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Byline: Mark Jenkins Marjorie Merriweather Post, whose D.C. home became Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, was a serious collector of things that some might deem frivolous. So it's fitting that [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The 33 artworks in the Renwick Gallery's 'Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women' are not quite so rebellious as the show's title suggests. But they do [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Biological and ecological concerns are as common as cultural ones in âNew Worlds: Women to Watch 2024,â the seventh and largest of the triennial surveys of emerging [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Some of the best-known examples of Ukiyo-e, the popular and influential Japanese genre exemplified by Hokusai's âThe Great Wave Off Kanagawa,â depict notable locations in a stylized [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins On Teenage Fanclubâs early albums, the Scottish band swathed its folk-rock songs in guitar distortion. So longtime fans couldnât have been surprised that the groupâs 12th and [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The pictures in the National Portrait GalleryÇÖs Ç£Star PowerÇ¥ portray such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Greta Garbo and Bill Ç£BojanglesÇ¥ Robinson. But the star of the [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Much German expressionist art was made in the wake of, and was profoundly shaped by, World War I. Yet conflict and death are not the primary subjects [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When Frederick Douglass traveled to Britain in 1845, he was well known as an abolitionist writer and orator. But his celebrity didnât alter his legal status: escaped [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Born two months before the Nazis surrendered, celebrated German artist Anselm Kiefer grew up amid his homeland's rubble, both actual and figurative. Destruction still compels and even [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins 'We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness,' proclaimed Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 'Futurist Manifesto' in 1909. 'We declare that the splendor [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins After Illiterate Light released its second album, 'Sunburned,' almost a year ago, someone joked that the indie-rock duo should follow it with a record named for the [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The term for a likeness that captures a person in her or his defining home or workplace is 'environmental portrait.' There are many of those in the [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins There are no actual tigers in 'To Kill a Tiger,' but there are plenty of predators. This powerful Canadian documentary follows a child-rape case in India, a [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins North Korea is a land of hunger, torture and indoctrination. It's crushed under a cult of personality so punitive that citizens can be imprisoned if inspectors find [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins There are roughly 8 billion people on Earth, and about 2.4 billion of them are reportedly Christian. That leaves lots of possibilities for Christian missionaries, yet somehow [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins During the conversation that constitutes the bulk of 'The Pigeon Tunnel,' interviewer Errol Morris accuses British novelist John le Carré of being a con artist, a betrayer [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In the first and best phase of Tom Wolfe's career, before the writer became more important than his writings, he quietly insinuated himself into the lives of [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins British documentarian Mark Cousins's 'The Storms of Jeremy Thomas' is a fine introduction to the 70 or so films produced by the titular London-born impresario. It's barely [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The boldest thing about 'The Creator,' a mash-up of mostly familiar sci-fi and war-movie tropes, is the filmmakers' choice of a villain: the United States of America. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The band of international mercenaries known as the Expendables are brutal, brazen and messy, yet they ultimately get the job done. Much the same can said of [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Named for - and partly set in - a small California city with a large Afghan population, 'Fremont' is a trilingual parable of disconnection. Donya, played by [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins WASHINGTON - The small 1970 painting that provides the title of Robert Houle's retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian, 'Red Is Beautiful,' is a [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In the framing of the folk tale anthology 'One Thousand and One Nights,' Scheherazade prolongs her life day by day with the stories she tells her murderous [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The title of the film 'Mending the Line' refers to an adjustment to a fly-fishing line to counter the effects of water currents. But there's a lot [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins North Carolina singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza's third album is in many ways her most upbeat. Yet its title, 'All of This Will End,' isn't exactly cheerful. Death [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins A gentle man falls for a brassy trans woman in 'Joyland,' but that's not exactly what this lyrical, well-acted Pakistani drama is about. With its multiple intersecting [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins WASHINGTON - The premise of Ayana V. Jackson's exhibition at the National Museum of African Art is horrific yet hopeful. Her array of photographs, videos, costumes and [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Several times during 'Monica,' the title character rages against absent people or at herself. These episodes don't, however, foreshadow an emotional blowout between the drama's central figures: [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Largely erased from classical music history because he was biracial, the 18th-century French Caribbean violinist and composer Joseph Bologne wrote concertos, sonatas and symphonies. But 'Chevalier,' a [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins WASHINGTON - As a young artist in Los Angeles in the early 1930s, Philip Guston sometimes made pictures of Ku Klux Klan members. The KKK was not [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Harlem Globetrotters manager Abe Saperstein had a British accent. The article has been corrected. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins As the first Black member of the New York Knicks, the title character of 'Sweetwater' easily outshines his teammates. In the role of Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, Everett [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When the first official excavations began at Anyang, China, in 1928, archaeologists unearthed the sort of stuff that can survive three millennia under dirt - bronze vessels, [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The thematic climax of the documentary 'Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting' comes with the reluctant and long-delayed 2020 decision by Washington's NFL team [...]

Byline: Ann Hornaday, Michael O'Sullivan, Thomas Floyd and Mark Jenkins When it comes to movies, why wait for the end-of-year best-of lists? There have already been a number of movies [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Since 2012, Sleaford Mods have been the duo of singer-lyricist Jason Williamson and synthesist-composer Andrew Fearn. But the Nottingham 'punk-hop' group's new album, 'UK Grim,' includes several [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz, the fraternal twin sisters who have made three albums as Ibeyi, are the children of two musicians. Their father was famed Afro-Cuban percussionist [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Julia, the heroine of the French film 'Rodeo,' is a machine that runs on gasoline and indignation. She's mad at her mother, her brother and the world [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins 'Godland' is a motion picture, but it's keyed to seven still photographs made with the wet-plate process developed in the mid-19th century. According to an on-screen title [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In 'Champions,' a group of actors with intellectual disabilities do their best playing a team of basketball players with intellectual disabilities who are also doing their best. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins If the groom appears reluctant at the wedding that opens the film 'Let It Be Morning,' he's not the only one. When doves are released to mark [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins A serviceable mash-up of sitcom and sports flick, '80 for Brady' should please fans of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and/or Tom Brady. Everybody [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins According to a recently opened exhibition at the Library of Congress, one reason that 17th-century Britons left their homeland for a new world was to organize and [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Through a donkey's large and expressive eyes, 'Eo' shows us the beauty of the world and the cruelty of humanity. If the wordless title character can't understand [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When accused of making voyeuristic images, Nan Goldin has responded that she's actually part of the subcultures she depicts, not an outsider peeping in. Documentarian Laura Poitras [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Most of 'The Inspection' transpires in a U.S. Marine Corps boot camp, the sort of place whose cruelties have been dramatized in movies many times before. Two [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The final act of 'Devotion,' set during the first months of the Korean War, is unexpectedly moving. The poignancy comes as a surprise because most of the [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Assembled entirely of archival footage from just a few sources, 'Riotsville, USA' deals primarily with a single aspect of late-1960s American history: the official response to uprisings [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Movies based on true stories don't typically open with a sequence made with stop-motion animation. But then 'The Silent Twins' attempts to tell two stories, only one [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Viewers unfamiliar with the Depression-era pornographic comics known as 'Tijuana bibles' will get an abrupt introduction to them in the first scene of 'Funny Pages.' Close-ups of [...]