This weekend is your last chance to see "TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945," at the Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle. The exhibit closes this Sunday, January 9. The above photograph, "The Street -- Design for a Poster" by Alfred Stieglitz, seemed eerily familiar to me, as if I had been on the street when the photo was taken in 1896. On closer inspection, I realized a detail of the photo was used for the cover of Caleb Carr's 1995 novel, "The Alienist."
If you don't make it to the exhibit, you can visit the following weekend for the kick-off of the Phillips Collection's 90th anniversary celebration:
Free Weekend Open House (January 15 and 16)
The Phillips Collection kicks off the 90 Years of New anniversary year with a free weekend of activities, featuring the grand reopening of the newly renovated Phillips house, birthday cakes from some of D.C.'s finest pastry chefs, the opening of the Anniversary Reading Room, the debut of Howard Hodgkin's spectacular 20-foot-long etchings, As Time Goes By, and more. Fast-paced "relay tours" offer a choice of ten-minute talks at each of 90 works of art. Visitors may also enjoy a new "things to do in 90 minutes" self-guided tour or the Phillips's recently launched mobile app. Admission is free all weekend; the Sunday Concert has a discounted admission of $8.
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Posted by: Julie | January 09, 2011 at 03:02 PM