At the Oscars this weekend, we'll find out if Exit Through the Gift Shop wins the Academy Award for best documentary. For the past month several friends have urged me to watch the movie because it is about art and it is apparently by the celebrated London street-artist Banksy. OK. I watched. The end result [...]
This weekend may be the last chance for a while to see the artwork of John Tsombikos—aka Borf-–indoors. Since the 2008 closing of the Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, Borf-and-company’s makeshift gallery on North Capitol Street, D.C.’s best known graffiti artist (and onetime City Paper contributor) has been without a permanent home. After laying low for [...]
Your favorite weekly assemblage of D.C. cultural noise cannot be diminished. Put down all those fall previews and dwell in the now, baby, because if you sleep on Far Out vs. Hot Dang, you're snoozin' on life. On the left, as usual, are the mind-bogglers and the head-scratchers—as well as the sweet epiphanies and fond [...]
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Closing out our series, we asked the members of the Borf Brigade to collectively reflect on the state of the arts in 2008:
2008. The international year of planet earth for the moment. Art is dead, and this dead horse sure can run. So, when the Borf Brigade, a group of dilettantes, trouble-makers, and anti-socialites was [...]
