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IN THE CITY September 2015 Volume CLVII Inventing in America , a collaboration with the US Patent and Trademark Office, focuses on inventions and innovators of the past and present, including Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. The displays feature early patent models, trademarks and inventions of National Inventors Hall of Fame members. Anchoring the floor is a new landmark object, Ralph Washington’s First and Only Forbes Five-Star, Baer’s Inventor’s Workshop. Visitors are able to view the home AAA Five-Diamond Hotel workshop of Ralph Baer, known as the inventor of the home video game. American History Museum. Special Points of Interest Please join us for our 35th Annual Sprint Four the Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye Cure (fun run and walk) which will benefit the Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, In 1875 Gustave Caillebotte submitted a painting of floor scrapers to the Sept 19. We gladly accept all donations! jury of the Salon, the official exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. The work was rejected, but Degas and Renoir admired it and ENO Wine Bar Wine Enthusiast: 1 of 12 Best Wine Bars for Singles encouraged him to exhibit with the impressionists. Caillebotte’s canvas, Happy Hour Specials, Sunday - Thursday, 5 to 7pm. became one of the sensations of the second impressionist show in 1876. Artist in residence: Aina Nammack through Sept 30. Despite these accomplishments, Caillebotte remains perhaps the least National Book Festival at the Convention Center, Sept known of the French impressionists. Because of his secure finances 5. derived from his father’s successful textile business — he had no need to earn an income from his art. He therefore did not sell his pictures, and Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, MD approximately 1 hour, Sept 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and few entered public collections. After he bequeathed his collection to the 27. state, it became the cornerstone of impressionist art in French national Kennedy Center museums. National Gallery of Art West Building, through Oct 4. National Symphony Orchestra: Labor Day Capitol Concert on the west front lawn of the Capitol, Sept 6. Opening Ball & Concert, Christoph Eschenbach and Steven Reineke, conductors with Sutton Foster and The Modern Pueblo Paintings of Awa Tsireh Martin Gruber, Sept 20. The paintings of Awa Tsireh, (aka Alfonso Roybal), represent an encounter Bourbon Heritage Cocktail Class in Bourbon Steak, between the art traditions of native Pueblo peoples in the Southwest and the Sept 12. American modernist art style begun in New York, which spread quickly Madonna in concert at the Verizon Center, Sept 12. across the country. It is a story of native and Anglo influences coming together to create an unlikely new hybrid kind of art, one that delighted those Nation’s Triathlon, Sept 13. who saw it through its unusual blending of cultures. American Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts Sept 4 through Jan 31. Organic Matters, through Sept 13. Super Natural, through Sept 13. Constitution Hall Vermeer's “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” Josh Groban, Sept 14. Music Magic Mast Kalaiyaan, Sept 19. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Gallery's history-making exhibition “Johannes Vermeer”, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is lending one of its American Moments, Photographs from the Phillips great treasures: Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Last seen in Collection, through Sept 13. Washington in 1996, this luminous masterpiece has been recently restored Nationals at 10: Baseball Makes News, Newseum, and will hang in the Gallery's Dutch and Flemish Cabinet Galleries alongside through Nov 29. other works by Vermeer in the permanent collection, including Girl with the National Geographic Museum Red Hat. National Gallery of Art, West Building, Main Floor, Sept 19 through Monster Fish, through Oct 11. Dec 1. Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archeology, through Jan 3, 2016. Welcome to all of the students who have chosen Washington, DC as their new Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom, at the Library of Congress, through Dec 31. classroom. We’re glad that you are here and wish you a great year ahead! The Value of Money delves into the vast National Please stop by the Concierge Desk for Student Stores, our comprehensive Numismatic Collection at the American History Museum. collegiate shopping list. Theater and Arts Theater & Music DC Improv Art Arnez J, Sept 2 through 5. The John F. Kennedy Center for the American Art Museum Performing Arts Gabriel Iglesias, Sept 6. The American Art Museum records the American Tony Roberts, Sept 10 through 13. National Symphony Orchestra experience from the colonial period to today. The Rob Cantrell, Sept 16. collection includes images from the West, Labor Day Capitol Concert, Steven Reineke, Godfrey, Sept 17 through 20. conductor featuring Kate Davis and the Soldiers’ impressionism, WPA murals, folk and Cristela Alonzo, Sept 24 through 26. contemporary art. (In the same building as the Chorus of the US Army Field Band, on the west Open Mic Night, Sept 30. front lawn of the Capitol, Sept 6. National Portrait Gallery.) 