Freer Gallery of Art
Weekend Events: It's an Inauguration Celebration!
Plan for this landmark weekend at goSmithsonian.com and Find a complete listing of the Smithsonian's Inaugural Events.Friday, January 16: Inaugural Activities: Yoko Ono's Wish TreeCelebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as well as your hopes and dreams for the future of our country. Come by the ...
January 16, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 1/12-1/18: Edgar Allan Poe and Strange Bodies
Monday, January 12: A Party for Edgar Allan Poe (He's 200, Never More)2009 has a bumper crop of notable bicentennials, notably Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and, you guessed it, author/poet Edgar Allan Poe. Come celebrate the birth of this literary luminary with dramatic readings and light refres...
January 12, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 1/5-1/11: Bette Davis and George W. Bush
Monday, January 5: Portrait of George W. BushAfter eight years in office, President Bush is now a museum piece. Come see the newest addition to the National Portrait Gallery's Hall of Presidents, which marks the first time the gallery has exhibited the official portrait of a sitting president. Free...
January 04, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Weekend Events, December 19-21: Christmas, Jim Henson Style
Friday, December 19: Discussion: Remembering Christmases PastMembers of the Harmony Hall Regional Center and Maryland National Park and Planning Commission remember family, special foods, gifts and gatherings from Christmases past. Free, reservations required. Call 202-633-4844 to reserve your seat...
December 19, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 12/15-21
Monday, December 15: Voila Julia!I don’t think anyone can ever really top Dan Aykroyd’s Julia Child impersonation. This is not to say that actress Nancy Robinette won’t come pretty darn close with her portrayal of the gourmand with the golden palette and a wonderfully infectious joie de vivre. This...
December 15, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Weekend Events December 12-14
Friday, December 12: Bootleg FilmThe best of friends, a gangster and a cop go on a road trip to attend the funeral of a woman who was married to one and had a "bit on the side" with the other. A darkly comic road trip movie with some unexpected twists and turns. In Japanese with English subtitles. ...
December 12, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of December 8-14
Monday, December 8 Tour Arts of JapanIf you only know Japanese art by way of manga, broaden your horizons by coming on out to the Freer Gallery for a guided tour of its extensive collection of screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics and sculpture. Free. Meet at Info Desk. Freer Gallery of...
December 08, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Smithsonian Events Week of 12/1-7
Monday, December 1 Resident Associate Program LectureFor some, the holidays can be disastrous. Not because the turkey came out overcooked or you couldn't find the one "gotta have it" toy for your kid—but because you live along a fault line or in the shadow of an active volcano. Come hear geologist ...
December 01, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Sneak Peek at the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Why are we Around the Mall bloggers so excited about the upcoming Dreamworks 20th Century Fox film, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, set to be released next May? It’s all about ego. Here we have an opportunity to sit in a darkened theater and nitpick over all the inaccuracies.So, le...
November 28, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
What's Up at the Smithsonian This Week 11/10-16
Monday, November 10Just Opened "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" at the National Portrait Gallery is an examination of Lincoln's use of the era's new art of photography to convey his image to Americans. Drawing on the museum's extensive collection of Lincoln portraits—an archive that charts Lincoln's...
November 10, 2008 |
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Dance of the Desert: Hindu Folk Performance Brings Raucous Rhythms to the Mall
Rajasthani folk dance jangles with contradictions. On the one side, it is wildly raucous, with musicians and dancers tearing up the desert sand with improvised rhythms. On the other, it's profoundly religious, with dancers and musicians vying to express the stories of Hindu Gods.Or maybe this isn'...
October 22, 2008 |
By Anika Gupta
The Sound of Silent Film: The Devil's Music Ensemble and Red Heroine at the Freer
Silent films were never really silent. There was always a musician in the theater to heighten the theatrical experience by way of plunking out a tune on piano or making a mighty Wurlitzer roar and fill an auditorium with an awesome, electric vibe. Nowadays, however, in the age of talking pictures a...
October 21, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Fear and Loathing in Hong Kong: the Freer Screens Classic Foreign Films
Another warm Washington DC summer, another Made in Hong Kong Film Festival.The Freer Gallery’s 13th annual celebration of Hong Kong includes Exodus, a satirical thriller, and Shaolin Soccer, a farce about – you might not infer this from the name – a martial arts master who battles the dark side wit...
August 21, 2008 |
By Anika Gupta
Camping It Up, Korean Style
For some, the idea of watching a foreign film induces enough cringing to warrant medical attention. There seems to be this prevailing attitude that if a movie is either silent, or shot in black and white, or is in any language other than English, it is for the highbrow crowd.But keep in mind that ...
May 23, 2008 |
By Jesse Rhodes
