Bethesda Fine Arts Festival

May 11 and 12!

Delight in fine art created by 130 of the nation's best artists, live entertainment and Bethesda restaurants. Located in Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle, along Norfolk, Auburn & Del Ray Avenues. Festival hours are Saturday, May 11 from 10 - 6pm and Sunday, May 12 from 10am - 5pm.

Admission to the festival is FREE and free parking is available in the public parking garage on Auburn Avenue. This event is held rain or shine.

The Bethesda Fine Arts Festival features live entertainment! Some of the region's best bands will be featured on the stage this year. Make sure you stop by to hear live rock, jazz, reggae, Latin music and more!

Bethesda Fine Arts Festival restaurants will be on Norfolk Avenue next to the stage. Drop by during the festival for sliders, sushi, barbecue, Indian cuisine, ice cream, beer & wine and more!

Hassids

This just showed up on the secondary market at auction!

Hassids: Generations by F. Lennox Campello - Charcoal and Conte on paper, circa 1996

As I recall, this sold at a 1996 show at the Art League in Alexandria!

Should art offend?

Should art offend? Does it matter if people are offended? Should offensive art be displayed? Should it be censored? Who decides what is offensive or appropriate? Join us to hear a discussion of these questions and more.

A discussion panel featuring Philip Kennicott, Chief Art and Architecture Critic, the Washington Post; Janis Goodman, Panelist, WETA Around Town, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University; Lenny Campello, Author, Daily Campello Art News; and Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute and Editor, Cato Books; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Cato Daily Podcast host, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute.

REGISTER HERE

May 22, 2019 
6:30PM to 8:00PM EDT

Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403

Phone (202) 842 0200

Lyrical Flight Sunday at Athenaeum

Lyrical Flight now open, has an artist talk on May 12, 4-6pm at The Athenaeum Gallery, 201 Prince Street, Alexandria VA 22314.

If the below installation photos are any indications of the impact of this show - expect a really amazing show by Barbara Januszkiewicz now in Alexandria.

The Athenaeum Gallery

Lyrical Flight | Barbara Januszkiewicz 

Artist Reception: Sunday, May 12, 4 - 6 pm

Artist Celebrating Earth Day with using Eco Friendly Materials.

Exhibits run from: April 18 – June 2, 2019

201 Prince Street, Alexandria VA 22314


www.nvfaa.org

"Organic" opens May 1st!

ORGANIC |  Anne Marchand & Nancy Frankel

Exhibition: May 1 - August 17, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 1, 5-8PM

Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space  | 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 202.783.2963  |  www.zenithgallery.com

Details here.

How Anti-Money Laundering Legislation Could Impact the Art Market

A resolution in the United States Congress suggests that galleries and auction houses could soon be subject to strict reporting requirements about their customers amid a global push for greater transparency in art transactions. While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an often opaque art market, the law could also burden dealers and auction houses with onerous administrative and reporting duties that will be especially challenging for smaller and mid-size galleries.

Details here. 

New Gallery in DC: Von Ammon Co

Also in Georgetown, there’s a tiny slip of a street called Cady’s Alley, which in the first days of April welcomed a completely different kind of local establishment: Von Ammon Co, a contemporary art space started by Todd von Ammon, a former director at the influential New York outfit Team Gallery in SoHo.

Read the Artsy article by Nate Freeman here.