Friday, November 09, 2007

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Shauna Lee Lange on Andrea Reed's Sweet Struggle at The Target Gallery Power Seeks a Vacuum By Shauna Lee Lange Years ago when I was wor...

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Philly 1st Fridays Walkabout Last Friday I went wandering through some of the galleries participating in Philadelphia's 1st Fridays gall...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

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Bethesda Art Walk tomorrow Tomorrow is the second Friday of the month and thus its time for the Bethesda Art Walk with 13 participating ven...

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Come again? Minnesotan Ford W. Bell , a former Democratic candidate for the US Senate, is the new president of the American Association of M...

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Art Jobs 11 art jobs and internships in DC .

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Great deals A really good art heads-up: There are some great deals to be had in this online auction of 124 lots by New York's Daniel Co...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

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Happy Anniversary! The Maryland State Arts Council just celebrated its 40th anniversary with an exhibit of work by 40 Maryland artists, cur...

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The Blogger Show Opening Video James Kalm posted the below video about The Blogger Show opening in New York a few days ago. I have this d...

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Green Like nearly everyone on the proper level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, I am very interested and concerned about green issues in ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

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Job in the Arts Howard County Arts Council is seeking a grants and program assistant. B.A., non-profit exp., strong computer & organiz...

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Design the DC Arts Vanity Plate Deadline: Friday, December 7, at 5:30 pm. Design Fee: $5,000. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities ...

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Opportunity for Photographers Deadline: 28 December 2007 The Fraser Gallery (which I used to co-own) is hosting the 7th Annual Internationa...

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Opportunity for Artists Deadline: January 15, 2008. The 4th Annual National Painting, Drawing and Printmaking Competition at the Palm Beach...

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Grants for Artists The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation offers funding to emerging American artists and craftspeople through a biennial awa...

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Al Lerner Abram "Al" Lerner, the first director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC has died at age 94...

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Wishful Thinking... "The fever for graffiti art continued last week at the opening of an exhibition of 130 original works by American s...

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Wanna go to a Baltimore opening on Thursday? The The Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College in Baltimore opens ID with the work of sculptors...
Monday, November 05, 2007

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Jenny Holzer at SAAM "For SAAM" by Jenny Holzer The Smithsonian American Art Museum debuted a major site-specific light sculptur...

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Shauna Lee Lange on Going West at The Renwick By Shauna Lee Lange We weren't the only ones who couldn't gain admission to the Corco...

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Fellowship for Artists Deadline: January 15, 2008 Hamiltonian Artists is currently seeking fellowship applications for the 2008-2009 season...

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Voices One of the cornerstones in the edifice of my criticism of art criticism is how much better the writing and public is served when diff...

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Why isn't anybody writing about art anymore? Peter Plagens on "Why isn't anybody writing about art anymore?" Today's a...

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1992 Redux? In the early nineties, more than 70 New York galleries went out of business. Could it happen again? No, say many observers—today...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

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Seeing Double El Greco painted several versions of "Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple," and in the process set the OK s...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

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Good News Last August, The Washington City Paper added a new writer to the DC area art scene, and Maura Judkis has been a refreshing new v...

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Much Ado About Oil and Water The Smithies have to return a $5M donation because of mixing oil and water. Read it here . Feh! Use the money ...

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Botero Opens Tuesday "Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib" opens Tuesday at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in D...
Friday, November 02, 2007

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AAC Survey The Arlington Arts Center has an online survey here to help them fine tune their programming. It only takes a few minutes; take...

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Saturday Openings in DC Loads of good shows are opening in DC tomorrow: Kathryn Cornelius at Curator's Office, Linn Meyers at G Fine Art...

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Trinity College I am honored to announce that some of my Pictish Nation drawings are now part of the permanent collection of The University...

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David Hickey on Selling Out "The question of how to sell without selling out is especially relevant in the contemporary art world and t...

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Fake Banksys on Ebay "Unauthorised prints by the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy have been sold on eBay as limited edition, signed wor...

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First Fridays in Baltimore too! Tonight is First Fridays in Fell's Point in Baltimore too... and Lisa Egeli , one of Maryland's mas...

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Corcoran News The recent opening of the Ansel Adams exhibition at the Corcoran also saw the unveiling of the Photography Exploration Galler...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

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Go to jail card Brit artist Michael Dickinson, who lives in Turkey, will be on trial next week accused of insulting the Turkish Prime Minist...
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The Blogger Show opens in NYC The first part of the Blogger Show opens at Agni Gallery (170 East 2nd Street, New York, NY 10009 412-389-0288...

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Banksy Exposed? So claims the BBC - check out the well-known street artist here . Looks like Mark Jenkins to me.

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Sometimes a good notion show I am one of those annoying persons who's always complaining about anything and anyone that focuses on just...

