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2009 Summer Music Guide

Washington City Paper's road map for navigating the summer concert season and enjoying the special mix of heat, alcohol, and music.

Inventing Marcel Duchamp at the National Portrait Gallery
Even in death, Duchamp continues to exert influence
Gallery

2009 DC Summer Music Guide
The Beer, Sweat & Tunes Reunion Tour
Arts

IT'S FILMFEST TIME!
Get ready for the 23rd year of your favorite international film festival.
Cover Story

Views from Home
Giorgio Morandi pushed boundaries by placing severe limitations on his work and his life
Gallery

Kindle in the Wind
Who needs agents and traditional publishing houses when there are e-books?
Arts

Battle at Home
Clint Van Winkle's memoir tackles the aftermath of war
Book Reviews

An Insomniac’s Eulogy
Heath Ledger, one year later.
Film

Pain by Numbers
In 2008, D.C.'s museums had a hard time sculpting greatness in a down market.
Cover Story

Optimist Opportunities
Shepard Fairey wasn't the only person selling hope in D.C. galleries this year.
Cover Story

Sheet Smart
Over the River says as much about Christo’s and Jeanne-Claude’s financial interests as their artistic ones.
Gallery

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Moo Attitude
What's Your Problem?

Trouble Exposure
Richard Avedon found subtle ways to show the worries of an elite desperate to protect itself.
Gallery

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Mommy-Track Mind
What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Reading Between the Border Lines
What's Your Problem?

The Return of the Magnificent Mingering
The inside story of D.C.'s best known unknown artist
Cover Story

What's Your Problem?
When Your Drawings Palin Comparison
What's Your Problem?

Verity Cases
Reel Affirmations' 18th edition improves the closer it gets to the truth.
Film

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Remote (Art) Control
What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Nobody Understands My Painting Robot!
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What's Your Problem?
This Week: Are a Writer's Ethics Good Enough for Government Work?
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CP Museum & Gallery Picks

  • Camilo Jose Vergara at the National Building Museum
    Through November 29
    Camilo Jose Vergara, a photographer and sociologist who won a MacArthur “genius” grant, documents America’s inner cities—buildings, cemeteries, churches—in a way that melds gritty, unpretentious...
  • "The Last Viking" at Conner Contemporary
    To July 25
    Something about the fabled Little Bunny Foo Foo–the rabbit who went on a field-mouse killing spree—was always was a little…off. Same goes for Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, the cruel gourd jailer of his...
  • “Street/Studio” at Irvine Contemporary
    To August 1
    The difference between the street and the studio is merely possession: outside, artists can claim ownership of, or at least the right to use, public space, while inside, collectors really have the...
  • "Presidents in Waiting"
    To January 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery
    John Adams once called the vice presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Theodore Roosevelt said he would “rather be anything,...
  • "Architecture of Authority: Photographs by Richard Ross" at the National Building Museum
    Through August 16
    In “Architecture of Authority: Photographs by Richard Ross,” the artist presents an abundance of chilling spaces devoid of any humans—Guantanamo cells, mental wards, police interrogation rooms—in...

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