What's on in Washington, DC
Wolfgang Laib's Wax Room at The Phillips Collection, a small chamber lined with beeswax and lit by a single bulb

The Phillips CollectionDupont Circle

Wolfgang Laib, Wax Room

Now showingPermanent collection$20

A narrow chamber lined in beeswax, lit by a single bare bulb. Laib's 2013 site-specific installation was the museum's first permanent commission since the Rothko Room in 1960.

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On nowAll of October 2026

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Catie Michel, The Carrier Bag (Species Key), shown in Re-Inhabiting Conservation: Our Shared Skies

Re-Inhabiting Conservation: Our Shared Skies

IA&A at Hillyer

Diana Mercado, Under the Moonlight, an Andean landscape painting shown in La Casa en la Montana

La Casa en la Montaña

IA&A at Hillyer

Katherine Steichen Rosing, Harbingers - tattered white linen columns charred with flame, suspended as a ghost forest

Harbingers

IA&A at Hillyer

All exhibitions in Washington, DC this month Coming up in November

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IA&A at Hillyer

IA&A at Hillyer

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The facade of the Dumbarton Oaks house in Georgetown, Washington, DC

Dumbarton Oaks Museum & Gardens

ArtFree18 min walk
The red brick and sandstone Second Empire facade of the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, with mansard roofs and "Dedicated to Art" carved above the entrance

Renwick Gallery

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