Last Sunday, Michael Grunwald took to the pages of the Post to discuss, and malign, the District’s building height restrictions. His piece is an interesting read, but Grunwald’s analysis of how the restriction has affected the city is fairly spotty, as Mark Jenkins notes in a City Desk post from yesterday. For one thing, it’s difficult to say that height restrictions have created a space crunch in the city, when for so long so much…

It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon. It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper…

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…

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…

Forgive our lax attitude with the Arts Agenda of late, as we’ve been experiencing a few staff changes around here and are still working out the scheduling kinks. That being said, all of DCist would like to extend a hearty thank you to Cyndi Spain, who has decided to retire from her DCist arts duties to focus on being a busy career woman and a doting bride. Good luck, Cyndi! The Arts Agenda will return…

>> Tomorrow the Fraser Gallery in Georgetown closes the exhibit of winners from the 9th Annual Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition – this year selected by Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University’s Katzen Arts Center’s Galleries. (You can see the list of winners on their Web site.) Then, on Thursday, a new exhibit of work by tape-obsessed Mark Jenkins opens. DCist can’t wait to see the full-sized cast of a 1995…

Long-time readers of DCist know of our love for transit and our frustrations with metrobus, especially in regard to substandard signage and ease of understanding of how the system works. Well, we think we’ve found the culprit who is damaging bus sign posts across the city: This man made of tape. Actually, it’s a work of art by Mark Jenkins, whose street installations have been popping up around town. The tapemen even have their own…

With less than two weeks before the show closes, now’s time to plan your trip to Artomatic. The annual artist-organized show has filled the former Capital Children’s Museum with art of all kinds. Today, D.C. artist Mark Jenkins’ tape men showed up at the Washington Post building asking for Blake Gopnik (see his spoof story), the author of the Post’s scathing review of the show. (To their credit, the Post did create a special feedback…