Jan. 20, 2004
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GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington
Ongoing Events
GW Exhibition Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance
in Germany, 1898-1938. The Kiev Judaica Collection hosts an exhibition
of some of the most significant works from the German Jewish Cultural
Renaissance, 18981939, in GWs Gelman Library, room 710 through
spring 2004. For more information contact Amy Stempler at 994-2675 or
E-mail astemp@gwu.edu.
Exhibition Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting
from Japanese Religious Traditions The exhibition features works
from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto collection, which contains examples
of Buddhist-inspired calligraphy and painting. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
through Feb. 8. For more information contact 357-4880, ext. 219, or visit
www.smithsonian.org.
Exhibition A Brush with History: Paintings from the National
Portrait Gallery Seventy-five paintings of Americans, including
works by some of the most important portrait painters the nation has produced,
are on view. The portraits reflect the range of the gallerys collection.
Through Feb. 8. For more information please call 357-2700 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
$ Exhibition Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
Over 40 women entrepreneurs from the colonial era to the end of the 20th
century including salon-founder Elizabeth Arden, professional artist Sarah
Miriam Peale, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, will be represented by over
200 documents, photographs, audio recordings and interactive displays.
At the National Museum for Women in the Arts through Feb. 29. Admission
$5 for adults, $3 students/people 60 and over, free for NMWA members/youth
18 and under. For more information call 783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
Exhibition Thomas Trevelyons Pictorial Miscellany (1608)
Thomas Trevelyons elaborately-illustrated miscellany is essentially
a history of England and the world since the beginning of time. Covering
an astonishing range of subjects, including a picture calendar with the
occupations of each month, a gazetter, Old Testament history, and proverbs
and epigrams. At the Folger Shakespeare Gallery, Jan. 22 May 23,
Monday through Saturday 10 am4 pm. For more information please call
544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.
Exhibition Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust
Using artifacts, film, photographs and oral testimony, the exhibition
explores the dangers and dilemmas that children and parents confronted
in choosing a life in hiding. At the Holocaust Memorial Museum through
May 2004 from 10:30 am5 pm. For more information call 488-6133 or
ahollinger@ushmm.org.
Exhibition National Museum of the American Indian Welcome Center
Exhibition The exhibition, originally on view in the Welcome Center near
the construction site of the new museum on the National Mall (opening
Sept. 21), gives visitors a chance to see what the completed facility
will look like. Through October 2004.
Tuesday / Jan. 20
$ Lecture Manet and the Sea John Zarobell, assistant
curator of European painting and sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, discusses the aesthetic innovations of Edouard Manets sea
paintings. The exhibition is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
from Feb. 15May 30. Lecture starts 6 pm in the Ring Auditorium,
Hirshhorn Museum. General admission $18, members $15. For tickets and
information call 3573030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Book Club National Book Award Winners in Fiction This years
Smithsonian Book Discussion Group features six powerful novels by National
Book Award recipients, ranging from the historical novel to Yiddish-style
tales, from stark realism to lyricism. Listen to short lectures, then
discuss these works in informal, guided roundtable conversation. GWs
own Susan Willens, assistant professor of English, leads the discussion
group. Six sessions (Also Feb. 17, March 16, April 6, May 11, June 8,
79 pm). General admission $135, members $90. Smithsonian Castle,
Commons. For more information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Wednesday / Jan. 21
$ Performance The Four Temperaments The Washington
Ballet will commemorate 20th-century choreographer George Balanchine and
his 100th birthday with a program dedicated exclusively to his works at
the Kennedy Centers Eisenhower Theater. Highlighting the program
is the first act of Balanchines A Midsummer Nights Dream,
complete with the zany antics of Puck and a frenzy of ethereal fairies.
In addition, the tribute includes the classic, Sonatine, and
his most famous black and white ballet, The Four Temperaments.
Through Jan. 25. Tickets range $29$80 and can be purchased by calling
the Kennedy Center box office at 467-4600 or at www.kennedy-center.org.
