Katzen Arts Center at American University — Attraction in Washington

This is a world class Museum and pretty much also the only museum in the capital area which pays any attention to regional artists, as all other DC area museums think of themselves as "national" museums, and their curators would rather take a cab to Dulles Airport for a flight to Berlin to visit an emerging artist there than a cab to Georgetown or Alexandria to visit a local...

You'll enjoy at least one and often three or four of the exhibits at any given time, here at the Katzen Museum. That's an unusually high hit rate, in my opinion. So, the curation is very good. The captions on the artworks are often excellent, and rarely descend into self-referential art speak. The museum is well worth several...

This arts center is very well designed for exhibitions. There is plenty of space to host multiple shows at once and feel that visitors can concentrate and not be distracted because of the 3 floors and enclosures.

Happy I visited on a night of an...