When The New York Times invited me, today, to spend 36 hours in Baltimore, I scoffed. My relationship with Charm City is, at best, strained.
As a kid from PA, I enjoyed trips to the aquarium and Camden Yards, but now I choose to overlook Charm City, the “forgotten middle child among attention-getting Eastern cities.” I [...]
Project 4: Consider exploring Puerto Rican artist Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ “Navigable Zones.” Featuring paintings, drawings, and video installations, the exhibit is about finding, and sometimes losing, your way. Reception is tomorrow, Sat., 5/12, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., with a talk by Collazo-Llorens at 5:30 p.m.
If you can’t shell out the astounding $280 to attend Saturday’s [...]
I was sad to learn today that Abe Graber, a 103-year-old artist I interviewed back in March, passed away on April 16 after a bout of pneumonia. As if living more than a century weren't impressive, the Gaithersburg, Md., resident studied under Arshile Gorky; painted a 50-by-20-foot mural when partially blind and 96 years old; [...]
Meat Market Gallery: Named after his wife, Gerald Wartofsky's exhibit "Karin" draws inspiration from her childhood dolls and her dance choreography. Her childhood, though, was in WWII Vienna, and Wartofsky's works incorporate characters that are more Golem than anything with a cute dress and curls. Reception is tonight, 5/4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Sixth & [...]
Flashpoint: If you're feeling Proustian, check out Flashpoint's memory-focused "Penumbra." As the name would imply, the installations, a collaborative effort by Megan Jacobs and Anna Westfall, are all about light and shadow. Reception is tonight, Fri., 4/27, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Warehouse Gallery: Show your solidarity for the venue and its longtime owners by checking [...]
Govinda Gallery: The folks portrayed in French photographer Claude Gassian's exhibition "Anonymous" are anything but unknown; they include Mick Jagger, Björk, Tom Waits, and PJ Harvey, just to name a few. Reception is tonight, Friday, 4/13, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Irvine Contemporary: Although not associated with the ColorField Remix exhibits opening District-wide this weekend, "Oliver [...]
When I got back to D.C. after a visit to my parents last weekend, I noticed that my shower smelled different. First I thought I was crazy or that I had been spoiled by my parents' well water. Then, taking a bath last night, I realized the water was more like that of a public [...]
Has Knut, the polar bear babe rejected by its mother at the Berlin Zoo and who is 4 months old today, usurped Butterstick's title as international bear of choice?
The "ice bear," as the zoo's translated Web site calls him, gets the May Vanity Fair cover shot by Annie Liebovitz! Sure, he's included because of the [...]
Warehouse Gallery: It's slim pickings for opening receptions in D.C. proper this weekend, but the DeerMilk Collective's "Werewolf Youth" show offers drawings, paintings, a video installation, half-eaten felt fake wolf limbs, and more. Look for more about the show and the group's self-appointed curator Mike Lowery in next week's issue. Reception is tonight from 6 [...]
National Museum of Women in the Arts: Not to be outdone by Smithsonian venues that recently have hosted DJ-centric evening events, the private museum is offering “VJ/DJ: After Hours at NMWA.” In addition to having some wine and noshing on tapas, you can check out offerings from Finnish “live cinema artist” Solu, DJ Samantha Waldram, [...]
In its brief program last night about the D.C. modeling scene (what?), Fox 5 seemed to think that one meticulously groomed reporter could outdo years of Tyra Banks’ TV work.
“A lot of pretty faces in the modeling world, but behind the scenes—better have a thick skin,” said Will Thomas.
I’m sorry, Thomas who-apparently-won-an-Emmy-for-reporting-on-Klan-activity-in Maryland, but [...]
Project 4: If you were the kid who really liked dissecting frogs and fetal pigs, "Specimen" features your kind of art. It involves agar, petri dishes, and unidentifiable things suspended in liquid-filled jars. There's also a porcelain dog head attached to crocheted entrails. Reception is tonight, 3/16, from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
DCAC: Yeehaw. The District [...]
Like other City Paper staffers, I'm bugged by the NYT's new clicking dictionary feature. It does come in handy, though, when the article is about the National Vocabulary Championship.
This is a group that knows what is pulchritudinous and what is pulverulent. This is a group that knows who is nidicoulous and who is nidifugous.
Now granted [...]
Several promising exhibitions open this weekend, and tonight and tomorrow night you can practice your small talk at the receptions.
Connor Contemporary Art and Gogo Art Projects: Take Cribs and boil it down to blueprints and you'll get Mark Bennett's show of architectural drawings of famous sitcom homes at Connor. Then wander over to see Matthew [...]
I imagine that I’d be pretty gushy if I had attended Academy Award after-parties full of movie stars, but the coverage in today's Post by William Booth and Hank Stuever is really kind of strange. Namely, they inexplicably compare themselves to rodents, in the lede, no less. Then they stroke an Oscar statuette.
Bar. Bar. Bar. [...]