Thursday / Jan. 22
$ Lecture Ken Auletta on the Business of News The New
Yorker columnist responsible for Annals of Communications
since 1992, Auletta shares his eagle-eyed view on the perpetually uneasy
marriage between public service and private business. His new book, Backstory:
Inside the Business of News, will be available for signing after
the program. 8 pm in Carmichael Auditorium, American History Museum. General
admission $20, members $15. For tickets and information call 3573030
or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Friday / Jan. 23
$ Concert Colors of Brazil: The Sounds of Monica Salmaso
Monica Salmaso and her band Benjamin Taubkin (piano), Calto Marcondes
(percussion) and Teco Cardoso (sax/flutes) draw on the tradition
of Brazilian music, chants by unknown composers and the songs of Afro-Brazilian
traditional composers and singers and works by modern composers such as
Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo, to convey a new sense of Brazilian textures.
7:30 pm at Voice of America. General admission $24, members $19. For tickets
and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Weekend Seminar Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: A Flourishing of
Art and Culture Discover the vibrant artistic world of late 19th-century
Vienna, with art historian Mariana Carpinisan as your guide. Welcoming
remarks are by Her Excellency Ambassador Eva Nowotny. In collaboration
with the Embassy of Austria. Friday reception at the Embassy of Austria,
3524 International Court, NW, from 78:30 pm; Saturday seminar at
the S. Dillon Ripley Center 10 am1 pm. General admission $115, members
$70. For tickets and information call 3573030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Theater Melissa Arctic Romance and joy are resurrected from grief
through the redemptive power of art in the world premiere of Melissa
Arctic, Craig Wrights new play inspired by Shakespeares
romance The Winters Tale. At the Folger Shakespeare
Gallery through Feb. 29. Ticket from $2548. For more information
call 544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.
Saturday / Jan. 24
$ Half-Day Seminar Swooning With Valentino Emily W.
Leider, author of Becoming Mae West, pulls back the curtain
on a life that took Rudolph Valentino from Apulia in southern Italy to
Falcon Lair overlooking Beverly Hills, and a career that began
with taxi dancing in New York City and ended in international apotheosis.
Her new biography, Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino,
will be available for signing after the program. 24:30 pm in the
Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum. General admission $35, members $30.
For tickets and information call 3573030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
Sunday / Jan. 25
$ Seminar Figure Drawing with Speed and Accuracy In
art, the human figure has always been venerated as one of natures
greatest creations. Whether you are a beginning or continuing student,
this course is designed to help you develop your skill in capturing the
human form on paper. Artist Trinka Margua Simon emphasizes techniques
such as foreshortening, volume and anatomical study. At the S. Dillon
Ripley Center through March 21 at 1 pm. For more information call 357-3030
or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Film Women at Work: Hollywood Films the Businesswoman
the National Museum for Women in the Arts Film Coordinator Max Alvarez
presents portrayals of Hollywood businesswomen, drawn from films such
as Fatal Attraction, Working Girl, Broadcast
News and the silent comedy The Clinging Vine (1926)
whose female protagonist is so immersed in her work that she has to re-learn
feminine traits. In conjunction with the exhibition Enterprising
Women: 250 Years of American Business. 2 pm; $6 general admission,
$5 members, students, visitors 60 and over. For more information please
call 783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
Monday / Jan. 26
$ Seminar The Birth of Our Universe A two-part presentation
by Alan Dressler, a scientific staff member of the Carnegie Institutions
Observatories in Pasadena, CA. As the culmination of work that began with
the Carnegie Institutions Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope, which
Edwin Hubble used to prove the existence of other galaxies in 1924, Dressler
describes how astronomers recently have been able to view galaxies 10
billion light years from Earth, by analyzing light that left those stars
only a few billion years after the Big Bang. Cosponsored with the Carnegie
Institution of Washington. 6:309 pm in the Carnegie Institute of
Washington Auditorium. General admission $25, members $20. For tickets
and information call 3573030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
Tuesday / Jan. 27
$ Seminar Introduction to Calligraphy: The Foundational and
Uncial Scripts Instructor Caroline Gillin explores the elegance
of a hand-lettered invitation, place card or letter which cannot be matched
by a machine. Learn about the development of the Roman alphabet and study
the foundational and Uncial scripts. Sessions at the S. Dillon Ripley
Center are through March 16 at 10:15 am. Eight, 2 1/2 hour-long sessions.
