Museums Fall Preview

Miami, FL-- 09-14-11--Photo by Joshua Prezant-- Mera Rubell stands in front of Kaari Upson's Diptych, titled Kiss 8, 2007 at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami.

Remaking D.C., and its art scene

Marc Fisher

Art patrons Mera and Donald Rubell helped transform parts of Miami. Now the couple aims to do the same in Southwest Washington.

HANDOUT: Visitors using smart phones and The Phillips Collection apps in the galleries.

How to visit a museum without going

Jason Edward Kaufman

Experts agree that museums are inexorably moving into the brave new virtual world.

Crystal Bridges wows — and also confuses

(© 2011 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)

Philip Kennicott

There is a substantial “wow” factor to the new museum in Bentonville, Ark., but no one would ever call it refined, or meticulous or perfectly wrought.

‘Melting pot museum’ debated

Passionate tales underlie history of Washington museums

Museum tours: There’s an app for that

Folger a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ for new director

French masters reunited as National Gallery reopens

Newseum leader looks to make news vibrant

Houses of music: High-tech, interactive

Presidential legacies on exhibit

 

HANDOUT: The Archimedes Palimpsest in 1999 bound and open to fols. 103v-105r.

12-year project reveals Archimedes texts

“Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes” is as much an exhibition about the effort to restore a 10th-century manuscript as what the book reveals about the mind of a great mathematician.

HANDOUT: Headshot of artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, whose work is currently on view at Strathmore.

Art Explained: ‘Island Treasures’

Afro Cuban artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of nine artists featured by Strathmore Fine Art in the photographic exhibit “Building Bridges, Not Fences.”

HANDOUT: Mark Swidler. '30 Styrofoam Cups' (detail), 1990s; styrofoam cups. Private Collection, American Visionary Art Museum: All Things Round exhibition

Art review: ‘All Things Round’

In the American Visionary Museum exhibit, the curators have cast a wide net, pulling in artists with wildly different backgrounds and working methods.

HANDOUT: The Art Museum of the Americas in collaboration with the Embassy of Chile open the 'Traveling Light' exhibit, which features five contemporary artists, who traveled to the U.S. to present and make their art, rather than shipping it over. Their materials, ranging from plaster and paint to string and glitter, will be purchased locally, and their work will respond to the museum space and Washington DC location. Exploring concepts of historic, architectural, or illusionist space, these visitors will transform the first floor galleries of the Art Museum of the Americas. Pictured: Tomás Rivas' installation piece.

Art Explained: Chilean artists you’ve not seen come to create

A new exhibit opens at the Art Museum of the Americas.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: A 1616 printed King James bible translated by James I on display at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC on September 27, 2011. The Folger exhibition, 'Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible,' marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James bible. The exhibition tells the story behind the story of the bible and includes fascinating tales of the efforts to translate the bible into English. The display, which includes rare books, also shows the influence the King James version of the bible has had on arts and culture. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post)

Measuring the 400-year impact of King James Bible

The Folger Library’s new exhibit, “Manifold Greatness,” tells the story of the most-published book in the English language.

Artisphere seeks to regroup after flat first year

Artisphere seeks to regroup after flat first year

Mark Jenkins

Marking its first anniversary, Arlington venue hopes to boost buzz with a new plan

Real Art D.C. 2011

Real Art D.C. 2011

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Ibram Lassaw, The Hyades, 1951, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost

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D.C. protests continue

Two sets of protest group, Occupy DC, and October 2011, are still hunkered down and planning more activities.

San Angelo’s eye-catching attractions

There’s more to this West Texas city than just the open sky.

Miss Chinese Cosmos pageant held in U.S. for first time

Semifinalists of the pageant, which is held at a different place around the world every year, tour parts of the U.S.

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

New Bentonville, Ark., art museum founded by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton.

Special reports

New York Memorial: Two stark voids in a city of life

Michael Arad’s design for New York’s 9/11 Memorial works because it recalls ancient and embedded connections between water, memory and death.

Washington, D.C. Visitors guide

Make the most of your time in D.C.

Stuck between conceptual and literal

REVIEW | New memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. turns out to be a relatively modest affair.