Most famous for his roles in movies, on stage, and in TV shows, former “brat packer” Andrew McCarthy pursued a parallel career as an award-winning travel writer for National Geographic Traveler...
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The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down
September 21, 2012 - 7:30pm
Members: $18; General Public: $20
Washington, DC 2012 Citywide Preservation Conference
Join DCPL for a conference focused on preservation issues facing communities in the city of Washington.
Lectures,...
October 12, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Glorious Splendor: The 18th Century Wallpapers in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts
Wednesday, September 19, 6:30 – 8 pm
Glorious Splendor: The 18th Century Wallpapers in the Jeremiah Lee...
September 19, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
$12 Member | $12 Student | $20 Non-member
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific...
August 30, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
August 31, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
September 1, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
September 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
September 5, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
Art in the Digital Age: Fall Color Photography
Allen Rokach, Photographer; Former Senior Photographer for Southern Living magazine and Director of Photography at the New York Botanical Garden
...September 29, 2012 - 9:00am - September 30, 2012 - 5:00pm
Friends: $185; Non-Members: $215
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific...
Free
Spotlight On Design: Intensities: Recent Work by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
The architecture firm of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis uses the constraints of small budgets, awkward spaces, and strict zoning to generate innovative architecture....
September 24, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
$12 Museum and AIA Members; $10 Students; $20 Non-members.
Medical Museum Science Café: “Send for the Doctor: Researching the Life and Times of Dr. Edward Stonestreet, 19th Century Physician and Civil War Surgeon”
Step back in time as Clarence Hickey, interpretive docent for the Montgomery County Historical Society, shares the story of Dr. Edward Elisha Stonestreet of Rockville, Md. During Stonestreet's nearly 52-year medical career, he served as a...
September 25, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
Beyond the Vote: Post-Suffrage Strategies to Gain Access to Power
Women's Equality Day 2012 marks 92 years since women won the right to vote. But many suffragists believed voting was only a means to an end. This exciting panel will discuss the ways that women have worked with, within, and outside of the...
August 23, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Free
On the Murals at Bonampak by Diana Magaloni
Join us for an evening of anthropological inquiry with Diana Magaloni, director of Mexico’s celebrated Museum of Anthropology, as she lectures on Mayan muralist technique and the Murals of Bonampak. The famed pre-Columbian...
September 13, 2012 - 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Free
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific...
August 16, 2012
August 17, 2012
August 18, 2012
August 19, 2012
August 22, 2012
Free
Deborah Harkness: The Experience of Early Modern London
Deborah Harkness is a prize-winning historian and novelist and a professor of history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the the author of The Jewel House: Elizabethan...
September 27, 2012 - 6:00pm
$15
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American...
August 9, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
August 10, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
August 11, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
August 12, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
August 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
The American Century, 1900-2000
On August 5, David Gariff explores spectatorship and voyeurism in the work of Edward Hopper and Alfred Hitchcock. Julie Springer discusses art in the Gilded Age on August 12. On August 19, Eric Denker delivers a lecture titled All...
August 5, 2012 - 2:00pm
August 12, 2012 - 2:00pm
August 19, 2012 - 2:00pm
August 26, 2012 - 2:00pm
Art Signs
Curious about American art? Interested in expressing your thoughts and raising questions about a painting or sculpture? Join us for a 30-minute gallery conversation about selected works from the American Art collection, presented in American Sign...
August 26, 2012 - 1:00pm
Luce Artist Talk: Kenny George
Local artists discuss a work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection and why it resonates with them. The series is presented with Flashpoint Gallery. Free coffee and...
August 19, 2012 - 1:30pm
Playing Pong in 2100: How to Preserve Old Video Games
A half-day program featuring two panel conversations on how to conserve and preserve digital media, specifically video games, in a world of constantly evolving technologies. Industry leaders J. P. Dyson, Strong...
August 18, 2012 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
American Craft Masterpieces
Discover treasures in the museum’s permanent craft collection during our gallery talk series. Individual objects are discussed in an intimate gallery setting. The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art...
August 15, 2012 - 12:00pm
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer...
July 19, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
July 20, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
July 21, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
July 22, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
July 23, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
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