By Southwester Staff Following 2017’s blockbuster exhibit of “Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors,” which drew 475,000 visitors and wide reach on social media, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will debut a new retrospective covering nearly 70 years of Kusama’s career. Opening April 1, the exhibition will showcase work by Kusama […]
Costumes Take Center Stage in Arena’s Catch Me If You Can
By Sheila Wickouski In the Arena Stage production of Catch Me If You Can, costumes take center stage, creating the atmosphere of the 1960’s and supporting the story with humor and panache. Costume designer Alejo Vietti has worked on productions ranging from Broadway to Donesk, Ukraine. He has designed costumes […]
Southwest Chamber Players Present 25th Anniversary Shows
By David Ehrlich The Southwest Chamber Players announce their triumphant return to the concert stage of Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church with a pair of concerts Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. Following a two-year hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this happy occasion […]
Arena Stage Launches New Production of Catch Me If You Can
By Sheila Wickouski With a new production of Catch Me If You Can, Arena Stage adds to the list of acclaimed Broadway productions, Oklahoma!, The Pajama Game, Anything Goes and Disney’s Newsies, that have been brought to its iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage. The story of a charming con man, Frank […]
Glass and Light Inspire in New Exhibit at National Museum of the American Indian
By Sheila Wickouski Of the thousands of stories of Raven the trickster told by the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest, international glassmaker Peston Singletary has chosen to tell one version from his Tlingit clan in the exhibition Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight now on view at […]
National Museum of African Art Offers Intimate Portrait of Nollywood Stars
By Southwester Staff The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has laid out a red carpet for guests to enter its latest exhibit: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits. Udé’s world spans from homeland of Nigeria to his current base New York. In 2014, he returned to Nigeria to create portraits of […]
Women Leaders Drive DC United Forward
By Melissa Silverman As the 2022 D.C. United soccer season gets underway at Audi Field in Southwest, two dynamic female leaders are making history with senior-level positions in the organization. As the United’s General Manager and Head of Technical Recruitment and Analysis, Lucy Rushton is only the second woman to […]