Opportunity for artists...
Deadline: 1 June 2004

The 2004 Eight Annual Georgetown International Art Competition is an opportunity for artists to exhibit two dimensional art in our Georgetown space.

We have had tremendous success with the previous juried exhibitions, which were widely reviewed in various local art magazines and local and national newspapers. See some of our reviews here. This exhibition has in several cases also opened up additional exhibition opportunites for artists in the DC area, and we've also picked up several artists to represent from the work submitted.

The 2004 juror is Kristen Hileman, Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens.

Read the prospectus and download the entry from here.

Another beauty in the "someone shoot me now" category.

My message to Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (sister Lisa), Julie Kavner (family matriarch Marge), Hank Azaria (bartender Moe and Apu the convenience store clerk) and Harry Shearer (Homer’s tyrannical boss, Mr. Burns and Bible-toting neighbor Ned Flanders)......

Oh forget it... I guess you do deserve $8 million a season to do voice overs for cartoons....

Someone shoot me now...

I'll be goddamned if this is not what I've been bitching about for the last 11 years that I've been living in the Washington, DC area!!!!

"The failure to challenge is a fundamental flaw in US arts journalism..... And how did this happen? Because there are few cities with multiple critical voices."

I've been frothing at the mouth about having more than one writer reviewing all 200-plus art galleries, non-profit art spaces, embassies and alternative art venues in our area - and a freelancer at that! -- it's not fair to Jessica Dawson, and it's not fair to Washington Post readers, and it's not fair to artists, and it's not fair to gallerists! (I ignore the Washington Times because Joanna Shaw-Eagle is seldom allowed to review local area artists - although I do thank the Times (and bite the hand that reviewed the dog) because they gave me a great review in my last art show).

But --- the point is that we need more than one point of view when it comes to galleries criticism - why don't our Art Editors (in both the Post and Times) get that when it comes to the (galleries) visual arts criticism/reviews?

There's several movie critics, several music critics, several visual art museum critics, several dance critics, a whole pride, bevy, ton, tribe... of theatre critics.... why only one gallery critic? The Post has many talented and qualified writers already: Wiltz, Trescott, Frey, Lewis,... plus freelancers like Protzman, Jacobson, Shannon, Mahoney. There's no lack of qualified art critics! It's ironic that the only paper that article author Norman Lebrecht praises is the Washington Post - but then, from a music perspective, the Post does offer superb critical coverage of music.

And yes - I do realize that once in a blue moon Blake Gopnik, or Michael O'Sullivan (or his freelance replacement on Weekend), is "allowed" to review a local gallery - but the bottom line is that we need more than ONE point of view.

Nobody asked me, but my opinion nonetheless...