May 2013
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May 20th
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May 20th
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Your Sunday Instruction: Sublime/Subliminal Artist...
Match this weekend of mist and fog with a laid back afternoon pondering Sublime/Subliminal which closes today at Alley Cat Studios. Local artists Kendall Nordin, Michael Matason, Mariah Anne Johnson, and Peter Gordon will discuss their work and “picturing the unspoken.” Sunday, May 19, 2013 from 3-5pm at 29 Kings Court SE #6, Washington D.C. 20003, entrance east door across from...
May 19th
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Hard Art: DC's Punk Scene on The Kojo Nnamdi Show... →
Kojo’s going to be talking with locals Lucien Perkins and Alec MacKaye about the new Hard Art photography book which documents the DC music scene of the late 70s and early 80s! The book is being published by Akashic Books in June 2013. Tune in!
May 16th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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Frieze First Impressions
When it comes to art fairs, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. That’s why when I go, I mentally commit to the fact that I won’t see everything and may in fact miss some cool things. I also don’t usually expect to find anything affordable, although I have been surprised in some cases. I do expect to be wowed by at least a few artists. I do expect that there will be places to rest and recover. So...
May 11th
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DC Docent Goes Frieze!
I’ll be live tweeting from the Frieze Art Fair in New York City today! Follow me on Twitter @TheDCDocent for art fair shenanigans.
May 10th
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May 9th
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Wednesday Lunch: Transformer Terminators →
May 7th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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Your Sunday Instruction: Consolidated Landscapes
If you’re like me, you usually get a late start on Sundays. So after you’ve slept in, made your coffee, grabbed some brunch, read the paper, had a nap…it’s time to get out of the house. Lucky for you there’s Delicious Spectacle, with its closing party for Consolidated Landscapes featuring Brad Birchett, Travis Childers, Robert Long, Matthew Shelley, Jassie Rios and...
May 5th
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Saturday DC Art Picks: World Keeps Spinning
Buds Shoot Flourish - An appropriate name for this exhibit featuring works on paper by artist Carol Barsha by Reyes + Davis. Since the loss of their gallery space almost 2 years ago, they’ve mostly shown their artists through semi-private events, bu will have a special residency at Civilian Art Project through the end of the month. Opening reception today, Saturday, May 4th from 6-8pm with...
May 4th
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April 2013
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Saturday Bonanza: On the Outs with 5 Art Picks
Blockout - Curator Matthew Smith closes the Concrete Abstract show at Heiner Contemporary with a discussion regarding his assemblage of Seth Adelsberger, Lisa Dillin, Jeremy Flick, Steven Frost, Sue Johnson, Becca Kallem, Patrick McDonough, Danielle Mysliwiec and himself for this exhibit. Saturday, April 20, 11am talk with gallery open until 6pm. Psyched Out - Sublime/Subliminal and the tension...
Apr 20th
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Sneak Peeking: Transformer's Annual Summer Series →
D.C. has great art, whether it’s hanging in a museum, a gallery or someone’s home. Luckily for you, Transformer holds the keys to some of the great private collections to be found in the city. The Collector’s View, now in it’s 6th year, has been a reliable and, for the most part, evenly curated program. Although you may have missed the deadline to sign-up for the full...
Apr 18th
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Forbes: Much of DC Art World Success Due to... →
“Ask just about anyone about Washington DC, and in all likeliness they could rattle off a list of things come to mind. Until recently, contemporary art would not have made anyone’s list. But over the past decade, the art community in our nation’s capital has also worked hard – and gone quite far – toward building a reputation as a capital of contemporary art…and much of it is owed to...
Apr 17th
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Money Money Money, Money...Money: Insuring Your...
Is insuring art always needed? It depends on your goals, but I’d say generally that if you own work of any significant value, then yes, you should probably insure it. Or if you’re an artist, you may do it as a way of protecting your work. If you’re a gallery, absolutely (Hurricane Sandy, ahem). Don’t believe me? Learn for yourself tonight at Hamiltonian’s...
Apr 17th
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“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and...”
– Eugene Delacroix
Apr 16th
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Id? Ego? Superego? Jeff Koons at Hirshhorn This...