Resident members $183, general admission $228. For more information please
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Seminar Forensic Science and Crime Solving This course,
taught by FBI crime lab experts as well as Smithsonian physical anthropologist
and FBI consultant Douglas Ubelaker, looks at the state-of-the-art components
in forensic examination, including DNA analysis; fingerprint, firearms
or tool marks identification; hair and fiber examination; bomb disposal;
shoe-print analysis; and more. At the National Museum of Natural History
through March 2 at 6 pm. Resident members $78; general admission $123.
For more information please call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Wednesday / Jan. 28
$ Lecture Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater Franklin
Toker demonstrates what makes Fallingwater remarkable, and analyzes the
house as a supreme example of Wrights concept of organic architecture.
Includes a slide-tour of the house showing the structure, its interiors,
and its Wright-designed furnishings. Toker describes life in the US in
the 1930s, when Fallingwater was built, linking Franklin Roosevelt, Frida
Kahlo, Albert Einstein and Henry B. Luce to the history of the house.
Tokers book Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J.
Kaufmann, and Americas Most Extraordinary House will be available
for signing after the lecture. 6 pm in the Carmichael Auditorium, American
History Museum. General admission $15, members $12. For tickets and information
call 3573030 or visit www.ResidentAssociates.org.
$ Master Class Celebrity Portrait and Fashion Photography
Curtis Knapp, a fine-art and commercial photographer and the author of
nine books, offers the ins and outs of celebrity portraiture and fashion
photography. Explore the entire portraiture process, from original concept
to the refinement stages, which include lighting set-ups, film choices,
personality issues and digital output or print considerations. Eight,
three-hour long sessions starting at 6:30 pm through March 17. General
admission $470, members $425. S. Dillon Ripley Center. For more information
call 3573030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Thursday / Jan. 29
$ Award Ceremony James P. Comer Why Schools Must Help
Children Grow, and How The Seventh Annual Smithsonian McGovern Award.
One of the countrys foremost child psychiatrists and authorities
on child development, James P. Comer, receives the John P. McGovern Behavioral
Science Award. Comer will discuss how the natural family networks and
communities that once nurtured children have been greatly weakened by
rapid, massive and pervasive changes in science and technology. 7 pm in
the Meyer Auditorium, Freer Art Gallery. General admission $15, members
$12. For tickets and information call 3573030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Theatre The Phantom Lady by Pedro Calderón
de la Barca. Calderons cloak-and-danger play tells how a young widows
love for a brave stranger is thwarted at every turn. A comic classic of
the Spanish Golden Age. Through March 7 at the Warehouse Theater at 1201
Seventh St., NW. For more information please call 234-7174 or visit www.galatheatre.org.
$ Workshop Orchids in Watercolor Learn how to paint
a variety of orchids utilizing the extensive and exotic collection at
the United States Botanic Garden. The class will emphasize color mixing,
composition, value, texture and lighting to portray accurate botanical
paintings of orchids. Individual attention will be given. All levels of
students are welcome. A materials list will be mailed prior to the first
class. Orchids in Watercolor will take place on Thursdays through April
1 from 9:30 am 3 pm. The program costs $450 per person and registration
must be made by calling the US Botanic Garden at 226-4082. For more information
call 225-8333 or visit www.usbg.gov.
Friday / Jan. 30
Theater Looking Over the Presidents Shoulder
Fords Theatre presents the Washington premiere of Looking
Over the Presidents Shoulder, the story of Alonzo Fields,
an African American who dreamed of becoming an opera star but, instead,
became chief butler at the White House. Written and directed by James
Still. Through March 7. For more information please call 638-0896 or www.fordstheater.org.
Lecture Industrial Strength Plants: Products from Plant Sources
Find out about plant-based alternatives to petroleum-based products for
home and industry. The Agricultural Research Service, USDAs in-house
research agency, has developed bio-based products as diverse as diesel
fuel made from soybeans to super-slurper a corn starch product
that soaks up 2000 times its weight in moisture. At the US Botanic Gardens
from noon to 1:30 pm. Registration must be made by calling 226-4082. For
more information call 225-8333 or visit www.usbg.gov.
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