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The head of Norway's National Museum has been named as the new director of Tate Modern in London.Karin Hindsbo, who oversaw the consolidation of four Norwegian art institutions into the National Museum in Oslo, will take up her new post in September.She will succeed Frances Morris, the first female director of Tate Modern who announced last year that she was stepping down.

While we may earn a commission if you book something through these links, we make unbiased, independent decisions about what to recommend.Spring is around the corner, which means that cherry blossom season will soon be upon us.This year, the Cherry Blossom Festival will take place between March 20 and April 16, but there will be plenty of activities throughout the entire month of March to celebrate the annual event.

Your chances of getting tickets for the final National Gallery Night on May 11 may have just gotten better.The National Gallery of Art implemented a new lottery system for tickets that opened at 10 a.m. this morning.The to request free tickets is open now until May 4 at 11:59 p.m.
Originally, the sign-up period was scheduled for noon on May 4, and tickets for past NGA Nights have been distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Happy Monday, everyone!Wrap up Women's History Month at the National Women's History Museum's Black feminist exhibition opening this week, and then dive into more history at the new "Afrofuturism" showcase.Or, you can celebrate the cherry blossoms at an outdoor pink party.Best Things to Do This Week


"Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures."

The National Gallery of Art just announced the dates and themes for its popular after-hours events.Here's how to get tickets.One of DC's favorite events is back this spring at the National Gallery of Art.Three "National Gallery Nights" will take place on the second Thursday of March, April, and May from 6 to 9 p.m. in the East Building.

Musician Gail Ceasar.(Music Maker Foundation)Most of the songs on Gail Ceasar's debut album fit its title, "Guitar Woman Blues."But alongside such blues standards as "Sweet Home Chicago" is a version of "Rocky Top," a tune usually performed by country and bluegrass players.

The National Gallery of Art's "Gallery Nights," which feature live music and themed activities, have proven very popular.Now the museum is rolling out First Saturdays .Think of the new events as similar to Gallery Nights, but during the day and geared to all ages.The newest monthly event series will be, you guessed it, the first Saturdays of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In 1956 Stanley Jones, who has died aged 89, joined the Atelier Patris, the lithography workshop set up in Paris by the eventual film director Gerard Patris.There Stanley deepened his understanding of not only the technical skills involved, but also the skill of collaborating with artists to realise their ideas in print.

In a year that has seen post-Covid digital fatigue paired with a tumultuous social media landscape, our museum social media survey is somewhat muted.For the fourth consecutive year, we have added up the total Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok followers for the 100 most-visited museums in our annual visitor survey.

Daisy Parris Paintings that dredge eerie emotional depths from sensual layers of abstract colour, with visceral scrawled messages pointing to the sources of their longing.The biggest are the best.Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, until 16 April.After Impressionism An exhibition that includes Munch, Klimt and Picasso along with heroes of French art from Degas to Matisse can't fail to fascinate.

Wrinkled, furrowed, jowly and far from attractive, An Old Woman, by the Flemish artist Quinten Massys, is one of the standout paintings in London's National Gallery.It is usually called The Ugly Duchess, after it became the inspiration for Sir John Tenniel's drawing of the infamous duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) Britain's greatest pop artist continues his unique trajectory through the modern world with an immersive spectacle that plunges you into his pictures.Lightroom, London, 22 February to 4 June Golden Mummies of Egypt This newly modernised Victorian museum shows off its world-class collection of ancient Egyptian embalmed people.

Happy weekend, everyone!You can walk or run this weekend at a 5K race in honor of Women's History Month, or watch a number of Irish movies at a four-day festival.If you are in the mood for a live production, then check out Synetic Theater's latest play.Best Things to Do This Weekend


Capital Irish Film Festival.

Born in Inverness in 1962, Ali Smith has published 12 novels, including How to Be Both, which won the Women's prize for fiction, the Goldsmiths prize and the Costa novel of the year award, and her seasonal quartet, starting with Autumn in 2016.She has been shortlisted twice for both the Booker prize and the Orange prize with Hotel World and The Accidental, and has also published several short story collections, plays and nonfiction.

Not to get all RossfromtheTVShowFriends on you all, but it's really hard not to be fascinated by dinosaurs.And it seems that isn't exactly a hot take.After the numbers were crunched, it's been found that the Natural History Museum was, in fact, the most visited London attraction in 2022.Data found that a trip to see the giant blue whale and the terrifying T-Rex topped the cultural hotspots that we all flocked to last year, as we all made the most of a couple of quieter years prior to this, due to the pandemic.

