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Artist Maurice James Jr. on Creating a New Black Mythology
Dozens of people filled Honfleur Gallery in Anacostia on the night of March 4 for the opening reception of the Shaolin Jazz’s SOUND PATTERNS No. 8. Martial arts weapons hung from the windows at the front of the gallery to the back wall, and hardly any empty space remained as people perused the exhibition to…
Philip Guston Now: Better To See Reality, However Harrowing, Than Conceal It
On view after several postponements, Philip Guston Now suggests it’s better to face the odd, clumsy, and horrific rather than turn away.
INTERLUDE Reflects on Art’s Past, Present, and Future
The Kreeger Museum’s latest exhibit, INTERLUDE, nods to “the moment in-between collective past and future and the present moment of the artist’s practice,” writes curator Maleke Glee. The show features artists from D.C.’s STABLE studios, where Glee is the director of art and programming, and offers a surprising respite from the expected flow of the…
On View at Homme: The Opposite of Nostalgia
As a child, Heather Jones was always doodling her thoughts. When her anxiety would creep up, pen and paper felt like a safe space, a way to sort out the emotions and experiences that otherwise were too much for her to handle. Jones would start with a single line and let it flow uninterrupted on…
Local Photographer Dee Dwyer Captures Southeast
D.C.-based photographer Dee Dwyer has spent years documenting the historically Black neighborhoods of Southeast, which she calls a “hidden gem in the nation’s capital.” In the exhibit Wild Seeds of the Soufside, on view at Phillips@THEARC, Dwyer connects the “Soufside” community, where she was raised, with characters from Wild Seed, a 1980 novel by the…