Saturday, April 18, 2009

A Window on Fine Craft

Yesterday's Washington Post's Weekend section had the kind of arts coverage that a city can only dream of... it covered the coming Crafts Week DC extravaganza that I mentioned last week.

Details here.

P.S. "The Crafts Whisperer..." (sounds of Lenny laughing...)

Wanna go to a Maryland opening tomorrow?

Opening Reception, Sunday, April 19th, 6-8 PM at Photoworks Gallery, in gorgeous Glen Echo Park, MD. Work by Rob Grant, Gary Jimerfield, and Scott Grant. Through May 17, 2009.


Photoworks Gallery
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, Maryland 20812
www.glenechophotoworks.org
301-634-2274

Friday, April 17, 2009

And your art for free...

Australian artist Hazel Dooney is celebrating the 500th posting in her cool art blog by giving away a free Dooney original: a small, limited edition, color photographic study from her Lake Eyre series, titled Study for Modern Strategies For Survival : Resized For Mass Consumption.

Each print is stamped, signed, dated and numbered on verso. The image size is around 2" x 3" on 4" x 6" paper. Details here.

Want to win an original Damien Hirst painting?

Only if you are an UK resident... but details here.

Wanna go to a gallery opening in Arlington tonight?


The AAC's Spring solo shows 2009, featuring work by Jason Lee, Joseph Lupo, Gregory McLellan, Christopher LaVoie, and Steve Frost, opens tonight with a reception from 6-9PM.

Wanna go to an opening in Baltimore tomorrow?

off the wall

Thursday, April 16, 2009

If you wear a Che Guevara T-Shirt


Unless it is like the one on the left, you are wearing the image of a man whose own racist writing and actions are full of negative, racist remarks about Mexicans and Blacks and Native Americans.

By the way, "Comemierda" is an almost unique Cuban insult...