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Highlights
Exhibition: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age
Through Sunday, March 14
National Gallery of Art

This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography.
Friday Night Eclectic: Incwell - Rebirth of the Flower Child
Friday, February 19
Strathmore

This genre-busting D.C. hip hop artist pushes the limits with such far-flung influences as Al Green, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Janis Joplin.
Global Glimpses Series
Friday, February 26 through Sunday, February 28
National Geographic

For the third year you'll have the opportunity to view in one weekend the five films nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The
BARACK STARS: The Wrath of Rahm
Wednesday, February 10 through Saturday, February 20
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Bolshoi Ballet
Tuesday, February 16 through Sunday, February 21
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Top of page, left: View of the National Gallery of Art Rotunda decorated with Poinsettia plants and holiday greenery. Photo by Rob Shelley © 2005 Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

 

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