The Phillips Collection, one of the few museums in town I don’t terribly mind paying for (looking at you, Textile Museum) and “America’s first museum of modern art,” houses some of the most astoundingly masterful pieces in the world, all tucked away in a former residence in Dupont. Upon entering (and paying $12), the viewer…
Category: Arts
Weekend [East City] Roundup: Sacred and the Profane Edition
Saturday July 7 Conner Contemporary Art (6pm to 8pm) Conner Contemporary Art presents its annual Academy exhibition which showcases the most promising BFA/MFA students from the Baltimore-Washington area. This event is not to be missed. For more information, click here. Conner Contemporary Art is located at 1358 Florida Avenue NE G Fine Art (6:30pm to…
Dance It Out: Joy of Motion Summer Session
In a break from all derecho/storm-related news, we bring you the sunnier side of DC summer: dance. As summer sets in for serious (sorry, people without AC), we feature a summer program from Joy of Motion dance collective on H Street NE. Their summer Step Ahead program lets youth experience and create new dance styles…
Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup
All Weekend Artland Temporium Brookland (Friday 6pm, Saturday 6pm and Sunday at 4pm) Artland is a 12 week public art celebration offering free cultural events and promoting creative expression that are housed in temporiums in an effort to revitalize two vacant storefronts in the Monroe Street NE area of Brookland. Like LUMEN8Anacostia, this project…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Temporium Super Saturday Edition
DMV International Film Festival (all weekend) The DMV International Festival at the Brentwood Arts Exchange will show a series of Arthouse films by international and local producers. Tickets are $10. Of note are the following films: Friday, June 15th 5pm – 7:30pm Featured Film: Film Screening of ‘Tin Man” (Dublin, Ireland) Saturday, June 16th 11am…
Weekend [East City] Roundup: Portraits, Lights and Dreams Edition
Friday May 4 Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) Honfleur Gallery Presents Le Temps Devant (our time ahead) by Parisian photographer Frederic Nauczyciel. Nauczyciel masterfully captures the inhabitants of the Gers countryside in lifesize, Rembrant-like portraits. Each subject’s gaze and body language tells his/her story of life in rural southwestern France. For more information click here. …
Your Sunday Agenda: Life-Changing T-Shirts at Eastern Market
The forecast is in: your life is about to change forever this Sunday at Eastern Market. DC Style is Real contributor Joel Church—designer, artist, writer and muse—will offer you a unique opportunity to transform your every weakness and turn it into churning, raging, hyper masculine/feminine endowment. Joel’s design label, Monumental Threads, will be selling his…
Cherryblast from the Past: Weekend Wrapup
Cherryblast, the annual closing party of the Cherry Blossom Festival, sponsored lovingly by Philippa Hughes and her Pink Line Project, was, unsurprisingly, a blast this past weekend in Anacostia. The art, the games, the shows, the people were all part of a new and exploratory DC. There were the usual suspects: aerial trapeze artists, a…
To Do Saturday: Cherryblast!
Not to be missed, Cherryblast IV will take place this Saturday at the Lightbox in Anacostia. Following close on the heels of the hugely successful Lumen8 Anacostia opening party last week, Cherryblast! will feature artists, musicians, audio-visual installations, and I can’t wait to find out what else. For a full list, click here. As an…
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