A career-long retrospective of the iconic artist and activist’s work examines racism, inequality, and the beauty of Blackness ...

National Medal of Honor Museum hosts the grand opening celebration. The museum — the first of its kind in the United States — ...

Scene newsletter to get our picks delivered straight to your inbox — every Wednesday Goodbye, winter! Spring and the National Cherry Blossom Festival have officially begun. Consider us ready to party ...

Now in his 20th season, Ovechkin has 853 goals, and is eight goals away from tying the current record of 894 goals held by ...

Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.

Happy Cherry Blossom season, DC! St. Patrick’s Day parties continue this evening at area bars and lounges. Also, the National ...

Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the ...

A timely new exhibit surveys the work of a committed champion of the oppressed and marginalized.

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The NGA states on its website: Art is for all of us. It allows us to see the world in ways that expand our minds, provoke our ideas, ignite our imaginations. At the National Gallery we strive for ...

With her work about social justice, and her roots in DC, Elizabeth Catlett is one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art examines more ...

Then, in 1980, the National Gallery purchased the piece in an auction at Christie’s for £2.5 million (a bargain by today’s standards, but at that time, a record-breaking price).