I had the opportunity to go DC twice this Spring, and as a result my “Top 10” list is a little long this time around. It was great to get to go on back-to-back trips because some of the museums and galleries were installing shows during one trip or the other. I know I still missed a lot, but saw enough that my head is still spinning.  I tried to check out different parts of the city – Georgetown, Adams Morgan, Kalaroma, the H Street Corridor, Logan Circle, U Street, and of course the National Mall. It was a special treat to get to meet with Christine Neptune, who showed me about 2 dozen gorgeous Wolf Kahn monotypes; with Robert Brown, who showed me a portfolio of Per Kirkeby’s; and with  Andrea Marinkovich, who had a wonderful David Hockney.

Some of my favorites at the Museums:

1. “Nam June Paik: Global Visionary” at Smithsonian American Art Museum
2. “Ellsworth Kelly: Colored Paper Images” at the National Gallery
3. “Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina” at the National Gallery
4. “Nordic Cool” at the Kennedy Center
5. “Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio & Dubuffet” at the Phillips Collection
6. “Vanitas!” Jeanne Silverthorne at the Phillips Collection
7. “Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge” at The National Portrait Gallery
8. “Pump Me Up: DC Subculture of the 1980s” at the Corcoran
9. “On Common Ground: Dominican Republic & Haiti” at American Museum of the Americas
10. “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900” at National Gallery of Art

And at the Galleries:

1. “Nothing Rhymes with Orange” at Project 4
2. “Gordon Parks: An American Lens” at Adamson Gallery
3. Robert Longo at Adamson Gallery
4. Mel Bochner at Robert Brown Gallery
5. “Gathering Space” by Timothy Thompson at Hamiltonian Gallery
6. “Concrete Abstract” at Heiner Contemporary
7. William Whitaker at DCAC
8. “Narciso Maisterra – Recent Work” at Hillyer Art Space
9. New Paintings by Kevin H. Adams at Gallery Plan B
10. “Trash Talk” at the Torpedo Factory

Thomas Muller at Project 4

Thinker on Rock 1997 Barry Flanagan

Trashtalk by Alex Lockwood

Ellsworth Kelly colored paper

Timothy Thompson Gathering Space

El Maiz – Edgar Negret, 1996 at Organization of American States

Juha Pykäläinen – Elk Towers

She Who Must Be Obeyed – Tony Smith

Ai Wei Wei – Packing up the zodiac sculptures

Cool Disco Dan at Corcoran

Jeanne Silverthorne at Phillips Collection

David Hockney – An Imaginary Landscape 1967

Mel Bochner – From Floating World, 1990