This 19th-Century Washington House Is Brimming With Blue-Chip Art
Paintings and sculptures are the honorary residents of this D.C. power couple’s home.
By Natalia Rachlin Jennifer Hughes
Neatly set back from the sloping, redbrick sidewalks that line the streets of Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., is a 19th-century house with enviable proportions, exquisite furnishings, and light that is just right. But first impressions leave little room for doubt: This is a home where art rules the roost.
As you step through the front door, the monumental Sterling Ruby mixed-media piece in the foyer nearly overwhelms with its sheer size. A sight line from the entryway to the back of the house reveals a sliver of wall that hosts a looping digital animation by the British artist Julian Opie. Around a corner from the foyer, in the living room, a painting commissioned from the Englishman Richard Long serves as the confrontational centerpiece.
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and the production crews traveled the world to film the adventure.
Some have been lucky enough to have already seen
“Wonder Woman 1984,” while others have to wait. However, this year’s Christmas blockbuster movie is definitely worth seeing. The epic adventure was filmed in some of the most stunning locations in the world. Those beautiful scenes aren’t all CGI – they are the real deal and you can see them for yourself.
Filming Locations Of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
This year’s movie theater experience was filmed in some of the most stunningly beautiful places in several different countries in the world. Let’s have a peek into where the action traveled to.
Victoria Miro announces representation of Ali Banisadr
Ali Banisadr, The Prophet, 2020. Oil on Linen, 168 x 224 cm, 66 x 88 in.
LONDON
.-Victoria Miro announced the representation of Ali Banisadr. The Brooklyn-based artist, acclaimed for his urgent, ravishing paintings that deftly combine elements of figuration and abstraction within a signature language, will present new work as part of the gallerys forthcoming online group exhibition themed around the colour blue (from 24 February). A solo exhibition will take place at the gallery in 2022. The first major monograph on the artist is published by Rizzoli in May 2021.
A painter of epic vistas and dazzling intricacies, Ali Banisadr creates complex, turbulent worlds whose syncopated rhythms corral a multitude of references from art history as well as allusions to our own turbulent times. In any single, expansive canvas one might sense the crystalline detail of the Persian miniature tradition, the muscular brushwork of Abstract E
Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Iván Navarro
Iván Navarro, Mist III (Version 2), 2020. LED, aluminum, wooden box, plexiglass mirror, one way mirror, and electric energy, 46 × 61 × 8 cm 18 1/8 × 24 × 3 1/7 in.
PARIS
.- The City of Lights is being saturated with the radiant works of conceptual artist Iván Navarro as it hosts two new exhibitions, at Centquatre and Galerie Templon. The arts centre is offering a retrospective look at over 20 years of his work while the gallery is unveiling ten radically new pieces, born of pandemic-era isolation; bursting with inspiration and inventiveness, the works are entirely handmade by the artist.