Special Points of Interest January 2013 Volume CXXV

In The City

January 2013 Volume CXXV “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Washington’s First and Only Forbes Five-Star, Inauguration Day of AAA Five-Diamond Hotel Barack Obama Special Points of Interest 44th President of the Happy New Year! United States of America

Please welcome Mr. Dirk Burkhartz as our hotel’s January 21, 2013 new general manager!

Night Spa Couples are invited to step away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and rediscover each other Michelangelo’s David-Apollo with Night Spa. Our private pool level is exclusively yours from 10:30pm until 1:30am! Choose between a Warming Back Massage (80min) or a Harmonizing The presentation of the David-Apollo , a marble statue by Michelangelo lent to the Body Massage (80min) to start your night. Gaze into National Gallery of Art by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, opens the each other eyes, as you enjoy one of our organic nationwide celebration 2013―The Year of Italian Culture. The graceful figure of a signature Amala experiences by candlelight. youth in a twisting pose is mysterious in both mood and subject; the elements that Customize your own Chef Michael Mina food experience that will awaken your senses. A floral would confirm an identity as either the biblical giant-killer David or the pagan sun-god bouquet of your choice and quiet time in the Jacuzzi Apollo were never completed. With flesh areas covered by a fine network of chisel and pool will conclude your perfect date. This marks, the statue is a fascinating example of the non-finito , the unfinished condition package includes two monogrammed bath robes. that allows viewers to study the sculptural process in many works by Michelangelo. See the concierge or spa to book this magical evening. National Gallery of Art, West Building (main floor) through Mar 3.

Marine Chamber Ensembles: Open House and Marine Band Facility Tour with Concert, Marine Barracks Annex, Jan 27. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 & the March on Washington, 1963 The Museum has partnered with the Museum of African American History to explore two pivotal President Lincoln’s Cottage will be the first public venue events, separated by 100 years but linked together in a larger history of freedom and the American to display a rare, signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation . This historic document will be on display experience. Standing as milestone movements in the grand sweep of American history, these through the end of Feb 2013. achievements were the culmination of decades of struggles by individuals who believed in the American promise that this nation was dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” 1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization, National Geographic Museum, through Feb American History Museum, through Sept 15. 3.

National Building Museum ♦ Detroit is No Dry Bones, through Feb 18. Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective ♦ Detroit Disassembled, through Feb 18. In the first major exhibition since Roy Lichtenstein's death Hirshhorn Museum in 1997, more than 100 of the artist's greatest paintings AI WEIWEI: According to What? Hirshhorn Museum, through Feb 24. from all periods of his career will be presented along with a selection of related drawings and sculptures. This The Sultan’s Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman retrospective presents Lichtenstein's expansive legacy, Art, at The Textile Museum, through Mar 10. including the classic early pop paintings based on Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution, at the advertisements and comic-book treatments of war and National Geographic Museum, through May 12. romance, his versions of paintings by the modern

Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, masters, and series including Brushstrokes, Mirrors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac, National Gallery Artist's Studios, Nudes, and Landscapes in the Chinese of Art, Jan 27 through May 26. Style. National Gallery of Art, East Building, through Jan 13. Theater and Arts Theater & Music Ronald Reagan Building include furniture, jades, bronzes, paintings, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Capitol Steps (political satire), every Friday & ceramics, manuscripts and sculptures from the Mid Saturday through Jan 31. and Far East. It is also home to the largest Performing Arts collection of works by James McNeill Whistler and National Symphony Orchestra Shakespeare Theatre Company A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through Jan 6. the lovely Peacock Room. On special exhibit: Kinderkonzert: Musical Opposites, Jan 12. Roads of Arabia: Archeology and History of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Christoph The Screwtape Letters, through Jan 6. Timon of Athens, Jan 7. the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through Feb 24. Eschenbach, conductor/Tzimon Barto, piano, Jan 10am to 5:30pm, On the Mall, 17 through 19. Fela! Jan 29 through Feb 10. Hughie, Jan 31 through Mar 17. Jefferson Drive and 12th Street, SW Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Select Hillwood Museum & Gardens Works by Beethoven and Bartók: Jan 24 Signature Theatre Dreamgirls, through Jan 13. Experience the world of Russian imperial and through 26. French decorative arts displayed in the grand Theater There is Nothing Like a Dame (cabaret): Jan 9 through 12. setting conceived by Hillwood’s founder Marjorie Shear Madness, through Jan 31. Merriweather Post, heir of the Post cereal empire. Irving Berlin’s, White Christmas, through Jan 6. Source Theatre Surrounded by woodlands in the heart of Million Dollar Quartet, through Jan 6. Harold Night (Improv)! Every Tuesday. Washington, DC, the 25 acre estate boasts a Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Terri White, Jan 25. Studio Theatre variety of garden pleasures. Ballet The Iliad, through Jan 13. Tuesday through Saturday National Ballet of Canada: Alice’s Adventures Contractions, through Jan 27. 1 to 5pm, Jan 20. in Wonderland, Jan 18 through 27. The Motherfucker With The Hat, Jan 30 through 4155 Linnean Avenue, NW Chamber Music Mar 10. The Kreeger Museum Brahms & Schubert, Jan 13. Theater J The Kreeger Museum is the former home of David Daniil Trifonov, piano, Jan 19. Apples from the Desert, through Jan 6. and Carmen Kreeger that was designed by world Vilde Frang, violin, Jan 27. Boged (Traitor): An Enemy of the People, Jan renowned architect Philip Johnson. The home Dance 12 through Feb 3. showcases a permanent collection of 19th & 20th Hong Kong Dance Company: Quinming Warner Theatre century paintings and sculptures including works Riverside, Jan 11 and 12. Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour, by Monet, Rodin, Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky and International Association of Blacks in Dance Jan 19. others. Tuesday through Friday by appointment presents: The Emerging and Established The Blood and the Rose, Jan 24. only. Saturday 10am to 4pm. 2401 Foxhall Road, Artists Dance Showcase, Jan 24. Tony Bennett, Jan 26. NW Shen Yun: Reviving 5,000 Years of Civilization, Woolly Mammoth National Gallery of Art & Sculpture Jan 29 through Feb 3. The Pajama Men: In the Middle of No One, Garden Family through Jan 6. The National Gallery's West Building has a display A Brown Bear, A Moon, and a Caterpillar: of art from the 3rd Century to present times -- a Treasured Stories by Eric Carle, through Jan 6. Art display over 90,000 pieces strong. In the East NSO Kinderkonzert: Musical Opposites, Jan 12. American Art Museum Building are 20th-Century works by Miró, Magritte, NSO Teddy Bear Concert: Bears, Bears The American Art Museum records the American van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse. With its very Everywhere, Jan 19 through 26. experience from the colonial period to today. The modern architectural design, the East Building, by NSO Ensemble Concert: Connections: Science collection includes images from the West, I. M. Pei, is nearly a work of art in itself. On special and Music, Jan 27. impressionism, WPA murals, folk and exhibit: Shock of the News, through Jan 27; Jazz contemporary art. Citizens of the Republic: Portraits from the Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet, Jan 26. (In the same building as the National Portrait Dutch Golden Age, through Feb 3; In the Tower: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Gallery.) 11:30am to 7pm, Barnett Newman, through Feb 24; and Modern Marsalis, Jan 29. 8th and F Street, NW Lab: The Box as Form, Structure, and Opera Corcoran Gallery of Art Container through May 12. Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm The Metropolitan Opera National Council: The Corcoran is Washington’s largest private Sunday 11am to 6pm, Middle Atlantic Regional Auditions, Jan 18. museum. It was also Washington’s first art On the Mall, 4th through 7th Streets along Opera Lafayette presents: Lalla Roukh, Jan 26. museum and ranks with Boston’s Museum of Fine Constitution Avenue, NW Arena Stage Arts and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art National Museum of Women in the Arts My Fair Lady, through Jan 6. as one of the three oldest museums in the US. This is the only museum dedicated solely to female Pullman Porter Blues, through Jan 6. On special exhibit: Enoc Perez: Utopia, through Feb 10. Closed Monday and Tuesday; artists. Representing more than 500 women from Folger Shakespeare Library nearly 30 countries, this museum holds 2,000 of Henry V, Jan 22 through Mar 3. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm; Thursday 10am to 9pm the world's most important works of art by women. Ford’s Theatre 17th Street and New York Avenue, NW The displays range from the Renaissance to Our Town, Jan 25 through Feb 24. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur Sackler Georgia O'Keeffe. On special exhibit: Women Keegan Theatre Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power, through Jan Cabaret, Jan 26 through Feb 23. Gallery 6, High Fiber: Women to Watch 2012 through The Freer Gallery and the Sackler Gallery together Jan 6 and Women Silversmiths, through Feb 24. National Theatre form the National Museum of Asian Art. These Bryan Adams, Jan 26. Sunday 12 to 5pm galleries house the nation’s collections which Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm 1250 New York Avenue, NW More Arts, Museums & Sights

