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Champagne in The Kreeger Galleries Oct. 13

Champagne in the Galleries

Saturday, October 13, 2018 

5:00 to 7:00 pm

The Kreeger Museum

2401 Foxhall Road, NW

Enjoy champagne, hors d'oeuvres, and live music from the Zack Pride Trio,

while exploring The Kreeger Museum Collection,

including several new works that are on display for the first time.

All tickets will benefit innovative eductaion programs.

Tickets: $75 per person

Optional valet parking: $10

Purchase tickets here.

The Kreeger Museum is dedicated to providing arts education to all students in the Washington metropolitan area. Programs reach many in underserved communities, this year 85 percent of participating students were from schools that receive Title I funding.

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Martin Tolchin on Upcoming Election Oct.25

Will President Trump’s policies and/or support help or hurt Republican candidates? What’s the likelihood of Democratic turnover of the House and/or Senate? Martin Tolchin will address these questions when he speaks on October 25th at 6:00 pm at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O Street, NW.

Martin Tolchin spent 40 years at The New York Times as a reporter and bureau chief and then founded The Hill newspaper and Politico.  He authored, with his wife Susan, seven books.  Mr. Tolchin’s talk last year was thoroughly enjoyed by many Georgetown Village members. You won’t want to miss this evening which is part of Georgetown Village’s Speaker Series on Contemporary Issues. 

Free and open to the public and includes refreshments. Please reserve your space by calling the Georgetown Village office at 202.999.8988.

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'Nordic Impressions' at The Phillips Collection

Opening October 12, 2018 at The Phillips Collection is art from Åland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821–2018.  Nordic Impressions will be on view through January 13, 2019.

The exhibition celebrates the incredible artistic diversity of Nordic art, from idealized paintings of the distinctive Nordic light and untouched landscape to melancholic portraits in quiet interiors and mesmerizing video works that explore the human condition. While the question of what constitutes a distinctively Nordic art has been a constant debate, the art in the exhibition retains a certain mystique and focus on themes that have held a special place in Nordic culture for centuries: light and darkness, inner life and exterior space, the coalescence of nature and folklore, and women’s rights and social liberalism. 

Nordic Impressions demonstrates how Nordic artists have inspired each other across national boundaries while honoring deeply rooted cultural traditions.

The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.

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Sean Scully At Hirshhorn Now

One of the major highlights of the 56th Venice Biennale, the abstract paintings of Sean Scully represent a dramatic and seminal shift in the work of one of today’s most important abstract artists, and the exhibition marks the first chance for audiences to experience the full range of Scully’s latest evolution, including nearly two dozen works never before seen by the public.

Now through February 3, 2019 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sean Scully: Landline traces the "Landline" series’ expression through a variety of media, with nearly 40 oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, and photographs (1999–2017), and layered aluminum Stack sculptures, iconic forms that reflect in three dimensions the horizontal movement of his paintings. Vibrating with urgency and beauty, together these works form a continuous current of color that will pulsate through the Hirshhorn’s circular second-floor gallery.

“I think of land, sea, sky. And they always make a massive connection. I try to paint this, this sense of the elemental coming together of land and sea, sky and land…stacked in horizon lines endlessly beginning and ending…” – Sean Scully

Spanning a variety of media—including watercolor, oil painting, and sculpture—the works in the exhibition showcase the artist’s remarkable ability to deepen, mystify, and vary his relatively limited repertoire of motifs—largely comprised of vertical and horizontal stripes. With gestures toward the land, sea, and sky (and the indistinct lines between them), the works navigate the elemental relationships that compose our world, and in doing so reveal the sublime character of those interactions. 

This exhibition debuts more than twenty years after the Hirshhorn opened Scully’s first mid-career retrospective in 1995, a pivotal exhibition that cemented his status at the center of contemporary painting. Building on the narrative of this 1995 survey, Sean Scully: Landline affords viewers the opportunity to witness the next step in Scully’s artistic evolution, one that continues to impact the greater landscape of contemporary abstract art. Following its Hirshhorn debut, the series will travel to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, in Spring 2019.

Curated by Stéphane Aquin, Chief Curator with curatorial assistance from Sandy Guttman.

SEAN SCULLY

Sean Scully (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1945) is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Harkness Fellowship. Scully’s works are in a number of private and public collections, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. In 2015, Scully participated in the Venice Biennale with his solo exhibition Land Sea at the Palazzo Falier. He currently splits his time living and working in New York and the Bavarian countryside.

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