Enjoy a Review of "Zenith Comes of Age" Exhibition

A wonderful review by Mark Jenkins in the Washington Post on the “Zenith Comes of Age” exhibit at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The exhibit closes in two weeks! 
Read it here: https://tinyurl.com/1111zcoareview 

Anne Marchand, "Saying," acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches,

PRESS RELEASE          VIEW EXHIBIT


Show Dates: May 1 - August 25, 2018

Where: 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20004

Inquiries: Margery Goldberg, 202-783-2963
1111 Sculpture Space Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am - 7pm, Saturday 8am - 4pm
* On Saturday Enter on 12th Street ~ Knock and the guard will let you in *

Celebrating 40 years in the nation's capital, Zenith is recognized for its unique mix of contemporary art in a wide variety of media, style and subject.  The gallery provides high-quality acquisition, art consulting, commissioning, appraisal and framing services, through its gallery/salon/sculpture garden off 16th Street at 1429 Iris St NW, WDC 20012.  Zenith also curates rotating exhibits at the Eleven Sculpture Space at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, WDC 20004. ZENITH GALLERY Celebrating 40 Years in the Nation's Capital 202-783-2963  art@zenithgallery.com  www.zenithgallery.com DOWNTOWN LOCATION 1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004 GALLERY HOURS: Mon-Fri  8 am-7 pm, Sat  8 am-4 pm

The Heisman Award Ceremony For Arts Journalism / March 22

Bourgeon presents

“The Heisman Award Ceremony For Arts Journalism”

March 22, 2011, 7:30 pm

@ 

Yola  

fresh (not frozen) yogurt parfait and espresso bar

1323 Connecticut Avenue Northwest 

Washington D.C., DC 20036

RSVP 

competition[at]dayeight.org

I ran across a new, fresh yogurt, parfait bar in Dupont Circle this month, Food for Thought, Yola. Green, green, green. I'm loving their lowfat Greek yogurt! All of their yogurt selections are unbelievably fresh. And if you prefer to drink your lunch, you can order a fruit and yogurt smoothie. Heavenly! An extra bonus is the yogurt and espresso bar is housed in a chic well designed, light filled space on Connecticut Ave. NW that runs the full length to the back door opening onto 18th Street. They also serve soy chai and a vegan yogurt. There's free internet for patrons, lots of seating and friendly staff to help you with your yummy selections. I like my parfait topped with fresh blueberries, blackberries and occasionally granola. And best of all, Yola is art friendly!
So glad you're here in DC Yola. You're my new Fav hot spot! - Anne Marchand

Here's the first art event that Yola is hosting.....

Journalists and the public are invited to celebrate the awarding of the inaugural winner of the DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge March 22nd, 2011 at Yola in Dupont Circle. Open to undergraduates in all DC area colleges and universities, Bourgeon's DC Student Arts Journalism Competition was created to identify and encourage talented young arts journalists. RSVP 

competition[at]dayeight.org 

Over twenty student journalists entered the competition. Washington Post visual arts critic Michael O’Sullivan states, “At a time when the future of arts journalism—indeed, the future of journalism itself—is at stake, Bourgeon’s Student Arts Journalism Challenge offers encouragement to the next generation of arts journalists, along with a reminder that the arts, and those who write about them, still matter.”

The Bourgeon editorial Board has selected the five finalists and a jury of professional critics including Washington Post critics Michael O’Sullivan and Anne Midgette will select the winner. The contest, which closed on Feburary 15th, 2011, will culminate in the awards ceremony. All five finalists will be at the event, and the winner will be notified live during the presentation of the award.

The awards ceremony is being hosted by Yola, a fresh (not frozen) yogurt parfait and espresso bar located in the heart of Dupont Circle. Yola is run by father/daughter team David and Laura Smith. Laura, who is herself a Bourgeon contributor stated, "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to host the awards ceremony at Yola. I had always envisioned Yola as a gathering place for the arts, and I can't think of anything better to gather around than celebrating young talent in arts journalism…. In the modern publishing environment quality journalism and arts writing can often be obscured by flashy headlines, and there is no better time than now to celebrate young talent."

Founded in 2005, Bourgeon’s mission, through an online publication and community initiatives, is twofold: to increase participation in the arts and to improve access to the arts. Bourgeon is a project of the non-profit Day Eight. To see more about Day Eight please visit www.dayeight.org. Visit the Bourgeon magazine site at www.bourgeononline.com.

State of the Art in '08

Stepanie Merry at Going Out Gurus WashintonPost.com, gives us

"a sampling of the reasons art made us smile, think, sigh or... even get a little choked up in 2008."

