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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.

Silverdocs 2009

Our comprehensive guide to D.C.'s foremost documentary film festival

Cover Story By City Paper Staff

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

2009 DC Summer Music Guide
The Beer, Sweat & Tunes Reunion Tour
Arts By City Paper Staff

IT'S FILMFEST TIME!
Get ready for the 23rd year of your favorite international film festival.
Cover Story By Jule Banville, Andrew Beaujon, Hilary Crowe, Sarah Godfrey, Justin Moyer, Tricia Olszewski, Mike Riggs, Ted Scheinman, T.D. Smith, Aaron Wiener, Jeff Winkler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Moo Attitude
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

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

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

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

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

What's Your Problem?
When Your Drawings Palin Comparison
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Verity Cases
Reel Affirmations' 18th edition improves the closer it gets to the truth.
Film By Amanda Hess and Tricia Olszewski

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

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Nobody Understands My Painting Robot!
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Are a Writer's Ethics Good Enough for Government Work?
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

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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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