Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Frida Kahlo at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Seldom does an art review need a little context from the perspective of the reviewer's ow...
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When bloggers bite Read this .

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Been done... Remember the Washington Post "experiment" with violinist Joshua Bell playing outside a Metro station in Washington, ...
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Hook-up! A controversial German artist known for exploring death is searching for a dying volunteer to take part in an upcoming installation...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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When artists and gallerists part An overheated art market sets all kinds of things in motion. Big galleries with money to burn and multiple ...

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Artists' Website: Mike Schaffer Condoleezza Rice by Mike Shaffer Mike Shaffer "assaults the famous and the unknown from the DC env...

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Wanna go to a DC opening tomorrow M. Andrés Svensson, the Chilean Cultural attache brings to my attention the opening of the show by Chilean...

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2% Which of the 300+ Chelsea galleries to visit?

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Wanna go to a Richmond opening on Friday? Flora, Fauna, Fabulous & Fun! opens in Richmond, Virginia's Chasen Gallery with an openi...

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Wanna go to a National Harbor opening on Friday? I haven't been to National Harbor yet, but it sounds and looks really cool. A good rea...

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Quilts save town What Italy provides for people who love food is what Paducah does for quilting. A small Kentucky town on the Ohio River hal...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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And then... Read this

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It started with a dog In 2007, when I first received a deluge of emails and pictures of the art installation by Costa Rican "artist&quo...
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Congrats! To Marsha Ralls, founder of The Ralls Collection in Georgetown in DC, who together with Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Hone...

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Plexiglass House Kriston responds to my rock here (missing the point a little, I think); no more on this subject from me unless a get toge...
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Opportunity for artists with disabilities Deadline: Friday, July 11, 2008 Sponsored by VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc. Open to eme...
Monday, April 21, 2008

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Art Deals Wanna get a Colby Caldwell for a $100 bucks? How about a Tim Tate for $100 Samolians? or an Amy Lin? or Melissa Ichiuji? Susan ...

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Valko at the Corcoran Only two days left to catch Marissa Valko's Fine Art Senior Thesis I (through March 23, 2008) at the Corcoran'...

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Scotland's Rocky Statute ? If we were accountants or lawyers, I am sure our professional advice would be taken seriously but when it com...

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End of Nature I've heard good things about the "End of Nature" show at the Warehouse complex in DC. Loads of good photos he...

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School 33 Jody Albright has stepped down as director of Baltimore’s city-owned School 33 Arts Center. It's the second School 33 to to re...

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Congrats To DC's Isabel Manalao's Studio Visit blog , which has been selected by the City Paper 's staff as DC's "Best...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

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Video Art World A new website designed to showcase video art and make it available to video collectors has made its debut at www.VideoArtWor...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

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Glasshouse shattered From Kriston Capps in 2005: "It's bitchy of me to say— and I don't know the extent to which Lenny Campell...

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Smithsonian Official Resigns The head of the Smithsonian Latino Center resigned in February after an internal investigation found that she v...

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Dia de los Muertos The German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhib...

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Artist Talk: Baltimore Hamid Kachmar will be discussing his inspiration and creative process, at New Door Creative in Baltimore this Sunday...

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Congrats To DC artist Kathryn Cornelius, who has been included in "Ad Absurdum Energies of the absurd from modernism till today" ...

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Open Studios: DC Saturday & Sunday, April 26 - 27, from 11AM- 5PM at 52 O Street NW in Washington DC - website here . Work by: Stevens J...

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Artists' Websites: Diane Ramos Photography by Diane Ramos I am hearing good things about Diane Ramos ' MFA thesis show at the Latin ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

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Mellema on Lin Kevin Mellema at the Falls Church News-Press reviews the current Amy Lin show at the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia and ...

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Predicted Mini Controversy The National Endowment for the Arts has announced a design competition, in partnership with the Joint Committee o...

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PMA and regional artists Here's something that you will never see in a Washington, DC museum: This spring the Philadelphia Museum of Art...

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Artists' Talks: Philadelphia Bill McRight and Alex Lukas are both members of the artist collective Space 1026, McRight creates strange a...

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Artomatic update The District of Columbia's massive arts extravanganza known as Artomatic already has almost 700 visual artists and nea...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Huge Arts Friday in Philly tomorrow This Friday is crazy in Philly... first is the opening weekend for the Heartworks series of multimedia ...

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Art Businesses Across the Nation "As of January 2008, the Creative Industries are a formidable industry in the United States — 2.98 mil...

