Alma Thomas, Breeze Rustling Through Fall Flowers, 1968, Gift of Franz Bader, 1976MUSEUM MARVELS
The Phillips Collection examines the relationship
between the work of seminal African American
artists and the European modernists in Riff s
and Relations: African American Artists and the
European Modernist Tradition (open through May
24). An iconic naturalist and his awe-inspiring
infl uence are detailed in Alexander von Humboldt
and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture at
the Smithsonian American Art Museum, March
20 – Aug. 16. One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama
in the Hirshhorn Collection (April 4 – Sept. 20)
invites viewers inside two Infi nity Mirror Rooms,
plus it includes a photo-op with the polka dot
sculpture, Pumpkin.
curtains up
Take a trip back to 1950s New York for classic
musical comedy in the form of Guys and Dolls
at Ford’s Theatre (March 13 – May 20). The
magnifi cent music and vibrant dance routines of
Mamma Mia! touch down at The Anthem from
June 25 – July 5 thanks to Signature Theatre
Company. Hamilton returns to the Kennedy Center
from June 16 - Sept. 20, while the National Building
Museum and Folger Shakespeare Library team up
for Shakespeare’s Playhouse from July 4 – Sept. 7
in the museum’s Great Hall, where A Midsummer
Night’s Dream will be staged in the evenings.
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