UK visitor attractions are suffering from "long Covid" due to fewer tourists travelling from abroad, an industry body has warned.Millions returned to museums and galleries in 2022 as Covid restrictions ended, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) said.But fewer international tourists meant visitor levels were still almost a quarter lower than before the pandemic.

Happy weekend, everyone!Celebrate St. Patrick's Day all weekend-long around town, or snap Instagram-worthy photos at the area's latest sweet-tooth experience.Best Things to Do This Weekend


Candytopia.It's time to make your sweet escape to Candytopia.The immersive family-friendly sweets-inspired wonderland takes visitors on a sensory journey through 14 different interactive environments, including a candy art gallery, a marshmallow pit, and a room with confetti-farting pigs.

Happy Thursday, everyone!Who's excited for the long holiday weekend?Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a number of educational events this weekend, or visit Artechouse's latest Japanese-inspired immersive exhibition.Best Things to Do This Weekend


MLK Peace Walk and Parade.All are welcome to join the 42nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk & Parade .

The Prince and Princess of Wales have shared a festive picture painted by their nine-year-old son, Prince George, which indicates that the future king might share his grandfather's artistic talent.William and Kate tweeted the image of a reindeer in the snow with two robins, alongside the message Happy Christmas!

Marjan van Aubel brings solar energy into our daily lives as an award-winning solar designer.By combining the fields of sustainability, design, and technology, she creates for a positive future for us and those to follow."When I read the book The Solar Revolution (by Travis Bradford), where it said, that every hour we receive enough sunlight to provide the world with enough energy for an entire year," Marjan shared.

Museums and galleries are recovering from the pandemic, with visitor numbers jumping last year, but still down by nearly a quarter on pre-pandemic numbers.According to numbers from members of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions ( ALVA), the UK's most visited attraction is outside London - as Windsor Great Park retained its outdoor appeal, but the rest of the top venues are all London based indoor museums and galleries.

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So, you want to be a contestant.The bad news first: Tens of thousands of people try out annually, and only a few hundred make the show.You need luck, and I can't help you hack the selection process.The good news: I can help you prepare for the test.Why listen to me?I was a two-day champion in January, so I have some recent experience.

Can you get excited about artificial intelligence (AI)?I struggle to.When I asked ChatGPT who my favourite artist was, it said I'd never publicly expressed a preference, because as an art historian I don't do "subjective opinions".Evidently, ChatGPT doesn't subscribe to The Art Newspaper.Even if it gave the correct answer-Van Dyck-I'd still not be excited.

Policing Just Stop Oil protests cost taxpayers 7.5 million in just nine weeks, new figures show.Home Secretary Suella Braverman declared enough is enough as Metropolitan Police data obtained by the PA news agency revealed the daily cost of dealing with the environmental activists reached up to 630,000 last autumn.

This week brings the final days of Black History Month and the dawn of Women's History Month.There are plenty of things to do around the area, including Yards Park's annual Ice Yards winter festival, a party celebrating Black beer companies at Metrobar, the return of the D.C. Independent Film Forum and the final weekend of Wunder Garten's Après Ski pop-up parties.

Happy Monday, everyone!Black History Month is wrapping up, and Women's History Month is on the horizon, with lots of events on the calendar.You can celebrate all things history at a local lecture or neighborhood run.Or, check out the movie lineup for the DC Independent Film Forum.Best Things to Do This Week



DC Independent Film Forum.

Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle The artist born in 1900 who portrayed the real people of the American century, from Andy Warhol to Kate Millet and many more.Barbican, London, from 16 February to 21 May Peter Doig New paintings by the romantic ironist, or ironic romanticist either way, Doig is a rich enigma.

Happy weekend, everyone!It's chilly outside, but that's not stopping this fun line up of weekend festivals.Taste new zero-proof cocktails at a non-alcoholic drinking fest, or warm up with fire dancers and live music at the Wharf's outdoor party.Best Things to Do This Weekend



Mindful Drinking Fest.

Happy Thursday, everyone!From live concerts to outdoor drinking and Lunar New Year festivals, there's plenty of exciting things to do around town this weekend.Best Things to Do This Weekend



Ne-Yo at the Kennedy Center.Three-time Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter arrives in DC this weekend for an evening of live music with the National Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Steven Reineke.

Michael Snow, a legendary Canadian artist who graced Toronto with two famous pieces of public art, has died.He was 94.Snow, born in Toronto in 1928, died on Thursday, according to Tamsen Greene, senior director of New York's Jack Shainman Gallery, which represented him.Snow studied at the Ontario College of Art, now called Ontario College of Art and Design University.