I sometimes take for granted how incredible these fire box conversions are. I haven’t seen this one in years. It’s especially awesome how they incorporate both sides into the sculpture. It’s also pretty brilliant how they highlight different periods of history.

Description, artist and dedication after the jump. (more…)

Doi Moi will open this summer. Think the sculpture will light up?

From T Street just east of 14th.

So many cool sculptures between these two houses.

Three more after the jump. (more…)

From Mass Ave (not far from Bernardo) in Dupont. Easy to miss the cool sculptures up top:

My favorite founding statesman – Bernardo O’Higgins. Statue from Mass Ave in Dupont.

From Mt. Vernon Square.

I was gonna ask about sequestration this week but to be honest I’m just sick of sequestration. Yesterday I posted one of my favorite lion sculptures and others voted for their favorites. So to get as far away from sequestration as possible – I wanna talk outdoor art today. It can be either from a private residence or from a museum or government owned. For non private, I love the Kahlil Gibran memorial garden sculptures and poems. From a private home I love this origami crane from Dupont. What’s your favorite piece of outdoor art?

Of all the lion sculptures in town – this is my favorite. Near 15th Street NW around S Street.

From American University’s campus.

From Ledroit Park. Looks like the same style as the one we recently looked at in the Ellington Plaza.

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s blog Eye Level:

If you visit our museum within the next year, you will be greeted on the left side of the 8th and G-street entrance by Tableau Noir (The Blackboard), done in 1970. It is on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum from a private collection.

To see more photographs from Saturday morning, visit the Lunder Conservation Center’s Facebook page or the Museum’s Flickr set.

It seems like every time I stop to admire this sculpture I notice another awesome detail:

In Nov. we looked at some house porn on Unicorn Lane and a reader said there were a couple of unicorn sculptures at the entrance. I finally got to see them in person:

Also from New Hampshire Ave near the Petworth metro.