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New Article: Ten Tips for Your Artomatic Visit
Artomatic is back! Billed as DC’s biggest creative event, it’s a whole building filled with art in Crystal City. With more than a thousand artists exhibiting, plus music, dance, film and bars, the experience can be overwhelming. With an event … Continue reading
Friday Photo: SONG1 Edition
SONG1 has been extended at the Hirshhhorn Museum until May 20th. It’s a 360-degree video projection that wraps around the circular museum. And it’s quite beautiful at night.
Friday Photo: Capital Fringe Festival
I can’t believe it’s been a year since the last Fringe Festival. Walking up to Fort Fringe on New York Avenue, everything looked exactly the same – the big white tent, picnic tables, a DJ playing tunes, performers hyping their … Continue reading
The National Museum of Women in the Arts – Not Just for Women
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is one of those museums that even long-time Washingtonians aren’t aware of. It’s not on the Mall, it charges admission and with only a small sign marking its location on New … Continue reading
Overcoming Writer’s Block
Everyone writes. In this digital age, we’re creating more words than ever. Whether it’s an email to a client, a persuasive blog post or the Great American E-Book, the ability to explain yourself in writing is the critical skill of … Continue reading
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An Art Experiment Gone Wrong
My good friend Philippa Hughes is hosting an artist in her home this week. It’s a project called Art is Fear. Here’s the description: This coming May 2011, for one week, the artist Agnes Bolt will move into the home … Continue reading
Why I’m Not at SXSW This Year
SXSW Interactive is an annual conference of social media and web geeks in Austin. It’s a huge, exhausting event that takes place over a long weekend in March and is popularly known as the conference that introduced Twitter and other … Continue reading
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2010: My Year in the Arts
Several years ago, I was sitting in a bar with a bunch of coworkers. We went out a couple times a week for beer, always to the same place. They were fine people but, good lord, how many times can … Continue reading
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Urban Exposure Exhibition
Four of my photos were selected for the Urban Exposure exhibition at the Carriage House Gallery and Studio. Photos in the exhibit documented the “changing urban landscape of our capital” and included one of my favorite photographers of all time, Matt Dunn. … Continue reading
Pick of the Fringe Festival
No more Fringe Festival I attended the awards party and wrote about the pick of the Fringe for the Pink Line Project.