Museums

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The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs.

In haunting works by Ian McEwan and Robert Adams, I rediscovered the melancholy of fall, especially in 2020.

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In the galleries: Prizewinning artists share concept of challenging perceptions

Installations explore personal identity and attitudes through contemporary art

In Alexandria, two art installations memorialize men and women who lived under exploitation

Olalekan Jeyifous and Melanie Kehoss create broad-minded, open-ended monuments.

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A painting that dares to stare back at you

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's "Four Figures on a Step" is one of the most popular works at the Kimbell Art Museum

With safety protocols working, Smithsonian to reopen four more museums on Friday

American Art and African American museums and National Portrait Gallery join the zoo and Udvar-Hazy in welcoming visitors.

In the galleries: From primal and primordial to political commentary

Exhibits run the gamut exploring culture and consumerism.

The latest show at Von Ammon Co. gallery is a mess. And that’s the point.

Alex Bag and Jason Yates skewer consumerism in “I’m Sorry You All Ended Up Here.”

We now know that the Postal Service can change history. This museum has argued that for decades.

The National Postal Museum might be the most relevant museum in Washington right now — even though it’s closed.

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When the Obamas danced to ‘At Last,’ America saw history. This artist saw intimacy.

Elizabeth Peyton's 'Barack and Michelle' paints the personal in the political, with powerful results.

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Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before.

In 1971, Philip Guston was so mad at Richard Nixon that he turned out a brilliant sequence of political cartoons.

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Eldzier Cortor painted Black poverty, and Chicago’s South Side, with beauty

In ‘The Room No. VI,’ the artist wanted to show real African American lives, even if everyone’s asleep.

Outdoor sculpture show harnesses the power of the sun, literally and figuratively

‘Artina 2020’ spotlights eight artists from the Washington Sculptors Group.

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I just went to the Met and MoMA after five months away from museums. Someone, please, pick me up off the floor.

The doors are finally open again, and although the experience is far from normal, it’s rejuvenating.

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How a ‘palace’ made from chopsticks revolutionized art

Giacometti recast sculpture as open, skeletal and fragile instead of weighty, solid and monumental.

Powerful photo show reveals a Lebanon in turmoil

The Middle East Institute’s online exhibition offers images of hope as well as heartache.

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Even in the covid era, this artwork celebrates the wonderful weirdness of human togetherness

Nicole Eisenman’s painting ‘Ariana’s Salon’ reveals fresh thinking at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum.

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A powerful new memorial to U-Va.’s enslaved workers reclaims lost lives and forgotten narratives

Thomas Jefferson’s dream university confronts its past to get us talking about our future.

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In this gorgeous early Monet painting, some see a cesspool of sex and vice

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘La Grenouillère’ is one of the first truly Impressionist pictures.

A warrior woman with five faces and an ode to the twin towers: Two monumental acquisitions reopen the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden

Contemporary pieces by Sterling Ruby and Huma Bhabha join the museum’s outdoor display.

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The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials?

A long time coming, the Frank Gehry-designed monument seems somewhat out of place in this moment of time.