In the remaining days, there are daily tours, and the final weekend will feature special events.
40,000 images of art are now free for public use.
The 34-day campaign was funded by 600 donors, as well as $70,000 in matching support from Whole Foods.
The second Mrs. Baldwin is a yoga instructor.
The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will launch a crowdfunding effort later this month to support “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” an exhibition that explores the goals of the ancient activity.
With classical art not always well-represented in the District, the new exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Wine, Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani, is a great opportunity to see some pieces from the sixth century B.C.E. to the mid-first century B.C.E. Colchis, now the country of Georgia. The exhibit highlights items that were found in eight graves; gold and silver jewelry and decorations, wine bowls and ladles, and glass vessels…
The interconnectivity of all things – for some, this bond is religion; for others, just fateful coincidences. But whatever your interpretation of the relationship between all things, a stunning study of one era’s belief in interconnectivity is now on display at the Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian’s Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes exhibition. The show, on display through April 2008, is a startling reminder that art is much more than just paint and a brush. Those…
The most recent exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, organized with help from the National Museum of African Art, Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries, is as much a chronicle of history as it is a document for how art records history. Trying to pigeonhole this exhibition into a one category is difficult. It is more than just the fact the exhibition displays more than 260…
The Freer Gallery of Art hosts an eclectic and sporadic series of free concerts, often in tandem with relevant exhibits. To cap off the fine exhibit of early Bible manuscripts at the Sackler Gallery (reviewed here last month), the museum hosted one of the best vocal groups in the world, the Hilliard Ensemble, last night. The all-male British quartet brought a program called Arkhangelos, modern and older pieces in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, to…
Two exhibits in Washington right now examine both ends of the history of the Bible. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is showing In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000 (through January 7, with a nice online feature), which brings together over 70 early examples of the Bible’s written tradition. The ancient papyrus and vellum pages are so fragile that the museum has to show most of them under faint and rather diffuse light, and…
