Results tagged “warehouse”

Many people I know have been urged to see a campfest is to sell her short - this is a show with real soul.

       

The Art of Change was the sort of anti-ball to all the hoopla at the nearby Washington Convention Center. Trying to gain entry through the barriers, closed roads, volunteers and police was just as convoluted and difficult, but it had little else in common with the other balls. Barack Obama only made appearances in the artwork. Celebrity appearances were nil. And the dress code was the funkier the better... but preferably non-flammable.

Yesterday we told you about FLUX, the umbrella group of arts organizations proposing to turn Cook Elementary into a multi-use art space. During our discussion with Warehouse's Paul Ruppert, we also got some more information about a separate push to convert the unused space underneath Dupont Circle. Ruppert, along with Adam Griffiths from the Washington Project for the Arts, and Julian Hunt, an architect with Hunt Laudi Studio, have formed an "ad hoc committee" as part of the new Artist Coalition for Dupont Underground.

At the end of the 2007-2008 school year, 21 schools in the DCPS closed for good. During the summer, the city put up a request for proposals for ways to reuse the buildings, and via the Bloomingdale blog, it looks like some of our local arts supporters grabbed on to the opportunity.

Written by DCist contributor Andrew Schneider

Nowhere but the Warehouse can we imagine such a gritty, diverse and inflammatory group exhibit blending so well with its environs. Upon entering End of Nature, one is taken aback by its exhibition statement, which begins, “Have humans become a form of cancer? We certainly behave like one,” and continues by asking, “after the end of nature … will we be alone, just people and the bacterial cultures required to sustain us, or will we manage to keep a few souvenir species alive for company?” Not exactly subtle.

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