Patricia Leslie

Mel Bochner comes for talk and National Gallery of Art opening

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. conceptual artist Mel Bochner will talk with the Gallery's curator James Meyer at the National Gallery's East Building auditorium, and the public is invited.Just opened at the National...

The Embassy of Greece hosts 'Secrets of Archimedes'

At the Embassy of Greece the other night, William Noel of Baltimore's Walters Art Museum addressed an audience that came to learn about the lost manuscript of Archimedes, now an exhibition at the...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has Rachmaninoff on tap

At last glance, a few seats remained for tonight's performance at Strathmore, so few that BSO did not offer its "email special" this week, and Rachy (1873-1943) is my fav. But last week...

'Edgar Allan Poe' on stage in Falls Church

Any area Poe fan will not want to miss the opportunity to see Nevermore now playing through Sunday at Creative Cauldron in Falls Church. Revealed by words he wrote and by song, the story by Grace Barnes...

Talking chefs at the White House

At National Archives last week, three former White House chefs spilled the beans, and what First Family's member's name would you imagine was mentioned the most? From among the Bushes (both sets), the Carters, the...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and a future memorial

At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial recently, National Park Service Ranger Kathy Kagle gave an excellent talk on the history of the memorial, focusing her remarks that evening on eight women, all nurses, who died as a result of...

Suzanne Farrell Ballet was exquisite at the Kennedy Center

To the eyes of a laywoman sitting in the balcony, the dancing was as flawless as one could wish for, a dreamy way to escape the world and enter a fairy kingdom in Washington, D.C. (A fairy...

'Bad art' at the National Gallery of Art?

As in, Philip Guston (1913-1980) and "Bad Painting."As in, the 2011 Wyeth Lecture in American Art to be delivered by Stanford professor Bryan J. Wolf on October 19 at 4:30 p.m. at...

Hirshhorn 'after hours' was, well, a rip-off

Really Dear Hirsshorn,If it's going to be a fundraiser, why can't you call it that?Why raise expectations when there should be none?$25 and no drink ticket? Not one? When I...

'Les Miserables' at the Kennedy Center and in the streets

People power! Democracy! Revolution! Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? (And women)It is the music of a peopleWho will not be slaves again!The characters protest and sing their songs, not...

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