- Jacqueline Trescott
- Reporter
Jacqueline Trescott has been a reporter at The Washington Post since 1976. She has been assigned to the Style Section for all of her Post career. Since the early 1990s Trescott has covered the news--from fund-raising to administrative changes--of the region’s performing arts centers, theaters and museums. Trescott, along with staff writer James V. Grimaldi, was cited by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association for their reports on asbestos at the National Air and Space Museum.
- Miles Davis postal stamp brings some ‘cool’ to your mail; Edith Piaf also to be honored
- Bob Schieffer and Honky Tonk Confidential booked for Smithsonian on Flag Day
- Blue Star Museums return with free admission for military families
- National Museum of Natural History plans human genome exhibition
- Center Stage program to bring artists from Pakistan, Indonesia and Haiti to U.S.
- Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
- Bringing It On Home;'Bustin' Loose': Chuck Brown's Driving Up the Record Charts; Singer Chuck Brown's 'There' After 11 Years
- Atlas grows and adds more jazz, New Music and theater for the youngest audience
- Ellen DeGeneres named Mark Twain Prize recipient
- Robert Weingarten: Should the photographer immortalize Frederick Douglass, Celia Cruz, Samuel Morse, Audie Murphy or Alice Paul?
- Doug Aitken’s ‘Song 1’ will remain on Hirshhorn an additional week
- John L. Gray chosen to lead National Museum of American History
- Martin Sullivan steps down as Portrait Gallery director
- David Koch donates $35 million to National Museum of Natural History for dinosaur hall
- Steve Jobs’s patents to be displayed at the Smithsonian
- Clarice Smith center collaborating on English and Chinese version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
- Conservator at National Gallery brings life back to paintings
- The 5x5 public art project organizes a bus tour this Saturday
- Newseum looks at social media in new HP New Media Gallery
- The NEA distributes new funds to regional groups
- George Mason to feature Brian Stokes Mitchell at a fundraiser for the Hylton Center
- National Gallery of Art extends hours for Ito Jakuchu paintings’ final weekend
- Gaithersburg Book Festival spotlights the funny books
- Betty White says yes to a date with the Smithsonian
- Space shuttle Discovery gets red-carpet treatment at Air and Space Museum
- Garry Winogrand and Roy Lichtenstein — two major retrospectives — set for the National Gallery
- Pete Seeger 1960 concert recording released by Smithsonian Folkways
- Bing Thom and Weincek + Associates chosen for Woodridge Library
- Tony winner Sutton Foster to kick off George Mason season
- Discovery: Best places to spot the shuttle flyover
- Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers are back, along with 100 ‘American Stories’
- William H. Johnson “Flowers” stamp debuts
- Kennedy Center announces lineup for Women in Jazz Festival — from Bridgewater to Yamanaka
- National Gallery adds Simon Hantai painting and more Warhol
- Elizabeth Catlett: a source of inspiration and distinctive art
- Google Art Project expands right into the White House
- Buzz Lightyear, to the National Air and Space Museum (and beyond?)