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Trib does Tim Tate I am not familiar with the Chicago Tribune 's art critic Alan Artner, but apparently much like his counterparts in DC...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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Artists' Talk: DC Join co-curators Andrea Pollan and Jayme McLellan for a conversation with the artists featured in Civilian Art Project...

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Artists' Websites: Katie Miller Child Standing on a Dresser . Oil on canvas, 46x70" c.2007 by Katie Miller I recently juried an art...

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Opportunity for illustrators The Chester River Press is looking for an experienced artist to illustrate a fine letterpress limited edition ...

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Mangravite on Prestegord Gregory Prestegord at F.A.N. Gallery in Philly is reviewed by Andrew Mangravite: Gregory Prestegord’s city scenes ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Gopnik on Dumbachers The WashPost 's Chief Art Critic Blake Gopnik pops in with a terrific profile of the Dumbacher brothers , whose wor...

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Museums and buying art ...should museum staff be free to advise board members (or other collectors) on what they should be acquiring themsel...

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Radcliffe Institute Fellowships Deadline: October 1, 2008 The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards approxima...

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Trash People Earth Day is a week away... and I've been hearing good things about a new art installation that opened last week at the Nat...

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Hyattsville Arts Festival Where: Hyattsville, MD - on Longfellow Street and Route 1 (or take the metro to Hyattsville) When: Saturday, April...

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Colloquium on African American Art The Howard University Department of Art is going to host the 19th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on Af...

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NYC Art Program Slide Registry The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program Slide Registry is accepting slides ...

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Open House at the Torpedo Factory On Friday the 25th of April is the annual Spring Open House at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria,...

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Common Waters at Mayer Fine Art Below is a quick video showing the exhibition "Common Waters: An Ocean Apart" at Norfolk's n...
Monday, April 14, 2008

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To Biennial or Not to Biennial Kyle MacMillan over at the Denver Post asks and raises some really good points over the need for the new Denv...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

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Time for Norfolk to be embarrassed Norfolk newspaper The Virginian-Pilot sponsors an annual Student Gallery competition hosted at the Chrys...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Now I know... This quote clearly reveals that Kingsley Amis' force is the HMFDIC (Head Motherfucker Darth In Charge) of the cabal of mos...

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VB 2009 The Venice Biennale has named Daniel Birnbaum, the rector of the Staedelschule International Art Academy in Frankfurt, to curate its...

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Common Waters: An Ocean Apart Common Waters: An Ocean Apart opens tonight with an grand opening reception from 6-9PM at Mayer Fine Art in ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

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Opportunity for artists Deadline: May 5, 2008 Wanna sell your landscape? 4Culture is seeking to acquire wall-mounted landscape works that u...

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Save the Date: Gallery Grand Opening in DC On Friday, May 9th from 5:30-8PM, the Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center will have its gr...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

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Out of Order Picks By the time I showed up to the Maryland Art Place to drop my piece for "Out of Order" I was number 299, so by...

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Beyond the Easel Beyond the Easel: Preparing to Market and Sell Your Art Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008 Time: 10am-6pm Location: Warehouse Arts...

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Wanna go to an opening in Bethesda? Joan Danziger opens at Bethesda's Osuna Gallery on Saturday, April 12, 2008, from 5-8 pm with an ex...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

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Jury Duty Tomorrow I will be on art jury duty for VSA arts , looking at entries inspired by the performing arts for “Derivative Composition,...

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Deadhead Wading Earlier tonight, after spending hours on a clogged up I-95 drive from Philly, I arrived in Baltimore, parked for 61 minutes ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

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Out of Order MAP’s infamous free-hung benefit exhibition is back! For twenty-four hours, the Maryland Art Place in Baltimore will open its ...

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It keeps on rolling The year 2008 Tim Tatetahon just keeps rolling... fresh from the Washington Glass School opening at Charlottesville'...

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SF Art Institute halts exhibition Citing threats of violence by animal rights activists, the San Francisco Art Institute said Saturday that ...

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A Miami mural of Barack Obama generates some buzz In a weird way - since we all are supposed to want to be governed and taken care of by big...

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It's all about the galleries The current issue of Washingtonian magazine publishes something that it should have done ages ago: a sup...
Monday, April 07, 2008

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Wanna go to an opening in New Jersey? Greg Minah , who a few years ago made it to quite a few of the Art-O-Matic Top Ten lists that I ran, i...

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Yay! This just won a Pulitzer Prize and it is a good read - read it here .

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Amy Lin at the Art League Amy Lin's solo show "Interaction" opens this Thursday, April 10 from 6:30-8pm at the Art League Gall...