If the psyche were a pie chart, what would Jeff Koons’ look like? I gave up caring a long time ago about Koons, but yet he persists. Like a bad penny he always turns up. Thursday, April 18 at 7pm, Ring Auditorium, The Hirshhorn. Limited seating with tickets distributed first-come, first-serve. You must be preent to get a ticket, so no asking a friend to get you one.
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Your Sunday Instruction: Jem Cohen's Museum Hours
You may know Jem Cohen from Instrument, the 10-year-in-the-making documentary he did of Fugazi, but he’s more than a director who works with musicians. In the Washington premiere of his new film, he focuses instead on fine art and the way in which it brings us together. “Set mainly inside the vast Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum Hours revolves around an oddly fascinating bond that...
Apr 14th
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HBR: Seven Rules for Managing Creative People →
Harvard Business Review is always a good read. And my favorite of these rules is surround creative people with semi-boring people; not boring mind you, semi-boring, because “[t]he worst thing you can do to a creative employee is to force them to work with someone like them — they would compete for ideas, brainstorm eternally, or simply ignore each other…The solution, then, is to...
Apr 9th
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Canaletto and Panini Drawing Salons: Thursday and...
There is a real pleasure in drawing in a museum setting. Especially in a gallery as charming as the East Garden Court in the National Gallery of Art. This month’s salons focus on the Italian landscape, which “inclines even the most stolid to romance.” Thursday, April 11th and Sunday from 1-3pm. Space is limited to 35 participants on a first-come, first-served basis with sign-in...
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Your Sunday Instruction: Soothing Quartet Sounds... →
Who doesn’t love strings? Or string quartets for that matter? They seem perfectly suited for Sundays. And when you pair them with art, well, it’s a great way to wind down the weekend, no? Amphion Quartet comes with a sterling reputation and with a setlist that includes Janacek, Schubert and Wolf. It’s a great way to catch the phenomenal Angels, Demons and Savages show, grab some...
Apr 7th
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Mumbo Jumbo: DC Artists Influenced by Go-Go at...
On the heels of the Corcoran’s Pump Me Up exhibit showcasing D.C.’s own brand of cultural influence as only Marion Barry, Chuck Brown and Cool Disco Dan could have produced, comes a new exhibit opening tonight at Contemporary Wing. Mumbo Sauce, co-curated by Lauren Gentile and Roger Gastman, keeps the D.C. love-fest going with a roster of artists who were all influenced by the...
Apr 5th
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Corcoran v. American: Bring It
It’s that’s time of year again—-time for two of the areas premiere arts education programs to showcase their students. This Saturday, both the Corcoran and American open their annual Spring exhibitions. I’ve attended these respective events for the last several years and can tell you that the competition is stiff. Corcoran’s NEXT (BFA) is usually consistent on...
Apr 3rd
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NPR: The Wonderful World of Whisky Art →
Who knew that when whiskey evaporated it would be so haunting? Apparently photographer Ernie Button knew and is good enough to give us the goods in Vanishing Spirits: The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch.
Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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March 2013
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Saturday Picks: Wedding Blisses and Designer...
Curator’s Office Kathryn Cornelius’ Let’s Not Ever Be Strangers Again picks up where she left off with last year’s performance wedding extravaganza where she wed and divorced 7 strangers in the course of several hours. The video works and sound installations will build on that first “Save the Date” performance but with explorations and documentations into the...
Mar 30th
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Furthermore Friday Night Mash-Up
Friday night got you restless? Looking for something to loosen up with? Then maybe you should head over to Furthermore Print’s Mixtape Mashup. Tonight’s gathering will showcase some local BFA/MFA talent in a video mash-up format. You can expect a laid back vibe, some drinks, good conversation, and projected images to get the weekend started right. Friday, March 29, 2013 from 7-10pm...
Mar 29th
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Christo at The Hirshhorn Wednesday
It feels a little bit sad to think about seeing Christo alone (sans JC). But alone he will be and ready to discuss some of his ongoing projects including Over the River (completion date TBD) tomorrow night. Wednesday, March 27, 6:30pm at the Hirshhorn’s Ring Auditorium.
Mar 26th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 19th
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Memory Lane: My Birthday Post From 2 Years Ago
This was my birthday post 2 years ago on this blog, thought it was funny enough to repost:) 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China (damn, there are a lot) 1454 – Birth of Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512) (Amerigo’s toothpick fetish immortalized in the Brooklyn Museum) 1796 – Napoléon...
Mar 9th
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