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Special Report
Spring 2013 Arts Guide
A comprehensive look at spring’s theater, classical, dance, museums, galleries, film, family activity and film offerings. See the full guide .
Spring 2013 Arts Preview Got the winter blues? See what you can look forward to in music, art, dance and film.
Film: ‘42’
Howard University graduate Chadwick Bosemann will play Jackie Robinson in the long-awaited biopic about Robinson's trailblazing baseball career and his relationship with Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey, played by Harrison Ford.
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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Film: ‘Stories We Tell‘
Cinematography Director Iris Ng, left, and Director Sarah Polley work on “Stories We Tell,” which examines the stories a family keeps and the various interpretations they each have.
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Film: ‘Daughters of the Dust’
From left, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier and Barbarao co-star in Julie Dash's 1991 film about the Gullah culture of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, which will be part of the retrospective "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema" at the National Gallery of Art in March.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive
Film: Buster Keaton retrospective
Keaton’s “The Play House,” “Convict 13,” “Hard Luck” and “The Electric House” are among the silent movies to be shown in March at the McLean Community Center’s Alden Theatre. The restored silent films will have live musical accompaniment by composer Ben Model.
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Pop music: Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves opens for Little Big Town on February 14, 2013, at the 9:30 Club.
Kelly Christine Musgraves
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Sandbox Entertainment
Pop music: Disclosure
Disclosure performs at the U Street Music Hall on March 22, 2013.
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Coda Music Agency
Pop music: Fleetwood Mac
John McVie, left, and Stevie Nicks, along with the rest of Fleetwood Mac, are heading back on the road with a 34-city U.S. tour, stopping in Washington, D.C. on April 9.
Charles Sykes
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AP
Pop music: A$AP Rocky
A$AP Rocky opens for Rihanna on April 29, 2013, at Verizon Center.
Phil Knott
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RCA Records
Pop music: Deathfest 2013
Heavy metal fans gather at the Maryland Deathfest 2012 in Baltimore. The four-day festival, marking its 11th anniversary in late May, is the biggest festival in the United States dedicated to underground metal acts.
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Museums: Folger Shakespeare Library
Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, Countess of Lincoln, also known as The Fair Geraldine, will be a subject of “Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland,” a series of history lessons about Irish cultural identity and its roots in England and Ireland under the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and other British monarchs.
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National Gallery of Ireland
Museums: Anacostia Community Museum
Gary Hedgepeth, who grew up in Anacostia, is seen visiting the waterfront park to feed the sea gulls in a photograph that is part of “Reclaiming the Edge,” the exhibition portion of an ongoing research project on urban waterways. The project was initiated by the Anacostia Community Museum in 2010 and adopted by the Smithsonian Institution as one of its Grand Challenge efforts.
Susana Raab
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Anacostia Community Museum
Museums: Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Our Lady of Mount Carmel With Bishop Saints" (1764) by Gaspar Miguel de Berrío is one of the pieces on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the exhibit “Journey to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection.”
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Roberta and Richard Huber Collection
Museums: Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
"Still Life with Fruit and Wine Glass" (1861) is one of a pair of still lifes by Severin Roesen on view in the new Museum of the Shenandoah Valley exhibition "Moveable Feasts: Entertaining at Glen Burnie," which opens March 5.
Ron Blunt
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Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Classical music: ‘Norma’
Washington National Opera will present Bellini’s “Norma,” the classic bel canto story about a Druid priestess, starring Angela Meade, March 9-24.
Dario Acosta
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Washington National Opera
Classical music: Meredith Monk
The artist, whose distinctive vocal vocabulary sounds as fresh and original today as it did in the 1960s, is coming to the Clarice Smith Center with her latest evening-length performance piece, “On Behalf of Nature,” on May 4.
Babeth VanLoo
Family: ‘Intergalactic Nemesis’
"Intergalactic Nemesis," a traditional radio show — complete with actors performing multiple characters and inventive sound effects — gets a visual update with enlarged comic-book pages serving as a backdrop. It runs May 17-19 at the Kennedy Center Family Theater.
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Kennedy Center
Family: Fanciful Heroes
This image of Saint George is one that children will be searching for at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens during the preschool series that allows children to explore parts of the mansion to look for paintings and statues of heroes and heroines.
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Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
Dance: Mark Morris Dance Group
The world-renowned company presents a program including “The Office,” set to music by Dvorak, and “Festival Dance,” set to Hummel’s Piano Trio No. 5 in E. At George Mason University, Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Feb. 8-9.
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Amber Star Merkens
Galleries: Mason Saltarrelli: Golden Cacti
Works on paper by the New York artist, such as this untitled 2012 piece, will be on display at Randall Scott Projects, Feb. 9 to March 9.
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Randall Scott Projects
Art: Richard Caton Woodville
"Politics in an Oyster House" (1848) by the Baltimore artist, who studied and worked in Europe and died young from an opium overdose, is among his works that will be on display at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
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Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Art: Richard Caton Woodville
"The Sailor's Wedding" (1852) is another piece in the Walters exhibition (March 10-June 2) of Woodville's works. The show brings together all of his paintings, including works that have never been seen in public, plus work by other contemporary artists, in what should be a fascinating glimpse into pre-Civil War American artistic and social life — and another chance to grapple with an artistic style that has only recently been given new scrutiny and respect by academic art circles.
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Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Art: Jackson Pollock
"Number 7, 1952" will be featured in the Phillips Collection’s “Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet,” an exhibiton that explores the connection between the American painter Jackson Pollock and the French artist Jean Dubuffet, using the lesser-known figure of Alfonso Ossorio as linchpin (Feb. 9-May 12).
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Art: Alfonso Ossorio
"Untitled" (1951) is an oil and sand on masonite work by Ossorio, who was born in the Philippines, was a resident of the Hamptons for much of his life, and was a wealthy collector and substantial artist in his own right.
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Ossorio Foundation
Art: Ballets Russes
The works of Leon Bakst, including this costume for a little god from “Le Dieu bleu,” is part of the a glitzy show of art, design and costumes from the Ballets Russes on display at the National Gallery of Art.
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Leon Bakst design for Vaslav Nijinsky as the faun from "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune." The National Gallery raised the ceiling of its East Building galleries to accommodate two huge theatrical paintings for the Ballets Russes exhibit. The exhibition will be one of the rare National Gallery shows to include a substantial multimedia component, with visual material punctuated by music and film.
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Art: Albrecht Durer
"Tuft of Cowslips" (1526) is part of a major exhibition of Durer’s works on paper on display at the National Gallery of Art.
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National Gallery of Art
Art: Albrecht Durer
"Self-Portrait at Thirteen" (1484) is a work by one of the first international art stars of the Renaissance. The National Gallery’s exhibition, opening in March, includes more than 100 works on paper from the Albertina Museum in Vienna, supplemented by holdings from the NGA.
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National Gallery of Art
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