Festivals  

From Coffee to Salsa, Folklife Festival
Spotlights Colombian Culture

Colombia comes to the National Mall as part of the Smithsonianís 2011 Folklife Festival, the popular annual extravaganza that showcases cultures from around the globe. Read More

by Larry Luxner

  Art  

Kandinsky Complements Stella
At The Phillips Collection

Two compact exhibitions reveal how Wassily Kandinsky”s groundbreaking abstract expressionism in the early 1900s informed one of Frank Stella’s sculpture series decades later. Read More

by Michael Coleman

 Theater 

Disturbing Catharsis Dredges Up Important Baltic History

‘Purge’ is a painful but valuable slice of history where the brutalities in Estonia under Soviet oppression intersect with the more recent scourge of sex trafficking. Read More

by Lisa Troshinsky

  Photography 

Photo Collectives Capture
Jarring Environmental Picture

‘E • CO’ turns the lens on environmental issues from river pollution to the impact of nuclear power — bringing complex problems to vivid life. Read More

by Rachael Bade

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