December 2011
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“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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Contemporary Wing Announces Inaugural Exhibit →
Lauren Gentile, former Director of Irvine Contemporary, has announced her new gallery’s inaugural exhibit Next Generation which will open February 3, 2012.
This exhibit will pick up where 30 Americans (currently on view at The Corcoran) leaves off. Gentile invited each of the artists in 30 Americans to choose emerging American artists whom they felt represented the future of contemporary...
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ICYMI: The City Paper's Best Photographic Images... →
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On the Road to Marfa...
Today I am visiting Marfa, TX and hope to be posting pictures of my encounters with land art, the desert, night lights and more…but only if my iPhone Tumblr App holds up. Fingers crossed!
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DC Art Shows I Loved in 2011
I saw a lot of art shows in DC this year, here are my favorites:
Washington Color and Light at The Corcoran Gallery of Art
My Business With the Cloud, Spencer Finch at The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Uncanny Valley, Graham Caldwell at G Fine Art
Artist Dialogue II, Henrique Oliveira at National Museum of African Art
Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, Lewis Baltz at The National Gallery of Art
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“Merry Christmas!”
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WatchFrom aaroncanipe:
Hadn’t come upon this Christenberry interview before, but it’s one of his best.
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
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My Christmas Art Wish List
What I want for Christmas, or really any time of year, usually comes down to books, videos and art. I already bought myself two gifts for Christmas: Alexander Calder’s Circus DVD from The Whitney and the Branch Earphone Splitter from MoMA NY.
What else would I like?
The book It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973 published as part of the exhibit and Pacific...
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T&L: World's Ugliest Public Art? →
Or perhaps only misunderstood?
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DC Docent in the Desert for Christmas!
Yours truly leaves today for parts dusty in New Mexico and Texas for Christmas and New Years! I’ll be keeping up on DC events but will also be blogging from said parts, including a side trip to Marfa, TX for some Donald Judd, land art and night lights. Stay tuned!
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Your Sunday Instruction: DC Musicians in the...
Just learned about “Luce Unplugged”, an acoustic concert series sponsored by the Luce Foundation Center for the Arts that invites local area musicians to play after artist-led talks at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum.
Today, Sunday, December 18th at 1:30pm the artist talk will be on Claude Buck’s The Angel Israfel and followed by a performance from John Davis of...
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Dusk Veil by Mara de Luca
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“Naming a work is difficult, as hard as making it. A good title completes and...”
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Galaxy Envy: DC Art Shows Look to the Stars
Outer space in DC is hot right now. No less than 3 shows around town are focusing on space travel, moon landings, artificial intelligence, global positioning systems and more NASA name-dropping than I’ve heard in a while. Reminds me of that time a Rastafarian called out to me “Hey, Lady Astronaut!” as I was walking down the street in silver pleather pants…but that’s a...
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Hirshhorn's 360° Video Installation Coming in... →
Night time is the right time. Doug Aitken is creating a site-specific video installation at the Hirshhorn which will be viewable only at night and will require a full promenade around the building’s outer perimeter. Meditations on art and architecture, movement, liquidity, and non-linear transformation will ensue.
Will run from March 22 - May 13, 2012 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...
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Waiting for My New Painting by Mara de Luca →
My new painting (Dusk Veil) by Mara de Luca (from Luis de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles) gets delivered in the next few days and I cannot wait!!!
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Furthermore Editions Sale & Kiosk Tomorrow Night! →
Tomorrow night Furthermore Print will be hosting a reception with open bar and editioned giveaway. Another opportunity for holiday gift buying!
This event will introduce Furthermore’s inaugural kiosk of artist-generated zines, newspapers, books & more:
Recent Editions with Progress Report, Flashpoint Gallery, Present Company, The Studio Visit, and Pleasant Plains Workshop
SP Weather...
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The Christmas Story in Art
Attend a 50-minute gallery talk Thursday at the National Gallery of Art with Dr. Eric Denker, Senior Lecturer (and also a Whistler expert).
Dr. Denker is the Senior Lecturer in the Education Division at the NGA, where he has been since June 1978. From 1998 to 2006, he also served as the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Corcoran, overseeing the permanent collection and coordinating special...
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Music Considered: Artist Talk at Hemphill Tomorrow... →
Bob Boilen (former NPR’s All Things Considered/All Songs Considered), Robert Goldstein (composer and former NPR music librarian) and Robin Rose (exhibiting artist, musician and ex-Urban Verbs) gather at Hemphill Fine Art to discuss the relationship between music and art as part of Rose’s exhibit “The Big Payback.”
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Asian Photography Symposium at The Freer Sackler →
Get your research on at Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits across Asia, a 2-day symposium (December 5th and 6th) which “examines imperial portraiture during the advent of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.”
Every now and again it’s good to do academic art symposiums and lucky for us, Smithsonian programming generally does a good...
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“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the...”
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Space Odyssey: Aussies Claire Healy and Sean... →
The Corcoran often makes some very surprising choices that blow my mind. Are We There Yet? is one such show.
Drawing on influences from film (2001: Space Odyssey), art (Andy Warhol), history (NASA and the Challenger tragedy), literature (Thoreau) and pop culture, the Australian wife-husband artistic partnership of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro yields some wonderful visions of what I can only...
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Opening Tomorrow: Project 4 "In Season" →
Despite completely ambiguous email telling me nothing except that the works in this show are “small-scale” and explore “themes throughout Project 4’s programming” I was intrigued by this image:
Features artists: Margaret Boozer, Beau Chamberlain, Christine Gray, Lisa Kellner, Tricia Keightley, Thomas Muller, Ellington Robinson, Foon Sham, Jill Townsley, Paul...