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The great tragedy—-plus some smaller ones—-of the dissolution of the Corcoran. [Arts Desk]
New restrictions on the National Mall have imperiled the annual Smithsonian Folk Life Festival. [Post]
Former Portrait Gallery Director Martin Sullivan dies. [Arts Desk]
Arena Stage’s 2014-2015 season includes a play about cantankerous Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. [Style Blog, New York Times]
The facade of the under-construction National Museum of African American History and Culture will look bronze, but it’ll actually be polyvinyl difluoride. [WBJ]
Mambo Sauce‘s Black Boo on the state of go-go and the go-go vote [Style Blog]
Get to know Trinidad music venue Tree House Lounge. [D.C. Music Download]
A guest DJ session from Ian and Alec MacKaye [Dissonance]
Ben Affleck testified to Congress, yadayadayaha. [Foreign Policy]