Friday, May 27, 2011

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O'Sullivan on the Washington Glass School No secret here that I am a HUGE fanboy of what the WGS and what many other DMV area glass art...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

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Diana Nyad, my Goddess of the day! Diana Nyad, at age 61, prepares for second attempt to swim from Cuba to Key West If the brutal and bloody...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Opportunity for Artists Deadline: June 1, 2011 Call for Art - Superheroes: Icons of Good, Evil & Everything In Between Superheroes is &q...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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American Contemporary The latest issue of American Contemporary Art magazine is out and it has a nice column on DMV area shows (p. 14-15) ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

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The Power of the Web: The BBC listens Eight years ago I started shouting that the whole idea of a museum focused on Latino art was a bad id...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

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And the winners are: The ten award winners from the 200 artists at the 20th Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival are: Jorge Caligiu...

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WGS Students at Gallery 555DC “The Washington Glass School is known for its excellent student program and the quality of creative work its s...

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Argentina The Embassy of Argentina now has their first exhibition of the year, All Come in Color , celebrating the month of their May Indep...

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Fighting words this post is from 2004 and yet artists, art dealers and other folks are still posting and arguing over it. It's on the s...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

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Top 10 Jamon Serrano : Quite possibly one of the top ten foods on planet Earth and one of the top 25 in this galaxy and one of the top 100 i...

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MOCA DC Plea After receiving the below press release from Georgetown's MOCA DC gallery , I asked its director, Dave Quammen, for permiss...
Friday, May 20, 2011

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New Art Gallery in Georgetown Today, the DMV welcomes its newest contemporary art gallery, Heiner Contemporary . The gallery is now open to ...

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Next month! The 100 Washington, DC Artists book should be out next month! Pre-order your copy here .

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This weekend This weekend is the 20th Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival , one of the highest ranked outdoor art fairs in the natio...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

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Tonight at Long View I hear that about 300 people have RSVP'd to this opening tonight, so you may be a little crowded, but do not miss t...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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Claire Huschle stepping down from the AAC The Arlington Arts Center (AAC) has announced that its Executive Director, Claire Huschle, will s...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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Tim Tate at the Taubman See that gorgeous museum to the left that looks like it has been transplanted from Bilbao? That's Virginia's...
Monday, May 16, 2011

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The Amazing Sharon Moody The current issue of Elan magazine has the spectacular work of DMV artist and Georgetown faculty Sharon Moody . S...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

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Celly Campello sings "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" Celly Campello: Don't cry for me Argentina - Watch mo...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Open Studios Today, Saturday, May 14th from 12 to 5pm the artists of The Washington Glass School and all the dozens of other artists in the...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

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Airborne Heading back home from the Left Coast and flying on Friday the 13th... feh!
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Washington Glass School: The First 10 Years About the event: The Washington DC area has become internationally renowned as an emerging cente...

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Uh? I don't know what's going on with Blogger, but it has been down for quite a while and now it seems like a bunch of posts have be...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Critique the Critics On the evening of Saturday, May 14, Arlington Arts Center (AAC) -- in partnership with DC Magazine -- hosts its annual...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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Firings at the WaPo Just heard from a source who heard it from a friend who heard it from a cousin who is dating someone who works at the Wa...

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Enough is Enough! It has been over a month since the Communist thugs who run China arrested artist Ai Weiwei and he hasn't been heard si...

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Latino Art Museum: Still a Bad Idea! Eight years ago, when the story first surfaced in the Washington Post about a Latino Museum on the Nat...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Things we learned in New York It never ceases to amaze me how often I run into stories of what I thought were ethical gallerists only to dis...
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Airborne Heading to the Left Coast with an unenviable 5:25AM departure... more later.
Monday, May 09, 2011

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AAFNYC: Sunday Report Yesterday was the final day for the Affordable Art Fair NYC, and the fair was pretty packed with mothers all day long....
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Sunday, May 08, 2011

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AAF: The Saturday report Yesterday was another well-attended day, with a good stream of visitors all day long, although they tapered off by ...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

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AAFNYC: The Friday report Yesterday there were good crowds again; and once again they picked up at night. Mayer Fine Art sold my largest d...

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Highlights from the Affordable Art Fair New York City Founded 12 years ago by London gallerist Will Ramsay (who also does the Pulse Art Fair...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

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AAFNYC Opening Day Yesterday was the "official" opening day for AAFNYC and through most of the day the crowds were very thin (som...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

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AAFNYC Preview Day Last night it was packed to the gills (in fact I am told that the attendance exceeded the maximum number of people allowe...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

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Wanna go to an opening this week?

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Funny In reference to the historic image below (by White House photog Peter Souza), notice the look in VP Biden. I'm in New York and tod...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

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Close call From now on, I'm doing this first before confirming a hotel room anywhere: Check them out in Bed Bug Registry . I'm headi...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

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History in a Photograph I don't know who took this photograph, but this is an amazing marriage of technology, history, narrative art and...
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Ditto "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" Mark Twain

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How to Eat a Mango Here's another peek at some of the writing that I've been doing about my early childhood in Guantanamo, Cuba. Thi...

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Tic Tac Toe “We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we ...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

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Next Week in New York Next week is the Affordable Art Fair in New York City, right across the street from the Empire State Building. The Af...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Open House
Friday, April 29, 2011

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Walking Off the Artistic Cliff Wednesday, June 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm Panel Discussion - Walking Off the Artistic Cliff Making good art requires t...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Top Ten Artists to Watch Bruce Helander , Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist and a White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the A...

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TV Drawings Above is "Devil Posing with a Mariachi Hat." This is a TV drawing (ink and finger smears) and done while watching a TV...

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Big Ideas Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7 - 5:00 - 8:00pm Public Programs Saturday, May 14, 12:00 - 5:00pm Gateway Arts District Open Stu...

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Go see this Saturday Three major DMV artists showing at Reston's gorgeous GRACE . Place: Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) Date and Tim...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The Jerusalem Fund Gallery will have a special exhibition titled Breaching the Wall from May 20 - June 24, 2011 and the opening reception ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Point Nine The gas station next to the Watergate has regular gas at $4.99.9 a gallon. I wonder how the whole point nine thing started in gas...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

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Congrats! Congrats to Transformer, which was awarded the Mayor's Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline on Wednesday evenin...

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Landscapes Light up Edison A new exhibit called “The Illuminated Landscape” opens this week at the Edison Place Gallery in the Pepco buildin...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

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Josip Broz Tito's Unusual Art Legacy Tito's iron hand on the former Yugoslavia left behind more than the usual brutal and bloody Com...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

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The Mother of All Rock Fights For about five or six years now I've been working on writing down my memories of my early childhood in Cub...
Friday, April 22, 2011

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For your Cinco de Mayo