Art Exhibits during AMS

This is certainly not a complete list, but it is a choice selection of exhibits you can see during your visit to Washington this week. For further information, see our list of Cultural Points of Interest in Washington.

Kennedy Center
2700 F Street NW
(800) 444-1324 or (202) 467-4600

• The Kennedy Center Festival of China
  Concerts and art exhibits throughout the month of October
  
• Qin's Terra Cotta Warrior Exhibition (ends October 30)
  Two warriors and one horse on display (not all 8,000 sculptures)
  North Gallery, Roof Terrace Level

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW

• Alice Neel's Women
  Opens on October 28
  $8

National Gallery of Art (6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW)

• Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art
  
• Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public
  
• Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life
  
• Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele
  
• Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum
  
• Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America"

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
7th Street and Independence Avenue SW

• Directions--Janet Cardiff: Words drawn in water (ends on October 30)
  
• Directions--Jim Hodges

National Museum of American History
14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW

• Permanent exhibit of historic musical instruments
  
• ¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz (ends on October 30)
  
• Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song (ongoing exhibit)
  
• On Stage and Backstage: Women in Jazz (ongoing exhibit)

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW/1050 Independence Avenue SW

• Virtue and Entertainment: Chinese Music in the Visual Arts

Library of Congress
Second Street and Independence Avenue SE (Metro: Blue/Orange Capitol South)

• Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
  
• Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
  
• The Gerry Mulligan Collection

Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive (Baltimore, Md.)

• Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914

Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street (Baltimore, Md.)

• Byzantine Art from the Dumbarton Oaks' Collection (20 objects from the Byzantine collection of Dumbarton Oaks)
  
• Dressed in Gold: Books of the Italian Renaissance