“My voice is always best through dialogue,” the artist explains, and his latest work engages with the community on a more personal level than his murals.
FRIDAY: >>Today is Bastille Day, which commemorates the Fête de la Fédération of 1790, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille July 14th, 1789 — basically it’s all about sticking it to the man and rising up as a French nation. But as all noble foreign holidays seem to be celebrated in America, we’ve turned it into an excuse to eat and drink too much. Last year we put together a…
What’s so great about a beach photograph? There are few artistic outlets for the digital camera-clutching traveler more instantly rewarding than pointing at the red ball on the spiky, waved sea and clicking. Pure pastiche, quick beauty. No need to run a light meter or take a tripod. The stuff is art before it enters the shutter. So there’s this show by large-format sometimes fashion photographer/videographer Renate Aller. It’s at Adamson Gallery, a gallery…
If you’ve yet to succumb to Butterstick madness, succumb to Mark Jenkins’ matured version of our feisty panda. His futuristic revision proposes a more rebellious future, sculpted with a tape gun including red flashing tits, a short skirt, and a permanent stance on 14th st. NW. D.C. resident miscreant Jenkins is part of a fluid four-man street art installation called itsy bitsy bollocks, with Mr. Eggs, Travis Millard, and local Kelly Towles (last seen curating…
FRIDAY: >> We’re definitely planning on checking out a new performance series called Take That Hill that’s looking to turn in to a semi-regular evening of short films and short story readings presented by local lit mag Barrelhouse. Sounds promising, and we’ll have the rundown on how it went down for you come Monday. At Warehouse Theater’s screening room, $5, 8 p.m. >> Dude, free Yeah Yeah Yeah’s listening party at Cue Bar, plus the…
>> Despite what we hear is a serious rash of over-dressed staffers at the Corcoran Gallery of Art running off to “dentist appointments” with updated résumés in hand after several high profile dismissals were announced earlier this month, there appear to be several good reasons to head down to the beleaguered museum. The first major retrospective of the work of Robert Bechtle, the San Francisco-based painter known for his photorealistic streetscapes, is up through June…
You Dada See It: DCist finally spent a day exploring Dada at the National Gallery, and it’s really the sort of exhibition that grows on you as you move through it. The first room, detailing the Dada movement as it emerged in Zurich, is a tough nut to crack — a few too many photo collages that aren’t terribly stimulating clutter the landscape. But as you move through Berlin and Hannover, eventually reaching Paris and…
If you’re pouring one out for your boys at tonight’s happy hour, give pause for Kim Ward. It’s Ward’s Washington Project for the ArtsCorcoran that has set aside Georgetown’s former Staples store for some face melting art exhibits in the past few months (that small Post Secret thing, for example). Wallsnatchers is the venue’s most recent offering, a graffiti and street art installation that represents a stark contrast to the ink cartridge and paper…
