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iPod or iBoot? - Washington City Paper
2007-09-28 19:09:00 iPod or iBoot?Washington City Paper, DC -14 minutes agoThe best thing that ever happened at RFK stadium was the Grateful Dead playing Dark Star in 1990. Bu… Since I'ma lond-distanced subscriber. … More: continued here
Power of the Web
A while back I told you about Ja...
2007-08-03 18:15:00 Power of the WebA while back I told you about Jackie Hoysted and her art project.Jackie writes: "I just want to say a big thank you for posting information about my blog AshesToAshes on your blog. Joe Eaton from the Washington City Paper contacted me after you posted that info and published a feature yesterday on my project."
WCP Sold
The Washington City Paper has been sold....
2007-07-25 18:07:00 WCP SoldThe Washington City Paper has been sold. Details here.If it wasn't for the CP's visual arts coverage, all that we'd have in the nation's capital is the voice of a freelancer writing 20 odd columns a year for the WaPo's Style section and O'Sullivan's weekly column in the Weekend section.Let's hope that the new ownership continues the CP's tradition of leading the visual arts coverage in the printed media in DC.
New Arts Blog
Washington City Paper visual arts c...
2006-12-28 03:40:02 New Arts BlogWashington City Paper visual arts critic (and also a musician, teacher and painter - and sometimes radio personality and always a good friend) Jeffry Cudlin has started a new blog titled Hatchets and Skewers.Cudlin writes that he's calling his new blog hatchets and skewers "precisely because I have a reputation for not liking anything -- for being a little mean. For always insisting on writing a mixed review, rather than a simple approving nod."While Jeffry and I are friends, we often disagree on a wide variety of subjects and issues related to art, and particularly art criticism and what makes good and bad art.And I think that writing a "good review" is a helluva lot harder than making it a "simple approving nod." And when a writer, much less a critic, approaches a subject with the already cemented idea and intent of finding something wrong, or negative, no matter what, and before actually seeing the works, then the well is poisoned and to a certain extent, so is the ... |



