to stare in wonder.
Tucked in a corridor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, a small and exquisitely arranged display of ancient Egyptian art offers intriguing insights into early 20th century collecting — and the story behind one of the most underrated but spectacular museums on the Mall.
A major, must-see exhibition exploring an underappreciated but essential artist is on display for the next month at the Phillips Collection.
A blockbuster exhibition at the Phillips Collection attempts the difficult feat of both excising and contextualizing a young Spanish artist from and within decades of explosive, iconic creativity and misogyny.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts building is undergoing renovations, but its curators aren’t taking a break. Washingtonians can now visit an exciting off-site exhibition focused on contemporary artists and shifting perspectives at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center through May 22.
It’s a sad irony that the Swedish Embassy opened its new exhibition on mobility just as the coronavirus pandemic essentially ground mobility to a halt around the world. But the lessons of how to move around smarter will be just as important, if not more so, in a post-pandemic world.
A transcendent exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates both the beauty of the American West and the powerful
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art gives an underappreciated medium the deep survey it deserves. "The Touch
