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Aug 12, 2011

Gauguin Attacker Strikes Again, Sent To Psychiatric Facility

Remember the woman who went berzerk on Paul Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” inside the National Gallery of Art in April, then claimed that Gauguin was “evil,” that the work is “very homosexual,” and that she was given instructions by “a radio in [her] head” controlled by “the American CIA” to burn the painting? Yeah, she came back.

Nov 04, 2005

Out and About: Weekend Picks

FRIDAY: >> You just can’t say the D.C. music scene doesn’t care. Check out the 2-night Katrina’s Piano Fund benefit concert at Black Cat, featuring a packed line-up of local acts. Friday’s got Monopoli, the Routineers, the Washington Social Club, the Ambitions, Andy Zipf, and DJ Will Eastman. Saturday is Wooly Mammoth, The Whips, Owls and Crows, Edie Sedgwick, Rose, andDJ lil’ e. $12 for one show, or maximize your band-to-dollar ratio and pay just…

Jun 09, 2005

Twirling and Spinning Again

After more than a year’s absence, Alexander Calder’s massive mobile “Untitled” (1976) returns to the atrium of the National Gallery of Art’s East Building. The sculpture was disassembled on April 19, 2004, in order to undergo conservation treatment to enable greater freedom of movement. As the Post reported yesterday: With a new paint job and “hardfacing” work (a surface treatment that will allow the pieces to move more freely on their connecting loops), the…

Dec 07, 2004

Arts Agenda: Bob Marley, Fauvism and More

(From DCist’s Cyndi Spain) >> New at the Govinda Gallery in Georgetown is “Kate Simons. Photographs” which celebrates the intimate portraits that Simons took of Bob Marley (one example, above) until his death in 1981. The exhibition commemorates Marley’s upcoming 60th anniversary and includes the new, limited edition publication “Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae.” Each copy (available through the gallery) is signed by the photographer and weighs in at a hefty $395….

 
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