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Blogger Interrupted The current issue of Art in America has an interesting roundtable on art blogs by Peter Plagens - It's not availabl...

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Mental Masturbation A few years ago, a friend of mine who works with new experimental supercomputers told me about an exercise that they had...

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First Fridays If you wanna do openings and gallery crawls, first Fridays is one of your key days in Philly and DC. There are a lot of galler...

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Viral Post While I was away the WaPo did this viral piece on my good friend, the very talented Judy Jashinsky . Read it here .

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What Matters
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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Flying back home Heading home after a couple of very fruitful days in Miami delivering artwork to a local power uber collector couple; estab...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

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Finch peck Artnet's art critic Charlie Finch takes a massive peck at the art blogsphere with an odd article in Artnet magazine. More on...

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Dawson on Bethesda Even while I was in gorgeous Niagara Falls, the anguished cries from DC's not-Brooklyn have followed me via emails fr...

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Airborne again And heading to Miami this time... unable to log in to my email account due to some "*.dll file corruption" which wi...
Friday, October 26, 2007

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Celestine Accent Niagara Falls is absolutely spectacular, and the millions of tourists who have flocked through here over the decades get th...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

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Airborne today Gilbert Munger, Niagara Falls showing the Canadian and American Views , 1903, oil on canvas 72" x 120" Collection o...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Motion filed If you haven't been following the whole mess with the trustees of Lynchburg’s Randolph-Macon Woman’s College , then read th...

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Open Portfolios in Philly The Print Center along with Philagrafika, InLiquid.com and the Philadelphia Center for the Book will host an Open...

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New Arlington gallery Duality Contemporary Art is a new art gallery in Arlington, Virginia. Coming November 10, 2007 they have "Natura...

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Wanna go to a Virginia opening this Friday? It's a new gallery to me, but it has been around for alomost 15 years, which in gallery year...

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Artists' Condos Three condos available for purchase by artists only. The condos are located at 915 E St NW in DC's Penn Quarter, and...

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International Caribbean Art Fair The first annual International Caribbean Art Fair will take place at The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Stre...

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Fabbri on Mancini There's a gorgeous exhibition at the PMA on Neapolitan artist Antonio Mancini (1852-1930) . This is the first exhibiti...

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Re-name? As early readers know, this visual art blog started in October 2003 as "DC Art News." When I moved to the Philly area las...

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Wanna go to an opening in DC Saturday? Brooklyn photographer Lori Nix "creates meticulous dioramas handcrafted from plaster, cardboard,...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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Medal of Honor A day of silence here in honor of Lt Michael Murphy, US Navy, who was awarded (posthumously) the Medal of Honor today for hi...
Monday, October 22, 2007

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Blog B'day October 16, 2003 was my first ever blog post as I began to learn the nuances of Blogger.com and began to gather readers fo...

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Two Princes Two influential art critics review Richard Prince's retro at the Guggenheim and, as if often happens, come away with wildly...

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Guess Who? Just back from the weekend fair and not only did I sell around 40 drawings, but also was awarded a nice four-figure Helen G. Giff...
Friday, October 19, 2007

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Heading South Travelling today for an art fair this weekend. I'll try to post throughout, so keep coming back.
Thursday, October 18, 2007

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Deadline Approaching The deadline for receiving applications for the 2008 Bethesda Fine Arts Festival is December 15, 2007. This festival ...

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New Spaces "The Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, formerly Rockville Arts Place and now known as VisArts, has moved into its fla...

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John Blee & Marie Ringwald
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Cowboys, the rich, and buying artwork I was listening to the radio today and heard some amazing statistics from a recently released report ...

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WPA Membership Meeting On Monday, October 29th at 6:30 PM the Washington Project for the Arts is having an important meeting - open and fre...

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Missa Pro Pace Forum A forum discussion accompanying Prof. Chawky Frenn's solo show "Missa Pro Pace" exhibition at the Arling...

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Impressionists by the Sea On Saturday, The Phillips Collection ' newest exhibition, Impressionists by the Sea , opens to the public. Th...

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Mark your calendars Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and Thomas Lutz, Head of the Memorial Museums Department at Ber...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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Rivers on Foon Sham I had never heard of her until this WaPo article came out, but whoever Eileen Rivers is at the WaPo , she really deliv...

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Taking it to court Banksy is pissed off at the Chapman Brothers for allegedly stealing his artistic idea; result: lawsuit! Read the Arifa Ak...

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The Power of the Web: Oz When this opportunity presented itself a while back, I dug around for some doodles that I had done in the late 70s...

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Baltimore Open Studios Mark your calendars - next weekend, Oct. 20-21, from 5-8PM is the 19th Annual Baltimore Open Studios . Details here .