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Outdoor Exhibit at The REACH
Now through February 28, 2021, the Kennedy Center is reaching out around the globe to ask one question: in this period of unprecedented world challenges, how do we harness the healing power of art?
Featuring three installations scattered across the grounds of the REACH, the Kennedy Center’s UNITY | PEACE | FORWARD project offers a glimpse into the minds of creatives—their hopes, fears, dreams, and aspirations in a time of uncertainty and isolation.
The Kennedy Center is located at 2700 F Street NW.
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The Phillips Collection Celebrates Centennial
In 2021, The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, celebrates its centennial with an exhibtion running February 20 through September 21, 2021.
The museum opened its doors 100 years ago as a memorial to founder Duncan Phillips's father, Duncan Clinch Phillips, and brother, James, who died in the 1918 flu epidemic. Recognizing the healing power of art, Phillips sought to share his “living” collection in a welcoming space and to inspire others to find beauty in the artist's unique way of seeing the world.
Building on this founding principle, Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century at once commemorates the museum’s centennial and launches its next vibrant chapter.
Drawn from its growing collection of nearly 6,000 works, Seeing Differently will highlight over 200 works by artists from the 19th century to the present, including paintings, works on paper, prints, photographs, sculptures, quilts, and videos. Spread throughout the entire museum, the exhibition will explore the complexities of our ever-changing world through themes of identity, history, place, and the senses.
Seeing Differently marks the first major celebration of the museum’s permanent collection in over 10 years. Guided by Duncan Phillips’s belief in the universal language of art as a unifying force for social change, the exhibition will present dynamic, engaging juxtapositions that connect artists past and present across national, racial, and gender lines.
Seeing Differently is accompanied by a major exhibition catalogue (The Phillips Collection in association with Giles, 2021) and a multitude of interdisciplinary programs.
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Pippi Longstocking is 75
'Now let’s celebrate’, Pippi shouted, as she got back on her feet. ‘Let’s celebrate until we raise the roof of Villa Villekulla.’
For 75 years Astrid Lindgren’s fictional character Pippi Longstocking has entertained, astonished, questioned and provoked audiences all over the world. Pippi is adored by children, and people of all ages consider her a role model and a symbol for independence and anti-authoritarianism to this day. Her liberal and free-spirited character has made an impact far beyond the world of children’s books.
Take a virtual tour here of the Children's Room and Little Library at House of Sweden. Learn more about author Astrid Lindgren and explore Swedish children's books.
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View 'Scenes from an Island' Swedish Exhibition
Scenes from an Island by Swedish photographer Florence Montmare just opened at Fotografiska in New York as a virtual exhibition part of their New York’s Photo Sessions.
Utilizing images, text, and video, a visual journey is played out against legendary director Ingmar Bergman’s mise-en-scène, the cinematic landscape on the remote island of Fårö, Sweden.
In the exhibition, Montmare explores the human condition of isolation, displacement, and transience among the elemental conditions of a landscape where land meets water. On display Dec 9 - Feb 28, 2021.
Additionally, in conjunction with Fotografiska’s ongoing Mindfulness Friday’s series, Montmare, a lifelong meditation practitioner, will offer a specialized theme tied to the seven chapters of Scenes from an Island , accompanied by a guided meditation with original music, offering viewers a chance to contemplate her images and while going deeper within themselves.
Visit the exhibition and learn more here.
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Vladimir Kanevsky's Porcelain Flowers Bloom at Hillwood
Hillwood's mansion will burst into bloom this winter with a garden of everlasting botanicals.
From February 13 through June 6, 2021, contemporary artist Vladimir Kanvesky's exquisite flower sculptures will spring to life throughout Hillwood's mansion for the special exhibition The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky.
Kanevsky has said, "there is everything in flowers—history, drama, structure, beauty, and fragrance," a sentiment Hillwood founder Marjorie Post knew well. Post surrounded herself with flowers, creating impressive gardens at her homes and filling the houses with luscious arrangements.
(Photo by: Courtesy of Vladimir Kanvesky)
Inspired by flowers grown throughout Post's gardens at Hillwood, including camellias, tulips, and dahlias, Kanevsky's sculptures will take the place of these live arrangements, bursting with color in the dining room, breakfast room, pavilion, French drawing room, and Post's bedroom suite.
Featuring nearly 35 works, the exhibition is next in a series of collaborations with contemporary artists, such as Bouke de Vries in 2019, Philip Haas in 2016, and Isabel de Borchgrave in 2013.
About the Artist
Born in Ukraine and now based on Fort Lee, New Jersey, Vladimir Kanevsky first began a career as an architect before emigrating to the United States in 1989. His foray into porcelain started with a tableware project for designer Howard Slatkin, producing a melon in the style of an 18th-century porcelain tureen. Fascinated by botany since childhood, Kanevsky swiftly transitioned to creating flowers in this new medium. "I like flowers because they have a logical structure to them," he explained, "It's like architecture." Each flower is sculpted by hand—pieces are shaped, painted, fired, and assembled, petal by petal.
Among Kanevsky's notable accomplishments are an eleven-piece collaboration with the Miessen Porcelain Manufactory in 2012 and a 2017 exhibition at the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. His major collectors include Deeda Blair, Charlotte Moss, Carolyne Roehm, and Alberto Pinto.
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is located at 4155 Linnean Ave NW
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