The Exhibitionist: The National Geographic Museum
(HIRAM BINGHAM)
From the South Pole to Machu Picchu, the National Geographic Museum takes visitors on a world tour.
Remembering painter Lucian Freud
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The artist, known for his intimate portraits, died at age 88.
Immersion in time
(Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution)
“Fragments in Time and Space” at the Hirshhorn is an escapist exhibition about escapism.
Mixing money and oil in art
Dan Tague’s themes in his show, “The Kids Are Alright,” are protest, American history and, of course, money.
Heiress gifts Monet to Corcoran
Huguette M. Clark leaves to the museum a “Water Lilies” painting last publicly displayed in 1925.
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’Faberge Revealed’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The exhibition is billed as the largest showing of Faberge’s work in the U.S.
‘Possible Worlds: Photography and Fiction in Mexican Contemporary Art’
A group show at the Art Museum of the Americas explores how photographers tell — and sometimes make up — stories.
Inside the new African American Civil War Museum
The museum will reopen in a former school building.
‘Green: The Color and the Cause’
Historical textiles and contemporary fiber art combine to tell the history of the color green and the environmental movement.
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Spring Arts Preview 2011
Our critics look ahead to the warmer months and highlight what spring has in store on area stages, museum walls, concert halls and movie screens.
Museums 2010: A special section
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