From local history to internationally renowned artists, area arts patrons will be busy next month. Remember that admission to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which normally costs $10, will be free during Inauguration weekend, to help welcome attendees of the Women’s March on Washington.
Ragnar Kjartansson, Woman in E, 2016. (Andrew Miller/Hirshhorn)
RAGNARÖCK @ The Hirshhorn
Next month the Hirshhorn wraps up its popular Ragnar Kjartansson exhibit, which we wrote about here, with Ragnaröck: A Hirshhorn Late Night. The event, produced in conjunction with BYT, includes an open bar, DJ sets from How to Dress Well and Lisa Frank, live music from Cinema Hearts, and a screening of “A Lot of Sorrow,” Kjartansson’s collaboration with The National.
Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 8:30 p.m. at the Hirshhorn Museum 7 Sculpture Garden. Advance tickets are $50 and can be purchased here.
Lawrence Halprin’s FDR Memorial. Photo by Roger Foley, courtesy the National Building Museum
SPOTLIGHT ON DESIGN: LAWRENCE HALPRIN @ National Building Museum
The National Building Museum continues its centennial celebration of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, the subject of this recent New York Times article. Halprin is the subject of an upcoming lecture featuring Charles Birnbaum, president and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and Laurie D. Olin, founding partner of the Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm OLIN.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW. $12 members/$20 non-members.
Detail of Rineke Dijkstra, Self-Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 1991. National Gallery of Art
RINEKE DJIKSTRA LECTURE @ National Gallery of Art
Steps away from its concourse gift shop, the National Gallery of Art has installed recent acquisitions that add to its collection of Dutch portraiture: a series of photographs by Rineke Djikstra, whose 2014 installation at the Corcoran we wrote about here. To coincide with this exhibition of her work, including the multi-panel video installation I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), Djikstra will speak as part of the Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography.
January 15 at 2 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building Auditorium. Free.
A 1963 view of 620 H Street, N.W. (Wm. Edmund Barrett © Kiplinger Washington Editors, Kiplinger Washington Collection, Historical Society of Washington, D.C)
DOCUMENTING DOWNTOWN D.C. @ National Building Museum
In conjunction with the exhibit District II, the National Building Museum hosts a panel with photographers Chris Earnshaw, Phil Portlock, Bill Lebovich, and Joseph Mills, who will discuss their visual documentation of the changing commercial landscape of downtown Washington. Filmmaker Jeff Krulik, who documented the music culture of ’80s Prince George’s County in his film Heavy Metal Parking Lot, will be on hand to facilitate the discussion.
Tuesday, January 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW. $12 members/$20 non-members.
Nick Cave, Imran Qureshi, and Pat Stier (Courtesy of the Hirshhorn)
MEET THE ARTISTS: NICK CAVE, IMRAN QURESHI, AND PAT STEIR @ Hirshhorn
Next month the Hirshhorn invites you to meet recipients of the 2017 International Medal of Arts, awarded by the U. S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies. (Note that this Nick Cave is the American visual artist, not the Australian musician.) NPR’s Deborah Solomon will moderate the discussion.
Meet the Artists: Nick Cave, Imran Qureshi, and Pat Steir takes place Wednesday, January 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hirshhorn’s Ring Auditorium. Free, but registration is required. RSVP by January 3, 2017 to Hirshhornevents@si.edu.
From Heather Clark’s “Feeding the Monster: In Pursuit of the American Dream” (Hillyer)
MONSTERS, PORTALS, AND CONTEMPORARY RELICS @ Hillyer Art Space
As part of Dupont Circle’s First Friday gallery walk, Hillyer Art Space launches the new year with three new solo exhibitions. Heather Clark’s immersive installation Feeding the Monster: In Pursuit of the American Dream (pictured), “[challenges] the ever-changing landscape of a consumerist driven economy. The paintings in Sarah West’s mirror/portal/screen “reference Early Renaissance paintings, familiar Photoshop tropes, and interactions with digital devices.” Steve Dolbin’s series of sculptures Contemporary Relics uses “materials that recall ancient monuments and relics, yet are directly tied to the technology that has changed our planet’s surface and helped to form our present culture.”
January 6—29, 2017 at Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Ct NW, behind the Phillips Collection. Opening reception on Friday, January 6 from 6-9 p.m. Suggested donation $8.
Joe Cameron. Untitled (Detail). 2016; Julia Wolfe. Cultural Values (Detail). 2016; Mike Shaffer, Old Town Tower Ten. 1980
WINTER EXHIBITIONS @ Alper Initiative for Washington Art
In late January, the Alper Initiative for Washington Art at American University launches five new exhibits, including new photographs by Washington resident and former Corcoran College of Art + Design teacher Joe Cameron; paintings by Julie Wolfe, and sculpture by Mike Shaffer.
January 28—March 12, 2017 at the Alper Initiative for Washington Art at the American University Museum, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW. Free. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.—4 p.m.