- The Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month underscores activism and music
- “5 x 5”: On view on a street near you
- NEA study finds arts engagement helps low-income youth
- Louis Armstrong rare recording, made in Washington, to be re-released
- Andy Rooney’s desk donated to the Newseum
- National Geographic examines Titanic mystique
- Strathmore announces summer menu of jazz, hip-hop and ukuleles
- Presidential portraits reveal art and history
- Stanley Tucci, breaking from ‘The Hunger Games,’ pleads for arts funding
- Dictionary of American Regional English completed
- Opera takes a look at the 1950s fitness and dance crazes
- Lorton Meteorite stars at Smithsonian appropriations hearing
- Amelia Earhart will be focus of year-long exhibition at Portrait Gallery
- Ben Folds joins Alec Baldwin at the annual Hanks lecture on the arts
- Brooklyn artist proposes massive spider for Brooklyn Bridge
- ‘The Art of Video Games’ draws crowds, costumed visitors
- Washington museums join celebration of cherry trees’ centennial
- National Gallery of Art opens collections online
- Hylton season features Chucho Valdes, Arlo Guthrie and Lorin Maazel
- Kennedy Center Spring Gala celebrates hitmaker David Foster
- Lilian Thomas Burwell, Washington sculptor and painter, displays new work at Howard University
- Chakaia Booker and her sculptures arrive on New York Avenue
- John Wayne Gacy captured at the Crime Museum
- Folger Shakespeare hosts acquisitions adoption night
- The Kennedy Center 2012-2013 season: a closer look
- Titanic at National Geographic: 100 years of mystery and discovery
- Gary Vikan, a national arts leader, will leave Walters Art Museum
- Kennedy Center plans 4 Tony Award-winning plays in 2012-13
- The Smithsonian purchases an important Brumidi
- Titanic cruise on sale: An anniversary voyage set for spring slashes prices
- Newest Army Museum designs released
- Howard University gets new director and familiar face at its libraries
- Doug Aitken to light up the Hirshhorn facade
- Discovery space shuttle will be welcomed to Smithsonian by Marines and a four-day festival
- Jasper Johns will be the summer feature at the Phillips Collection
- Dorothy’s ruby slippers temporarily off display at Smithsonian
- African American museum groundbreaking showcases living history
- National Museum of African American History and Culture groundbreaking
- National Museum of African American History and Culture groundbreaking
- Smithsonian links Civil Rights movement, American art on new Web site
- New African American museum inspires celebration, worries among competitors
- African American Museum’s fundraising models: King Memorial and Obama campaign
- Smithsonian’s National African American Museum plans exhibits
- Descendants of Va. family donate Nat Turner’s Bible to museum
- Smithsonian regent defends Secretary G. Wayne Clough’s travel
- Jim Rees,longtime president of Mount Vernon, announces his retirement
- President Obama requests $857 million for the Smithsonian
- Al Pacino, John Asbery and Andre Watts received arts and humanities medals
- On Valentine’s Day, indulge in Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Steiglitz’s uncensored love
- Senator probes Smithsonian secretary’s travel history
- The Beatles and Ed Sullivan: What do you remember?
- Dylan’s jacket, worn at a watershed event in music history, added to American History museum exhibit.
- Wendell Berry, poet and conservationist, selected to give 2012 Jefferson Lecture
- Spring preview — Museums: Slavery at Monticello, space shuttle, fish X-rays
- African American history museum delves into Jefferson and his slaves
- Stolen Pissarro returned to France
- Not an Oscar but Clint Eastwood to receive Smithsonian Bicentennial Medal
- Smithsonian lists largest donors in 2011
- Personal photos of Frida Kahlo coming to Artisphere
- National Children’s Museum takes a giant step with indoor and outdoor plans
- Smithsonian reports dip in visitors and increase in donations
- Mariinsky Ballet officially welcomes Kampa as its first American dancer
- Samper to leave Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
- Craig Wallace to play Douglass at Ford’s
- Ford’s preview cancellations and the NSO in Columbia Heights
- Dance: Reston’s Keenan Kampa to join Mariinksy Ballet
- Local dancer Keenan Kampa to join the Mariinsky Ballet
- Wolf Trap lands third on popularity of outdoor venues--not in Washington, but the world.