National Portrait Gallery National Museum of the American United States Holocaust Memorial The Portrait Gallery with its collection of nearly 20,000 Indian Museum pieces portrays men and women who have made This collection includes materials not only of This is America’s only national memorial to the significant contributions to the history, development cultural, historical and aesthetic interest, but also Holocaust. The museum features permanent and culture of the USA. (In the same building as the of spiritual significance. Funerary, religious and exhibit as well as film and temporary exhibits. American Art Museum.) ceremonial objects associated with living cultures Please allow 3 hours to visit this museum. See 11:30am to 7pm, 8th and F Streets, NW are displayed with the approval of appropriate the Concierge for special VIP entry passes. The Phillips Collection tribes. 10am to 5:30pm, On the Mall, 10am to 5:30pm America's first museum of modern art was opened in 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW 1921 in the home of Duncan Phillips. Discover this National Zoo international treasure that is also one of Washington’s Giant Pandas: Mei Xian and Tian Tian are a Capital Sights best-loved museums. On special exhibit: Per Kirkeby must see. The Zoo allows you to see the first Paintings and Sculptures, through Jan 6; Bureau of Engraving and Printing Komodo dragons bred in the western world, gaze Printing site of billions of U. S. dollars! This tour is Picturing the Sublime from the Lichtenberg at golden lions, new cheetah cubs, witness the Collection, through Jan 13; and Political Wits, 100 in high demand. Space is given on a first come orangutans swinging and making their own first served basis with the line forming at the Years Apart, Daumier and Oliphant, through Jan 20. transportation system and visit the new Asia Trail. Closed Mondays, Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Visitor Entrance on 14th Street. Tours: Monday Animal Exhibits: 10am to 4:30pm Daily to Friday 9 to 10:45am and 12:30 to 2pm. Visitor Sunday 11am to 6pm, Thursday 10am to 8:30pm 3001 Connecticut Avenue, NW 21st and Q Streets, NW Center: 8:30am to 3:30pm Natural History Museum th 14 and C Streets, SW Some of the artifacts include, “Phoenix” a life size Library of Congress model of a North American right whale, prehistoric The three LOC buildings are remarkable public white shark, an 80-foot dinosaur skeleton and the spaces named after Presidents who had a strong Hope Diamond, a 45.5 carat jewel known in some connection with the creation of the library . The circles as the eighth wonder of the world, in its LOC offers docent led tours of the magnificent new publicly chosen setting. Thomas Jefferson Building and discuss the history 10am to 5:30pm, On the Mall, of the Library as well as the art and architecture of th 10 Street and Constitution Avenue, NW this historic building opened in 1897. Newly International Spy Museum introduced is the Library of Congress Museums An intriguing museum that gives visitors access to Experience in the Jefferson Building. National Air and Space Museum the largest collection of international espionage Monday through Saturday 8:30am to 4:30pm The Air and Space is the largest of the artifacts ever put on public display. Over 600 101 Independence Avenue, SE Smithsonian museums and one of the most visited items are on exhibit, including a WWII German Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial museums in the world. See airplanes and rockets from Enigma cipher machine, a Soviet era shoe Visit Washington’s newest memorial to a civil the Wright Brothers’ plane and the Spirit of St. Louis to transmitter, an East German camera capable of right’s king. Open 24 hours per day. On Apollo. Touch the moon rock on display, visit the photographing through walls and a Soviet era Independence Avenue, SW at the Tidal Basin IMAX theater or gaze at the stars in the Einstein lipstick pistol. Operation Spy, is a hands on between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Planetarium. 10am to 5:30pm. interactive spy adventure that requires On the Mall, 6th Street and Independence Avenue, SW reservations. On special exhibit: Exquisitely The White House Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains, through 2014. Open for groups only when booked in advance Udvar-Hazy Center through a Congressional office. The Air and Space Museum Annex houses over 200 10am to 6pm; except Jan 19 & 20: 9am to 8pm aircraft and 135 spacecraft. See the Space and Jan 21: 9am to 6pm. United States Capitol Shuttle Enterprise, the Enola Gay, an Air France (Last entry to exhibits is 2 hours prior to closing.) The Capitol building is a symbol of the American Concorde and an IMAX movie. Dulles, VA. 8th and F Streets, NW people and their government, the meeting place of 10am to 5:30pm, parking charges apply. The Newseum the nation’s legislature and an art and history The world’s most interactive museum. In its 14 museum. Guided tours start at the Capitol Visitor National Museum of African Art Center. Free tickets are required and distributed The museum’s extensive collection consists of 7,000 galleries, 15 theaters, two broadcast studios and a 4-D time travel experience, The Newseum in advance via the internet. One ticket per African artworks in wood, metal, ceramic, cloth and person. Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 4:30pm ivory. 10am to 5:30pm, blends five centuries of news history with cutting On the Mall, 950 Independence Ave, SW edge technology and innovation. On exhibit: the Washington Monument National Museum of American largest collection of Berlin wall sections, a 9/11 The Washington Monument is currently closed. exhibit with the mangled antennae from the World World War II Memorial History Trade Center, a chance to be on camera with The WWII Memorial is an open air tribute to Documenting our national heritage, this museum cares breaking news report, the biggest collection of America’s greatest generation. Open 24 hours for 17 million artifacts, including the original Star Pulitzer prize-winning photos, an interactive per day. On the Mall at 17th Street, NW Spangled Banner, Dorothy’s ruby slippers and George newsroom and spectacular views of the U. S. between Independence & Constitution Avenues Washington's field tent. The collection includes Capitol. On special exhibit: The Eyes of History clothing, coins, food, government, military, music, 2012, White House News Photographers ♦ An insider tip: Most sites become less sports, etc. New on permanent exhibit: Food: Association, through Mar 29. 9am to 5pm crowded after 2pm when school groups leave. Transforming America’s Table, 1950-2000. 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW ♦ Museums and galleries are open seven th 10am to 5:30pm, On the Mall, 14 Street and days a week unless otherwise noted. Constitution Avenue, NW

