DCist: September Museum Roundup

rebby_dc

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:17:46 -0500

Also, the Jim Henson exhibit at the International Gallery (enter through the little pagoda shaped building to the west of the castle). I think it runs through the beginning of October. Good stuff =)

Heather Goss

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:53:18 -0500

DCist will have a preview of the Avedon exhibit for you next week.

dwarfmcdougal

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:47:57 -0500

Yes, go see Avedon at the Corcoran. Also, I read Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes on the Food Network) is going to be there September 18th.

logancirclenoah

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:24:11 -0500

Also worth seeing at the American Art Museum (through Oct. 12): “Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury”

UStreet

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:11:23 -0500

What about the Avedon exhibit at the Corcoran? I read about that in the Washingtonian recently.

Reid

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:02:28 -0500

Ugh. It looks like the Natural History Museum has followed the irritating trend to take away descriptive name plates and put everything on a touchscreen computer. This is a really annoying trend because: A. They're slow B. Only one person can use it at a time C. It adds nothing It's clearly a solution in search of a problem. It's not like in the past I was thinking "God, if only one person could read these name plates at once, and in a technologically pointless way, to boot." I understand the pull to make museums more "hip" and "with it" and I also understand that one of the ways they do that is to throw a whole bunch of crap on the walls that would normally only fit a couple things, and thus nameplates would be tougher to fit. But it's still incredibly annoying to use those touch screens when I just want to glance over and see "oh, ok so that's a Perch". It seems that this was modeled after the ante-chamber to the huge Blue Whale room in the American Museum of Natural History in New York (which can be anachronistically seen for a split second in The Squid and the Whale, a film full of anachronistic split seconds).

IMGoph

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:22:48 -0500

thanks for pulling this list together, kelly!