While the French painter is ignored at the National Gallery of Art, the Asian beauty at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery is without admirers. Eros, quarantined in the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden, looks small; a modern Poseidon with no flesh but metal bones is up, standing tall in a street garden.
The celebrity chef José Andrés’s three restaurants in Penn Quarter and Chinatown are dressed up with new art decor. His Spanish Jaleo andEastern Mediterranean inspiredZaytinya are now community kitchens serving meals outside of doors at reduced prices or free for those who can’t pay. Social distancing is maintained by well-spaced paint marks on the ground leading all the way to the door. China Chilcano – fusion of Peruvian and Asian – offers takeout and delivery; it has the most memorable spicy dumplings – really and distinctly spicy.
