>> New exhibits around the Dupont Circle area include an exhibit of recent work by Matthew Arnold, Knut Hybinette, Emily Noelle Lambert, and Jason Robert Bell at JET Artworks. The multi-media show features paintings by Arnold and Lambert, photographs by Hybinette, and “trashsures” by Bell (one of which, “Papa Petra,” is shown at right). >> Across town, Warehouse is now showing “SEVEN,” an exhibit curated by F. Lennox Campello of DCArtNews. Work by over 60…
Editor’s Note: As DCist continues to grow, we’re looking to revamp and expand our Arts coverage to better cover the varied local geography of the D.C. area’s artistic community. If you are interested in contributing to our Arts section — visual, fine, performing, et al — please e-mail Mike or swing by our happy hour this Friday. In the meantime, here is this week’s Arts Agenda, compiled by F. Lennox Campello of the Fraser Gallery…
Enjoy this spring-like weather while you can and get out to some of the new exhibits around D.C. We’ve picked some of the highlights to help you decide which shows to visit. >> This is the second week of the month and that means Friday is the Bethesda Art Walk, with free guided tours to 15 Bethesda art galleries beginning at 7 p.m. Attendees can meet their guide at the Bethesda Metro Center, located at…
Today will be mostly sunny with highs around 40. The National Weather Service has issued an advisory warning commuters to watch out for icy patches on roads as temperatures dipped below freezing last night. The photo is a fish at The Reef in Adams Morgan. Juvenile Homicide Up in 2004 in D.C. The D.C. Council will issue a report today which finds that in 2004, all of the victims of juvenile homicide in the…
With the weather frightful, hibernating seems like the thing to do. But what better place to escape the cold than in the refuge of D.C.’s museums and galleries? >> The Kennedy Center kicked off its six-month tribute to the 1940s on Sunday night. “A New America: The 1940s and the Arts” spans a wide range of performing arts and is the largest, most expensive event the center has presented. >> “Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits” opens…
A show of 10 artists from last fall’s Artomatic show has opened at the Anne C. Fisher Gallery in Georgetown. The brainchild of Fisher and F. Lennox Campello of the Fraser Gallery (and prolific author of popular blog D.C. Art News) “10 Most Wanted” showcases a few works from some of the two gallery owners favorite Artomatic artists. The works on display range from abstract paintings and mixed media panels to sculpture, photography, and interactive…
Local blog D.C. Art News is reporting on two stories connected to the City Museum of Washington, D.C., which has experienced low attendance since opening in their new location in the Carnegie library building near the convention center. The first tidbit is over a controversy about an exhibit at the museum. D.C. Art News author Lennox Campello reports that objects for a display called “Funky Furniture” was deemed unacceptable by museum officials for “sexual and/or…
