In The City January 2018 Volume CLXXV Renoir and Friends Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party focuses on The Phillips Collection’s celebrated Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the diverse circle of friends who inspired it. The first exhibition to focus on this singular masterwork in more than 20 years, it is comprised of over 40 Washington’s First and Only Forbes Five-Star, carefully chosen works—paintings, drawings, pastels, watercolors AAA Five-Diamond Hotel and photographs from public and private collections around the world—that reveal the story of Luncheon of the Boating Party and Special Points of Interest the artists and patrons who were instrumental in its creator’s Happy New Year! success. The Phillips Collection, through Jan 7. ENO Wine Bar (Closed Mondays) Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry Wine Enthusiast: 1 of 12 Best Wine Bars for Singles This landmark exhibition examines the artistic exchanges among Johannes Happy Hour Specials, Sunday - Thursday, 5 to 7pm. Artist in residence: Brian Truesdale, through Jan 31. Vermeer and his contemporaries from the mid-1650s to around 1680, when they reached the height of their technical ability and mastery of genre Live Mobile Chat with our hotel via the Four Seasons painting, or depictions of daily life. The exhibition brings together nearly 70 App on any mobile device. We are just a click away! Stop by the Concierge desk if you’d like a tutorial. We works by Vermeer and his fellow painters, including Gerard ter Borch, would love to show you! Gerrit Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Frans van Mieris, Caspar Netscher and Jan Steen, who lived in various towns throughout the Dutch Georgetown Glow, the neighborhood will be glowing with public art using light as the medium, through Jan 7. Republic. Juxtaposing paintings related by theme, motif and composition, the exhibition explores how these artists inspired, rivaled, surpassed and Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light, at the pushed each other to greater artistic achievement. The exhibition features Smithsonian American Art Museum, through Jan 7. © Johannes Vermeer, The Lacemaker , c. 10 paintings by Vermeer, many of which have not been seen in the United 1670–1671, oil on canvas on panel, Musée Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The States since 1996. National Gallery of Art, West Building, through Jan 21. du Louvre, Paris, France. Nutshell Studies (shadow boxes) of Unexplained Death, Renwick Gallery, through Jan 28. Museum of the Bible provides guests with an immersive and personalized experience as you explore the history, narrative and impact of the Bible. The Bible has made a powerful impact on our collective history and culture and is read by people in thousands of languages all over the world. DC’s newest museum is just steps off of the National Mall. Exhibits include In the Valley of David and Goliath, Christmas Illuminated, Amazing Grace, The Living Dead, The Art of Gospels and Stations of the Cross . On long term exhibit: Israel Antiquities Authority and Vatican Museums and Vatican Capitol One Arena Library . 10am to 7pm, Monday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm Sunday. 400 4th Street, SW. ♦ Shakira El Dorado, Jan 16. ♦ WWE Smackdown Live, Jan 23. ♦ Lana Del Ray: LA to the Moon, Jan 25. ♦ Monster Jam Triple Threat Series, Jan 27 & 28. Ice Skating Around Town ♦ Georgetown’s National Harbour ♦ National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ♦ Roof of the Watergate Hotel (with cocktails) Secrets of the Lacquer Buddha unites the only sixth and Americans seventh-century, life-size Chinese lacquer Buddha American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the US population, yet names and images of Indians sculptures known: one from the Walters Art Museum, one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one from the Freer are everywhere: military weapons, town names, advertising and that holiday in November. Gallery of Art. They have never been Americans invites visitors to take a closer look and to ask why. Featuring nearly 350 objects and images, exhibited together before. from a Tomahawk missile to baking powder cans, Americans examines the staying power of four stories— Sackler Gallery through June 10 Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears and the Battle of Little Bighorn—that are woven into the fabric of both American history and contemporary life. By highlighting what has been remembered, contested, cherished, and denied about these stories and why they continue to resonate, this exhibition shows that Americans have always been fascinated, conflicted and profoundly shaped by their relationship to American Indians. National Museum of the American Indian, ongoing from Jan 18. Theater, Music and Art Theater & Music Arena Stage Freer Gallery of Art and Sackler Gallery The John F. Kennedy Center for the Sovereignty, Jan 12 through Feb 18. