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Washington Harbour Ice Rink Closes for the Season March 1
Washington Harbour Ice Rink on the Georgetown Waterfront closes for the season March 1.
At 11,800 square feet, the rink is the region's largest outdoor ice skating venue. Now is the time to bring the family out for a fun, healthy activity right on the Potomac and enjoy a rink-side warm beverage. Go, before the season ends! See you on the ice.
Washington Harbour Ice Rink is located at 3050 K Street in Georgetown.
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Experience Umbria in 2015
For centuries the dream of living la dolce vita in Italy has inspired poets, noblemen, and plain folk. That dream can be your reality at the villa, La Fattoria del Gelso, an oasis of tranquility nestled in a valley in the shadow of Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis. Learn more about weekly villa rentals here.
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There's so much to discover in Umbria, from the region's award-winning wines, its rustic cuisine, the centuries old craft of ceramic making and the rich history of its people. Plan an unforgettable itinerary that meets your personal needs. Learn more about what Umbria here.
Wine and food lovers (isn't that ll of us??) interestested in specialized tours of the region?
Vinopalooza
March 26 - April 1, 2015
Cucinapalooza
April 18 - 24, 2015
Food and Wine Tour
October 17 - 23, 2015
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The Art of Stephen Addiss at Robert Brown Gallery
Join Robert Brown Gallery on Saturday, February 28 from 2:00-5:00 pm for an opening and meet & greet with artist Stephen Addiss as they present Thirty Years of Discoveries Paintings, Calligraphy and Ceramics by Stephen Addiss. Learn more here.
Stephen Addiss is a painter, poet, ceramicist, musician, and Japanese art historian. Addiss was a professor for thirty-six years, retiring in 2013 from a distinguished position at the University of Richmond. He began studying calligraphy and ink painting in 1969 with Asian scholars, later studying in Japan and Taiwan. This exhibition features over thirty years of ink paintings, calligraphy and ceramics.
Robert Brown Gallery is located 1662 33rd Strret in Georgetown.
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Man Ray Exhibition at The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is hosting Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare explores the intersection of art and science that defined a significant component of modern art at the beginning of the 20th century. The exhibition runs through May 10, 2015.
Working in Hollywood in the late 1940s, Man Ray (American, 1890–1976) created the Shakespearean Equations, a series of paintings that he considered to be the apogee of his creative vision. Drawing on photographs of 19th-century mathematical models he made in the 1930s, the series was a culmination of 15 years of exploration of the theme in a variety of mediums. Man Ray–Human Equations displays side-by-side for the first time the original plaster, wood, papier-mâché, and string models from the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, Man Ray’s inventive photographs of these unusual forms, and the Shakespearean Equations paintings they inspired. Placed in context with his other paintings, photographs, and objects, these works illustrate the artist’s proclivity to create art that objectifies the body and humanizes the object, transforming everyday materials into novel forms of creative expression.
The exhibition’s diverse works—including 70 photographs, 25 paintings, eight assemblages or modified “readymades” by Man Ray and 25 original mathematical models—juxtapose the artist’s Surrealist-inspired photographs of mathematical models and the associated Shakespearean Equations within the larger context of the role of the object in the artist’s work. His other canvases, photographs, and objects—some celebrated and others little-known—link his wider artistic practice with the Shakespearean Equations project and casting these accompanying works in a new light.
The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.
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Welcome Pierre!
Dumbarton House invites you to the 27th Annual "Welcome Pierre!" Reception & Toast on Monday, March 9, 2015 from 6:30 until 9:00 pm.
Why do we "Welcome Pierre"? A botched arrival in 1791, Pierre-Charles L'Enfant arrived in Georgetown on Wednesday evening, March 9, and a few days later wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (then in the temporary capital of Philadelphia):
On arriving, I made it my first care to wait on the Mayor of the town in conformity with the direction you gave me. He appeared to be much surprised and he assured me he had no previous notcie of my coming nor any injunction of the business I was to set up.
L'Enfant's initial arrival had been botched by a bureaucratic breakdown! Thus, reparations to that oversight, and slight, have been made annually since 1989, by a festive civic celebration on the anniversary date of his first arrival.
Major L'Enfant's arrival in Georgetown to design the Federal City in 1791 was both unexpected and unheralded. As the City's bicentennial approached, The Historical Society of Washington began the tradition of commemorating the occasion with a gathering and a grateful toast to the designer of our Unique National Capital.
Dumbarton House and the "Friends of Pierre" continue with this lively annual tradition!
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased here.
Dumbarton House is located at 2715 Q Street in Georgetown.
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Group Show Celebrates Nature at Addison Ripley
As a hopeful prelude to Spring, Addison/Ripley Fine Art has briought together, under the stewardship of longtime gallery artist, Jackie Battenfield, Natural Allusions, an exhibition which includes her work as well at that of some of her peers. These seven artists, working in New York, Washington, DC and Berlin, refer to, take from and are, obviously captivated by nature in all its comely display, but as one artist, Carson Fox, puts so succinctly, "I am interested in beauty but I mistrust it."
