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Two exhibits on display this month at Dupont Circle’s Studio Gallery respond imaginatively to environmental themes, but the featured artists do so through wildly different approaches to aesthetic and ecological concerns. The Jan. 3…

The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center offers a powerful personal-political journey through the looking glass with Michal Heiman’s solo show Radical Link: The New Community of Women, 1855-2020. The exhibit,…

While you don’t need to be a comics aficionado to appreciate the new installation Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages at the Library of Congress (LOC), you may be inspired to become one after seeing it. The exhibit showcases comics as…

Often caricatured as a political quagmire or a career pit stop for transient professionals, the District rarely receives the credit it deserves for its thriving creative life and enduring connection to DIY movements. Summerhouse, a new…

Artistic portrayals of Washington frequently draw from one or more of the city’s distinguishing landmarks to convey a sense of place, whether that involves highlighting skylines sculpted by the Washington Monument and the Capitol Dome or…

The Shaw neighborhood’s Anthony Bowen YMCA, the organization’s first African American branch in the world, has an extensive track record of social engagement spanning its 166-year history. With Gallery Y, an exhibition space that debuted…

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital — which goes by the acronym DCEFF — celebrated its 27th year with last month’s impressive program of over 160 films that included two notable standouts by local filmmakers: Larry…

An expansive new exhibit at American University’s Katzen Arts Center offers a survey of contemporary sculpture and photographs through works donated by lobbyist and internationally influential art collector Tony Podesta — including many…

Bradley Stevens’ new solo show at the Zenith Gallery — Museum Studies II: Honoring the Female Perspective — takes viewers on a painted tour of galleries in such familiar DC spaces as the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American…

Each winter, DC offers a variety of spectacles that coincide with the Season of Light, from ZooLights at the National Zoo to the public light art display GLOW in Georgetown. This year, the Susan Calloway Fine Arts gallery contributes its…

The Washington Revels’ annual holiday production returns to Lisner Auditorium this weekend to welcome Yule with a romping production of Elizabethan music and dance that celebrates the group’s 35 years in the District. The latest version…

Last month’s pivotal midterm election provoked heightened frustration over DC’s lack of a vote in Congress. District residents on Nov. 6 may have found themselves longingly gazing across the Potomac River to spy on Arlington County, where…

The contrasting pursuits of DC artist and American University professor Ian Jehle are both on full view in a new exhibit at the university’s Alper gallery space, with Jehle’s well-known, large-scale figurative drawings of prominent members…

DC’s annual LGBTQ film festival, Reel Affirmations, showcased a wide variety of films that highlight LGBTQ subjects and issues during its four-day run in early November. Notably, the film roster included a 50-minute TV special by first-time…