Juliette Gordon Low, Marilyn Monroe, Annie Leibovitz and Gertrude Stein are found in this month's museum openings and happenings. more ›

The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Bulding on the National Mall may soon have a new use: the location for the Smithsonian American Latino Museum. more ›

Collective curation, fashion, gastronomy, personal branding, and when you'll need to grab your dancing shoes -- all in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

Things that go bump in the night, gross facts, moon rocks and Degas fill this month's museums. more ›

Contrasts, existentialism, gastronomy, money saving tips, money spending tips, and a bunch of crafty bastards, all in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

This Saturday is Museum Day, where museums across the country open their doors à la the Smithsonian and let the public in for free. more ›

This month, area museums commemorate 9/11, showcase Andy Warhol and revel in bioluminescence. more ›

Spend your holiday weekend seeing tons of art, including six exhibits at the Katzen Arts Center, after hours events, city murals and more. more ›

This week's art-related events features retaliatory painting, illusions of grandeur, the Godfather of Go-Go, and moments of self-enlightenment. more ›

Guns, overheards and photography in public spaces. This week's Arts Agenda was made especially for our readers. more ›

You'll want to take a break from the heat and enjoy the inside of a cool museum with these exhibits opening this month. more ›

Today, the Textile Museum announced a new affiliation with George Washington University and a move to the university's Foggy Bottom campus. more ›

Located in Ft. Meade, a few blocks from the curtain-walled NSA headquarters, the National Cryptologic Museum is housed in a former Colony 7 Motor Inn that dates back to the 1960s. The motel was a bit too close for comfort for the NSA, so the agency bought it in 1987 and turned it into a museum in 1993. Now, instead of dinner theatre, the old motel hosts a kitschy array of exhibits on cryptology that serve as the national intelligence community's only public museum. more ›

Sculpture, French silent films, wandering paintings, bodypainting, and more coming up this weekend. more ›

This month, enjoy Asian pottery, a look at the Bauhaus School and several interesting panel discussions, all of which will help keep you cool during the hot summer months. more ›

It appears as if the Hirshhorn Museum's large, temporary, inflatable special event "bubble" needs a cash infusion to become a reality. more ›

Chris Richards, about as close as civilization is ever going to get to a bona fide scholar on the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership, reports today that the Unidentified Funky Object has a new owner: the Smithsonian. more ›

In this week's arts agenda: celebrate ten years of the Washington Glass School, get transported to Hawaii, get your wonk on with a discussion of arts policy, and now that the weather is warming up, spend an afternoon at some outdoor craft fairs. more ›

If you're not able to find an appealing art event this week, well, you're just not trying very hard. We've even made it easy for you -- our Arts Agenda has all the week's highlights after the jump. more ›

This week's art events are all about interactive exhibitions, celebration of cultural collective unity, and, of course, alcohol and cupcakes. more ›

Green: It's so hot at the moment -- the color of spring, environmental conservation and Mountain Dew Slurpees (my favorite!). And, now, it's the newest exhibition at The Textile Museum. Read more about it -- and all the art happenings around the D.C. region -- inside this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

Several of the area's museums ring in the month of April with exhibits highlighting the color green, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and naval aviation. more ›

"I feel that Gauguin is evil. He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two two women in the painting and it's very homosexual." That's the reasoning offered by the 53-year-old Alexandria woman who was arrested after trying to pull down and batter Paul Gauguin's “Two Tahitian Women” at the National Gallery of Art last Friday. Susan Burns -- who The Smoking Gun reports has been arrested in the past for carjacking, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and assault on a law enforcement officer -- also said that the painting "should be burned" and said she was "from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head" before stating she'd kill the investigator. more ›

Normally, the National Gallery of Art is a serene place, where art lovers view priceless masterworks and tourists plop down during the sweltering summer to just sit enjoy the air conditioning. But someone going nuts, pounding and attempting to pull a painting from the wall, then being “immediately restrained and detained” by "a guy who was visiting the gallery," well, that's a rare occurrence. more ›

Is there such thing as a boring photo? Martin Parr's series of Boring Postcards books, which collected photographs of banal architecture, evaded the question with a camp factor that distracts the reader from the ennui of yet another hotel room or highway rest stop. But as an aesthetic, the brutal and often Brutalist tedium of such images owes more than a little to minimalism – and to photographer Lewis Baltz. more ›

The 42 points our attention to the news that the infamous Real World D.C. house in Dupont Circle will be the new home of the Laogai Museum, which was previously located inside a row house at 1109 M Street NW. more ›

What do a notorious Philadelphia Mafioso and a student of Joseph Beuys at the Dusseldorf Art Academy have in common? A name – and careers that were colorful in markedly different ways. Peter Heisterkamp, besotted by American culture, took the name of boxing manager/racketeer Frank "Blinky" Palermo as his own and forged a brief but influential career that was but a blip in the life of his namesake. Blinky Palermo, the man behind Jake LaMotta and Sonny Liston, died in 2006 at the ripe old age of 91. Blinky Palermo, the artist, died in 1977 at the age of 34. Who says boxing is more dangerous than art? more ›

>> In her lifetime, Hildreth Meière was considered the most famous, distinguished, and prolific Art Deco muralist in the country. This month, the National Building Museum opens the first major retrospective of her work in Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière. On view will be Ms. Meière's sketches, studies in gouache, full-scale cartoons and models which represent 25 of her most important commissions. Opening March 19. more ›

>> On Thursday, the Hirshhorn opens Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977. The exhibit is the first comprehensive U.S. survey of Palermo's work, and includes examples from all phases of his short career in a selection of 70 works. During the opening night, exhibit curator Lynne Cooke will lead an exhibit walk-through at 7 p.m. The museum will remain open prior to the walk-through. more ›