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Social Event - Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich

 

The Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich is back for its fifth year!  Join us for this ongoing series of culinary adventures, as we travel through time, regions and topics surrounding you with Mexico's...
December 6, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$70
Concert - Gretchen Parlato and the Gerald Clayton Trio
December 2, 2012 - 8:00pm
free
Exhibit - Taryn Simon: Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

Taryn Simon (b. 1975) produced A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters over a four-year period (2008–11), during which she traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. “In each of the...

November 17, 2012 - February 24, 2013
Exhibit - The Civil War and American Art: Frederic Church to Winslow Homer

Some of the finest artwork produced during the Civil War and its aftermath will be used to explore the impact of this period in history on the visual arts in America. On view are works by such leading figures as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church...

November 16, 2012 - April 28, 2013
Free
Social Event - Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich

 

The Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich is back for its fifth year!  Join us for this ongoing series of culinary adventures, as we travel through time, regions and topics surrounding you with Mexico's...
October 18, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$70
Exhibit - Flashpoint Gallery presents Polly Townsend, Slower Than This

Polly Townsend, formally educated as a figurative painter, will depart from her more traditional oil paintings of vast and rugged mountainscapes to present new work at Flashpoint. The exhibition will take the artist’s painting practice as a...

August 24, 2012 - September 15, 2012
Exhibit - Flashpoint Gallery presents Hana Kim and Shana Kim, Atmospheric Front

Interdisciplinary artists Hana Kim and Shana Kim join forces to work between the disciplines of architecture and interactive media to create an immersive, environmental installation. Atmospheric Front combines pulleys, motors, hand-knit textiles...

July 20, 2012 - August 18, 2012
Exhibit - Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series

The first major museum exhibition to focus on the artist's most celebrated series, made between 1967 and 1988. The Corcoran - the only East Coast venue - will showcase more than 80 works, including large-scale paintings, smaller paintings...

June 30, 2012 - September 23, 2012
Culture Kids - Fun Family Saturdays!

FREE family programs! We are bringing fun family time to the DAR Museum every 3rd Saturday of the month September through June, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Families with children ages 7 and older can enjoy crafts, tours and other activities while...

June 16, 2012 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Free
Theater - The Merry Wives of Windsor

The most beloved comic characters of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays come together in this bawdy, riotous romp, not seen at STC in more than a decade. Celebrating the 25th Anniversary by reinventing the very first production presented...

June 12, 2012 - July 15, 2012
Concert - YEVGENY KUTIK, VIOLIN - TIMOTHY BOARTH, PIANO

Possessing a "dark, brooding intensity", Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik has, at age twenty-four,...

June 8, 2012 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Exhibit - Flashpoint Gallery presents Megan Mueller, An Ache for Distance

Megan Mueller will merge her interests in both sculpture and drawing in a site-specific installation. The exhibition's centerpiece will be a large sculpture comprised of abstract drawings and watercolors resting on a trellis-like wooden support....

June 8, 2012 - July 14, 2012
Concert - NAREK ARUTYUNIAN, CLARINET - STEVEN BECK, PIANO

18-year-old clarinetist Narek Arutyunian won First Prize in the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was also awarded the Meridian Symphony Prize to perform...

June 1, 2012 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Program - Free Summer Saturdays

Join the Corcoran on Saturdays this summer for Gallery tours, workshops, demonstrations, and performances! Enjoy our summer exhibitions and programming free of admission Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. Special...

May 28, 2012 - September 3, 2012
Social Event - Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich

 

The Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich is back for its fifth year!  Join us for this ongoing series of culinary adventures, as we travel through time, regions and topics surrounding you with Mexico's...
May 24, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$70
Culture Kids - Fun Family Saturdays!

FREE family programs! We are bringing fun family time to the DAR Museum every 3rd Saturday of the month September through June, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Families with children ages 7 and older can enjoy crafts, tours and other activities while...

May 19, 2012 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Free
Theater - The Servant of Two Masters

Celebrated director Christopher Bayes restages this magical comedy at the Shakespeare Theatre Company after a sold-out run at Yale Repertory Theatre. Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken and lovers are reunited in Carlo Goldoni’s...

May 15, 2012 - July 1, 2012
Concert - MUSIC OF IRAQ- TWO RIVERS MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE

Two Rivers six-piece group of Middle Eastern and Western instruments that combines jazz with maqam.  Of all the benefits America could have obtained from fighting a war in...

May 12, 2012 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Concert - MUSIC OF IRAQ- TWO RIVERS MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE

Two Rivers six-piece group of Middle Eastern and Western instruments that combines jazz with maqam.  Of all the benefits America could have obtained from fighting a war in...

May 11, 2012 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Celebration - Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America

Kennedy Center supports the timeless tradition of street art and sheds light on artists and companies who are producing extraordinary work not on a proscenium stage but in public spaces. From May 5-13, 2012, the festival offers free programming...

May 5, 2012 - 10:00am - May 13, 2012 - 8:00pm
Free

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