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Rest of the DC trip – My Top 5

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Last week I got back from a whirlwind tour of the art scene in DC. I was tagging this expedition onto the tail end of a trip to the beach for Labor Day. It turns out that my timing was not the very best – a lot of galleries and museum shows were just beginning to stage new shows for the Fall. Even so, there is always an enormous amount of art to look at – these shows represented my top 5 for this trip:

  1. Kandinsky & the Harmony of Silence: Painting w/White Border (Closing @ the Phillips)
  2. Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series (Closing @ the Phillips)
  3. Chris Martin: Painting Big (Corcoran)
  4. Asian American Portraiture Now (National Portrait Gallery)
  5. In the Tower: Nam June Paik (Closing at The National Gallery)
    Stella Sounds
    Roger Shimomura
    Chris Martin
    Kandinsky
    Nam June Paik

In Washington, DC looking at art

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I went to the beach over the holiday but now I am busy looking at art in Washington, DC before heading home.

So far, one of the highlights of the trip has been my visit with Royce Burton over at his gallery near the Phillips Collection.  He has an extensive inventory of prints and showed me some gorgeous Diebenkorns, Rauschenbergs, and a precious little piece from Kenneth Noland’s Circle Series made out of handmade paper. However, my absolute favorite was a mixograph by Louise Bourgeois, Crochet IV.  It is perfect!