Special Events and Sports

Sporting Events Music ...Music Washington Redskins at Fed Ex Field Music Center at Strathmore Jan 12 7:30pm Paul Cebar Jan 6 4:30pm Seattle Seahawks Jan 5 & 6 8pm Mozart and the Voice of Jan 18 8pm Christopher Cross 3pm Viola Jan 19 7:30pm Christopher Cross Washington Wizards at Verizon Center Jan 11 8pm A Fiddler’s Feast Jan 23 8pm Ralph Stanley Jan 4 7pm Brooklyn Nets Jan 12 8pm BSO-Alexander Nevsky Jan 24 8pm Livingston Taylor & Jan 7 7pm OK City Thunder Jan 16 8pm Morrissey Chelsea Berry Jan 12 7pm Atlanta Hawks Jan 18 8:15pm Rachmaninoff’s 3 rd Jan 25 8pm Steven Isserlis & Jan 14 7pm Orlando Magic Jan 19 8pm Brian Ganz Chopin Kirill Gerstein Jan 25 7pm MN Timberwolves Project Jan 26 7:30pm Tom Chapin Jan 26 7pm Chicago Bulls Jan 22 8pm Sing the Truth Jan 31 8pm David Wilcox Jan 28 7pm Sacramento Kings Jan 24 8pm Hairspray in Concert Jan 25 8pm Ladysmith Black Blues Alley Georgetown Hoyas at Verizon Center Mambazo Shows at 8 and 10pm Jan 8 9pm Pittsburgh Jan 26 8pm Lutosawski 100th Anniv: Chris Thomas King, through 6 Jan 16 7pm Providence Remembering Grace Kelly, Jan 8 Jan 26 12pm Louisville Rostropovich Gerald Albright, Jan 10 through 13 Jan 30 7pm Seton Hall Jan 30 8pm New Century Chamber Patrick Cooper & Phillip Martin, Jan 14 Orchestra Angela Stribling, Jan 15 Washington Capitals at Verizon Center Jeff Bradshaw, Jan 16 Jan 15 7pm Vancouver Canucks The Barns at Wolf Trap Envogue, Jan 18 and 19 Jan 22 7pm Ottawa Senators Jan 5 7:30pm Ari Hest Tim Reynolds, Jan 20 Jan 10 8pm Beau Soleil Roy Ayers, Jan 24 through 27 Jan 11 8pm Jack Quartet and Omar Sosa and Paolo Fresu, Jan 29 Derek Bermel Corey Harris “Rasta Blues Experience”, Jan 29

through Feb 2

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