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery along with the Freer Performing Arts DC Improv Gallery are known as the National Museum of Asian Art. These galleries house the nation’s Ballet Ryan Davis, Jan 5 through 7. Orny Adams, Jan 11 through 14. collections which include furniture, jades, bronzes, An American in Paris, through Jan 7. paintings, ceramics, manuscripts and sculptures Open Rehearsal: American Ballet Theatre, Jan Andrews Schulz, Jan 18 through 21. The Time Machine Roast, Jan 25. from the Mid and Far East. 10am to 5:30pm 30. On the Mall, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street, SW American Ballet Theatre, Whipped Cream, Jan Lavell Crawford, Jan 26 through 28. 30 through Feb 4. Pun DMV, Jan 31. Hillwood Museum & Gardens Experience the world of Russian imperial and Chamber Music Folger Theatre The Way of the World, Jan 9 through Feb 11. French decorative arts displayed in the grand Benjamin Baker, violin and Daniel Lebhardt, setting conceived by Hillwood’s founder Marjorie piano, Jan 23. Ford’s Theatre Jefferson’s Garden, Jan 19 through Feb 11. Merriweather Post, heir of the Post cereal empire. Calidore String Quiartet, Jan 24. Surrounded by woodlands in the heart of Works by Francaix, Poulenc & Brahms, Jan 28. Keegan Theatre Washington, DC, the 25 acre estate boasts a Classical Music Unnecessary Farce, Jan 19 through Feb 10. variety of garden pleasures. On special exhibit: National Symphony Orchestra MGM Resort Spectacular, through Jan 7. Museum and Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety, Jan 11 - 13. Dancing with the Stars, Jan 10. grounds will be closed Jan 8 through Feb 2, 2018. Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Mosaic Theater Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony and Queens Girl in Africa, Jan 4 through Feb 4. 4155 Linnean Ave, NW Knussen’s Violin Concerto, Christoph National Theatre Eschenbach conductor and Leila Josefowicz, Les Misérables, through Jan 7. violin, Jan 25 through 27. Shaping Sound After the Curtain, Jan 24. Dance Ronald Reagan Building Atú: Drum King, Jan 12. Capitol Steps (Fridays & Saturdays) through Dancer of Japan, Grand Master Onoe May 31. Kikunojyo, Jan 14. Shakespeare Theatre Never Dreamed It Could Be Like This: Leonard The Kreeger Museum Bernstein at 100, Jan 17 through 20. The Jewish King Lear, Jan 8. The Kreeger Museum is the former home of David Sound Health: Daybreaker: New Year’s Hamlet, Jan 16 through Feb 25. and Carmen Kreeger that was designed by world Resolutions, Jan 19. Oh He Dead, Jan 18. Unsex Me Here, Jan 30. renowned architect Philip Johnson. The home Jazz Signature Theatre showcases a permanent collection of 19th & 20th KC Jazz Club: Louis Hayes, Serenade for century paintings and sculptures including works Horace, Jan 19 and 20. Crazy for You, through Jan 14. 4,380 Nights, Jan 16 through Feb 18. by Monet, Rodin, Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky and Opera Studio Theatre others. Tuesday through Thursday by Creating an Opera: Proving Up with Missy appointment only. Friday and Saturday 10am to Curve of Departure, through Jan 14. Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, Jan 8. 4pm. 2401 Foxhall Road, NW WNO: Proving Up, a New Hour Long Opera The Wolves, Jan 17 through Mar 3. Theater J National Gallery of Art and Sculpture part of the American Opera Initiative Festival, Garden Jan 10 through 21. Everything is Illuminated, Jan 11 through Feb 4. The National Gallery's West Building has art from WNO: Three New 20 Minute Operas, part of the Warner Theatre the 3rd Century to present times -- a collection of American Opera Initiative Festival, Jan 20. Sam Harris & the Waking Up Podcast, Jan 12. over 90,000 pieces. In the newly reopened and Kathleen Battle’s Underground Railroad: A Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Jan 13. enhanced East Wing are 20th-Century works by Spiritual Journey, Jan 28. NPR Politics Podcast Live, Jan 18. Miró, Magritte, van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse. Opera Lafayette’s Scarlatti & Geminiani, Jan 30 Kathleen Madigan, Jan 19. With its very modern architectural design, by I. M. and 31. Lalah Hathaway, Jan 26. Pei the building is a work of art in itself. Monday Sinbad, Jan 27. Popular/World Music to Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday 11am to 6pm, Declassified: Sara Bareilles & Caroline Shaw On the Mall, 4th through 7th Streets along with the National Symphony Orchestra, Jan 12. Constitution Avenue, NW NSO Pops: Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Jan Art National Museum of Women in the Arts 19 and 20. American Art Museum This is the only museum dedicated solely to Theater The American Art Museum records the American female artists. Representing more than 500 The Illusionists, through Jan 7. experience from the colonial period to today. The women from nearly 30 countries, this museum On Your Feet, Jan 9 through 28. collection includes images from the West, holds 2,000 of the world's most important works of The Humans, Jan 9 through 28.