A celebrity of the early 18th century with a hit on the London stage almost every year, Susanna Centlivre was the author of nineteen plays and numerous poems. Folger Theatre brings to the stage one of...
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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
Spotlight on Design Lecture with Rogers Marvel Architects
Spotlight on Design: Rogers Marvel Architects
Robert Rogers, FAIA, and Jonathan Marvel, AIA, discuss their New York-based firm’s work, including concepts to beautify the security components and improve the visitor experience at...
February 2, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
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
Spring Arts Colloquia presents Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines featuring artist Mira Schor
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 multiple...
February 7, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Free
Xaviera Simmons
Xaviera Simmons’s work combines 21st-century media and traditional art forms, encompassing photography, performance, video, and installation. Simmons discusses the artistic process and inspiration behind her oftentimes provocative and...
February 8, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free
Kara Walker
The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design’s Visiting Artist program brings artists, scholars, and critics to the Corcoran to interact with students and other members of the Corcoran community. Each one-day visit includes...
February 6, 2012 - 7:00pm
Multiplicity
Senior Curator Joann Moser leads a walk through the exhibition galleries to explore how artists featured in the exhibition "Multiplicity" question the ideas of rarity and uniqueness in art through repetition, pairing, and variation....
February 8, 2012 - 6:00pm
Something of Splendor
White House Registrar/Collections Manager Donna Hayashi Smith presents "Mounting 'Something of Splendor': A Behind the Scenes Look at Creating the Exhibition." This series of gallery talks features the decorative arts from the White...
February 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
Love in Art
Part of the Gallery Talks Lecture series, David Gariff leads the discussion.
February 4, 2012 - 1:00pm
February 5, 2012 - 1:00pm
Reimaging Courbet in the Reopened French Galleries
Part of the Gallery Talks lecture series, Adam Davies, leads the discussion.
February 2, 2012 - 12:00pm
February 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
Side by Side: Cimabue and Giotto at Pisa
Lecture given by Julian Gardner, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Part of the Sunday Lecture series.
February 5, 2012 - 2:00pm
Spotlight on Design: Rogers Marvel Architects
The New York City-based firm Rogers Marvel Architects blends technical skill with civic consciousness within a variety of project scales. Founding principals Robert Rogers, FAIA, and Jonathan Marvel, AIA, discuss the firm's work, including the...
February 2, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
$12 students and members, $20 non-members; prepaid registration required.
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
Performing the Body, Spiritual Skin: Movement and Adornment in the Ancient Andes
In the ancient Andes, the human body was a primary medium for representing cultural ideals. Through temporary and permanent modifications, the individual...
January 28, 2012 - 1:00pm
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
Trita Parsi, President, National Iranian American Council and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on...
February 1, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Pre-Hispanic Aztec Nobility
Anastasia Kalyuta, Kislak Fellow in American Studies, presents "Who Really Owned the Estate in the 'Place of Dog Tail?': Land Tenure Patterns Among the Pre-Hispanic Aztec Nobility in the Late 15th Early 16th Centuries."
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January 26, 2012 - 8:30am - 7:00pm
“How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines”
Mark Stein discusses and sign his new book "How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines."
January 26, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Jews between Legend, Arts and Theater in Renaissance Italy
From the age of emperor Constantine the Great to the Renaissance, the Italian Jews were represented in legends, paintings, and theater based on the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross. This work provided the subject for some of the Italian...
January 25, 2012 - 2:00pm
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