ARTECHOUSE Offers Visitors Immersive Trip Under the Sea

Twilight Zone is the latest exhibition at ARTECHOUSE. Courtesy of ARTECHOUSE By Southwester Staff On Sept. 13, ARTECHOUSE DC, located on Maryland Avenue SW, premiered Twilight Zone: Hidden Wonders of the Ocean, an immersive exhibition that takes viewers below the ocean surface.  This exhibition combines life-sized visuals and an original musical score […]

Rubell Museum Opens “American Vignettes” Contemporary Art Exhibition

Robert Colescott’s Sunset on the Bayou (1993) is part of the new exhibition at Southwest’s Rubell Museum. Courtesy of Rubell Museum By Southwester Staff A museum-wide reinstallation at the Rubell on I Street, SW revealed a new exhibition on Sept. 27. American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire showcases nearly 100 art […]

Hirshhorn Mounts Major Exhibition to Mark 50th Anniversary

Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower and Gardens, Champ de Mars, (La Tour Eiffel et Jardin du Champ de Mars) 1922. Courtesy of Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden By Sheila Wickouski No two visits to  “Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960”  at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will be the […]

ARTECHOUSE Exhibit Brings NASA’s Space Images to Life

Courtesy of Fredo Vasquez “Beyond the Light,” now on view at ARTECHOUSE in Southwest DC, integrates technology, cinematic visuals and an original music score to illuminate NASA’s remarkable discoveries.  Developed in collaboration with NASA, the exhibit is a science-based artistic exploration of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and James […]

Multimedia Exhibit Illuminates Mythical Underwater World at Museum of African Art

By Southwester Staff  Drexciya is a mythical aquatopia in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean populated by babies of enslaved African women who were thrown or jumped from slaving ships during the Middle Passage.  From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson at the Smithsonian National […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Features Local Icons in Exhibit of Historic Images

By Southwester Staff Washington, DC-based musicians, leaders and activists are among the 37 prominent Black Americans featured in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s new exhibit Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture. The exhibit examines Black religious life through a […]

Unity in Diversity Across New Exhibitions at National Museum of Asian Art

By Sheila Wickouski The Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art will celebrate its 100th anniversary in May 2023. James McNeill Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold,” the Peacock Room, had been on display since the gallery opened and is now accessible to the public again after […]