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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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Richard Butler Bowdon ’ Angelo K. cell phone pose’ 2012

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James Turrell: A Retrospective is now open to the public at LACMA. This three-venue retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell, a key...

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Anonymous asked: If as contemporary art bloggers as you believe, post-post modern art and especially performance such as Abramovic and even photographic evolution (or devolution) as it is, is not simply a eschew of technique, then I would assert that modern art itself is a rejection of true art in place of people craving attention for their lack of talent.

Beneath your “Hello, I own a thesaurus” bigfancywordthrowingarounding all you’ve really said is that you don’t appreciate art that doesn’t use oil paints or hunks of marble, and...

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jacobvanloon:

Jacob van Loon | Postcard from Prairie Park, 2010

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Joan Snyder, Symphony, 1970

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dutch-and-flemish-painters:

Louis Gallait - Monk Feeding the Poor - 1845

oil on canvas, Height: 100 cm (39.4 in). Width: 82 cm (32.3 in).

Neue Pinakothek, Munich,...

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“3 Squares” 48”x48”, oil on canvas, 2013

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thosethievingbirds:

Gerhard Richter, Centre Pompidou, Paris

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“Introduction to the Pump” 48”x48”, Oil on canvas, 2013

For my upcoming show at J.Cacciola gallery.

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Sand Bunker (2012) by Caroline Cruz

Paper collage - 29,7 x 42 cm (11,7 x 16,5 in)

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