Women Artists @ NMWA

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653):
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (Wikimedia Commons)

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is well worth a visit, and can be combined with any number of other dining, shopping or cultural offerings in DC's once half dead and now always bustling Penn Quarter/Chinatown neighborhood.

Right now the following exhibition sounds particularly cool at the NMWA:

ROYALISTS TO ROMANTICS: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections

Vive la France et Vive les Femmes!

(I once, incidentally, saw a film called "Artemisia," about a female artist trying to paint - and avoid being branded a scarlet woman - in male-dominated, 17th-century Italy. It attempted to chronicle the little-known life of Artemisia Gentileschi, who has fascinated many art lovers and artists over the centuries.)