The Oaks News

Dumbarton Oaks announces a campus improvement project that will enhance sustainability, K-12 educational activities, and support of the arts and humanities at Dumbarton Oaks.

Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion rethinks ancient bodies and modern aesthetics

Dumbarton Oaks has appointed Thaisa Way as the Program Director in Garden and Landscape Studies.

An early trip to Peru, the first of many, transformed William J. Conklin’s life forever and sparked his interest in the people and cultures of the Andes, particularly ethnographic and Pre-Columbian textiles.

Dumbarton Oaks recently acquired a Byzantine manuscript of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on St. Matthew, written very likely at the end of the ninth century in Constantinople.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming

The annual Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series returns this fall with an impressive season of performances.

For the first time ever, single-concert tickets are available for the Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series, coinciding with an especially exciting season of performances

Dumbarton Oaks, with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, has acquired an early tenth century Greek manuscript of historic and scholarly significance

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.”