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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.
America: Jurgen Weber: 1965–1971 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Bronze & Concrete Sculpture: approx. 8 × 50 × 1.5 ft.; Base: approx. 4.5 × 20 × 3 ft. United States Department of the Interior [31] Don Quixote: Aurelio Teno: 1976
Beyond Granite: Pulling Together is the title of a contemporary art exhibition held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from August to September 2023.Organized by the Trust for the National Mall, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the National Park Service, and curated by the nonprofit Monument Lab, Pulling Together was the first curated outdoor art exhibition in the Mall's ...
Two political statues have mysteriously popped up in Washington, DC, drawing crowds of onlookers, just a week before Election Day.. Last week, an unknown artist placed a bronze replica of former ...
Constance Caplan, chair of the museum's board of trustees, resigned on July 8, 2013. She cited what the Washington Post characterized as "a board, a museum and the larger Smithsonian Institution at a crossroads, roiled by a lack of transparency, trust, vision and good faith". Four of the board's 15 members resigned between June 2012 and April ...
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art (2013) Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes (2013) A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2013) Nam June Paik: Global Visionary (2012) The Civil War and American Art (2012) 40 under 40: Craft Futures (2012)
The DAR Museum, run by the Daughters of the American Revolution, is an art and history museum in Washington, D.C. The museum is located in Memorial Continental Hall, just down the street from DAR Constitution Hall, where some of the museum's concerts take place.
Chuck Brown performing go-go music Jazzist Duke Ellington, shown here performing in Washington in 1946, is among the most prominent musicians to come from DC. D.C. has its own native music genre, called go-go , a musical subgenre that is a blend of funk, blues, and rhythm, and old-school hip-hop that originated in the Washington, D.C., area in ...