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The Current: Duke Ellington’s ‘Laramie Project’ offers lessons in production, prejudice

Editor Apr 16, 2019

Pop culture has created the illusion that the LGBTQ community is universally welcomed and celebrated. Moonlight, a film portraying the life of a young, gay black man in Miami, received the 2017 Academy Award for Best Picture. Taylor Swift…

WAMU: What Questions Does D.C.’s New Cultural Plan Leave Unanswered? Local Artists Respond

Editor Apr 11, 2019

Since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office released the city’s first-ever Cultural Plan last week, artists and arts leaders have been poring over the 224-page document to see how the city plans to support them and their work.

CityLab: Do Cultural Plans Really Help Cities Save Their Art and Music Scenes?

Editor Apr 11, 2019

From D.C. to Dallas, cities are drafting documents to help protect their cultural resources from economic changes. But too often, these plans lack teeth.

DCist: This Sprawling Art Show Is Taking Over The Martha’s Table Building Before It’s Demolished

Editor Apr 10, 2019

Three storefronts on the strip of 14th Street NW between V and W streets have sat empty since last summer. That’s when Martha’s Table, the charity organization that owned most of the space, which also included Martha’s Outfitters and…

Washington Business Journal: Kennedy Center sprints to the finish line on the Reach

Editor Apr 10, 2019

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is racing to finish the Reach, its new 72,000-square-foot addition, while also entering the final fundraising push on the project.

Washington Post: Don’t miss this massive art party in a soon-to-be-demolished D.C. building

Editor Apr 10, 2019

Just 20 years ago, 14th Street NW was lined with small art galleries and studio spaces. As luxury condos and restaurants took over, artists dispersed to less expensive parts of the city, to the suburbs and to Baltimore.

Washington Post: ‘She sang with her eyes closed’: The concert at the Lincoln Memorial that changed…

Editor Apr 9, 2019

As she stepped toward the bouquet of microphones, she closed her eyes — as if to echo the words of the man who had just introduced her by saying, “Genius, like justice, is blind.”

Washington Post Magazine: Stickering is an increasingly popular art form for D.C. artists,…

Editor Apr 6, 2019

Miriam Sutton likes to wander around her neighborhood in Northeast Washington with secrets in her pocket: palm-size handmade stickers, decorated to look like Japanese paper cranes. She started making them for a friend who'd fallen ill — in…

NBC4: Affordability, Management of Public Spaces Among Key Targets in DC’s New Cultural Plan

Editor Apr 6, 2019

The new report highlights past, present and future challenges the city must address to keep the arts alive in the District

WAMU: Five Takeaways From D.C.’s New Cultural Plan

Editor Apr 4, 2019

The D.C. government introduced a mammoth project on Thursday evening: The city’s first-ever Cultural Plan. The 224-page document describes the Washington’s cultural community in detail, and lays out a plan for growing it through…

City Paper: D.C.’s Arts Commission Faces Major Changes in Council Shift, Mayor’s Budget

Editor Apr 1, 2019

A new councilmember to oversee the Commission will be decided at tomorrow's legislative meeting.

DCist: For The Next Two Weeks, The Kennedy Center Is Going Experimental And Modern For The DIRECT…

Editor Mar 21, 2019

There was a several year period during which the Kennedy Center’s major festivals focused on specific cultural regions, including the Arabian peninsula, Mexico, India, Ireland, and Scandinavia, which is reasonable given the area’s…

NBC4: A Look Back at DC’s ‘Black Broadway’

Editor Feb 11, 2019

Long before gentrification and the uprising in 1968, the U Street Corridor was known as "Black Broadway."

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DC’s fall exhibit season promises wide diversity

Mark Longaker Oct 12, 2018

From ancient Iranian ceramics to the latest interactive light installations, the fall exhibit season in DC stands out for its broad diversity, if not for any single blockbuster show. Highlights include some of the oldest objects to be…

Mayor Bowser Presents 33rd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards, Celebrates the Creative Spirit and…

Press Release Sep 25, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 25, 2018 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Jeffrey Scott (CAH) Mayor Bowser Presents 33rd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards, Celebrates the Creative Spirit and Achievements of Washingtonians…

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World-class museum celebrates art created by its own staffers

Jennifer Anne Mitchell Sep 24, 2018

For scores of artistically inclined staffers who work at the Phillips Collection, the job comes with a special perk: the chance to showcase their own artwork in the same museum that features the likes of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Picasso.…

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In new exhibit, photographer travels back through bygone DC

Ray Barker Sep 21, 2018

Update: Gallery O on H has extended the House of Champions exhibit through Feb. 8, with a closing party that night. The gallery will also host a discussion panel and book signing with artist Michael Horsley and three other DC street…

Mayor Bowser Announces Finalists and Special Honorees of the 33rd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards

Press Release Sep 17, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2018 CONTACT: LaToya Foster (EOM) Jeffrey Scott (CAH) Mayor Bowser Announces Finalists and Special Honorees of the 33rd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, as part of 202Creates,…

DCist: ‘It’s Definitely On The Cool Side Of Things’: Studio Theatre’s 40…

Editor Sep 10, 2018

When Studio Theatre opened in 1978, D.C.’s theater scene was just germinating: There was Arena Stage and the Lincoln Theatre, but many of today’s standouts hadn’t yet been born. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, for example, opened two years…

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Search for next DC poet laureate brings calls for more public input

Naomi Harris Sep 10, 2018

Dolores Kendrick — hailed as Washington’s “first lady of poetry” and a “deeply revered figure in American literature” — served for nearly two decades as DC’s second poet laureate until her death last November at the age of 90. Now, a search…

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District Links: House panel set to vote on bill to block any DC congestion charge; Trump taps West Potomac Park for new…

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The GOP-run House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is slated to take up legislation on Wednesday that would ban DC from enacting or enforcing a congestion charge.

District Links: Trump administration posts rendering for ‘championship-quality’ course at East Potomac; ad…

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum this morning unveiled the first official rendering of Fazio Design's concept for a renovated East Potomac golf course, posting on social media that it would offer the…

Phillips Collection’s new ‘Miró and the United States’ exhibit focuses on transatlantic cultural exchange rather than…

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Tellingly, the newest exhibition at The Phillips Collection is titled Miró and the United States, rather than Miró vs. the United States. The latter framing might be expected in Washington, where…

District Links: Metro eyes transit improvements for RFK campus; researchers highlight post-pandemic growth in reading,…

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Metro officials yesterday laid out a plan to handle post-event crowds at the new Washington Commanders stadium that would rely on improvements to the Stadium-Armory Station, a new "Gold Line" Bus…

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