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July 30 to November 13, 2022.

Nicolas Party’s “Draw The Curtain” will remain up and visible through Spring of 2022. The Hirshhorn Museum is at Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW. Call 202-633-1000 or visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.

Seeing Differently, the larger, centerpiece centennial exhibition drawn from the permanent collection.As guest curator, renowned D.C.-based artist Renée Stout reviewed over 1,300 works of art submitted by more than 800 artists. The public is invited to vote for their favorite among Stout’s selected 65 artworks, the winner of which will earn the title of People’s Choice Award.Some of the strongest selections include those created by Desmond Beach, Peter Cizmadia, Nekisha Durrett, Kate Kretz, John Pan, Lydia Peters, Janathel Shaw, Nicolas Shi, Tim Tate, and Colin Winterbottom.Inside Outside, Upside Down is on display through Sept.

Nighthawks is Edward Hopper’s best-known work. It’s a striking, memorable image depicting a nearly empty bar, around which a trio of night owls sit, lost in thought, as a bartender gazes off into the distance.In creating the work almost 80 years ago during the throes of World War II, the famous American Impressionist has conceded that “unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.”Even more striking — and far lonelier — is Kelly MacConomy’s contemporary twist on Hopper’s classic, dubbed COVID Nighthawks reimagined and scrubbed clean of its four solitary humans.

Crawl Back Inside by Colleen Smith, Out of Hand by Nicole Ziesing, Night Mare by Anya Getter, Clownscape by Marc Potter, Dreams of the Afterlife by Elise Ritter, and Reverie by Wendy Leitner.Opens Monday, Feb. 1.

Paper Routes highlights the versatility of paper well beyond its traditional role as the basis for drawings, photographs, signs, and packaging — with works that range from intimate to immersive, and from delicate to surprisingly dense.As the sixth installment of the museum’s “Women to Watch” series, this exhibition was developed through an innovative collaboration between the museum and its outreach committees from different regions around the world as well as co-curators Virginia Treanor and Orin Zahra.The exhibition features works by Jen Aitken (representing the museum’s committee in Canada), Elizabeth Alexander (Massachusetts), Natasha Bowdoin (Texas), Mira Burack (New Mexico), Elisabetta Di Maggio (Italy), Oasa DuVerney (New York), Mary

See You There displays documents, stories, and works of art, some newly commissioned, that offer a glimpse of Black and lesbian life in the city. Inspired by Whitman-Walker’s Oral History Project, a collection of audio stories relayed by patients, advocates, program directors, and community members, the exhibit touches on LGBTQ advocacy, sexual health, and the fight against HIV in the region.Curated by The Corner Executive Director Ruth Noack with input from Whitman-Walker’s Director of Communications Jewel Addy as well as Paula Castro Martinez and Sol, See You There features new works by Mehraneh Atashi, Holly Bass, Tina Gverović, and Pamela Sneed, while also presenting important photographs by JEB (Joan E.

A Little Bit of Everything Amoroso, was originally conceived of last year as part of a Day of the Dead party and celebration at the nonprofit ARTfactory in Manassas, Va.

From Emma Peel to Olenna Tyrell, Dame Diana Rigg had a long and successful career playing feisty women who lit up the screen.

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Naked Truth Show was originally conceived as a traditional exhibit celebrating the nude in figurative art from five diverse, Baltimore-area LGBTQ artists with Otis Street Arts Project.The platform launches with the original Pride-inspired June 2020 exhibit of works by Lania d’Agostino, Douglas Johnson, Jasjyot Singh Hans, Kieran Solley, and frequent Metro Weekly contributor Scott G. Brooks.Meanwhile, the artists will be interviewed as part of a new podcast series focused on queer artists, in this case intended to help dispel myths and misconceptions about the practice and use of nude models.The podcasts are hosted by Peter Pup Orpheus, a classical composer, live model, arts advocate, and Mr.

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