Mark Jenkins

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

In just 250 square feet, a tiny art show goes cosmic (washingtonpost.com) In just 250 square feet, a tiny art show goes cosmic By Mark Jenkins 2025040213000000 The title of Transformer's current group show, "To Dream con los Cuerpos," is evocative yet open-ended. It's also playfully bilingual: The six participants dream, in English, with bodies, in Spanish.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

Mike Andre and Amanda Huron’s current band, Sensor Ghost, has a few things in common with their previous one, Puff Pieces. Like its predecessor, Sensor Ghost is a D.C. trio with short, jagged post-punk songs written principally by Andre. But the singer-bassist doesn’t hesitate when asked to distinguish the two groups. “With Puff Pieces, the music was more repetitive,” he explains. “It was, like, one part that didn’t change. Sensor Ghost has choruses and verses.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

There was once a made-for-TV rock group that announced itself with a song that began, “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees.” Almost 60 years later, New York noise-pop trio Kassie Krut delivers a similar introduction in “Reckless,” the clanging first single from its self-titled debut EP: “If you ask me who I wanna be/ I’mma spell it out so it’s plain to see,” lilts Eve Alpert, who’s joined by bandmate Kasra Kurt to chant, “K-A-S-S-I-E K-R-U-T-T-T-T.” When the comparison is suggested to Alpert, the...

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

The self is an enigma — clouded or fragmented,then illuminated or reconstructed — in “Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints.” This is cleverly expressed by one of the first pieces encountered by visitors to the National Museum of Asian Art show. Pakistani artist Rashid Rana’s 2004 portrait of famed Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan is constructed from hundreds of small images of faces of unfamous men photographed on the streets of Lahore.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Mark Jenkins

The self is an enigma — clouded or fragmented, then illuminated or reconstructed — in “Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints.” This is cleverly expressed by one of the first pieces encountered by visitors to the National Museum of Asian Art show. Pakistani artist Rashid Rana’s 2004 portrait of famed Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan is constructed from hundreds of small images of faces of unfamous men photographed on the streets of Lahore.