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Distance Learning Plenty of artists have used pain as inspiration for their work—think Pablo Picasso‘s Blue Period, for example. And 2020 provided plenty of fodder for pain-based work. But a new show fuses pain with joy by letting teachers reflect on the hardships of the last year and how they stayed connected with the communities and children that they serve. Made possible by a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant, the DC Teacher Art Show Distance Learning seeks to share some of their works. Curator Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell gathered pieces from 21 art teachers in the D.C. ar...

Washington City Paper Get our free newsletter Success! You're on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… I already get the newsletter The more time you spend in a place, the more things you’re likely to notice about it. So it makes sense that after nearly a year of quarantining and social distancing, our readers asked pointed questions both practical (how to travel across town) and theoretical (what’s behind PoPville’s continued popularity) about life ...

A 31-foot tall, digital three-dimensional gigantic aquarium filled with sharks now hangs at Reston Metro Plaza. The digital LED screen was installed late last year by the developer Comstock Holdings and shows a illuminated shark tank on a twenty minute loop. Additional digital art being featured on the screen on the loop are daily Google doodles and cityscape flyovers. Commuter information is also displayed. Outdoor movies and concert performances on the screen are being planned for the spring and summer. The screen is 31-feet in height and 55-feet wide and hangs at the center of the Reston M...

New website by professor George Derek Musgrove recounts how Stokely Carmichael, Marion Barry and others shook up District politics from 1960s to 1990s.

Share: Lebanese American Rania Hassan ,  a mixed media fiber artist, designer, and printmaker who is based in  Washington, DC. enhanced the beauty of the United States capital once gain. “There are so few statues dedicated to women ~ I’m excited to be creating a public art sculpture for one of the most iconic intersections in the city that will represent a monument to all women’s stories and their achievements,” said Rania Hassan. “My hope is this monument, Marker, will act as a beacon to spark an interest in the stories shared through the Smithsonian American Women’s His...