The big news this week came on Tuesday, as the Washington Project for the Arts announced it was officially splitting from the Corcoran Gallery of Art at the end of 2007. The success of the partnership has boosted the WPA to a place where they can function solo once more, and are currently setting up shop in Dupont Circle. The Post has an excellent summary of WPAC’s history. >> The Arlington Arts Center is our…
There isn’t much to say about this week other than it was Stapptastic. We did, though, catch up with Vegetate, check out Stars at Black Cat, introduce our first Metro Map Mashup, and welcome Anna Nicole Smith to D.C. We covered a labor dispute at WJLA, reviewed Afterwar, interviewed Hera McLeod of “The Amazing Race,” and worked out with Condi. We visited Chawky Frenn’s studio, analyzed the slow-bursting real estate bubble, reported on a…
Written by DCist contributor Adrian Parsons. Chawky Frenn tells me to look up. I do so, and I see nothing. Chawky tells me to get on his bed. Hmmm. I lay on his bed and look up. Nothing. He jumps on the bed and points up. A poster of Pieter Bruegel’s hell looms above us. Seeing I’m sufficiently weirded out, Frenn explains, “I wake up to this painting every day to remind me of the…
George Mason University art professor Chawky Frenn will give an artist talk this Saturday, Feb. 25 at 1 p.m. at the Fraser Gallery in Bethesda. The at times controversial artist (his painting Nothing Personal is at right) should be keen to discuss his use of often graphic still life imagery (like bloody animal carcasses) in a quest to make big statements about the state of the world. DCist contributor Adrian has his own thoughts on…
Apparently the powers that be decided that this particular weekend would be the weekend when all the festivals in the world converged on the D.C. area. In searching for fun things for our beloved readers to do, we kept seeing Festival of This and Festival of That and the Festival of This Kind of Music and the Funky Food Festival, etc. So you know what? Were just gonna list them all. DCist: your one-stop shopping…
