The Shakespeare Theatre Company season continues with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra in revolving repertory at Sidney Harman Hall, a part of the Harman Center for the Arts. As swift and enthralling as a political thriller, Julius Caesarportrays the life-and-death struggle for power in Rome. Alive with stunning rhetoric, Julius Caesar investigates the intoxicating effects of power and the dangers of idealism.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a new and innovative program, Women to Watch 2008, in cooperation with its national and international committees to increase the visibility of emerging and underrepresented women artists. Women to Watch 2008 is on view through June 15, 2008.

Yellow Mountain, also known as Mt. Huang or Huangshan, is one of the most beautiful locations in China. With its magnificent peaks, some soaring thousands of feet, the mountain holds as much allure to artists today as it did in the early 17th century, when the great traveler and geologist Xu Xiake (1587-1641) toured its peaks twice and recorded the journeys in his diary.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts will give Washington's art-going public a rare treat when it presents Louise Nevelson: Dawn's Wedding Feast through May 18, 2008. This room-sized installation, artist Louise Nevelson's groundbreaking assemblage, is the first in a series of monumental sculptures created by Nevelson (1899-1988) from found wood objects, a conceptual style that thrust the Ukrainian-born artist to the forefront of the American art scene in the second half of the 20th century.

Aspiring artists will capture the flowering of Washington’s cherry trees at three Drawing from Cherry Blossoms workshops led by Corcoran College of Art + Design faculty members.

Washington, D.C, is the only east coast city to host this landmark exhibition

This summer, the Smithsonian Institution will celebrate cultural diversity with three distinct programs at its 42nd annual Folklife Festival. The Festival will be held Wednesday, June 25 through Sunday, June 29 and Wednesday, July 2 through Sunday, July 6 outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets.

The Smithsonian Photography Initiative has launched 'click! photography changes everything,' an interdisciplinary, Web-based forum at www.click.si.edu. The goal of 'click!' is to stimulate an unprecedented dialogue about the ways photography enables people to document and actively interact with the world.

Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History can enjoy one of its most interactive and educational exhibitions to date. "Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution," a new permanent exhibition, innovatively combines traditional and experiential learning to provide visitors a rare, up-close look at how butterflies and plants have evolved and diversified together for millions of years.

Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History can enjoy one of its most interactive and educational exhibitions to date. "Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution," a new permanent exhibition, innovatively combines traditional and experiential learning to provide visitors a rare, up-close look at how butterflies and plants have evolved and diversified together for millions of years.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center opens "Remix: New Modernities in a Post Indian World," a spirited multimedia survey of 15 emerging Native artists June 7. A joint presentation from the museum and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the exhibition closes Sunday, Sept. 21.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently acquired 34 documentary photographs by Cherel Ito. The two suites of works are from Ito's North American travels—one, from 1968, of Mississippi and the Ozarks, and the second, from 1968 and 1980, of various American Indian Nations. Photographs by Cherel Ito: Recent Donations to the Collection is on view at NMWA through May 25, 2008.