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Washington, DC knows a thing or two about museums. We know that the best museum exhibits bring you face-to-face with something you may only know as a concept or abstraction and turn it into a solid, ...

Leslie Hewitt, “Subfield (Extension) (Tension)” (2024) (photo by Timothy Lee Photography, courtesy Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling) What is color? The answer to that question is ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For Vashti DuBois, 4613 Newhall Street is a meaningful place, since she raised her family there. However, after suffering a personal tragedy in 2012, she opened her home to the ...

It’s hard to imagine the impact George C. Wolfe’s razor-sharp satire “The Colored Museum” must have had when it opened in New York nearly 40 years ago. His challenging and pointed series of set-pieces ...

Hans Hoffman declared our entire being nourished by it, Henri Matisse saw it as a means of liberation, and Josef Albers observed that we can never really perceive what it is physically. How these and ...

When the queer performer Miss Roj enters in George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum,” she delivers her concise view of the world. “God created Black people, and Black people created style,” Miss Roj ...

To call a play a “museum piece” is to say that it’s a relic from another time, a piece of theatrical history valuable for its past significance, often at odds with contemporary sensibilities. But “The ...