What a year.  Two print editions, 148 blog posts and 26,530 website visitors later, we put nearly 1,500 photographs in publication during 2010.  Whether you’re new to our magazine or an old-time reader, you’ll find five reasons and 20 images below that represent why I do this: Nicole Aguirre asked me to. I’ve met more [...]

Bryant Keith Adams, who goes by “BK” and prefers the moniker bk.iamart.adams, called me up out of the blue after seeing a street portrait I took of him for Worn Magazine’s recent print edition.  A DC-based artist known for his colorful persona, paintings and sculpture, BK asked to meet.  I pitched the idea of photographing [...]

In Ansel Adams’ autobiography he wrote, “The most miraculous ritual of all is the combination of machine, mind, and spirit that brings forth images of great power and beauty.”  Probably more than any photographic device, a large format camera requires the “making” of a picture, not just the “taking” of one.  We can all run [...]

Since we’ve known him, Michael Clements, Executive Editor of Washington Life Magazine, has been looking for more ways to get even closer to his creative roots. It looks like he may have struck gold with his new venture, Art Jamz. The idea is as follows: for the price of a night out on the town [...]

The words “Art Basel” are inevitably associated with glamour. It’s the week that collectors and galleries from around the world descend upon blindingly white, art deco Miami Beach to show what’s being made currently in the contemporary art world, and to sell and purchase millions of dollars worth of work. Last week, D.C. galleries were [...]

Jail time is a familiar path for street artists.  But for the Albus Cavus collective, it’s their job.  Every Saturday, members like DECOY head up to a Maryland correctional facility and give art classes to kids stuck behind bars.  So while a large chunk of the DC creative community (my editor-in-chief among them) soaked up [...]

On display since October 30th, the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibition ran into controversy on Monday when CNSNews.com, a conservative news service, wrote a review of the show entitled, “Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts.”  Then after the Drudge [...]

I first learned of Maira Kalman through her New York Times blog, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” which she’s elevated to a book with the same name.  At an event presented by the Library of Congress and Hirshhorn Museum (a curious new partnership we hope to hear more about), Kalman read from the hand-written text [...]