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Art in focus: ‘Foon Sham’ turns a sculptor’s waste material into art at Project 4
May 24, 2012
Project 4 Gallery’s current exhibition, a visually striking installation by sculptor Foon Sham, does more than spotlight the Chinese-born artist’s recent art. It’s also a celebration of work he made years ago.
Art in focus: ‘Artomatic’
May 18, 2012
The 2012 edition of Artomatic — the proudly small-D democratic art festival open to all comers — gets underway this weekend in a vacant office building in Crystal City. As always, the show, which is up through June 23, is a strange and wondrous meeting of the sublime and the ridiculous, with an inexplicable emphasis on art involving robots and baby...
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Newseum
In this podcast, former Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz comments on five highlights of the museum.
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Mount Vernon
Gretchen M. Goodell, an assistant curator at Mount Vernon, leads us on a tour of the historic site's new decorative arts museum.
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National Portrait Gallery
Director Marc Pachter dishes about museum exhibits and well-known people on display.
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