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Neo-Nazi Tiki Torch “Monument” to Trump Emerges in DC
The apparently satirical artwork follows the appearance of a mysterious sculpture of a turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk last week.
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Sculpture of a Turd on Nancy Pelosi’s Desk Appears on National Mall
"This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate,” reads a plaque.
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Amy Sherald Survey to Travel to DC’s National Portrait Gallery Next Year
With over 40 paintings, Sherald’s largest survey to date will mark the first solo show of a Black contemporary artist at the DC institution.
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12 Art Shows to Check Out Around DC This Fall
This season in the nation’s capital offers poignant portraiture by Félix González-Torres, an archive of James Baldwin, Rosemary Feit Covey’s organic forms, documentary photography, and more.
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Fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery provide funding, collections access, and professional advancement to scholars researching US art, craft, and visual culture.
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Washington Post Nixes Weekly Local Art Column
Some say the decision to cut the In the Galleries series represents a blow to the paper’s regional arts coverage.
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The Kaleidoscopic World of Amish Women’s Quilts
The quilts in Pattern and Paradox exist at the intersections of tradition and innovation, the humble and the spectacular.
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Tracing James Baldwin’s Legacy Through His Friendships on His 100th Birthday
The exhibition This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance documents the writer and activist's life through archival media, photographs, and artwork.
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See the Art From Protests Against Netanyahu’s Visit to Congress
Original signage and larger-than-life puppets filled the streets as thousands marched to denounce the Israeli prime minister’s attacks on Gaza.
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A Fiber-Forward Vision of Modern Art
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles are an integral part of modernist art history.
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How Do You Picture a President?
We might think that many of our olde tyme presidents hearkened from an age before photography, but this exhibition of daguerreotypes proves that wrong.
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Scorching Heat Wave Turns Lincoln Wax Statue Into a Hot Mess
The Lincoln Memorial replica went viral online after peak temperatures melted the head off the 16th president’s likeness.