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GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington

ONGOING EVENTS
$ Exhibition “Cecily Brown Presents Sensual Blend of Abstract and Figurative Painting,” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden through March 2. For more information please call 357-2700 or http://hirshhorn.si.edu.

Exhibition “Drawing on America’s Past,” through March 2 at the National Gallery of Art. This exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s acquisition of the Index of American Design, and explores issues of folk art and national identity. For more information please call 737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.

Exhibition “Laying the Foundation for Liberty,” through June 1 at The Octagon relates the saga of the pedestal’s design and construction featuring the stories of the many individuals involved in the complex process of bringing the Statue of Liberty from France. For more information please call 626-7369.

Exhibition “In and Out of Focus,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art through March 16. Nearly 200 works by both well-known and unknown photographers are featured in this exhibit. For more information please call 357-4600, ext. 291.

$ Exhibition “Ringside: The Boxing Paintings and Sculptures of Joseph Sheppard” This exhibition of works by celebrated Baltimore artist Joseph Sheppard features eight paintings, four sculptures, and one chalk drawing on paper on display through March 9 at The Walters Art Museum. For more information call 410/547-9000 or visit www.thewalter.org.

Exhibition “The Path to the Presidency” Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson House Museum celebrate the Centennial of Woodrow Wilson’s appointment as President of Princeton in an exhibit on view at the Wilson House Museum through March 23. For more information please call 387-4062.

Exhibition “Whistler in Venice: The Pastels” on view at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art through June 15. “Whistler in Venice” is the first of three separate Whistler exhibitions to be held at the Freer during 2003, which marks the centennial of the artist’s death. The show highlights 14 unusually beautiful and rare examples of these works, along with etchings and a watercolor. For more information please call 357-2700.

Exhibition “Tobacco: Architectural Photographs” on view at The Octagon AIA Headquarters Gallery through May 2. Acclaimed architectural photographer Maxwell MacKenzie returns to the AIA Headquarters Gallery with a spectacular new series of color and black and white photographs documenting the diminishing tobacco barn. For more information please call 626-7369 or visit wwiener@theoctagon.org

Exhibition “An Imperial Collection” This exhibition of 49 sculptures, oil paintings, and watercolors, many rarely viewed outside Russia or Europe, illustrates how women as painters and patrons were major contributors to Russian imperial, social, and cultural history. On display Feb. 14 through June 18 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. For more information please call 783-5000.

Exhibition “Teapots and Tea Tastings” This exhibition features 100 teapots spanning the 18th and 19th centuries from the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum in England, plus the world’s largest teapot, made around 1851 for the Crystal Palace Exposition in London. The US Botanic Garden, in conjunction with the National Museum of Natural History will host “Traditions in Elegance: 100 Teapots from the Norwich Castle Museum” in the East Gallery of the Conservatory, through March 30. For more information please call 226-4082.

Tuesday / Feb. 4
Today in History: 1941: The United Service Organizations, popularly known as the USO, was chartered.

Lecture “Safety and Regulatory Issues for Food and Drugs” Lori Love will discuss some of the issues faced by the scientific community and regulatory agencies when companies develop and seek approval for new plant-based products. The lecture will be held at United States Botanic Garden Conservatory at 6:30 pm. The program is free, but registrations are requested. For more information please call 226-4082.

Wednesday / Feb. 5
Anniversary of the US Constitution

Lecture “African-American Work in the Permanent Collection” Works by Alma Thomas, Lois Mailou Jones, and other artists are featured in this gallery talk by Harriet McNamee, NMWA curator of education at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at noon. For more information please call 783-5000.

Friday / Feb. 7
$ Performance “Third Annual Flamenco Festival” Tomatito, flamenco guitarist with other musicians and flamenco dancer on Feb. 7, 8 pm at Lisner Auditorium. For more information please call 994-6800 or 994-1423.

Saturday / Feb. 8
Film “The Hidden Half” 7 pm at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art. This blend of romance, melodrama and feminism is a portrait of an Iranian housewife who is reminded of her past as a student revolutionary when her lawyer husband takes on the case of a woman accused of murder. For more information please call 357-2700.