Read Here

Toying With Catastrophe

Blake Gopnik writes an article about Japan's most famous artist, Takashi Murakami in today's Washington Post.

"Murakami profits from the way his work lives halfway between fine art and consumer goods. But that makes the work more effective, not less. In taking in his art, we don't just get to watch a tidy picture of consumerism as it does its dirty work. We end up wading in the muck." - Blake Gopnik

On display through July 13 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
718-638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

UPDATE: Murals To Be Displayed At Interim Site of Eastern Market

See WaPo article by Sopan Joshi

Here is the dedication ceremony information. Save the date, come out to see the art, meet the artists at Eastern Market and have a great Saturday market experience; good art, good food and good music.
Dedication Ceremony is from Noon - 1pm, April 19th at Eastern Market.

Eastern Market Public Art Installation Dedication
At the new Eastern Market East Hall Building

The Office of the City Administrator, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Office of Property Management have arranged an exhibition entitled Eastern Market Artists Interpreting Eastern Market in collaboration with the Eastern Market artist community, the Eastern Market Civic Association and the Eastern Market Merchants. This project displays twelve large scale digital images produced from original works by ten Eastern Market Artists on the East Hall building wall along the alley between 7th and 8th Streets NE opposite the historic Eastern Market. These works represent the spirit, pride and tradition of Eastern Market.

Artists included in the exhibition are Mary Belcher, Michael Berman, Thomas Bucci, Jonathan Blum, Victor Kinza, Matthew Parker, Val Proudkii, Zakhar Sasim, Quest Skinner, and Joseph Snyder.

WHEN: April 19, 2008
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm.

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public
http://dcarts.dc.gov

Art on a Budget

An interesting article about collecting artwork on a budget...Weighing in are area art dealers, F. Lennox Campello, Norman Parish, Margery Goldberg, and other Washington, DC gallery owners. It's never too soon to buy art....

Article in Washington Post, The Secret to Starting a Great Art Collection? It's Not a Fat Bank Account.
By Dan Zak Washington Post

The Phillips Collection's New Incoming Director, Dorothy Kosinsky

The Washington Post ran an article this weekend about Dorothy Kosinski’s impending arrival from the Dallas Museum of Art. The article highlights changes the new incoming director plans to bring to the Phillips Collection: She hopes to raise $40 million in endowment funds and focus on more cohesive exhibitions.

Kosinski is charged with reengaging the Phillips with work by living artists -- much of which, today, is geared toward countering precisely the sleek, modernist aesthetic the museum's founded on. There'll be some juggling to do.

Read Blake Gopnick's article Here

A Look at Irving Norman's Works

Review by Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post Staff Writer (click title)

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism Through Jan. 27 at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
202-885-1300.
http://www.american.edu/museum.

Hours: Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 to 4; also open one hour before performing arts events in the Katzen and from 6 to 8 on Open Arts Nights (select Thursdays while the university is in session; the next event is Dec. 6). Admission: Free.

Gallery talk: Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum, will discuss Irving Norman's work Dec. 1 at 4pm.

Crowds Return to Eastern Market

Joshua Zumbrun reports on the state of Eastern Market in today's article in the District Extra. Read here. It is a promising description of the return of business to the historic market. The neighborhood was picked as one of the country's Ten Great Neighborhood's by the American Planning Association. Go see for yourself how the market is doing. Keep going, buy from the wonderful vendors and support the arts with your patronage. You can see the 27 murals installed by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on the historic Eastern Market windows while visiting and purchasing art from the artist vendors at the market.

Eastern Market is at Seventh Street and South Carolina Avenue SE.
Market merchants, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Flea market and arts and crafts market,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
Farmers' line, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, go to http://www.easternmarketdc.com.

Good shopping!

More reading:
National Planning Group Lauds Eastern Market Neighborhood

Giving Artists Space to Create

Groups Public and Private Sponsor Affordable Places to Live, Work
Read WAPo article click title above

A battered two-story warehouse in Northeast will soon undergo a conversion that could have come from the imagination of one of the artists who will live there.

A Bold New Stage For D.C. - The Shakespeare Theatre

Sunday's article in WaPo announces the opening of the Shakespeare Theatre’s new Sidney Harman Hall across the street from the MCI Center at 610 F Street. The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host an open house and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW) on Saturday, September 15, 2007. The event begins with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at 11:00 a.m. The Shakespeare Theatre Company will then open the theatre to the public for the first time, offering self-guided tours, free performances and activities for children until 7 p.m. The Harman Center for the Arts Open House is sponsored by Target and coincides with the Penn Quarter neighborhood’s annual Arts on Foot, a free festival of art, music, theatre, dance and film.


