Passport DC, set for May 7, to allow local visitors into 50+ embassies
Apr 10, 2022 · Passport DC, a series of programs in May featuring Washington’s diplomatic community and its diverse culture, is returning for the first time since the pandemic began, allowing the public to visit over 50 embassies for the Around the World Embassy Tour on May 7 and immerse themselves in various cultures without leaving the city.
Picasso: painting the Blue Period at the Phillips Collection
May 19, 2022 · A blockbuster exhibition at the Phillips Collection attempts the difficult feat of both excising and contextualizing a young Spanish artist from and within decades of explosive, iconic creativity and misogyny.
Imperial Court Portraits Illuminate Chinese Golden Age
Jul 27, 2011 · Photos: Neil Greentree / Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution “Portrait of an Unidentified Courtier in front of a Table” is among 16 portraits at the Sackler Gallery that offer a glimpse inside the lavish court of the Qing dynasty during China’s golden age of prosperity.
Armenia and Georgia should form alliance of Caucasus democracies
Sep 26, 2022 · Downtown Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia. (Photo by Larry Luxner) For example, Georgia has held joint military exercises with Armenia’s foes Azerbaijan and Turkey, aimed at ensuring the security of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Saudi Arabia’s Reema bint Bandar: We can’t wait for change to …
May 31, 2021 · Highway sign on the causeway from Bahrain indicates the exit lane for Saudi-bound motorists. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Bandar spent a good deal of time touting Vision 2030, a strategic framework to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil, diversify its economy and improve health, education, infrastructure and tourism.At present, the oil and gas sector accounts for about 50% of Saudi GDP and 70 ...
Phillips Collection welcomes new De Nittis exhibition
Jan 7, 2023 · A major, must-see exhibition exploring an underappreciated but essential artist is on display for the next month at the Phillips Collection. “An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis” brings a central figure of the artistic movement alive to Washington D.C.
Spotlight: Thousands tour DC embassies during open house
May 10, 2024 · Visitors stamped souvenir passports as they walked around Washington, D.C., during Passport DC’s “Around the World Embassy Tour” event on May 4, in which more than 50 embassies, representing countries from Armenia in West Asia to Zambia in southern Africa, took part.. The aromas of different cuisines filled the air in parts of the U.S. capital, more than they usually do, and D.C ...
State Department Unveils New Design for Diplomatic Plates
Nov 18, 2010 · Diplomatic license plates are sporting a new look for the first time in 23 years. On Aug. 28, the State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions (OFM) began issuing the redesigned plates for new diplomatic registrations, and it will renew active diplomatic registrations using the new plates as they expire month by month.
After Years of Revitalization, Penn Quarter’s Personality Shines
Aug 31, 2011 · Similarly, the arts and culture scene is thriving, propelled by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Newseum, Landmark’s E Street Cinema, Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, the Goethe-Institut German cultural center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and — long overdue — Riot Act, a brand new comedy club to compete with the aging DC Improv.
After Four Years of Fame, Volt Still Energizes Historic Frederick
Jul 31, 2012 · To house their new venture, the team selected a Frederick landmark, the Houck Mansion. Designed by noted architects J.A. and Reinhardt Dempwolf in 1890, the three-story, 8,000-square-foot brick mansion was the private home of the six Houck sisters, who occupied and entertained in the building until the last sister died in 1924.