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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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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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Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1645-52. Located in the Cornero Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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Ana Mendieta
Untitled from Silhouette Series
1976
form dug in the ground in the beach at La Ventosa, Mexico, filled with red tempera and allowed to be obliterated over the...

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Robert Smithson, “Mirror and Crushed Shells”

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Renee Stout on Preparing for African-American Art

Local artist (and winner of the 2012 Sondheim Artscape Prize) Renee Stout discusses her mixed-media work with Smithsonian’s American Art Museum conservator Hugh Shockey.