Harman Center for the Arts Open House
Saturday, September 15
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Read WaPo article here.

Fall Visual Art Preview at the Washington Post

a few excerpts in September...

"Carol Goldberg: Listening to Ivy," large-scale paintings, at the American University Museum. Through Oct. 21.

"Keiko Hara: Topophilia Imbuing," the artist's take on Monet's "Water Lilies," incorporates cloth, text and calligraphy, at the American University Museum. Through Oct. 21.

"Black Maps: Photographs by David Maisel," large-scale aerial images exposing humanity's impact on the American environment, at the National Academy of Sciences. Through Dec. 5.

The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards," an exhibition of the 11 finalists for this local honor, at Creative Partners Gallery. Through Sept. 28.

"The Freedom Place Collection," rarely seen paintings by Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas and others exploring the African American experience, at Zenith Gallery. Through Sept. 30.

11 -- "A Quest for Fabulous: Thirty Years of Collecting, 1977--2007," highlighting acquisitions made since the opening of Marjorie Merriweather Post's grand residence as a public museum, at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. Through Dec.

13 -- "The Kimberly Collection: Four Decades After the Muralists," painting, sculpture and photographs, at the Cultural Institute of Mexico. Through Nov. 21

13 -- "Jenny Holzer: Projections for D.C.," a site-specific project in which the artist projects light and text from the Kennedy Center onto the Potomac River and Roosevelt Island. Late evenings only through Sept. 16.

13 -- "Options 2007," the latest edition of this survey of emerging local talent organized by the Washington Project for the Arts, at Edison Place Gallery. Through Oct. 26.

15 -- "Chuck Close: New Work," portraits in various media including tapestries, pulp paper, prints and photographs, at Adamson Gallery. Through Oct. 20.

15 -- "Jiha Moon: Line Tripping," drawings from the Korean-born artist, at Curator's Office. Through Oct. 27.

15 -- "Renee Stout: Journal, Book One," diary-like paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings, at Hemphill Fine Arts. Through Oct. 27.

20 -- "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited," a retrospective of the founder of the Washington Color School, at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum. Through Jan. 6.

21 -- "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution," an international survey exploring the impact of feminism on contemporary art from 1965 to 1980, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Through Dec. 16.

28 -- "Flow: The Landscape of Migration," an interactive installation by Foon Sham that visitors help construct, at the Greater Reston Arts Center. Through Nov. 10.

Plus more here

APRIL AND MAY = ARTIST'S MONTH(s) IN WASHINGTON, DC

Dear Washington Post Arts Editors and other arts media folks,

This is a wake up call to get on board with more in depth coverage while the rest of us celebrate a first time convergence of major artist venues in our nation's capital! This is history in the making. Where are you guys? Are you sleeping? Wake up and smell the art and start talking about it, would ya. And write it big. Ya know, there's more to DC than just politics. And besides, I hear that more art will make you happier in the workplace. So the more you say....the more you play. Get in the game and join the rest of us in getting more in depth coverage out about these exciting times.

Here's a sampling of the convergence of art events in DC for April and May:

• artDC

• ARTOMATIC

• COLORFIELD REMIX

• CYBER EXHIBITION - VIRTUAL APPEAL BY ANNE MARCHAND

• LEON BERKOWITZ AT HEMPHILL

• COLORFIELD REMIX @ IRVINE CONTEMPORARY

• JULES OLITSKi: @ THE KATZEN ART CENTER

• GENE DAVIS: INTERVAL @ THE KREEGER ART MUSEUM

• WASHINGTON COLOR SCHOOL AND ITS INFLUENCES @ HILLYER ART SPACE

• DIRECTIONS : DC CONTEMPORARY LATINO ART

• COLOR: FIELD TESTS - NEW WORK BY SONDRA N. ARKIN @ NEVIN KELLY GALLERY

• 9x10 - WPA\C MEMBER SHOWS @ THE PARKER GALLERY

• THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION AND THE WASHINGTON COLOR SCHOOL

• LIDDED TRUNK VESSELS @ PROJECT 4

• NO REPRESENTATION and SUPPLE @ WAREHOUSE GALLERY

• 29TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION @ ZENITH GALLERY

FOR MORE EVENTS GO TO:

ARTSDC.COM GUIDE TO THE VISUAL ARTS
CULTURAL TOURISM DC'S CALENDAR

PS Thanks for saying this-
See Friday's WaPo news here
Going Out Guru's here.