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DCist Preview: Civilian Moves into Warehouse Arts Complex

The newly remodeled front room of Civilian Art Projects currently exhibits Terri Weifenbach's Woods photographs. Three weeks ago, we met up with Civilian Art Projects' Jayme McLellan to see their progress as they made the move from their previous ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  12 Nov 2009

Arts Agenda

The second annual FotoWeek DC Festival starts up this Saturday, and the city is already overflowing with all things photography and more than enough arty events to go around. We're featuring our picks in this week's Arts Agenda, but take a gander at ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  4 Nov 2009

DCist Preview: Longview Gallery's New, Massive Space

The Longview Gallery has moved into a new, massive space at 1234 9th Street NW. (Lynne Venart) Long a fixture in the small Shaw rowhouse at the corner of 9th and N Streets NW across from the Convention Center, the Longview Gallery has moved a half ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Scott Brooks,  Lexus

Celebrate National Design Week in D.C., October 19-23

National Design Week starts on Monday, and while a lot of the major events are in New York, designers and design-lovers can get their fill of events right here in D.C.—online, at our area museums, and at a week of social events organized to bring ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: AIGA,  Stuart Davis,  Edward Hopper,  Willem de Kooning

Talk to Me, Baby

DCist's guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area Stamp designer Ethel Kessler will discuss the challenges of her work at the Postal Museum Saturday morning. Tuesday >> The K Street Busboys hosts two events focused on issues related to ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  American Museum of Natural History,  Tom Mboya,  Tim Gunn,  Jem (musician)

National Portrait Gallery Installs Ted Kennedy Portrait

When the National Portrait Gallery opened at 11:30 this morning, visitors were able to view the recently installed Andy Warhol portrait of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the first-floor gallery space marked "In Memoriam." The space was designated ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  27 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  Andy Warhol,  Bob Dole,  Michael Jackson,  TED

DCist Goes Sailing: Schooner Edition

Sailing into the great wide open aboard the American Spirit. (Lynne Venart) This past Friday, we joined them again for one of their bi-weekly Friday night cruises on their larger, 65-foot schooner, American Spirit. The schooner can fit 35 passengers, ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  7 Aug 2009

Hot Tip: U Street is Loud

"The noise laws are not well enforced," said D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who wants better enforcement. "We try to work with those that are the source of the sounds, but it's been very frustrating." Graham's office has received noise ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  24 Jul 2009

National Design Awards Events Broadcast Live at 10 a.m.

If you weren't able to convince your boss to let you leave the office this morning to catch one of the five National Design Award lectures from 10 to 11 a.m. this morning at various museums, tune in to the webcast for a live broadcast of each lecture. ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  24 Jul 2009

Fringe Festival: All That Was Left of Them

, which premiered last night at the Goethe Institute as part of the Fringe Festival, is a product of the Yellow Chair Theater Company of Wesleyan University. Despite all three actors and the rest of the crew being busy students or recent graduates of ...

From LYNNE VENART, DCist,  10 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Hans Christian Andersen

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