Arts Post Archive: Galleries
Google Art Project: 'Street view' technology added to museums
Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," left, and Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" are included in the project. (Corbis, The Museum of Modern Art) Google is bringing its "street view" technology indoors. With the launch of the Google Art Project,...
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Philip Kennicott
| February 1, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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Artworks from Today's Galleries Column
Photos from last night's Transformer-organized National Portrait Gallery demonstration displaced the artwork for today's column, so here's a taste of what I was looking at this week. Below, Gaia's two-story portrait of 20th century architect and urbanist Le Corbusier...
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Jessica Dawson
| December 3, 2010; 3:36 PM ET |
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Goldberg organizes art for charity
Margery Goldberg, the longtime director of Zenith Gallery, has kept curating art shows since her Seventh Street gallery closed in 2009. And she continues her tradition of using art to raise money for local charities. On Wednesday night, Goldberg has...
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Jacqueline Trescott
| November 30, 2010; 9:30 AM ET |
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Peggy Cooper Cafritz irked by black art platitudes at Katzen
Curator J.W. Mahoney leads a tour at American University's Katzen Center on Saturday. (Courtesy of Max Cook)An impassioned plea to area art institutions to show black artists interrupted last Saturday afternoon's smile-and-nod curator's talk at "Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington...
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Jessica Dawson
| November 22, 2010; 10:21 AM ET |
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Inside the former East Germany
In today's column I wrote about a sharp group show at Goethe-Institut downtown. These pictures come from Margret Hoppe's series "The Chamber," documenting a now-defunct East German athletic training facility built in the late 1970s. Remember those intense, super-built...
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Jessica Dawson
| November 19, 2010; 3:16 PM ET |
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A Venus on R Street
As my tenth anniversary Galleries column approaches this Friday, I've taken to reminiscing. Remember when Dupont Circle was a gallery hub? Those First Friday wine-and-cheese slogs along Connecticut Avenue and R Street yielded some of the city's best art. Nowadays,...
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Jessica Dawson
| November 17, 2010; 12:40 PM ET |
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