Tickets in the Theater are sold out. Additional seating is available in a simulcast location. Simulcast tickets are $5, and may be purchased by phone. Please call  202.686.5807.

In conjunction with the publication of Going for Gold: Craftsmanship and Collecting of Gold Boxes, explore intricate, highly decorated boxes manufactured for snuff. This beautifully illustrated lecture includes highlights of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the VandA.

Go behind the pages of Eva Stachniak's new novel, Empress of the Night, as the author discusses her fascination with the formidable Empress of All the Russias and reveals what went into her writing process to cast “light on Catherine’s life with unflinching honesty and intimacy.” (Virtuoso Life Magazine)

At the request of Tsar Nicholas II, a set of porcelain figures that describe the history of Russia’s diverse cultural heritage was created between 1907 and 1917 by Pavel P. Kamensky at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. This lecture presents more about the entire series of figures, commissioned as the Russian government publically embraced the population’s diversity.

Have a dazzling evening at Hillwood!

Explore how flamboyant media tycoon William Randolph Hearst chose his works of art, how they were displayed, and how he lived with them during more than eighty years of an extraordinary lifetime.