The Mexican Revolution—that violent, inchoate, never-quite-complete break with the past—opened a new era in Mexican art and letters now known as the "Mexican Renaissance." In Mexico City, a coterie of artists...
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An Insider’s Art Story of Mexico’s Art World in the Wake of the Revolution, by Susannah Joel Glusker
May 31, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free
The Original L. Ron Hubbard House Washington D.C.
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer, and founder of...
April 26, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 27, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 28, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 30, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
May 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus
On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will move across the face of the sun. Such transits of Venus are among the rarest of planetary alignments, and they come in pairs that are eight years apart but separated by more than a century. Only six such...
May 8, 2012 - 11:30am
Al: The Japanese Love of Indigo
The Japanese term ai (pronounced “i”) can mean either “love” or “indigo.” Join Sharon S. Takeda, Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,...
May 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
The Original L. Ron Hubbard House Washington D.C.
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer, and founder of...
April 19, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 20, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 21, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 22, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 25, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mask Making
Cinco de Mayo is a date of great importance for Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla on the fifth of May, 1862. The celebration is observed with parades and concerts, musical...
May 5, 2012 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
Miró: Three Views
Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art; Matthew Gale, head of displays, Tate Modern, London; and Marko Daniel, curator, public programmes, Tate Modern, London
May 6, 2012 - 2:00pm
The L. Ron Hubbard House Washington D.C. Original Founding Church
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer, and founder of Scientology, L...
April 13, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 14, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 17, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 19, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
FREE
K-Literature: Book Reading and Signing with Author Kyung-sook Shin
Join award-winning author Kyung-sook Shin for a book reading and discussion event to celebrate the English-language paperback release of her best-selling novel, Please Look After Mom. The program will be followed by a...
April 13, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Consider Theatre: The Next Career
Serenity Players, Inc. will take part in the 12 week arts presentation, LUMEN8 ANACOSTIA, April 14 - June 15, 2012. The company will present an exciting series of theater vocational training workshops with a special focus on...
April 14, 2012 - 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
The Original L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington D.C
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer, and founder of Scientology, L....
April 6, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 7, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 8, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 10, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 12, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
Artists’ Reception and Japanese Woodblock Demonstration with Master Printer
Learn more about the 70 woodblock prints on loan from the Sakai Collection of the Japan Ukiyoe Museum. A master printer will demonstrate the woodblock printing process used in the American University Museum exhibition, Floating World: 19th...
April 5, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Free
Religion in the Gallery
On the Look and Logos of Zen Art Modernism
Gregory Levine, associate professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures, University of California, Berkeley
This lecture asks several questions about Zen...
May 24, 2012 - 7:00pm
Conversation: Visual Culture and Social Upheaval: Imaging Change in Late Edo Period Japan
Explore the intersection of pop culture and spiritual concerns in late Edo society with leading scholars in the field. In turn, discover the reasons behind the acclaim for Kano Kazunobu’s phantasmagoric paintings of Buddha’s legendary...
May 5, 2012 - 2:00pm
May 6, 2012 - 2:00pm
The Original L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington D.C
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer, and founder of Scientology, L. Ron...
March 30, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
March 31, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 1, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 2, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
April 4, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
FREE
The Struggle for Freedom, Liberty, Justice, and Equality
The panelists will focus on slavery, abolition, and emancipation in the District of Columbia, and Senator Henry Wilson, the author of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act that freed the 3,100 enslaved persons in the Nation’...
April 18, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Spring Arts Colloquia presents Broadly Speaking: Working Across Disciplines featuring artist Sharon Hayes
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...
March 29, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Free
Author Jeanne Guillemin to Discuss “American Anthrax”
In October 2001, anthrax spores mailed to selected targets shook a nation already in turmoil following the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Jeanne Guillemin, author of “American Anthrax: Fear, Crime and the Investigation...
April 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
Jesus & Tragedy: an Evening with Terry Eagleton
One of the most talked-about scholars and cultural theorists of our time, Terry Eagleton explores how the life and death of Jesus might be understood in terms of tragedy. By affirming the worth of humanity even in the...
March 25, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
$5
African American Women in the Civil War
Join us in this lecture, by Hari Jones, Curator, on the contributions of African American Women in the War of the Rebellion.
March 21, 2012
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