Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Zenith to host a show focused on Kamala Harris

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Monday, September 09, 2024

Goodbye James Earl Jones

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This story starts in the mid 1990s, while I was still on active duty in the US Navy and stationed in the DMV , which at the time was known m...
Friday, September 06, 2024

Tomorrow and Sunday

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What?  The Bethesda Row Arts Festival , which is the DMV’s largest outdoor fine arts festival. When: September 7-8.  Where: Streets of Bethe...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Trawick Prize winners

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The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards folks have announced the 2024 winners. From over 400 applicants, Pedro Ledesma III of Al...
Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Mermeiding again...

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The below mixed media painting will be at  The Bethesda Row Arts Festival , which is one of the DMV’s largest outdoor fine arts festival, an...
Monday, September 02, 2024

This weekend: Bethesda Row Fine Arts Festival!

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  Over the last two decades I have written extensively about the phenomenon of gallery art fairs as the new salons of the 21st century, as a...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

From the Washington Post

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The WaPo's Art editor, Jonathan Fischer, responds to my previous discussions on the end of the "Galleries" column: “Thanks for...

My current OTC article

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 Read it here . Many times over the last few decades I’ve used this column to send a shout out to hard working artists who do not wait to be...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Umi... where ya been all my life?

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This column is all about art - until I find a great restaurant to recommend to you constant readers (getting close to seven million!).... dr...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

The son unit is 15!

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Never good news...

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 Cop was a nice guy and gave me a break... thank you!
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Beach week beard

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Monday, August 26, 2024

Modern Neanderthal

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Best donut ever?

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Courtesy of Tullio's Bakery in Duck, NC. Bacon is good on anything...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Homage to Basquiat

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Friday, August 23, 2024

The curious case of the Washington Post and the Galleries column

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As noted a few days ago , according to the WaPo's freelance art critic Mark Jenkins, his "Galleries" column of August 25, 2024...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The Trawick Prize Exhibition Opens Sept. 5th

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The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards honors visual artists in all mediums from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. The fi...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Rejected (again!)

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  August 20, 2024                                       Dear Florencio Lennox Campello,   The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts an...
Monday, August 19, 2024

WaPo's Galleries column terminated

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From Mark Jenkins, the WaPo's freelance art critic and author of that newspaper's sole and only coverage of the DC area's art ga...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Is the Galleries column dead?

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Just got a note from an old friend at the WaPo that the "Galleries" column may be nixed in the next few days. I sincerely hope not...