2015

The Underworld Courier and the Blisses in California

The 1948 Symposium on the Church of the Holy Apostles

The Pre-Columbian Gallery at Dumbarton Oaks

Music at Dumbarton Oaks: The Performers

Many famous or soon-to-be famous musicians performed at Dumbarton Oaks over the years, and several have reminisced fondly about their concertizing there, in both the residential and institutional periods.

Kurt Weitzmann, “Byzantine Art and Scholarship in America”

“The More I Learned, the More Interested I Got”

A Conversation Between Anatole Tchikine and Chinese Garden History Scholar Alison Hardie

From Housing to Landscape: The Wohnungsfrage Academy in Berlin

Jeanne Haffner, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks

Changes at Dumbarton Oaks under Giles Constable

American Defense: The Harvard Group and Dumbarton Oaks

Then and Now: Changes to the Ellipse and Kitchen Gardens

Final Touches: The Byzantine Collection and Joseph Brummer, 1940

75 Years Ago this Month: The First Month of Official Business

James N. Carder (December 2015)

Stravinsky, Copland, Tower, and Shaw

The Blisses ensured that music was given proper space in their homes, a commitment that was enhanced through their sponsorship of musicians and the commissioning of new works. Dumbarton Oaks continues this commitment through a concert series and commissioning new works from early-career musicians.

The First Garden Library Accession Number: “Maison rustique, or The Countrie Farme”

United They Stand: Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks

From the Rare Book Collection

Love in a Dream

Tyler Fellow Update: Deirdre Moore

Seventy-Five Years of Arts and Humanities at Dumbarton Oaks

Jan Ziolkowski’s Welcome to a Concert by the Dover Quartet, with the World Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s Plan & Elevation (The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks)

Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium

75th Anniversary Gala Concert and Reception