Washington Speaks

Reviews and notices of events in Washington, D.C. including, but not limited to, the performing arts, speakers, authors, lectures, meetings, books, movies, cycling, hockey games, exhibitions, buildings, and an occasional post about other places and things.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Photography exhibit exposes seven decades of urban faces

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Walker Evans, Subway Portraits 1938-41, National Gallery of Art, Washington, gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello/copyright, Walker Evans Ar...
Friday, July 27, 2012

'Saturday Night Fever' is always hot

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John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney in Paramount Pictures' Saturday Night Fever / Paramount Pictures How many times have you read a bo...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Miro's 'Ladder' stands only at the National Gallery of Art

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Joan Miro, The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) 1923-1924, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1936 Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape a...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

President Obama fires up the troops

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President Obama in Clifton, Virginia / Patricia Leslie Last weekend in Clifton President Obama talked to several hundred of the faithful, ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Seal ignites Wolf Trap

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Seal at Wolf Trap/ Patricia Leslie If you missed the fireworks last week on the Mall, there were more out at  Wolf Trap Tuesday night. Y...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Two Amelias star at the National Portrait Gallery

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One of many occupations of women during the Civil War was that of spy.  Pictured is Belle Boyd of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) ...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

The 'Louvre' exits Washington on Sunday

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Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre , 1831–1833, oil on canvas, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection Wha...
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