Washington City Paper: Arts & Events - D.C. Artists, Museums, and Galleries

What's Your Problem?
This Week: When Teen Poets Don't Know It
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Dirty Laundry
How a local topless maid service covered up
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Tell-All Trouble
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Rear-Guard Action
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Shooting Crypt
Dave Hall uncovers a cache of surprisingly high-res images from D.C.’s olden days.
Show & Tell By Maura Judkis

Pine of the Times
Martin Puryear isn’t a political artist. But there’s a message beneath the wood and nails.
Gallery By Jeffry Cudlin

Purge Overkill
Annoying buttons, big numbers, bigger matzo balls, and other closing Fringe observations
Show & Tell By Trey Graham

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Wheat-paste Makes Waste
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

The Dark Nights
Inside L Street's dueling goth parties
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Bassist Wanted, and Wanted, and Wanted...
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Take Two
Lamont Carey has a plan to own David Simon's turf.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Nicked Gear and Favorite Amps
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Beat of Honor
A friend's death and a cop's support spawns a go-go band.
Arts By Angela Valdez

You Deserve a Fake Today
Reviewed: Part 2 of "The Cinema Effect" at the Hirshhorn
Gallery By Maura Judkis

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Keeping it Clean in a Dirty Business
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Carving Artist
Sy Gresser is a committed stoner despite what the art world wants.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

Independence Fray
Fourth of July in D.C.---go to the Mall, or just get high?
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

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Recent Additions
To August 29 at Hemphill Fine Arts
We’re now deep in the summer doldrums, when half the city has seemingly left for the shore and finding fresh art is like searching for sand dollars. But for its exhibition of recent additions,...
“Richard Misrach: On the Beach”
To Monday, Sept. 1, at the National Gallery of Art
There’s nothing creepy about the blue tranquility of island beaches filled with sunbathers, until they’re seen through the lens of Richard Misrach, who aptly manufactures a feeling of...
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
To Sept. 7 at the Phillips Collection
It’s not just color that sets Richard Diebenkorn’s New Mexico works apart from the rest of his oeuvre, though their hues could come from nowhere else. Diebenkorn, a Californian who first dabbled in...
"8"
To Friday, Sept. 5, at Randall Scott Gallery
No singular element ties the eight photographers of Randall Scott Gallery’s latest show together beyond the curator’s admiration for each of them, which makes “8” a grab bag...
"My Name Is Jason"
To Friday, August 29, at Hillyer Art Space
Meet the Jasons. Jason One, aka Jason Reynolds, is a poet who doesn’t mince words. “Art? Art.” is a series of small frames containing terse phrases that are easy to imagine the...

Paul Auster
Thursday, August 21, at Politics and Prose
“Fuck Iraq,” says a soldier in Paul Auster’s new novel, Man in the Dark. “This is America, and America is fighting America.” This civil war the man describes takes place solely in the head of August...
Abbe Smith
Tuesday, August 26, at Politics & Prose
In 1977, Patsy Kelly Jarrett was sentenced to life in prison for driving the getaway car after a murder in Utica, N.Y. She was convicted thanks to a single, faulty eyewitness. Two years later, she...