The Academy Art Museum proudly presents a FREE talk given by exhibiting artist, Elizabeth Casquiero! Elizabeth Casqueiro is a visual artist who was born in England and grew up in Portugal. She came to live in the United States first…

Kittredge-Wilson Speaker Series Lecture and Book Signing Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D., Senior Curator Academy Art Museum Presents Painting for Princes: Dutch Art by Jan Baptist Weenix and Jan Weenix As limited copies of Father and Son Weenix: Dutch & Flemish Paintings…

Maryland photographer Jay Fleming has spent years documenting the culture and environment of the Chesapeake Bay. In his exhibition Island Life  he documents life on Smith Island and Tangier Island, the Chesapeake’s only inhabited offshore islands. Being water-locked and isolated from modern transportation has created…

Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art The Altering Eye: Photography at the National Gallery of Art FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018 6 p.m. Click HERE to Register. In 1990, Sarah Greenough became the founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery…

Directors have picked great classical concert works to enhance and underpin their films. If it’s Handel, there must be corsets and wigs!

Why Beethoven? And why so much of him?? We dive into Beethoven’s very busy side-gig, the sound-tracking of hundreds of films.

Classical Crossover: exploring groundbreaking film scores by concert hall composers Shostakovich, Bernstein, Copland, Corigliano, Gershwin, Walton, Prokofiev, each a giant of the concert hall, with much of the 20th century’s most important classical work to their credit.

The fusion of classical music into popular culture is so complete that most listeners have absolutely no idea where their favorite tropes come from.