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John G. Hanhardt has been working as a consulting curator on film and media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). He’s had an influential career as one of the pioneering curators of media art in North America, helping shape the way museums look at and receive new media within their galleries and collections -- all stemming from his perspective of film’s influence on art and culture in the 20th Century. Hanhardt grew up in...

This city has always produced fine jazz musicians, but the scene has had its ups and downs. In the 1990s, D.C.'s jazz landscape was very different. This was a time before the resurgence of U Street and Adams Morgan as centers for live music, and it also seemed as though there was a dearth of young talent in the city. While top notch national acts always came to the Kennedy Center and Blues Alley,...

Five years ago, Carol Trawick began funding the highest paying art competition in the area at the time. The Trawick Prize, held at Creative Partners, was open to artists working in all media, with the high cash prizes often won by new media artists working in video, digital technologies and installation. Encouraged by Fraser Gallery owner Catriona Fraser, Trawick began a similar competition open only to painters three years ago: the Bethesda Painting Award. The...

With so many large cities boasting their own international fine art shows and biennials, isn't it high time that the nation's capital got a piece of that action? Finally, it looks like we have a major fine art show of our very own. You might have already heard the buzz about artDC, but now it's time to start marking your calendars. The fair's organizers have announced that the show will be held next April 27-30...

The new gallery season celebrations continue tomorrow, with openings galore. If you can't make the parties at night, take a Saturday afternoon stroll and check out the shows that opened last week.

With so many art galleries featuring recent graduate shows, we couldn't resist scouring the walls for a few of our choice picks. Today we begin a brief series featuring local artists who look prepared to make some strong waves in the art world. Growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, Brian Twilley was always pulled towards the visual arts and, particularly, photography. "Miserable" as a business major, he quickly switched to fine arts and never looked back....

Please visit http://hoops.gmu.edu and tell us your experience, or send us your picture, about George Mason University's unbelievable run in basketball. Be a part of online history!

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Good morning, Washington. We hope your commute your commute to work yesterday was better than ours. We ran into snarled traffic in two different locations thanks to newspaper machines that had been blown into the street. Chalk another one up for the new media: we may not have sources, offices or salaries, but we're indisputably less susceptible to wind. Today looks to be about as cold and blustery as Thursday was — WAMU says...

We here at DCist are sad to see them grow up so fast, but it was bound to happen -- two of the site's most prolific and controversy-inspiring contributing editors are moving on to bigger and better things. Catherine and Kanishka, respectively known as the resident music and food snobs, have been with DCist since the very beginning, reviewing many a show and satiating many a palate. But today marks the day they walk out of DCist's virtual office, joining the ranks of twenty-somethings taking on jobs and activities that do not afford them the time to blog. Wait. Those exist?

In an interesting move that could have repercussions for new media and other online newspapers, washingtonpost.com today switched to a dual homepage format. One homepage features more local and regionalized news, and the other has a national/international focus that won't highlight the Post's regional content (like the Entertainment Guide) as much. Which homepage you view is based on your registered zip code -- if you provide a local zip code, you will get the local page, and if you're outside of the Metro area, you'll get the other. You're also able to manually choose which homepage you would like to view. Jim Brady, the executive editor of washingtonpost.com, writes today that:

While the home page you first receive will be tied to your registration zip code, you will be able to override that setting, since we realize providing choice is crucial in the Web world. It's also important to note that, regardless of which page you receive, you won't be cut off from any content on washingtonpost.com.

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Pew Research Center.

A former employee of WashingtonPost.com is planning to launch a new local news website for the Washington area in early 2005.