Our friend and local artist Cory Oberndorfer was recently stripped of some valuable equipment and we’re asking readers to support its replacement.  As he recounted, “I’ve lived in Washington, DC  for over four years now, and a few months ago I learned the downside of living in an urban area: I got mugged. I walked [...]

Groover Cleveland with one of his “We’re All Immigrants” paintings (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 36 x 48 inches). He also has produced a silkscreen print edition of this image (see below). Given the sensitive political work Groover does for his day job, he doesn’t like to be photographed, and he rarely attends his [...]

Constructed of brick, concrete and steel, the Kreeger Museum is a beautifully fortified art bunker that opened to the public in 1994.  The $10 entrance fee gets you access to a private practicum of modern art, with paintings by Kandinsky, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and other luminaries hung on cotton-carpeted walls that soften the [...]

Join us on Thursday evening from 6:30 – 11:30 at SOVA on H Street for the opening of Exposed: The Polaroid Retrospective.  Curator Victoria Milkovich contacted us a few months ago about participating in this group exhibition and I showed her some Polaroid and Fuji instant film that I’ve taken over the years.  Except, most [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]