Guide to The Arts in DC: Feb 2018

Art to See in DC

Arts Not To Miss Feb 2018

DC Has a LOT of great art, so much that it would make the calendar impossible to see so each month we will bring you a guide of the shows not to miss!! Click the title line to find tickets!!

 

Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image
Who: Marlene Dietrich
What: Visit the latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image. The new feature showcases the iconic actress and gender-bending role model and celebrates her noteworthy, long career. Please call Exhibitions for More info at (202) 633-8280
Where: National Portrait Gallery 8th St NW & F St NW, Washington, DC 20001
When: June 16,2017 – April 15,2018
Tickets: Get Tickets Here

 

One Life: Sylvia Plath
Who: Sylvia Plath
What: Visit the National Portrait Gallery for an exhibition exploring the personal life and work of poet and writer, Sylvia Plath. Visitors will get a first hand glance at Plath’s personal letters, artwork, and family photographs, alongside a timeline exploring her life as she came of age as an author in the 1950s.
Where: 8th and F St NW, Washington, DC, United States
When: June 30th, 2017 – May 20th, 2018
Tickets: Get Tickets Here

 

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects
Who: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
What: At first glance, the art of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov is unabashedly joyful, filled with bright colors and sunny scenes. Their optimism is contagious but it also comments on something much darker: the oppression both of the artists encountered while growing up in the Soviet Union. The couple now live and work on Long Island and are the subject of two major exhibitions this fall. London’s Tate Modern hosts their first major show in the U.K. starting in October, spanning the length of their careers, while the Hirshhorn’s exhibit focuses on models for work made after 1985. This includes original plans for “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment,” an expansive installation and tribute to the human spirit first seen in D.C. in 1990, and “The Ship of Tolerance,” an ongoing installation mounted in different bodies of water around the world with the assistance of children. As visitors explore the exhibit, they’ll begin to understand the Kabakov’s process and, perhaps, they’ll find their spirits lifted as well. The exhibition is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to March 4, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW. Free. (202) 633-4674. hirshhorn.si.edu. (Caroline Jones)
Where: Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave SW & 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
When: Oct 2,2017 – March 4,2018
Tickets: Get Tickets here

 

 

Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia
Who: Encountering the Buddha
What: In this interactive exhibition, visitors can explore a Tibetan shrine or Sri Lankan stupa and travel the world with monks and teachers while learning about the principles and images of Buddhism. Art from the Freer and Sackler galleries fills out the exhibit.
Where: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
When: Nov 20,2017 – Oct 21, 2020

 

PARALLEL UNIVERSE
What: Retrospective exhibit for an internationally acclaimed Turkish art studio Ouchhh. A visually and aurally mesmerizing experience, the exhibit presents four independent installations, three world-travelled and one created in collaboration with ARTECHOUSE team specially for this show. rawing inspiration from science, mathematics and even astrology, these enthralling installations explore representations of nature and the reconstruction of space through new digital media. While the 3D motion mapped projections and light installations in the side galleries immerse the viewer in a psychedelic, eye-of-the-storm experience of whirling fractals and light beams, the mapping of circular, geometric and continuous transformations plays out to the tune of an eerily pulsating soundtrack in the main gallery space.The new Augmented Reality experiences and cocktails from ARTECHOUSE’s team will complement the exhibit on view as they explore what can be seen beyond the perceptivity of the human mind.
Where: ARTECHOUSE, 1238 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024, USA
When: Jan 18, 2018 – March 4th, 2018
Genre: Museum Exhibit

 

Ann Hamilton, at hand, 2001
What: Ann Hamilton creates site-specific, multimedia installations that are simultaneously immersive and ephemeral. Combining the sounds of mechanization with the motorized release of sheets of translucent white paper, which gently descend from the ceiling, at hand speaks to the decline of manual labor in the wake of technological innovation. Though the paper accrues on the gallery floor in a sculptural “drift,” the effect of the installation remains one of loss and absence; the paper is blank, the movement is random, and the hand of the artist remains invisible.For the current installation, the artist decided to present the poem written on the wall rather than read aloud on an audio track.Hamilton provided some thoughts for your visit: Can you hear the silence of the paper falling through air? The gestures and actions of a hand that might hold and the mouth that might speak from the rimmed space of the page form a litany of possibility. Your presence becomes part of the project—you are free to touch the paper and explore the space but please observe and respect it’s quiet and slow rhythms. Try to listen to the silence of the paper falling through the air.Currently on view in the exhibition What Absence Is Made Of, Hamilton’s installation joins more than 60 works that explore how artists use absence as a means of expression. In their search to represent what is not, they engage in a long tradition of conveying transcendental ideas through art—a tradition which includes art forms as disparate as religious icons and abstract painting.
Where: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, 7th St Washington Dc
When: Sun, Jan 28th – Sun, Feb 18th,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibit

 

Parallax Gap at Renwick Gallery
What: Parallax Gap transforms the Renwick Gallery’s Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon into a visual puzzle. This immersive, site-specific installation explores examples of interplay between craft and architecture through a ceiling-suspended structure running the length of the Renwick’s iconic gallery.
Where: Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW Washington, DC
When: July 1,2017 – Feb 11,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibit

 

 

 

Mark Bradford’s “Picket’s Charge”
What: Mark Bradford’s installation is a 45-foot long installation of modern art reimagining the 19th-century cyclorama at the Gettysburg Battlefield. Bradford’s piece raises questions about our history and race.
Where: Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave SW & 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
When: Nov 8,2017 – Nov 12, 2018
Genre: Museum Exhibits

 

 

Subodh Gupta
What: The acclaimed Indian artist installs Terminal, his large piece made from traditional household objects like knobs and stainless steel, in the newly renovated museum
Where: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
When: Dec 11,2017 – Jun 24,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibits

 

Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s
What: See the largest presentation of the museum’s permanent collection to date in this new exhibit that draws thematic connections across time, place, and medium. Featuring more than 300 objects, the show highlights a broad range of art from across the African diaspora.
Where: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
When: Jan 1,2018 – Ongoing
Genre: Museum Exhibits

 

Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017
What: Learn about the Anacostia Community Museum’s founding, its evolution as a neighborhood museum, and the community that has shaped and sustained it in this exhibit that celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Where: Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Pl SE, Washington, DC 20020, USA
When: Jan 8,2018 – Jan 6, 2019
Genre: Museum Exhibits

 

Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience
What: Visitors can virtually venture inside the church where Christ is buried in this exhibition that chronicles its history and its recent restoration. Through thermal imaging, sonar, and laser scanning, preservationists have learned about the building constructed in the 4th century and will share their discoveries in an upcoming issue of the magazine
Where: National Geographic Museum, 1145 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA
When: Jan 8,2018 – Aug 15,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibits

Making Room: Housing for a Changing America
What: This new exhibition relies on data to explain the ways American housing habits have changed over time. Visitors to the exhibit learn about different ways spaces can be used and can even step into modular unit that can be adapted for a variety of purposes.
Where: National Building Museum, 401 F St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
When: Jan 26,2018 – Sep 16,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibits

 

 

In Her Words: Women’s Duty and Service in World War I
Who: Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum and the Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation
What: World War I was a watershed for global political, economic, and social change, and for women’s rights and labor in the United States. During the war, women officially served in and alongside the military in unprecedented numbers and in ways that shaped the professionalization of women’s work. Through the letters and artifacts of four women, visitors can explore unique, personal perspectives on life, duty, and service during the war. This exhibition was developed jointly by the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum and the Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation.
Where: Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA
When: Feb 2,2018 – May 13,2018
Genre: Museum Exhibit