Southwest’s Newest Museum Showcases Contemporary Art in Historic Space By Southwester Staff On October 27, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser cut a red ribbon to open Washington, DC’s newest museum, the Rubell Museum DC at 65 I St. SW, the site of the historic Randall School. Dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, […]
Rubell Museum Announces Inaugural Director Ahead of October Opening
By Melissa Silverman This month, the Rubell Museum, a contemporary art museum preparing for opening on I Street SW, announced Caitlin Berry as its inaugural director. In the role, Berry will oversee engagement with the DC community, public programs, museum operations, and work with the Don and Mera Rubell and […]
Career-Spanning Exhibit Showcases Sam Gilliam in the Round
By Southwester Staff In the 60 years since Sam Gilliam moved to Washington from Tupelo, Mississippi, his large, color-stained manipulated unstretched canvases, in the tradition of the Washington Color School artists, have been featured in major museums all over the world. Now at the Hirshhorn Museum, the retrospective exhibit Sam […]
Immersive Exhibit Transports Visitors to Southeast Asia
By Southwester Staff An archeological treasure set in a mountain cave above the Cambodian landscape can now be viewed up close and in person at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art’s latest exhibit, Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain. The exhibition showcases a monumental sculpture of the Hindu […]
Juried Exhibition Features 33 DC Artists Exploring Environmental Injustice
By Southwester Staff The first juried art exhibition initiated by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is now on view at the organization’s public gallery at 200 I Street SE, as well as online in an immersive virtual exhibition. The exhibit, titled Fragile Beauty, includes works from 33 […]
Rubell Museum Announces October Opening
Access to World-Class Contemporary Art Collection Free for DC Residents By Southwester Staff An opening date of October 29, 2022 was announced this month for the Rubell Museum DC, currently under construction at 65 I Street SW. The museum will showcase contemporary art from the expansive collection of Don and […]
Sweeping Exhibit Spans Centuries of Afro-Atlantic Art
By Southwester Staff The exhibit Afro-Atlantic Histories, now open at the National Gallery of Art, flows over the limits of any museum’s walls. With more than 130 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, time-based media art, documents and ephemera by artists from 24 countries, the exhibit explores the shared meaning of […]