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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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Eye-Candy Monday: Cut Paper Artworks by Eric Standley

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Eye-Candy Monday: Cut Paper Portraits by Dan Tobin Smith.

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Sherin Guirguis one of my favorite artists EVER, and an amazing woman to boot, has a new solo show opening tonight, Thursday, March 4th at Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. This image is from that show, Duwamah, and the work is Untitled (three moons), 2011, Ink and watercolor on hand-cut paper.

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Eye-Candy Monday: Paper cuts by Peter Callesen.

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Look what arrived in the mail today!!! Untitled (Mountain), 2010 by Egyptian-born, Los Angeles raised artist Sherin Guirguis. Sherin is one of my favorite contemporary artists (and a friend) and I am lucky to own not one, but two, of her amazing “paintings” which are really so much more than that (ink, cut paper, metallic foil). Now all I have to figure out is how to frame this! 78h x 52w in!