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Fine Arts

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Remembering Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn’t take up oil painting as a hobby until she was 75

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Events: FONZ Photo Club, Babe Ruth, Taiwanese Film and More!

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Hurry In! Exhibitions Closing in September

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Photographer John Gossage Reflects on “The Pond”

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“The Cats of Mirikitani” Screening at the Renwick Gallery

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Writer, Artist Dorothea Tanning Turns 100

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“Chinamania,” Now Open at the Freer Gallery

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America’s Who’s-Who On Display in New Portrait Gallery Show

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (c. 1870) by Napoleon Sarony.

Celebrating 90 Years Since Women Won the Right to Vote

On this day in 1920, the ratification of the 19th amendment granted American women the right to vote

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Step Into the Bureau of Bureaucracy at the Renwick Gallery

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Elvis Dies, August 16, 1977

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Events: Negro League Baseball, Spy Satellites, Doll Making and More!

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Weekend Events: Hong Kong Film Fest, Afro-Brazilian Dance and Make Your Own Lunch Bag!

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“Portraits Alive” Closes Today at the National Portrait Gallery

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Art Out of a Vending Machine?

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Drowning McDonalds in the Hirshhorn

Elvis Presley promoting Jailhouse Rock, the 1957 movie that helped to make his–and Parker’s–fortune.

Events: Elvis, Frank Capra, Hong Kong Film Fest and More!

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Weekend Events: Latin Jazz, A Silent Movie with Live Music and the Hong Kong Film Festival

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Events: FONZ Photo Club, Portraits Alive, an African Art Drawing Session and More!

"Most people from the Western world would think that imagery is forbidden in Islam and that Islamic art is fact geometry—the arabesque," says Sabiha Al Khemir.

Sabiha Al Khemir on Islam and the West

The museum curator and author predicts that relations between the United States and the Muslim world will improve

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