American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center The Katzen Arts Center is located on Ward Circle at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in NW Washington, D.C.
Parking (metered until 5 p.m.) is available in the 550-space garage located beneath the Katzen Center at the Glover Gate entrance on Massachusetts Avenue.
AU Museum: 202-885-1300 museum@american.edu
Closed Through September 1 Museum Hours: (Admission free) 11:00 to 4:00, Tue–Sun
Then and Now Jack Boul Former American University professor Jack Boul exhibits his intimately scaled prints, drawings, and paintings of everyday life.
Jae Ko As described by Nord Wennerstun in Artforum International, “Jae Ko uses large, tightly bound spools of adding-machine paper that she wraps, folds, and contorts like toffee.”
Hidden Dalya Luttwak In a poem called “From the Book of Questions,” Pablo Neruda asks “Why do the Trees Conceal the Splendor of Their Roots?" Israeli-born Dalya Luttwak digs literally and metaphorically to study the hidden structures and shapes of plant roots, exploring the differences and relationships between parts above ground and parts below within the same plant.
Calentamiento Global An Exhibition Organized by the Association of Ibero-American Cultural Attachés presents a variety of work from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. This exhibition is curated by AU Museum director Jack Rasmussen and Panamanian gallerist Jilma Prada.
Onthaasting: About Spare Time and Slower Worlds "Onthaasting” is recreation as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant aspects of daily reality. It takes place on the outskirts of contemporary life: on mountaintops, in vast regions of open space, in churches, in landscapes, in gardens …but most of all in the mind. Curators Niels Van Tomme and Jan Van Woensel present Belgian contemporary artists within this conceptual framework.
Invasion 68: Prague, Photographs by Josef Koudelka Moravian-born theatre photographer Josef Koudelka presents photographs of the 1968 Soviet invasion of the city of Prague, which ended the political liberation of Czechoslovakia historically known as the Prague Spring. Forty years after they were taken and smuggled out of the country, Koudelka’s searing images provide a glimpse into both an historic event and his personal experience with conflict. more
