DC News You Can (Maybe) Use

Brandon WetherbeeMay 26, 2017

News 01 min read

WHEREIN: We bring you the developments (happening in and around D.C.) that we think are newsworthy, or, at the very least, almost newsworthy:

Panda news:

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— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) May 26, 2017

If you thought May was cloudier and wetter than usual, you were right. (Capital Weather Gang)
Due to the recent Manchester attack, security in D.C. this weekend will be even more of a headache. (WAMU)
Sometimes school buses are on fire. (WUSA)
Remember all the hoopla surrounding Shaw Bijou’s? That sure was something. Anyway, the new restaurant in the space, French Quarter Brasserie, opens Monday. (POPville)
Good news for walkers and bad news for drivers, it’s going to be easier to cross at 14th and Irving NW. (Washington Post)
In BYT relevant news items, D.C. is more likely to search for shrugging gifs. (DCist)

22jan(jan 22)4:00 pm20feb(feb 20)6:00 pmMichelle Lisa Herman: Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger Exhibition at Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park4:00 pm (22) - (february 20) 6:00 pm Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park

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Join us Saturday, January 22 4–6 pm at Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park for the opening reception of “Michelle Lisa Herman: Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger”

Refreshments provided courtesy of the artist. Masks are required indoors when not eating or drinking.

Stone Tower Gallery
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, MD 20812
(301) 634-2222
www.glenechopark.org

The exhibition is on view January 22–February 20, 2022
Hours: Saturday and Sundays 12–6 pm

About the Exhibition:
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship to technology and space has shifted. We have had to redefine how we navigate space publicly (limiting our interactions with each other), privately (spending more time at home than ever before), and virtually (employing systems like Zoom for work, school, and personal interactions). While technology has always served as a filter—mediating and presenting a version of reality to us—the effect has been heightened by the pandemic. “Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger” explores the new realities produced by technology and the new ways that hidden structures of power permeate them.

Through installations, soft sculpture, video, print, and kinetic work, an absent-but-always-present force threads its way through the exhibition. Because these invisible systems of power are never singular in their sources, the works, likewise, explore this idea through an intersection of various threads: the question of agency, technology and the body, and the relationship between commodity and value production to labor.

Drawing references from art history, the contemporary art world, tech culture, consumerism, and feminism, the works provide juxtapositions of incongruent ideas or materials aimed to destabilize the viewer’s assumptions to reveal new possibilities of being and embodiment. This method also relates to two ongoing interests in the artist’s work: humor (which often employs unexpected combinations of ideas) and the sublime (that which is both compelling and terrifying at the same time).

Time

January 22 (Saturday) 4:00 pm - February 20 (Sunday) 6:00 pm

Location

Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park

7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD 20812

Cost

Free

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23jan(jan 23)4:00 pm21feb(feb 21)6:00 pmMichelle Lisa Herman: Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger Exhibition at Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park4:00 pm (23) - (february 21) 6:00 pm Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park

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Event Details

Join us Saturday, January 22 4–6 pm at Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park for the opening reception of “Michelle Lisa Herman: Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger”

Refreshments provided courtesy of the artist. Masks are required indoors when not eating or drinking.

Stone Tower Gallery
7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Glen Echo, MD 20812
(301) 634-2222
www.glenechopark.org

The exhibition is on view January 22–February 20, 2022
Hours: Saturday and Sundays 12–6 pm

About the Exhibition:
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship to technology and space has shifted. We have had to redefine how we navigate space publicly (limiting our interactions with each other), privately (spending more time at home than ever before), and virtually (employing systems like Zoom for work, school, and personal interactions). While technology has always served as a filter—mediating and presenting a version of reality to us—the effect has been heightened by the pandemic. “Always, Already, Never, Better, Faster, Stronger” explores the new realities produced by technology and the new ways that hidden structures of power permeate them.

Through installations, soft sculpture, video, print, and kinetic work, an absent-but-always-present force threads its way through the exhibition. Because these invisible systems of power are never singular in their sources, the works, likewise, explore this idea through an intersection of various threads: the question of agency, technology and the body, and the relationship between commodity and value production to labor.

Drawing references from art history, the contemporary art world, tech culture, consumerism, and feminism, the works provide juxtapositions of incongruent ideas or materials aimed to destabilize the viewer’s assumptions to reveal new possibilities of being and embodiment. This method also relates to two ongoing interests in the artist’s work: humor (which often employs unexpected combinations of ideas) and the sublime (that which is both compelling and terrifying at the same time).

Time

January 23 (Sunday) 4:00 pm - February 21 (Monday) 6:00 pm

Location

Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park

7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD 20812

Cost

Free

Learn More

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