Art
Untethering Filipino History From American Exceptionalism
At the Katzen Art Center, Maia Cruz Palileo portrays the resilience of ordinary people, setting the stage for greater discussions of postcolonial heritage.
Washington DC
Art
The Empresses of China's Forbidden City Get a Splendorous Look
Within their historical context in an exhibition at Freer | Sackler, the empresses of China’s Qing Dynasty succeeded in making meaningful lives for themselves, and that is something to celebrate and admire.
Art
The Material Legacy of Matrilineal Power in China’s Qing Dynasty
Many of the objects in Empresses of China's Forbidden City, 1644-1912 at Freer | Sackler have not previously been available for research, have never traveled outside of China, and might not be likely to reemerge again.
News
Will Washington DC’s Art Commission Fall Victim to a Fight Between the Mayor and City Council?
When an ambitious roadmap for transforming Washington DC into an arts mecca was unveiled last month, it should have been a political coup; instead, it may have triggered a political collapse.
Art
Visions of Urgent Abstraction
DC-area artist Rushern Baker IV’s abstractions attempt to find meaning in the chaotic world outside the canvas.
Art
The Timely Dissent of a Vietnam War-Themed Show
Less than a mile from the White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Artists Respond boldly surveys how artists wrestled with showing how their government had gone wrong.
News
Artists and Drug Policy Activists Protest FDA’s Role in Opioid Crisis
Nan Goldin was among the artist-activists who gathered in Washington, DC to demand the FDA address the "public health impact of the opioid crisis."
In Brief
A Rediscovered Portrait of Harriet Tubman Is Unveiled
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will display a new portrait of the legendary abolitionist that "adds significantly to what we know about this fierce abolitionist."
Art
Zilia Sánchez's Deeply Personal, Erotic Art
Sánchez's first museum retrospective marks an important step in acknowledging her legacy: not only as an isolated island but as a noteworthy member of a burgeoning canon of Latin American women artists.
Announcement
Study Art in the Heart of the Nation's Capital at GW's Corcoran School
The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University is now accepting applications to its graduate programs through April 1.
Opinion
The Neoliberal Hypocrisies of Ivanka Trump Vacuuming
The fact that Ivanka Vacuuming has successfully annoyed America’s First Oligarchy is enough to forgive some of this disappointing symbolism.
Opinion
Museum of the Bible Has Jumped the Ark
Do we really have to explain to the CEO of the Museum of the Bible that archaeologists didn’t find the rock that killed Goliath?