MUSEUM EVENTS: MAY 1 - MAY 16, 2010

Herblock
Saturday, May 1, 2010
8:30am - 4:30pm
Library of Congress: James Madison Building - Washington DC
http://www.loc.gov/

The library is celebrating the centennial of Herb Block with an exhibition of 82 of the political cartoonist's drawings.

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A Dream...but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey
Now Through May 16
National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=200

Turkey has long been considered a nation with one foot in the East and the other in the West, whose art and design production has permeated and influenced European nations over the past four centuries. In the 21st century, Turkey’s contemporary artists ensconce themselves mentally in global art production, notwithstanding the physical location of their studios. The National Museum of Women in the Arts is pleased to present some of the leading women artists who claim Turkey as their homeland, but whose video art, photography, and painting declare their identity. A Dream…but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey features work by eleven internationally-established artists who pose the elemental question “why do so many women seek to conform and adhere to standards set by others, and continue to be judged by their roles as spouse, mother, and keeper of the house?”

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Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
Now through September 6
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ginsberginfo.shtm

In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored. Some 79 works on display will range from the 1950s "drugstore" prints to his now celebrated portraits of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, snapshots of Ginsberg himself taken just before he achieved literary fame, and his later portraits of the Beats and other friends made in the 1980s and 1990s. For information, call 202-737-4215.