Dateline
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 Americas Past, through
March 2 at the National Gallery of Art. This exhibition commemorates
the 60th anniversary of the gallerys 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 pedestals 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
Wilsons 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
artists 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 worlds 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 Washingtons
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
Lincolns 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
Valentines 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 lifes work with the latest theories of the origin and demise
of the universe. GWs 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 Boccaccios
Decameron and Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales,
the Concert celebrates St. Valentines 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
Presidents 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 200203 Readings Louise Erdrich,
8 pm. All readings are followed by a reception and book sale in the
Folgers 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
Washingtons 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 Shepards 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 Haitis
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 200203 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 Folgers 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.