Stretch your legs and your mind during the 30th Annual Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk (June 1 and 2, 2013). June 1 10am-4pm June 2 1pm-5pm. Nine diverse museums will open their doors free of charge for this weekend long celebration in one of Washington, D.C.’s most beautiful neighborhoods. Discover Anderson House, Dumbarton House, Fondo del…
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Weekend East City Event Round Up: Outsider Art Edition
Saturday October 12 Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) (10am) CHAW will be hosting a film festival in honor of their year-long 40th anniversary celebration. Featured films include “Attack of the Giant Pants” and “Alien Invasion,” short films made by CHAW students, and “CHAW@40,” a 15 minute film stitching together vintage footage, video interviews, historical…
Weekend [East City] Arts Roundup
Friday July 27 Tubman Mahan Gallery (6:30pm to 8:30pm) Russ McIntosh’s Double Take solo first solo exhibition at the gallery features digital images that challenge the viewer to look beyond the initial composition and see beyond the original composition. For more information about the exhibition click here. The Tubman-Mahan Gallery is located at 3839…
Arts [East City] Roundup: East of the River Super Weekend Edition
Friday July 13 Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm) The Annual East of the River Exhibition never disappoints. In its sixth year, the group show features the work of artists who either work or live East of the River. The multimedia exhibition features sculpture, digital media, photography and painting. A steel drum band will also…
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…
The Hirschhorn Turns On
Everyone should head on over to the Hirschhorn after it gets dark. “But doesn’t the museum close at 5?”, you might ask. No worries, my dear friends – Doug Aitken‘s got you covered with his latest work, a staggering 82 foot tall, 725 foot wide giant art exhibit on the outside of our favorite donut-shaped…
Weekend [East City] Roundup: March Super Saturday Edition
Saturday March 12 Conner Contemporary Art (5pm to 8pm) The gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions by Janet Biggs and Wilmer Wilson IV. In Bigg’s second exhibition with the gallery, A Step on the Sun, Bigg’s multi-channel video installation shows miners extracting hardened sulfur at Indonesia’s Ijen volcano; the video references natural beauty as a…
DC Style Is Real 