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Deborah K. Dietsch
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ART: Oppression as inspiration
South African and Russian printmakers look to past politics for creative spark
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
On the surface, the pairing of artworks by South African William Kentridge and Russian Oleg Kudryashov at the Kreeger Museum seems like a good match. Both artists go "against the grain," as the exhibit is titled, by bearing witness to the history of oppression within their native lands through sketchy scenes. Most of the approximately four dozen works on view are 1990s prints owned by Washington-area collectors.
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Landscape groups announce eco-ratings
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Architects from coast to coast are "greening" their buildings to attract tenants and higher rents while projecting an image of environmental responsibility.
ART: Persian, Turkish royalty pictured the future
Relied on illustrated books for guidance
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
Persian shahs, Turkish sultans and courtly circles during the 16th and 17th centuries consulted their horoscopes before making important decisions, seeking advice from a beautifully illustrated book called the Falnama. Pages from three of these albums are on view at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery for the first time to reveal an extravagant art of fortune-telling.
ART: Corcoran exhibit fuels image of oil dependency
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's series of imposing color prints on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art — simply called "Oil" — pays tribute to the freeways, suburbs, fast-food joints, cars, motorcycles and planes made possible by the fossil fuel.
ART: Canadian artist Jungen recycles familiar into fantastic
Reconfigures consumer goods to challenge cultural stereotypes
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
A whale skeleton introduces visitors to the newest exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, but the impressive specimen isn't a relic from nature. The bones turn out to be parts of cheap plastic patio chairs, just some of the everyday designs recycled into inventive art by Canadian Brian Jungen.
ARCHITECTURE: Chapel opens at Marine Corps museum
Timber and glass design aims for uplifting image
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
Docent Raymond Perry of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and his wife Mary Jane will be renewing their wedding vows Saturday after 50 years of marriage. The couple will be the first to hold a ceremony in the newly completed Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel just up the hill from the museum in Quantico, Va.
ART: Truitt's abstractions in 3-D focus of Hirshhorn retrospective
Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
The Hirshhorn Museum has stepped up to burnish Washington artist Anne Truitt's reputation with a long overdue retrospective of her austere art.
ART: William T. Wiley's complexity and contradiction
California artist combines conflicting styles and mediums to convey his messages
Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
News and talk shows serve as fodder for many of San Francisco Bay Area artist William T. Wiley's word-laced drawings, paintings and sculptures, part of a rambling retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ART: Inside the Gulag
Former inmate paints painful recollections of notorious Soviet prisons
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
More educational than artistic in value, Ukrainian artist Nikolai Getman's 50 paintings are on display at the conservative Heritage Foundation to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
ART: Postwar artworks from Baltimore collectors remixed anew
Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
"The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection," now on view in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, provides a fresh look at almost half of the couple's holdings.