$ Performance “Dumbarton Concerts” Join Queen Elisabeth prize winning pianist Brian Ganz and the Left Bank String Quartet for what promises to be the romantic concert of a lifetime at Washington’s Historic Dumbarton Church at 8 pm. For more information please call 965-2000 or visit www.dumbartonconcerts.org

Sunday / Feb. 9
Film “Blackboards” is set on the border between Iran and Iraq and follows three poor teachers separated by a helicopter attack. Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art at 2 pm. For more information please call 357-2700 or visit www.asia.si.edu.

Monday / Feb. 10
$ Performance “Ladysmith Black Mambazo” Award-winning South African a cappella ensemble combines Zulu traditional sound with Christian choral music for a sound that is all their own at The Barns of Wolf Trap. For more information please call 703/218-6500 or visit www.wolftrap.org.

Wednesday / Feb. 12
Lincoln’s Birthday

GW Event The GW Farmers Market returns to Kogan Plaza, from 9 am to 5 pm. The market will feature produce and other vendors.

Friday / Feb. 14
Valentine’s Day

GW$ Dinner and Induction Ceremony “The 2003 GW Athletic Hall of Fame” 7 pm at the Marvin Center in the Grand Ballroom. Reservation deadline is Feb 11. For more information please call Ed McKee at 994-5778.

GW$ Performance “Maida on Maida in the Universe” In this one-woman multimedia dance performance, Maida Withers will juxtapose her life’s work with the latest theories of the origin and demise of the universe. GW’s Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre at 8 pm. Also performing on Feb. 15. For more information please call 994-1423 or visit www.maidadance.com.

$ Performance “Weilerstein Trio” This is an unique opportunity to hear this family ensemble in The Barns of Wolf Trap, Donald Weilerstein, founding first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein are joined by their daughter, rising star cellist Alisa Weilerstein at 8 pm. For more information please call 703/218-6500 or visit www.wolftrap.org.

$ Performance “Folger Concert” Inspired by Boccaccio’s “Decameron” and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” the Concert celebrates St. Valentine’s Day with the medieval vocal trio Trefoil, led by Drew Minter, in a program of virtuoso songs and instrumental works from the 14th century at Folger Shakespeare Library at 8 pm. For more information please visit www.folger.edu.

Monday / Feb. 17
President’s Day, University Holiday

Friday / Feb. 21
Film “Under the Skin of the City” This heartwarming drama by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad follows the feisty matriarch of a raucous family as she tries to keep her children safe from the perils of modern city life. Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art at 7 pm. For more information please call 357-2700 or visit www.asia.si.edu.

$ Readings PEN/Faulkner 2002–03 Readings Louise Erdrich, 8 pm. All readings are followed by a reception and book sale in the Folger’s Great Hall. Seating in the theatre and church is unreserved, with doors opening 30 minutes before event time. Tickets are $15. For ticket information call the Folger Box Office at 544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.

Saturday / Feb. 22
Washington’s Birthday

$ Lecture “The Ballets Russes: Diaghilev and Bakst” Join Russian scholar Thomas Berry as he explores the creative dynamics of impresario Serge Diaghilev and artist Leon Bakst at the Baltimore Museum of Art BMA at 9 am. For more information please call 410/396-6321.

Wednesday / Feb. 26
GW $Theatre “The Laramie Project” by Moises Kaufman. A look at the impact of Matthew Shepard’s death on the community of Laramie, WY directed by Nate Garner. Feb. 26 (preview), 27, 28, and March 1 at 7:30 pm, March 2 at 2 pm. Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. Tickets available at all TicketMaster outlets. Call the 994-6178 or E-mail trdanews@gwu.edu for more information.

Friday / Feb. 28
Lecture “Medicinal Plants of Haiti” Hear about the research now underway to identify medicinal plants from Haiti’s endangered flora. The program takes place at United States Botanical Garden at noon. The program is free but reservations should be made by calling 226-4082.

$ PEN/Faulkner 2002–03 Readings “The American Novel in the Global Century”: Manil Suri, Claire Messud, & Francisco Goldman, 8 pm. All readings are followed by a reception and book sale in the Folger’s Great Hall. Seating in the theatre and church is unreserved, with doors opening 30 minutes before event time. Tickets are $15. For ticket information call the Folger Box Office at 544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.



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