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1 month ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig |Christina Smart |Will Lennon |Matt S. Siblo |Louis Jacobson
“I never thought of happiness as something reachable. Happiness is not something you can hold onto.” So says artist Hung Liu in the wall text of Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, an exhibit that examines the painter’s series based on Maoist propaganda books for children that were prevalent throughout her childhood in China. The slipperiness of joy and of memory is evident in the paint drips that stain what are usually otherwise placid scenes.
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2 months ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Stephanie Rudig |Allison R. Shely |Steve Kiviat
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Comedian Abby Govindan has been on a sharp, and funny, ascent for the past seven years. If you don’t recognize her name, you’d probably recognize some of her many viral tweets.
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2 months ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Brandon Wetherbee |Steve Kiviat |Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Molly Lewis, the best whistler working today by a long shot, is definitely an outlier on the Songbyrd schedule. In a club well suited for loud indie rock and hip-hop acts, this musician should do what few other performers do at the venue: wow with her almost-singing.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The thesis for ART MATTERS at gallery neptune & brown speaks to using art to synthesize a complex moment and challenging the status quo and sounds an awful lot like the manifesto to an overtly political show. The work on display, however, is more of a respite from current affairs.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Amelia Roth-Dishy |Stephanie Rudig |Brandon Wetherbee
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The 40th annual Centaur Motorcycle Club’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend commences on Thursday night with BOOTCAMP, the opening party will take place at Bunker. If you’re trying to understand the vibe of the famed weekend, look no further than the official event titles: Beyond BOOTCAMP, there’s UNCUT XL, UNHINGED, PERVERT XXL, UNHOLY, and LUST.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Sculpture is all around us, and not just in museums and monuments: bottles, furniture, and coins—all three-dimensional objects created by people that can be considered sculptural. Race is also an ever-present entity in our lives, similarly operating in the background until one really stops to think about it.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Joe Warminsky |Will Lennon |Serena Zets |Brandon Wetherbee |Matt S. Siblo |Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Any bot scraping the career details for Fousheé would come up with a zeitgeisty grab bag of high points: daughter of a Jamaican musician; contestant on The Voice; beneficiary of a viral TikTok clip (“Deep End Freestyle”); writing partner of Steve Lacy (e.g., “Bad Habit”); hook singer for Lil Wayne, and so on.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Meg Richards |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! November is recognized as Native American Heritage month, honoring the culture, legacy, and resilience of indigenous communities across North America. To celebrate, the National Museum of the American Indian puts on a Native Cinema Showcase every November to spotlight the best of Native film.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Art collectors are a driving but often hidden force underpinning the art world: They influence the art market, shape the careers and material circumstances of living artists, and help determine which works end up in museums and institutions. Still, it’s a bit atypical to build a show explicitly around the act of collecting art, which happens in the background, but that’s exactly what The DMV Collects the DMV does.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Stephanie Rudig
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Pity those who did not see the werewolf-themed Lýkos Ánthrōpos on Halloween night like this critic did, but there’s still the chance to see the show under a full moon on Nov. 15. The novel setting of the Congressional Cemetery alone is enough to make this a play worth seeing: Nothing sets the mood quite like traversing a cemetery in the dark until you stumble upon a circle of lanterns in a clearing.
