This great mosaic in Blagden Alley was done by Craig Nelsen.
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From Columbia Heights.
14th and T St, NW
From Contemporary Wing:
This October, Washington D.C., joins international cities like Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, London, Hong Kong and New York in welcoming one of JR’s projects. JR brings UNFRAMED, a project started in Vevey, Switzerland, Grottaglie, Italy, and São Paulo, Brazil, to Washington DC. UNFRAMED is a urban project in which JR uses images from famous and anonymous photographers and reinterprets them by taking them out of context, giving the history of photography a new meaning.
JR covered a building at 1401 T Street, NW with celebrated Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Wither’s (Memphis, 1922 – 2007) image of the “I Am Man” demonstration, the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, the last march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before his assassination in April 1968.
The installation happened on October 9 – 10th.
Ed. Note: In Jan. 2012 we heard that Stubs Kitchen and Wine would be coming to the building at 1401 T Street, NW.
Below is a great perspective from ekelly80:
Photo by PoPville flickr user ekelly80
1824 Columbia Rd, NW
Back in July we noted that Pitazzi had closed in the lower level of 1824 Columbia Rd, NW. Cafe Arte will be opening in the space on October 20th. The Cafe Arte will feature “Dance – Coffee – Art”.
Some wild art has popped up in the windows of the old Clover Market at 5014 Connecticut Ave, NW in northern Van Ness.
A reader sends this one in from 15th and L St, NW.
This is super cool. A reader writes:
“This long for sale church in SW (Delaware Ave, SW and H St, SW) is getting a face lift from the Atlanta-based artist Hense. We stopped by to talk to the artists tonight — they were hard at work and said the church is going to look much different when it is done — in about a week. It looks interesting!”
This is the first textured/cloth mural I’ve ever seen. Any fans?
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I think I like this one so much because of the sculpture and the painting behind it – you don’t find too many that have this combination:
