Entries from DCist tagged with 'thenationalgallery'
January 3, 2008
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Major Release: There Will Be Blood We should have held our tongues on our top 10 for the year until the actual end of the year. Paul Thomas Anderson's new film slipped in just under the 2007 wire in limited release last week, and the director channels John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, and his own wild-eyed imagination......
Continue Reading "Popcorn & Candy: Black Gold"December 7, 2007
FRIDAY: >> Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are at the 9:30 Club with Kristeen Young and Partyline, $15, 9 p.m. Also Saturday with Kristeen Young and Ris Paul Ric. >> DC9's Liberation Dance Party hosts Brooklyn's Jaguar Club. $6, 9 p.m. SATURDAY: >> The Historic Sixth and I Synagogue hosts The Eight, D.C.'s part of a "worldwide Hannukah party" featuring the LeeVees, DeLeon and D.C.'s own Black and White JohnsonsJacksons. $12/$18, all ages, 9 p.m.......
Continue Reading "Out and About: Weekend Picks"November 16, 2007
FRIDAY: >> Local comic book store Fantom Comics is celebrating the grand opening of their new Union Station store tonight with a party from 6 to 10:30 p.m. They'll be serving up free pizza on the early side and the comedy stylings of the Geek Comedy Tour during the second half of the night. There will also be a trivia contest with $500 gift certificates up for grabs. The party is inside the Union......
Continue Reading "Out and About: Weekend Picks"June 17, 2007
Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse"February 19, 2007
If you are lucky enough to have the President's Day holiday off work and you manage to wake up before 5 p.m., it may be a good chance to go down to the National Mall and look at some art. The National Gallery of Art's new exhibit, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, takes a focused look at four themes in the artist's work during an important decade in American art. Johns is one......
Continue Reading "Jasper Johns in Four Themes"August 31, 2006
When the alarm clock goes off in one short week, the sleepy little galleries around the city will yawn and stretch and, after dressing in their finest contemporary gowns, open their doors for the 2006-2007 season. But while they're busy hitting the snooze for a few more days, we still have plenty of shows to keep us occupied. >>The National Gallery of Art just opened a new exhibit last Thursday, with 37 artworks from the......
Continue Reading "Arts Agenda: Five More Minutes, Mom"November 16, 2004
>> The National Gallery has just opened the first major U.S. exhibition of art by Gerard ter Borch, one of the finest -- but unrecognized -- Dutch painters from the 17th century. (ter Borch's "The Suitor's Visit" is at right.) Also new at the NGA is "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions," featuring works on paper that the museum has acquired within the last five years. Highlights include etchings by Rembrandt and drawings......
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