Mark Jenkins

1 month 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...

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

“Where We’ve Been, Where We Go from Here,” Friko’s widely acclaimed debut album, was released a year ago. But singer-guitarist Niko Kapetan and singer-drummer Bailey Minzenberger have lived with the alt-rock record for much longer. “It was a very long, like three-year, process of writing and recording the record,” recalls Kapetan in a phone interview.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Mark Jenkins

To understand Hung Liu’s fascination with historical pictures, it helps to know that she lived through two purges of memories — one personal, one societal. “Happy and Gay,” an exhibition at Georgetown University’s Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, presents some of Liu’s responses to the propaganda materials Maoist China substituted for real-world images.