February 2012
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Saturday Picks: Megatronics and Magic
You know I love me some alliteration, and especially on Saturday. Let the unseasonably warm day/night airs of this weekend take you to future fantasies and missing dimensions.
DAY AGENDA:
Porch Projects proves yet again that DIY gallery projects in DC are almost never boring with Megatron’s Dead a collaborative show by Bonner Sale, Samuel Scharf and Zac Willis and which celebrates the...
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What the Debate Over the Eisenhower Memorial is... →
An excellent critique of the proposed Eisenhower Memorial here in DC by Leon Krier, a colleague of Frank Gehry’s from Yale’s School of Architecture.
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Suprasensorial Panel at Hirshhorn Tonight!
“Suprasensorial artists Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc join curators Alma Ruiz and Valerie Fletcher to discuss their participatory and populist large-scale installations as well as those of Lucio Fontana, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida. The exhibition will be open prior to the program from 5:30 to 7 pm. Panel starts at 7pm in the Ring Auditorium....
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Celebrate the New Year Today!
I personally always feel like the real new year begins with the Lunar New Year in Late January, early February. Somehow it always feels more authentic than the chronology of the Gregorian calendar.
But there are many new years to be had at any given moment! The Tibetan New Year, or Losar, begins today. Tsagaan Sar, the Mongolian New Year, starts today as well. Celebrate with some quiet time at...
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WaPo: President Obama Breaks Museum Ground →
National Museum of African American History and Culture breaks ground today with President Obama and former First Lady Laura Bush.
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Get Your Dragon On at The Textile Museum →
In case you didn’t know, this year’s lunar new year ushered in the Year of the Water Dragon. The last Water Dragon year was in 1952! The Dragon is usually pretty feisty and fiery, but in a water year the Dragon is calmer and more pragmatic.
The Textile Museum in DC will be exhibiting Dragons, Nagas and Creatures of the Deep “a global selection of textiles depicting dragons and...
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Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient... →
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York may have its newly opened Art of the Arab Lands galleries, but D.C. has the cherished Freer Sackler with a collection of Middle Eastern art that goes on and on and always surprises with its depth and breadth.
My advice to you, listen to some of the Freer’s excellent Persian music podcasts while viewing this collection, because I know you enjoy the...
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“To believe is to suffer; like loving someone in the dark, you can never see...”
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Your Sunday Instruction: Collecting... →
With all of the great African and African-American art DC has seen in recent months (30 Americans, Sandile Zulu & Henrique Oliveira, NEXT Generation), no better time to learn something about collecting it! Two collecting discussions conveniently ocurring during Black History Month, including one today:
The Collecting of African American Art VII: David C. Driskell, artist, collector, and...
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Saturday Picks: Hamiltonian and Project 4 Openings...
Hamiltonian will open it’s first show tonight since its unfortunate flooding last month with two solo exhibitions by Fellows Joyce Y-J Lee (Passages) and Matthew Mann (Buddy Pictures). Support Hamiltonian’s return by coming out for this!
Nearby Project 4 also opens a new photography show by Georg Kuettinger, a German artist for whom this is his first solo U.S. exhibit. Large-scale...
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War in the World: Tim Hetherington & the Julia...
Commemorating the history of conflict can take many forms, depending on the era. In a new pair of exhibits at the Corcoran Gallery of Art covering the Civil War and the recent war in Afghanistan, the striking differences in the tools, subject matter, and point of view are bookends to the evolution of documentary photography and armed conflict.
Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War from...
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Sunday Pick: Luce Unplugged w/ DC Band The Torches... →
The Luce Foundation’s Unplugged series continues this Sunday, February 12, at 1:30pm at the American Art Museum with DC band The Torches. Since Sunday is Lincoln’s actual birthday, the band chose the painting Life Mask by Patricia Roberts (which is actually Lincoln’s death mask) for the pre-show artist talk.
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UPDATE: The National Museum of African American... →
Given that it’s Black History Month, you may be asking yourself, hmm, whatever happened to the the National Museum of African American History and Culture? And the plan to build it on the National Mall? Wonder no more, details when you click above.
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WaPo Review of The Phillips Collection's... →
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Your Superbowl Sunday Instruction: Meditate on Art →
Because you’ll need to relax before the big game.
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Saturday Night Live: 3 Art Openings Tonight!
Sinners & winners in the still of the night
meet old bricks, new windows and
what futures become in next generations
and bodies and souls, the embrace
of cousins cast (die vettern)
for tombs as the Devil, a shadow,
and the notice of a small falling
leaf bring night to a close.
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NEXT GENERATION, Various Artists at Contemporary Wing at 1250 9th St., NW, 6-9pm
DIE VETTERN,...
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Saturday Pick: Contemporary Wing Opens with NEXT...
The wait is over! See who 30 American artists Nina Chanel Abney, Nick Cave, Rashid Johnson, Rodney McMillian, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems picked as up-and-comer artists.
Opening reception at Contemporary Wing’s temporary space from 6-9pm tomorrow night (Saturday the 4th) at 1250 9th St., NW....
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“RIP Mike Kelley and Dorthea Tanning”
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3 "Centennial" Celebrations of Artists in DC
A lot of artists turned 100 this year; or at least would have if still alive. But Death stops no celebration! Right now there are at least 3 exhibits honoring artists at 100: Harry Callahan at the National Gallery of Art, the newly opened Jackson Pollock at the American Archives of Art, and opening in 2 weeks, Romare Bearden at, wait for it, Macy’s!
Whaaat? Apparently there will be a...
January 2012
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Celebrate the Arts & Black History Month!
This month promises to have more arts events than ever celebrating the history and contributions of African-Americans in the United States. Stay tuned for more postings by me later this week, but in the meantime check out the Smithsonian’s website which has a special page for Black History Month 2012.
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ICYMI: The Obamas Visit The Corcoran →
The President, Mrs. Obama and their two daughters visited the Corcoran Sunday to take in the 30 Americans exhibit (which closes February 12th) and the new works in the photography gallery by war photographer Tim Heatherington (Sleeping Soldiers) and a collection of Civil War photographs (Shadows of History).
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