11:30am to 7pm Opening Ball Concert, Christoph Eschenbach and Folger Theatre 8th and F Street, NW Steven Reineke, conductors with Sutton Foster and Royal Shakespeare Company Live: The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur Sackler Martin Gruber, Sept 20. Merchant of Venice, Sept 12. Gallery Rajataon: Best of The Beatles, Sept 25 and 26. Texts & Beheadings/Elizabeth R, Sept 19 The Freer Gallery and the Sackler Gallery together through Oct 4. Theater form the National Museum of Asian Art. These 14th Annual Page to Stage Festival, Sept 5 Ford’s Theatre galleries house the nation’s collections which through 7. The Guard, Sept 25 through Oct 18. include furniture, jades, bronzes, paintings, World Stages: Seuls, Sept 18 and 19. History on Foot, Investigation: Detective ceramics, manuscripts and sculptures from the Mid World Stages: Wagner, Max! Wagner! Sept 25 McDevitt, through Oct 31. and Far East. It is also home to the largest and 26. Keegan Theatre collection of works by James McNeill Whistler and Women’s Voices Theater: Roe, Sept 28. Dogfight, through Sept 19. the lovely Peacock Room. Shear Madness, through Dec 31. Ronald Reagan Building 10am to 5:30pm Chamber Music The Capitol Steps, every Friday and Saturday On the Mall, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street, SW Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano & Jake Heggie, through Dec 26. Hillwood Museum & Gardens piano, Sept 12. Signature Theatre Experience the world of Russian imperial and Dance The Fix, through Sept 20. French decorative arts displayed in the grand Dana Tai Soon Burgess Company presents There is Nothin’ Like a Dame: Women in setting conceived by Hillwood’s founder Marjorie Fluency in Four, Sept 19 and 20. Musical Theater, Sept 28. Merriweather Post, heir of the Post cereal empire. Cake Off, Sept 29 through Nov 22. Surrounded by woodlands in the heart of Young Audience Washington, DC, the 25 acre estate boasts a The Cerulean Time Capsule, Sept 12 through Oct Source Theatre Latina Supremes, Sept 19 and 20. variety of garden pleasures. 25. Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm Flowers Stink, Sept 23 through Oct 24. Studio Theatre 4155 Linnean Ave, NW Jazz Chimerica, Sept 9 through Oct 18. The Kreeger Museum Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music and Theater J The Kreeger Museum is the former home of David Media with Jason Moran, Sep 4 through 13. Queens Girl in the World, Sept 16 through Oct and Carmen Kreeger that was designed by world Opera 11. renowned architect Philip Johnson. The home Washington National Opera: Carmen, Sept 19 Verizon Center showcases a permanent collection of 19th & 20th through Oct 3. Madonna, Sept 12. century paintings and sculptures including works Arena Stage Scream Back 2 School Fest, Sept 20. by Monet, Rodin, Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky and Destiny of Desire (Telenova comedy), Sept 11 Ed Sheeran, Sept 22 and 23. others. through Oct 18. R. Kelly, Sept 26. Tuesday through Thursday by appointment only. Birchmere Warner Theatre Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm. Billy Bob Thornton, Sept 3. REO Speedwagon, Sept 10. 2401 Foxhall Road, NW Euge Groove, Sept 4. The Church Mafia Live, Sept 12. National Gallery of Art and Sculpture Watkins Family Hour, Sept 8 and 9. Joe Walsh, Sept 23. Garden Milk Carton Kids, (Lisner Auditorium) Sept 10. The Wiggles, Sept 26 (2 shows). The National Gallery's West Building has art from Emmylou Harris, Sept 10 and 11. Wolf Trap the 3rd Century to present times -- a collection of The Manhattans, Sept 12. Lenny Kravits & Andra Day, Sept 1. over 90,000 pieces. Only the atrium of the East Billy Cobham, Sept 15. Frank Sinatra, Jr., Sept 2. Building is open. All galleries are closed and are Lyfe Jennings, Sept 16. Damien Marley and Stephen Marley, Catch a expected to open in early 2016. The Calder mobile Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Sept 17. Fire Tour, Sept 5. is on display and the building, by I. M. Pei is a work Gatlin Brothers, Sept 20. Rodrigo & Gabriela, Sept 6. of art in itself. On special exhibit: The Memory of Steve Earle and the Dukes, Sept 23. Gypsy Kings, Sept 10. Time: Contemporary Photographs, through Sept Maysa & Her Jazz Funk Soul Orchestra, Sept 25. Jackson Browne, Sept 11. 13. Celebrating Danny Gatton and the Music of the Kelly Clarkson, Sept 12 and 13. Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Anacostia Delta, Sept 26. Woolly Mammoth Sunday 11am to 6pm Guy Buddy, Sept 28. Woman Laughing Alone with Salad, Sept 7 On the Mall, 4th through 7th Streets along Patty Griffin, Sept 29.