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The Arts & Culture Crossword

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March 12, 2021 @ 10:00am | District Fray Staff

Think you know a lot about art history or D.C.’s art scene? Put your knowledge of arts and culture to the test with this puzzle featuring local and national museums, theaters, and works of art. Hint: Reading all the articles in our March 2021 issue will help you out. See the answer key here.

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ACROSS

2. Last name of artist known for pouring, dripping and splashing paint on canvases

6. City home to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (2 words)

9. Style that borrows from sources like television, comics and advertisements (2 words)

10. Last name of Mexican artist known for her self-portraits

13. Artistic style of dance in which dancers wear pointe shoes

14. Booklet received at the beginning of a performance detailing the show

15. “Break a leg” (2 words)

16. Arthur Miller play set to be a part of Shakespeare Theatre’s 2020/21 season

18. Includes the colors red, blue and yellow

23. Museum that records the American experience through art

25. D.C. theater company and “Richard III” author

26. New York art museum featuring Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

27. Gallery started by Teddy Rodger and Allison Nance (2 words)

28. The process of making an old work of art look like new again

30. Theater in the District named after a prehistoric relative of the elephant (2 words)

33. Art style of Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens

35. Local music awards show

36. Word to describe colors located on opposite sides of the color wheel

37. A Southwest D.C. Baptist Church turned arts and events venue (2 words)

42. A cylindrical museum in the District

43. “Star Wars” villain featured as a gargoyle on the Washington National Cathedral (2 words)

45. New York museum that hosts “fashion’s biggest night out”

46. Person who organizes art exhibitions

49. The town where true Renaissance man Leonardo was born

51. Museum where you can find many smiling faces (2 words)

54. A material commonly used by both Michelangelo and monument builders

55. Neighborhood home to gallery in an abandoned underground streetcar station (2 words)

56. Where to buy tickets to a theatre performance (2 words)

57. Museum “dedicated to championing women through the arts”

58. Performing arts center named after the 35th president

59. First name of a post-impressionist painter with a self-portrait in the National Gallery of Art

DOWN

1. Hispanic theater in Columbia Heights

2. Last name of Cubist movement co-founder

5. First name of D.C. artist who painted activist Wai Wai Nu for Hotel Zena

6. Style of Salvador Dalí

7. Italian museum where you can find Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”

8. “The Scottish Play”

11. Architecture style that uses concrete as its primary material; found in Hirshhorn and D.C. Metro

12. Wooden surface where artist mixes paint

17. Last name of a New York artist whose artwork often featured a crown with three peaks

19. Artist behind black and white mural once on the side of Union Market

20. A D.C. hotel with over 60 female-focused art pieces

21. The type of book that inspires the work of tattoo artist Imani K. Brown

22. Period of time known for a “rebirth” of classical art

24. Edward Hopper’s depiction of a 24-hour diner

26. Last name of artist who often painted Japanese bridges

29. Art center in Alexandria building that used to manufacture naval munitions (2 words)

31. D.C. theater where President Lincoln was assassinated

32. Artwork an artist makes of themselves (2 words)

34. Iconic Americana painting by Grant Wood (2 words)

38. Gallery, store and gathering place located in the Union Market area (2 words)

39. Fancy word for actor

40. Professional performances in New York performed in a theater with more than 500 seats

41. This D.C. museum has a red Cadillac owned by Chuck Berry

44. Home of the Mona Lisa

45. Art found on the walls of buildings around the District

46. Art made of heat-hardened clay

47. City home to the Andy Warhol Museum

48. Old alarm system now decorated with cast-iron sculptures of women (2 words)

50. George Washington University’s art school

52. Area of D.C. nicknamed “Black Broadway” from 1900s-1960s (2 words)

53. Dramatic performance where all dialogue is sung

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