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Exhibition - Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island

Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen creates multimedia installations that blend fact, memory, myth, and mysticism and use lush imagery to draw out these entanglements.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. ET

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Exhibition - Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art will present “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return,” an exhibition focused on the artist’s deep engagement with portraiture and the construction…

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. ET

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Exhibition - A Passage of Force Through Matter: Current Painting

Featured artists: Tom Bunnell, Asha Elana Casey, Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter, Matthew Mann, Maggie Michael, and Marisa Rasum A Passage of Force Through Matter asserts the ongoing vibrancy of painting within contemporary art and…

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Exhibition - Joshua Challen Ice: Something to Do With My Hands

Joshua Challen Ice creates sculpture, kinetic, and light-based installation art to explore ideas related to architecture and philosophy.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Exhibition - Brandon Morse: Gradually, All at Once

Brandon Morse works with generative systems in order to examine the poetic and metaphorical potential of physical phenomena such as entropy and emergence.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Exhibition - Milan Warner: Where Growths Sleep But Cannot Dream

MoCA Arlington resident artist Milan Warner’s Where Growths Sleep But Cannot Dream situates viewers in an alternate reality where fictional growths are allowed to flourish.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Exhibition - Moments: Hardships and Joys We Carry

Moments: Hardships and Joys We Carry is presented through a partnership between MoCA Arlington and Cardinal Elementary School in Arlington, VA.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Exhibition - Zaq Landsberg: Reclining Liberty

MoCA Arlington and Arlington Public Art are thrilled to co-sponsor the installation of Zaq Landsberg’s celebrated Reclining Liberty on the Museum’s front lawn.

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA
Virginia Harp Center Festival

The Virginia Harp Center Festival will bring diverse international artists to your doorstep in the Mid-Atlantic area!

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Hilton Arlington, Arlington, VA
St. Patrick's Week at Samuel Beckett's

Live Music: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Guinness Ripple Machine 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM: Eddie Pasa Click Here For More Information

Friday, Mar 14, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET

Samuel Beckett's Irish Gastro Pub, Arlington, VA

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