Museums

MUSEUMS

OPENINGS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Folger Shakespeare Library

201 E. Capitol St. SE. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 202/544-7077, www.folger.edu

• “History in the Making: How Early Modern England Imagined Its Past.” Exploring how the Tudor rulers of Renaissance England reinvented the past to justify their right to the English throne. Folger Great Hall. Jan. 24-May 17.

Gadsby’s Tavern Museum

134 N. Royal St., Alexandria. 703/838-4242, www.gadsbystavern.org

• Thursday beginners’ classes in 18th-century dance in preparation for the Feb. 16 Birthnight Ball. Dance master Corky Palmer leads. Singles or couples welcome. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 24 and Feb. 7. $12 per class, $30 per series. Reservations at 703/838-4242.

Katzen Arts Center

American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Admission free. 202/885-1300.

• Carlos Luna: “El Gran Mambo.” Work by the Cuban-American artist who draws on heritage and fable to create convoluted and intricately fantastical paintings, drawings and sculpture. Opens Jan. 29.

• Ben L. Summerford. Still lifes, landscapes and interiors by the American University professor emeritus, who with other AU artists founded the influential Jefferson Place Gallery, a showplace for the Washington Color School. Opens Jan. 29.

National Gallery of Art

Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Closed Christmas and New Year’s Day. Metro: Judiciary Square or Archives-Navy Memorial. 202/737-4215, www.nga.gov

• “Bronze and Boxwood: Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection.” Forty-six bronzes and eight statuettes carved out of either boxwood or ivory, all from one of the most important private collections of Renaissance bronze sculpture. West Building Main Floor. Jan. 27-May 4.

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