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Symbol Description Adopted Image Ref. Beverage: Rickey: At the place of origin of the cocktail, Jack Evans, a city councillor, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, the House delegate for the district, unveiled a plaque honoring the Rickey. It was proclaimed "Washington, D.C.'s native cocktail". July was also declared as Rickey Month in the district.
Two political statues have mysteriously popped up in Washington, DC, drawing crowds of onlookers, just a week before Election Day.
Some of America's most well-known artists, including Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth are featured in “For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design."
The exhibition featured nine major contemporary artists invited to install site-specific works on the theme of wonder in the nine exhibition spaces of the gallery. The artists chosen were Jennifer Angus , Chakaia Booker , Gabriel Dawe , Tara Donovan , Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman , John Grade, Maya Lin , and Leo Villareal .
The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in 1991, featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from 1820 to 1920 which depicted images and iconography of ...
The American University Museum is a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2) museum and sculpture garden located within the university's Katzen Arts Center.As the region's largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum's permanent collection highlights the holdings of the Katzen and Watkins collection.
In many cases, an OAS exhibition represented the artist's first individual exhibit outside of his/her country of origin. When the museum officially opened in 1976, the collection numbered 250 works. Today, the collection has grown to close to 2000 objects in varying media including painting, sculpture, installations, prints, drawings and ...
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