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Artomatic Dates & Location Announced

With the 10th anniversary of Artomatic comes a new location — Half Street’s 55 M Street SE, a 275,000 square feet LEED Silver Class A office building that is currently under construction. The dates of the five-week long art, music, and theater event ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Major League Baseball

Arts Agenda

As you know, Valentine's Day is this weekend, and with it comes plenty of opportunities for arty couples to go on dates, and for singles to pretend the Hallmark holiday isn't happening at all. Read on for details about a whole art weekend taking ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

DCist Interview: William Christenberry

How did you end up in D.C.? From Alabama I moved to New York City and then to Memphis, where I taught for six years at Memphis State, which is now the University of Memphis. Memphis is a great city, a wonderful city, especially if you love music, ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: William Christenberry,  Walker Evans,  Flannery O'Connor,  Eudora Welty,  Willem de Kooning

Portraiture Now: Feature Photography @ National Portrait Gallery

Cindy Sherman, The New Yorker, 5/15/2000, Martin Schoeller, Digital C-print, 2000. Collection of the artist, courtesy Hasted Hunt, New York City; © Martin Schoeller The American story isn’t just told by famous people. That's apparent at the National ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Cindy Sherman,  John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Angelina Jolie,  Jack Nicholson

Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities @ the American Art Museum

Ansel Adams, Saint Francis Church Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, c. 1929 Gelatin silver print, 13 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust , which opened at ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  10 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Ansel Adams,  Georgia O'Keeffe

DCist Interview: Leo Villareal

Leo Villareal, 41, is a New York-based artist who works with light. He debuts new work in Washington this month: Leo Villareal: New Work opens on Friday at Conner Contemporary Art and his installation in the concourse walkway between the East and West ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  23 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Dan Flavin,  James Turrell

George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings at the National Gallery of Art

Brush grew up in Brooklyn and Connecticut, and is not a Native American. He studied painting in New York and Paris, and in 1882, traveled to Wyoming and Montana, where he lived on a reservation. A year later, he returned east and began to teach and ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  15 Sep 2008

July Museum Round-Up

With so many museums in D.C., it's easy to overlook the wealth of fun and interesting events that are happening at them. Here's a round-up of some of the notable events and exhibits going on in July, including a look at baseball in D.C., a hip-hop ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  2 Jul 2008
Related Topics: NASA,  Jesse Owens,  Josh Gibson

Martin Puryear @ National Gallery of Art

Martin Puryear's C.F.A.O., 2006-2007, painted and unpainted pine and found wheelbarrow. Courtesy the artist and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. © 2008 Martin Puryear. Photo Richard P. Goodbody When Martin Puryear visited the last week for the press ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  27 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Donald Young,  Alexander Calder

Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist @ the American Art Museum

The Harlem Renaissance comes alive in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s newest show, . The exhibit consists of eighty works including paintings, murals, prints and book illustrations that are a testament to Douglas’s range of talent and his ...

From AMY CAVANAUGH, DCist,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Aaron Douglas

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