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A blog about arts in the District of Columbia. I'm a docent. I live in D.C. We have some of the most incredible museums, galleries, exhibits, artists and local art happenings in the U.S. I want to tell you about it.

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thru June 17:

“Slumburbia”
David Sandlin

Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Ave, NYC

a multimedia installation including silkscreened signage and excerpts from his 2009...

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by Mark Steinmetz

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Herbert Bayer ‘Earth Mound’ 1955

To accompany their new exhibition at Geffen Contemporary - “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” the first historical, thematic...

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El Anatsui

Akua’s Surviving Children, 1996

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Andreas Gursky-bahrain I

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Motohiko ODANI - Phantom Limb

(Installation view: Mori Art Museum 2010/11/27-2011/2/27)

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Angela Strassheim, Untitled (Grandmother’s Bed)

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In early 1969, a young artist working in the Nevada desert had an idea for an epic sculpture. Michael Heizer had found a 120-ton boulder in the mountains and wanted to set it...

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timetravelandrocketpoweredapes:

Dinosaur Batman Forever by Joe Carr

Prints available at society6. Long live Dinosaur Batman!!

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