Snowboarding first appeared in the 1960s through the efforts of a few American surfing, skateboarding and skiing enthusiasts. This History Highlight case examines the history of snowboarding and features the Snurfer, one of the earliest snowboard...
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Spring Arts Colloquia presents Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines featuring artist Tim Davis
Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines brings together four artists whose interests and creative work transcend the tradition of working in a single medium. These dynamic individuals pursue their creative ideas by exploring...
February 21, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Free
Arts Management Spring Colloquium presents The Future of the Arts featuring Jamie Bennett
In an era of dramatic and rapidly accelerating change, where everything from the way tickets are sold to the definition of “art” is under reconsideration and transformation, it's time for a public discussion of the Future of the Arts...
February 17, 2012 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Free
Gallery Talk with Raoul Middleman at the Katzen Arts Center
Join artist Raoul Middleman and the American University Museum in a talk about Middleman's newest exhibition. Baltimore maestro Raoul Middleman's nudes are not pretty; they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of...
February 11, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
Winter 2012 American University Museum Artists' Reception
Join the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in celebrating the new exhibitions:
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Raoul Middleman: City Limits
Regaining Our Faculties: Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn...
January 28, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Free
Gallery Talk with Anil Revri at the Katzen Arts Center
Anil Revri’s paintings function as aids to meditation, while at the same time the process of their creation is itself an act of meditation. They are beautiful, their craft is breathtaking, but their success depends on whether they further...
January 28, 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Free
American University Museum Winter Exhibitions: Anil Revri, Kids@Katzen, Cristobal Gabarron, Raoul Middleman, and Regaining Our Faculties
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Saturday, January 28¬–Tuesday, February 28
Photographs by Kids@Katzen participants inspired by the exhibitions Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam and Wayne Barrar: An...
January 28, 2012 - 11:00am - March 18, 2012 - 4:00pm
Free
All-Student Juried Exhibition
Reception: January 26, 2012, 6–8 p.m.
This annual all-student juried exhibition features Corcoran undergraduate, graduate, and Continuing Education students. The exhibition will present multi-media and multi-...
January 25, 2012 - February 5, 2012
January 26, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Visiting Artist: Nick Cave
The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design’s Visiting Artist program brings in artists, scholars, and critics to engage with students and other members of the Corcoran community. Each one-day visit includes intensive in-class...
January 26, 2012 - 7:00pm
Kids@Katzen: The Photographic Life
Photographs by Kids@Katzen participants inspired by the exhibitions Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam and Wayne Barrar: An Expanding Subterra.
January 28, 2012 - February 28, 2012
Regaining Our Faculties: Zoe Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn, and Luis Silva
Recently returning from sabbaticals – sab·bat·i·cal (adj): any extended period of leave from one's customary work, especially for rest, to acquire new skills or training – American University faculty members Zo...
January 28, 2012 - March 18, 2012
Raoul Middleman: City Limits
Baltimore maestro Raoul Middleman’s nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They...
January 28, 2012 - March 18, 2012
Gabarron's Roots
The sculptures and paintings of Cristóbal Gabarrón have been seen in hundreds of exhibitions around the world, but never in Washington, D.C. Here, his vibrantly colored-sculptures are larger than life, yet human in scale and effect...
January 28, 2012 - April 15, 2012
Anil Revri: Faith and Liberation Through Abstraction
Anil Revri’s paintings function as aids to meditation, while at the same time the process of their creation is itself an act of meditation. They are beautiful, their craft is breathtaking, but their success depends on whether they further...
January 28, 2012 - April 15, 2012
19th-Century French Galleries Opening Weekend
The National Gallery of Art will celebrate the reopening of these galleries with the following public programs. All programs are without charge in the East Building Auditorium unless otherwise noted. Seating is available on a first-come, first-...
January 29, 2012 - 2:00pm
January 29, 2012 - 3:00pm
January 29, 2012 - 5:00pm
January 28, 2012 - 1:00pm - January 29, 2012 - 4:00pm
January 29, 2012 - 6:30pm
Washington Realism
Washington Realism gathers representational paintings by local and regional artists who paint “what the eye can see." Each artist in the exhibition approaches a challenge that has persisted in painting for more than 3,000 years—...
January 27, 2012 - 8:00am - March 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Lust for Life
Based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone, this film traces the life of the tortured but prolific post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Starring Kirk Douglas as van Gogh and Anthony Quinn in an Oscar-winning performance as Paul Gauguin....
January 19, 2012 - 6:00pm
By donation
About Four Honest Outlaws
Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. Book signing of Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon follows.
January 22, 2012 - 2:00pm
Free
David Gatten: Texts of Light
David Gatten: Texts of Light
David Gatten's filmmaking practice is unique in American cinema. His passion for historical documents, rare books, and arcane or outmoded manuals has resulted in a body of finely crafted work...
January 21, 2012 - 2:30pm
January 21, 2012 - 4:30pm
January 22, 2012 - 4:30pm
Free
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