Posts Tagged ‘Corcoran Gallery of Art’
FotoWeek DC Returns This Week
FotoWeek DC by Hoffmann
FotoWeek DC will return to the District this week for a series of exhibits celebrating the art of photography. The festival features over 150 photography-related workshops, lectures and exhibitions, as well as portfolio reviews by a specialized panel at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. It all starts with a launch party scheduled [...]
Drinks Special: ARTINI 2011
‘Drinks stations at ARTINI 2011′
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
It’s no secret that cocktails and art fuel my life. To have both combined together in one heady mix makes for glamour overload. Last Saturday night saw me at such an event, the annual ARTINI gala at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, hosted by the 1869 Society. I’ve [...]
Get Ready for ARTINI!
Though the actual gala event is a month away, the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s annual mix of cocktails and art kicks-off this week. Yes, it’s time to get ready for ARTINI 2011, which combines two of my absolute favorite things in one glamorous night – Saturday, April 2 – when twelve of the top mixologists [...]
More »We Love Arts: Win Tickets to Spencer Finch
Spencer Finch, Passing Cloud, (394 L Street NW, Washington, D.C., July 7, 2010), 2010, dimensions variable. Fluorescent light fixtures and lamps, filters, monofilament, and clothespins. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin. Photo: Chan Chao.
“I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out [...]
Saturdays Free at the Corcoran
Lonely Lady by Hoffman
The Corcoran Gallery of Art will be free of admission from Memorial Day weekend (May 29) through Labor Day weekend (September 4). This even includes access to their (highly recommended) temporary exhibitions Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change and Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration. Visitors to the [...]
Corcoran Ceases Cézanne
Daydreaming at the Corcoran by Kevin H.
The average day at an art museum goes something like this. The doors open, people stroll in to look at some art, and later in the day the doors close until the entire process is repeated again the next day. Unlike the world of politics or the world [...]
Drinks Preview: ARTINI
This Saturday the Corcoran Gallery of Art presents ARTINI, and if you’ve been waffling about attending I hear there are roughly less than 100 tickets still left, but going fast and not available at the door. So jump!
ARTINI is a fabulous event mixing two of my favorite things – art and cocktails. Twelve local mixologists [...]
Edward Burtynsky: Oil
Thankfully for those of us in D.C. who love art, especially those with a particular fondness for photography, we have Paul Roth and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Over the past couple of years they’ve had an amazing lineup of photography exhibits, showcasing a dream team of photographers including Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon, Ansel Adams, [...]
More »Corcoran Cuts and Free Saturdays
‘corcoran gallery of art 7.19.08 – 3496′
courtesy of ‘laura padgett’
The Corcoran Gallery of Art announced yesterday that it would be laying off about 5.6% of its staff and instituting a hiring freeze in attempts to make up a $4 million deficit this year. 18 employees, both entry-level and higher-ups were effected by the layoffs.
While this [...]
Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power
The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Convention,
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 15, 1963,
© 2008 The Richard Avedon Foundation
There really isn’t a just way to describe how incredible and important Richard Avedon’s photographs are, at least in words that haven’t already been written or spoken. He’s been called “America’s pre-eminent editorial portrait [...]