The artists in Natural Allusions are inspired by nature. They probe into and deconstruct elements of landscape and botanical forms in their grandeur, chaos and growth to reaffirm our enduring connection to the physical realm. The exhibition features work that explore specific aspects of nature through painting, photography, prints and sculpture. The artists strip down, enlarge, and reconstruct to present the complexity of natural systems and to analyze the basic elements of landscape.
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Jackie Battenfield, Blue Scoops v2, 2014, acrylic on mylar panel,
Themes of continuance resound as Carson Fox mines the crystalline and coral forms, thousands of years in the making, in her vividly hued cast and carved resin freestanding structures and wall installation. In sharp contrast, Judy Hoffman's ceramic sculptures use the malleability of clay to evoke ancient, caked, and encrusted organisms arising from primordial ooze.
Linda Cumming's photographs literally cascade from the walls of the gallery, depicting the interplay of light and movement on a river's rippling surface, created by her hand, submerged drawings, wind, and current. Reconstructing the unfolding and leafing of a branching tree limb, Jackie Battenfield's luminous paintings on translucent Mylar, also explore the distinctive evaporation patterns of paint pigments suspended in an aqueous mix.
Merle Temkin approaches her canvases from a sculptor's perspective, beginning with a tree's silhouette and using paint to "carve away" at the negative space and retaining the edges of each color layer until the lacey, branching form is revealed.
Natural Allusions is on exhibit through March 14, 2015.
Addison/Ripley Fine Art is located at 1670 Wisconsion Avenue in Georgetown. Tel: 202.338.5180
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Winter Restaurant Week Jan. 19-25
The bi-annual celebration of the thriving DC culinary scene starts Monday, January 19 and continues through Sunday, January 25 when over 240 of the region’s finest dining destinations will offer a three-course prix-fixe dinner ($35.15) and/or three-course prix-fixe lunch ($20.15) menu for diners to explore and enjoy.
New this year, the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) is enticing restaurant-goers to get social with their Restaurant Week experiences with a 7 Days / 7 Winners social media contest. Diners are encouraged to snap and post envy inspiring pictures to their Instagram accounts while out at participating restaurants. Diners who follow RAMW on Instagram (@RAMWdc), use the hashtag #DMVRW and tag the participating restaurant will automatically be eligible to win a number of fantastic prizes including roller derby tickets, brunch gift certificates, cookbooks and a grand prize of two tickets to the 33rd annual RAMMY Awards and Gala, taking place on Sunday, June 7 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Winter Restaurant Week sponsor True Aussie Lamb is also hosting a photography contest for diners this year. Diners that upload a picture of a participating restaurant’s featured Australian lamb dish to Instagram using the hashtag #AussieLambDC will be eligible to win exciting prizes. Arlington’s Moroccan Mediterranean hotspot, Mazagan Restaurant, the Atlas District’s Smith Commons and Graffiato in Penn Quarter are among participating restaurants offering True Aussie lamb dishes on their Restaurant Week menus.
Area chefs have assembled exclusive menus of all types of cuisine. First time participants include Chef Jose Andres’s latest addition to DC’s Penn Quarter, China Chilcano, Chef Jeff Black’s newest addition in Maryland, Republic, and Chef Tim Ma’s eclectic Water & Wall in Northern Virginia. Even outstanding staples in Northern Virginia like the innovative Trummer’s on Main will offer dinner menus this Restaurant Week. Chef Wolfgang Puck’s Asian-fusion restaurant, The Source, is offering both lunch and dinner menus for the first time during the promotion, as is the already popular seafood and steak house, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle.
Diners need not worry about the hassle of looking for parking near their desired dining destinations thanks to Restaurant Week’s new partner, Parking Panda. The preferred parking reservation service will allow diners to have a parking spot waiting upon arrival of the visiting restaurant simply by making a parking reservation when booking a table on the Restaurant Week website.
For more details on Winter Restaurant Week’s social media contests, participants, menus and reservations via OpenTable, please visit RAMW’s dedicated Restaurant Week website here.
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Jacob Lawrence Exhibit at The Phillips Collection
From January 9 through August 10, 2015, The Phillips Collection is hosting an exhibition of the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. Among the best-known 20th century African-American , Lawrence gained national recognition with his 60-panel Migration Series, painted on cardboard.
Produced between 1954 and 1956, Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series illustrates scenes from American history, chronicling events from the Revolutionary War through the great westward expansion of 1817. This exhibition, which brings together 12 panels from the private collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, presents a rare glimpse into the artist’s narrative invention at mid-century while considering the significance of his Struggle series.
The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.
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