Brett Zongker

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Smithsonian aims to raise $1.5B to improve museums

Smithsonian aims to raise $1.5B to improve museums

Brett Zongker · October 20, 2014 9:39 pm

Mark Twain Prize honoree Jay Leno speaks after being presented with the prize at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Comedians honor Jay Leno with humor prize in DC

Brett Zongker · October 20, 2014 4:20 am

Arts panel approves design for Eisenhower Memorial

Arts panel approves design for Eisenhower Memorial

Brett Zongker · October 16, 2014 8:49 pm

Arts panel approves design for Eisenhower Memorial

Arts panel approves design for Eisenhower Memorial

Brett Zongker · October 16, 2014 8:36 pm

Kennedy Center adds comedy series with $5M gift

Brett Zongker · October 16, 2014 2:02 pm

US Holocaust Memorial Museum visitor Marianne Kast, from Fresno, Calif., watches a slide show presentation of images of emaciated and mangled bodies from recent history in Syria in an exhibit entitled "Genocide: The Threat Continues," Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, at the museum in Washington. The small exhibit features a dozen images from an archive of 55,000 pictures smuggled out of Syria. The photographer, codenamed "Caesar," testified in July that he witnessed a "genocidal massacre" and photographed more than 10,000 bodies as part of his job. He warned a similar fate could befall 150,000 more people who remain incarcerated by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Holocaust Museum shows images of Syrian killings

Brett Zongker · October 15, 2014 6:36 pm

National Park Service curator Kim Robinson holds the photo of Selina Gray, right, who was in charge to care for Arlington House where Gen. Robert E. Lee had lived in for 30 years, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The National Park Service has acquired a rare Civil War-era photograph of an enslaved woman at Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's home in Virginia. The previously unknown photograph depicts Selina Gray, the head housekeeper to Lee and his family. The photograph was unveiled Thursday at Lee's Arlington House plantation overlooking the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Slave photo discovered from Robert E. Lee’s home

Brett Zongker · October 9, 2014 8:44 pm

Spy Museum nixes move to historic DC library

Spy Museum nixes move to historic DC library

Brett Zongker · October 7, 2014 10:33 pm

Barrier still at White House 2 weeks after jumper

Brett Zongker · October 3, 2014 8:19 pm

This undated handout image provided by Gehry Partners, LLP shows an aerial perspective of Eisenhower Square looking along Maryland Avenue, SW and Independence Avenue in Washington. The long-delayed effort to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall has won a key approval, despite ongoing objections to architect Frank Gehry's design. A federal agency that oversees national capital planning approved the preliminary building plans Thursday. The National Capital Planning Commission debated the design and voted 9-1 to approve the concept. (AP Photo/Gehry Partners, LLP)

Eisenhower Memorial wins key design approval in DC

Brett Zongker · October 2, 2014 9:12 pm

This undated handout image provided by Gehry Partners, LLP shows an aerial perspective of Eisenhower Square looking along Maryland Avenue, SW and Independence Avenue in Washington. The long-delayed effort to build a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower near the National Mall has won a key approval, despite ongoing objections to architect Frank Gehry's design. A federal agency that oversees national capital planning approved the preliminary building plans Thursday. The National Capital Planning Commission debated the design and voted 9-1 to approve the concept. (AP Photo/Gehry Partners, LLP)

Eisenhower Memorial wins key design approval in DC

Brett Zongker · October 2, 2014 9:01 pm

This undated photo provided by the Smithsonian and taken from the Washington Monument, shows a giant portrait of a young man, entitle: entitled: "Out of many, One," created in the landscape of the National Mall, left. The six-acre portrait by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was made of sand and topsoil and can be viewed from the Washington Monument, or from space. The World War II Memorial is in the foreground and the Lincoln Memorial is in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Gulezian, Smithsonian)

Artist creates huge dirt portrait on National Mall

Brett Zongker · October 2, 2014 1:17 am