The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new “African-American Art: The Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond” exhibit features works from a relatively narrow spa...

Japan sequestered itself from the West from 1600 to 1853, when most of the art in three current D.C. exhibitions was made. Yet despite this attempt to shield the country from ...

In 1961, an unusual children’s book was published. Written by architect Norton Juster and illustrated by his friend and Brooklyn neighbor Jules Feiffer, “The Phantom Tollb...

“Damsels in Distress,” writer-director Whit Stillman’s first movie in almost 14 years, is set on a college campus — and in a sort of time warp. “I didn’t want to m...

The show is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, so of course the 77 works in “Royalists and Romantics” are by women. Anywhere else, though, viewers would likely b...

Korea-born, Washington-based artist Jae Ko is having her seventh solo exhibition at Marsha Mateyka Gallery, near Dupont Circle. Ko works with ink and paper but makes sculptur...

In the latter half of the 20th century, photography became enmeshed with fine art. Photographs went up on museum walls next to works that responded to the form, such as Andy W...

For more than a decade, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was a regular in war zones: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and his final stop, Libya. Unlike more traditional war ...

Rodrigo Garcia has earned a reputation as a master of what used to be called “the woman’s picture,” directing such movies as “Mother and Child” (about three generati...

Cuba Gooding Jr. has played a Tuskegee Airman twice — once in the 1995 HBO movie named for the unit of African-American pilots, and now in “Red Tails,” a new, George Luc...

Pioneering African-American photographer Gordon Parks, who was born in Kansas in 1912, made his reputation traveling the world for Life magazine. But he began his career in Wa...

Its style is sometimes referred to as “demon drumming,” but the troupe’s full name is Wadaiko Yamato — which translates as “Japan Drum Japan.” Yet the ensemble, kn...

It’s not exactly the Library of Congress, but the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections. Founded just last year b...

Nika Roza Danilova, the Los Angeles-based neo-goth musician who records as Zola Jesus, is just 22 years old. But she’s been making music since she was 8, when she decided sh...

Andy Warhol has certainly enjoyed more than the 15 minutes of fame he famously predicted we’d each be allotted. Four decades after he painted them, his soup cans, Brillo box...