- Paintings from the Louvre to mark Women in the Arts 25th anniversary
- Muhammad Ali’s birthday and photographs
- African American beauty, culture and family from Deborah Willis
- Washington: Rothko capital
- Unique totem pole to be dedicated Saturday
- Monet, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec---they’re back at National Gallery of Art
- The Hope Diamond goes back to its original Cartier setting
- The NEA and Jazz: Salutes and Dollars
- Rothko, Rothko, Rothko--coming Sunday Jan. 15
- Shatner is bringing his “Star Trek” and Shakespeare stories to Broadway
- George Lucas worries Hollywood doesn’t support black films
- Courtside: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker on collecting art at the National Gallery
- Ai Weiwei work coming to Sackler Gallery in spring
- Ai Weiwei’s work coming to Washington in May
- Steig Larsson app follows a new story of Lisbeth Salander
- Another local closing: John Kelly on Melody Records
- National Geographic Museum announces new vice president position
- Columbia Heights is the site of a special dance and symphony concert
- Eva Zeisel tribute at Hillwood Estate and Museum
- Kate Middleton selects art and museum charities
- Tom Cruise lands at the Natural History IMAX
- Congresswoman objects to Smithsonian tours to Cuba
- Resolve in 2012 not to miss these cultural must-sees in Washington
- That’s What Christmas Means to Me: Christmas song countdown
- Silent Night: Christmas Song Countdown
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home): Christmas Song Countdown
- Joy to the World: Christmas Song Countdown
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: Christmas Song Countdown
- Lincoln Theatre gets new management: the city
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Christmas Song Countdown
- Angels We Have Heard on High: Christmas Song Countdown
- In 2012 federal budget, NEA is cut and Smithsonian gets a raise
- Merry Christmas Baby: Christmas Song Countdown
- Come On! Let’s Boogie to the Elf Dance! Christmas song countdown
- O Holy Night: Christmas Song Countdown
- Wonderful Christmas Time: Christmas song countdown
- Louisiana Christmas Day: Christmas song countdown
- Sleigh Ride: Christmas song countdown
- Smithsonian aims to change its brand
- The Little Drummer Boy: Christmas song countdown
- Silver Bells: Christmas song countdown
- At the Olympics Mark Rylance will do some “pop-up” Shakespeare
- Sackler Gallery cancels controversial exhibit of Tang dynasty treasures from shipwreck
- Wright Brothers anniversary, and the start of it all--good and bad
- Ford’s Theatre offers a peek at its Lincoln book tower
- Kiplinger family donates its rare depictions of Washington to the Historical Society
- “Nutcracker” generates dollars as well as joy
- Coca-Cola donates $2 million to Smithsonian
- Michelle Obama requests some holiday music and Adele and Stevie
- National Museum of American History closing galleries during major renovation
- National Gallery puts three “Red” Rothkos back on view
- Dorothea Lange, famed photographer of the Depression, is subject of lecture
- Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt announces it has raised $54 million for renovation
- Wolf Trap’s Jones to retire
- Wolf Trap president Terrence Jones leaving in 2012
- President Obama on the record on the arts
- Smithsonian and Warner Brothers team up for a movie theater
- Daughter works to preserve and promote father’s artistic legacy
- Neil Diamond’s “Lightning Round”: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- Yo-Yo Ma: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- Sonny Rollins: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- National Endowment for the Arts forms federal task force on arts research
- Neil Diamond and New York City: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- Meryl Streep wins New York critics award: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- Kennedy Center taps Jason Moran as new jazz advisor
- Smithsonian counts fewer visitors than usual over Thanksgiving weekend
- Smithsonian accepts Klan robes for future museum
- Smithsonian Natural History Museum dusts off mummies exhibit, doubles display
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn some moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the Moves
- ‘Hide/Seek’: Smithsonian officials look back at what went wrong
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Michelle Obama encourages young poets to be poetry ambassadors
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: learn the moves
- First Ladies’ gowns are back on view at the Smithsonian
- Streep keeps up support for Women’s History Museum
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn some moves
- Meryl Streep on women, history and museums: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- United Technologies uses design formats museums could adopt in new Washington showroom
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Arena Stage’s funding outlook prompts cancellation of spring play
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the moves
- Army artist goes into battle with a sketchbook and camera
- Kennedy Center Swing Festival: Learn the Moves
- Neil Diamond: Kennedy Center Honors Watch
- Christo donates two preparatory collages of “River” project to National Gallery
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