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Picture This: The Winners of the Renwick Postcard Contest

February 1, 2012

Top: the winning postcard of our Renwick 40th Anniversary postcard contest by Becca Kallem. Bottom: Our runner-up entry is by Joanna Barnum. American Art's Renwick Gallery is celebrating its 40th year—40 years of the best in American craft, decorative arts,...

The Art of Video Games: Announcing GameFest

January 26, 2012

Join us for the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters To celebrate the opening of The Art of Video Games exhibition, we will be holding three jam-packed days of events and activities from Friday, March 16 through...

Five Questions: Opera at the Renwick

January 17, 2012

Washington National Opera Principal Coach for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Ken Weiss provides some insider information on how he selected the artists and repertoire for the upcoming January 22 performance in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon, in a discussion with...

Renwick Postcard Competition

January 11, 2012

Cross stitch postcard celebrating the Renwick's 40 years by Katie Crooks. The Renwick Gallery is celebrating a milestone year in 2012, its 40th! To give our audience a chance to participate in the fun, we're holding a postcard design contest....

We Remember Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

January 9, 2012

Helen Frankenthaler's Summerscene, Provincetown Helen Frankenthalter, the last of the Abstract Expressionists, died on December 27, 2011, at the age of eighty-three. In 1951, when she was only twenty-three, she began to soak, or stain, her canvasses with extremely thin...