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“Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor”
With this exhibit, trailblazing African-American artist Bill Traylor (1853–1949) gets his first retrospective (free). Curator Leslie Umberger explains why his work endures. The Man Born enslaved in rural Alabama, Traylor wasn’t taught to read. “His perspective and formative years were influenced by being in a society where not many African-Americans were allowed tools like literacy,” […]
Find out more »“Japan Modern: Photography From the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection”
A selection of some 70 images made by Japanese photographers throughout the 20th century, this exhibit captures a country grappling with extraordinary turmoil and change. Some of the pieces address things directly, such as Tomatsu Shomei’s haunting Nagasaki work. Others offer a different kind of emotional wallop, as in Eikoh Hosoe’s can’t-look-away portrait (above) of […]
Find out more »XIV Fuego Flamenco Festival
The 14th iteration of this local tradition ($48) features two dance companies: Madrid’s José Barrios and New York’s Omayra Amaya. To get you in the mood, we asked fest curator Edwin Aparicio to give us a primer on some of flamenco’s various dances (modeled by Sara Jerez). Guajíra (left) “A very coquettish and playful dance,” […]
Find out more »District Shabbat: Judaism Returns to Southwest DC
Combine DC’s high energy and the deep spirituality of Reform Judaism, and you get this all-ages Shabbat experience.There hasn’t been a regular synagogue presence in Southwest since 1995, and Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC) is excited for the opportunities District Shabbat will bring to the Southwest community and its visitors. WHAT IS IT & WHO IS […]
Find out more »54th Annual Craft + Design Show, Presented by Altria Group
Richmond’s Craft + Design Show has been wooing Washingtonians for 54 years. Take an Amtrak to Richmond, Virginia’s historic Main Street Station, where you’ll step off the train and directly into one of the nation’s most beautiful contemporary craft shows. This year’s show takes place November 16-18 and features the work of over 150 museum-quality […]
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Tom and Amber, first-year students at Princeton University, seem to be on the same page about where their relationship is heading, until suddenly they aren’t. What begins as a casual hook up turns into a Title IX hearing in which both students have everything to lose. Tackling the highly charged topic of sexual consent, this […]
Find out more »The Agitators
The tempestuous, yet enduring friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Great allies? Yes. And at times, great adversaries. Young abolitionists when they met in Rochester in the 1840s, they were full of hopes, dreams and a common purpose. As they grew to become the cultural icons we know today, their movements collided and […]
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The singer/songwriter named her latest album Be the Cowboy, a joking self-reminder, she has said, to carry herself with more confidence. This new attitude, combined with the experience she gained opening Lorde’s most recent tour, should make for a powerful performance. It doesn’t hurt that the album is one of the most gorgeously intimate collections […]
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