Art Chat Archives
Song 1: A (Barely) Happening, and Why This Weekend Will Be Better Than Last | 12.31.1969
Last weekend got off to a bad start for me — and not just because of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Song 1: A Happening, hyped by many of DC's dilettanti as a see-and-be-seen start to...
What I'm Reading | 12.31.1969
Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem [Createquity] If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating [Harvard Business Review] A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism' [Jezebel...
Peerless Creatives' Rockstar Shaymar Higgs for Pleatherette in Pink | 12.31.1969
We first met Shaymar when we were all running around putting together #DCRESIDENCE @DCWEEK last year - actually, we (Pleatherette) were running around and Shaymar was cool as a cucumber, prepped with...
Art Therapy prescription for a healthier, happier YOU! | 12.31.1969
Time to trade in your weekly therapy session for some local arts and culture events happening this weekend. Here at Pink Line HQ, we know that attending arts and culture events can improve your...
The Good Kin: an Arts Collective Set Apart from the Rest | 12.31.1969
To get there, you have to head north on 16th Street. Away from the museums dotting the mall, past the galleries in Logan Circle and the clothing boutiques on the corner of U Street. North another 7...
The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life | 12.31.1969
The questions I get most about writing are the practical ones. What do you write with? Where do you write? How do you find time to write? Answers to these questions are supplied by novelist Ann...
Rad Tuesday Tunes | 12.31.1969
What a great week. Spiritualized played a gorgeous, epic show at the 9:30 and then I went out of town for the first time in what feels like ages. I ate the best steak I've ever had in my life, drove...
ICElab brings the unexpected to Atlas | 12.31.1969
Through its new music series, the Atlas Performing Arts Center already welcomes resident companies from all over the country. If you've ever had the priviledge to go, you know that we've been exposed...
Cyborg Performance Art at Montserrat House- Katie Macyshyn: Popera Selection (Act 1, Scene 3) | 12.31.1969
(First posted on DCperformanceart.tumblr.com on May 6, 2012) The lights dimmed, turning attention to a sparkling dilapidated black cube on the stage. Purple lighting with green spinning lasers set...
do u no wat the HUM is? | 12.31.1969
In a city driven by phone calls, emails, messages, and the beeps, bleeps, and pings of constant communication, do you ever long for silence? If you’re anything like me, you long for it, but if it...
Shakespeare goes Deadwood. | 12.31.1969
Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew is a bit of a conundrum. It is uproariously funny in its “battle of the sexes” driven plot. Yet it also controversially – as stated in the title – is...
What I'm reading | 12.31.1969
10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You. [Wall Street Journal] How Geniuses Think. [Psychology Today] In D.C., a Street's Grit Gives Way to Glamour. [New York Times] Arts Fuel the Economy...
Future Sound: dirty, violent theater comes to DC | 12.31.1969
I wouldn’t normally mention Taffety Punk Theatre Company on this blog, as I’ve worked with them several times and am still affiliated with the group. With that disclosure out of the way, though, you...!["Sweat on the walls, warehouse music. Dark and dubby. Makes me purr." Q&A w/ DJ Chris Nitti](http://pinklineproject.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_thumbnail/563149_449088368440036_131952736820269_1931992_1724739348_n.jpeg ""Sweat on the walls, warehouse music. Dark and dubby. Makes me purr." Q&A w/ DJ Chris Nitti")
"Sweat on the walls, warehouse music. Dark and dubby. Makes me purr." Q&A w/ DJ Chris Nitti | 12.31.1969
[First published on DC Setlist on May 1, 2012] Introducing DC DJ, Chris Nitti! See what he had to say about the recent FORWARD FESTIVAL, BLISSPOP & his upcoming gig at U STREET MUSIC HALL this...![[PHOTOS] The Textile Museum kicks off "PM @ The TM" seasonal series](http://pinklineproject.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_thumbnail/7006841346_7ce5ca56dd_b.jpg "[PHOTOS] The Textile Museum kicks off "PM @ The TM" seasonal series")
[PHOTOS] The Textile Museum kicks off "PM @ The TM" seasonal series | 12.31.1969
Last Thursday evening, Pink Line Project returned to the Textile Museum to kick-off its seasonal series of cultural outdoor activities set in the museum's lush garden. Popularly known as "PM @ The...
Art Therapy prescription for a healthier, happier YOU! | 12.31.1969
Time to trade in your weekly therapy session for some local arts and culture events happening this weekend. Here at Pink Line HQ, we know that attending arts and culture events can improve your...
New Italian Kitchen Near American University | 12.31.1969
Mother's Day is right around the corner, and I think every adult should take his or her mother to dinner or make them a home-made meal. My mother lives in another country, and she visited last week...
Rad Tuesday Tunes | 12.31.1969
When I was 18 I gambled on not going to college and instead joined a band and went on tour. My Mom was beyond skeptical about this but was always supportive throughout my whole musical traveling life...
What I'm reading | 12.31.1969
When Bad Is Good. [Art News] Cities Must Be Cool, Creative, and In Control. [Mike Bloomberg] Choosing Between Making Money and Doing What You Love. [Harvard Business Review] In Praise of Ignorance:...
Have Fun with iPhone Photo Apps | 12.31.1969
The iPhone is more than a phone and much more than just a camera. It can do things that are impossible to do on a “real” camera, like effortlessly stitch together panoramas and instantly share...
Designer CIAO NINA Dishes All for Pleatherette in Pink | 12.31.1969
If you haven't heard of DC's rising milliner Mrs. Nina O'Neil of CIAO NINA, on behalf of Pleatherette, we'll go ahead and say, You're Welcome. Nina's signature fascinators are becoming a go-to for DC...
At the WW Club, The Fashion Forward Stir It Up | 12.31.1969
Mixed prints, bright neons, cherry red sky-high hot rod shoes. Loud, ostentatious and flamboyant, recent designs in womenswear have looked like fever dreams for attention-seekers. Architectural and...
Two Othellos reference Soul Train, Motown, and the Civil Rights Movement | 12.31.1969
You know how when you go to see a Shakespeare play, everyone is really reverant and dresses up and behaves well and quietly sits in the dark applauding at the appropriate moments and drinking red...
Corralling the Critics | 12.31.1969
Our weekly roundup of reviews of the arts in Washington! Please let us know if we’ve missed anything! Theater: God of Carnage @ Signature Theater [City Paper] [We Love DC] Theater: “The Big Meal...
