Wonkette
Exhibition Picks:
- If you love vintage posters, drop by the National Portrait Gallery’s “Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture” exhibit before it ends on Feb. 8. Featured works include a Bob Dylan poster from the 60s, a Got Milk? PSA shot by Annie Leibovitz and an army recruitment ad circa 1917. The exhibit illustrates how posters “define the reputation of prominent Americans” (which kind of explains how Shepard Fairey turned Obama into a hipster.) [Smithsonian]
- Catch the tail end of Zenith Gallery’s “Inaugural Inspiration,” an exhibit devoted to “change, optimism, hope and humor.” It’s basically another Obama shrine, with plenty of paintings of Obama and the American flag, but the only funny thing about it is that some of the artwork has absolutely no resemblance to the prez whatsoever. Until Feb. 8. [Zenith Gallery]
- In honor of Senator Harkin’s major contributions to RugMark, an organization devoted to ending child labor in the handmade carpet industry, the Russell Senate Building is showcasing “Faces of Freedom,” an “uplifting” photo exhibit of child workers in Pakistan, Nepal and India. Until Feb 6. [RugMark]
Museum Events:
- Thursday, Feb. 5: Hip hop goes highbrow at the Phillips Collection’s panel discussion on music and identity, “Poetic Voices: Hip Hop Here and Now.” In case you’d rather “keep it real,” there is a full-service cash bar and live hip hop music courtesy of DJ Adrian Loving, so feel free to get crunk. 5PM. [Phillips Collection]
- Friday, Feb. 6: The Touchstone Gallery is hosting a closing event for its “My Space on 7th” exhibition, a collection of works from D.C. artists ranging from amateur to pro. If that sounds too touchy-feely for your taste, it gets worse. There’s going to be poetry reading and, eek, world music. 6:30PM. [Touchstone Gallery]
The best “Got Milk?” PSA I ever saw was those words scrawled on a San Francisco bus shelter advertising poster featuring Kate Moss.
It must be nice living in place with museums and galleries. It sucks living between a KFC and a strip club.
Yikes — I saw “Senator Harkin” and “RugMark” and just figured there was some anti-carpet-burn charity going on. I could see the senator greeting the audience with “Welcome to the fifth annual ‘Put a Towel Down or Just Use the Kitchen Counter Like Civilized Folks’ ball,” and was already prepared for about an hour of psychosomatic blindness.
Do Republicans ever attend these things are is this ‘arty’ business a little too gay, liberal or French for them?
Do the Nepalese Child Workers have Visas to work here in the USA?
El Pinche: KFC and a strip club?! Sounds WAY better than “art”
Hey, if you think about it, David Denby could be descendant of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Jones”.
El Pinche: How is Wasilla this time of the year?
El Pinche: I’m with GaragePunk - I’d love to be the meat in a KFC-Strip Club sammich!
magic titty: as in something is happening but he don’t know what it is? yeah, that’s Mrs. Denby all right. Carry on, ladies.
magic titty: As in the alt-text…
In the real parts of America there are no galleries.
magic titty: Mrs. Denby has been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books, and there is no snark in them, it’s well known.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/gap_unveils_new_for_kids_by_kids
Because the world deserves Gap.
V572625694: Indeed. Your avatar has always intrigued me, friend. It’s Tron, doing yoga in front of a peep show, I presume?
drrty martini: what say we pick up a bucket of sticky goodness and THEN head over to the KFC?
magic titty: Ha! The original image was a neon sign for a tiki bar, with a raised Martini glass. It didn’t shrink too well. Have to move on to something else soonl.
Eat me, milton glaser. I love how he used to rant against david carson being too ‘trendy’ as if his hippie babyteeth bullshit was somehow timeless. Of course now carson is just as stuck up. Oh, wait, is this Wonkette? I thought it was YayHooray.
CrunchyKnee: There are galleries in Real America, actually, but all they display is custom TruckNutz.
I was lucky enough to see the poster exhibit the day before the inaugural. The huge “Dog Day Afternoon” poster was especially great.
Mel_David: They also have creation museums.