Washington City Paper: Arts & Events - D.C. Artists, Museums, and Galleries

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Self-Publishing Without Being a Self-Publisher
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Work Is Hell
Goth? Stuck in an office job? She can help.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: When Teen Poets Don't Know It
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Dirty Laundry
How a local topless maid service covered up
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Tell-All Trouble
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Rear-Guard Action
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Shooting Crypt
Dave Hall uncovers a cache of surprisingly high-res images from D.C.’s olden days.
Show & Tell By Maura Judkis

Pine of the Times
Martin Puryear isn’t a political artist. But there’s a message beneath the wood and nails.
Gallery By Jeffry Cudlin

Purge Overkill
Annoying buttons, big numbers, bigger matzo balls, and other closing Fringe observations
Show & Tell By Trey Graham

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Wheat-paste Makes Waste
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

The Dark Nights
Inside L Street's dueling goth parties
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Bassist Wanted, and Wanted, and Wanted...
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Take Two
Lamont Carey has a plan to own David Simon's turf.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Nicked Gear and Favorite Amps
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Beat of Honor
A friend's death and a cop's support spawns a go-go band.
Arts By Angela Valdez

You Deserve a Fake Today
Reviewed: Part 2 of "The Cinema Effect" at the Hirshhorn
Gallery By Maura Judkis

What's Your Problem?
This Week: Keeping it Clean in a Dirty Business
What's Your Problem? By Amanda Hess

Carving Artist
Sy Gresser is a committed stoner despite what the art world wants.
Show & Tell By Amanda Hess

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Recent Additions
To August 29 at Hemphill Fine Arts
We’re now deep in the summer doldrums, when half the city has seemingly left for the shore and finding fresh art is like searching for sand dollars. But for its exhibition of recent additions,...
“Richard Misrach: On the Beach”
To Monday, Sept. 1, at the National Gallery of Art
There’s nothing creepy about the blue tranquility of island beaches filled with sunbathers, until they’re seen through the lens of Richard Misrach, who aptly manufactures a feeling of...
Diebenkorn in New Mexico
To Sept. 7 at the Phillips Collection
It’s not just color that sets Richard Diebenkorn’s New Mexico works apart from the rest of his oeuvre, though their hues could come from nowhere else. Diebenkorn, a Californian who first dabbled in...
“The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series”
To Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Phillips Collection
Jacob Lawrence was an artist, not a writer, but the 60-painting “Migration Series” sums up the African-American struggle in its final pane with a sentence so perfectly succinct and telling of...
"Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow"
To Sunday, Sept. 7, at the Phillips Collection
Brett Weston’s last name dooms him to an eternity of comparisons to his famous father, Edward—comparisons that are glaringly obvious. A glimpse at the Phillips Collection’s...