Arts Post Archive: Contemporary Art
Phillips stacks the abstract deck with Kandinsky and Stella
The Phillips Collection is opening its summer season with solo shows by two celebrated modernists: Wassily Kandinsky and Frank Stella. For Washington museum-goers, it has been quite a while since both artists had individual shows at the city's major museums....
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 9, 2011; 4:00 PM ET |
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Frank Stella, Phillips Collection, Washington exhibitions, Wassily Kandinsky
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(e)merge art fair opens applications
The application process for artists who want to compete for places in the new (e)merge art fair has started. The fair, which takes place Sept. 22-25 in Washington, is one of the few art events that will showcase new artists...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| March 2, 2011; 12:45 PM ET |
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(e)merge art fair, Helen Allen, Jamie Smith, Leigh Conner, Mera Rubell, Washington art fair, contemporary art
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William Christenberry to be honored
Local artist and photographer William Christenberry. (Michael Williamson for The Washington Post) William Christenberry, one of Washington's most revered artists, has been selected to receive the Alice Denney Award this year from the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA)....
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Jacqueline Trescott
| February 23, 2011; 4:00 PM ET |
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Paul Richard to trace Color School origins
Thomas Downing's 1969 painting, Ring Three (Courtesy Corcoran Gallery of Art) Paul Richard, who guided Washington Post readers through the city's museums and galleries for more than 40 years, is going to reminisce a bit Thursday night at the...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| February 22, 2011; 12:17 PM ET |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Paul Reed, Paul Richard, Thomas Downing, Washington Color School
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Artisphere appoints first executive director
Executive Director José Ortiz in front of Anna U. Davis's "A Swedish Midsummer Feast," part of Artisphere's Party Crashers exhibition. (Artisphere) Artisphere, the rock around the clock, multi-discipline center in Arlington, has selected its first executive director. Jose Ortiz, a...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| January 10, 2011; 8:55 AM ET |
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Artisphere, Arts in Arlington County, Jose Ortiz, Virginia arts complex
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Preserving the (Nearly) Unpreservable
Though the Corcoran Gallery of Art's woes are on everybody's minds thanks to Jacqueline Trescott's excellent piece today, one upcoming public program promises a smart, scholarly look at a particularly Washington problem: How to conserve those Color School paintings --...
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Jessica Dawson
| January 5, 2011; 11:06 AM ET |
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