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Review: Kuniyoshi Exhibit Shows the ’20s and ’50s Through the Eyes of a...
From the Roaring ’20s art schools to the doldrums of the Great Depression to the horrors of World War II to the unabashed colors of the ’50s, Yasuo Kuniyoshi charted American culture in rapidly...
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Review: Elaine de Kooning Comes to the National Portrait Gallery
This emerald portrait of John F. Kennedy shows Elaine de Kooning quick, color-driven style. (Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian) To American abstract portraitist Elaine de Kooning, John F. Kennedy...
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Review: How Fall Out Boy Dominated Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day
Editor’s Note: This article contains mild profanity. 10:45 a.m. I’ve never seen so many people at Regents Drive bus stop, let alone so many people on campus before 1 on a Saturday afternoon. Everybody...
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Review: Author Andrea Gibson Explores Depression, Suicide and Queer Truths...
“Facebook is a lousy mortician, trying to make us all look more alive” said Andrea Gibson, standing on the stage at the Sixth & I Synagogue Thursday night. The audience members laughed, wept, cooed...
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Gallery: Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day Brings Environment Advocacy and...
Editor’s Note: All photos are courtesy of The Global Poverty Project and Earth Day Network. Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day’s PR team allowed The Bloc to publish the following photos. Global Citizen...
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Review: NGA Presents 25 Years of Photography
The nature of photography – as a science, a mode of communication, as an artistic medium – is at the center of many discussions about the history of art. It’s relatively replicable nature along with...
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Review: Silver and Gold Art Comes to the National Gallery
A new exhibition of metalpoint artwork at the National Gallery is subtitled “Leonardo [Da Vinci] to Jasper Johns.” Admittedly, two out of three Da Vinci paintings on view are lackluster and the sole...
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‘RAW’ Exhibition Brings Zombies, Genderqueer Discussion and Philosophical...
She had tall hair, and blood dribbling down her neck like sweat. She wandered around the room, ghostlike, covering her face with a masquerade mask. Removing the mask, chunks of flesh could be seen...
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Kennedy Center Showcases the Intersection of Skateboarding, Music and Community
It was an unusual sight for an internationally acclaimed theater that hosted performers such as Great Britain’s Royal Ballet and plays like The Book of Mormon. Instead of coat tails and dresses, the...
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Review: ‘Chimerica’ Confronts the Audience With Tough Questions About...
With the U.S. debut of Lucy Kirkwood’s unsettlingly insightful and misleading play Chimerica, Studio Theatre’s 2015-2016 season began with an excited yet disoriented flash. Literally. The sounds of a...
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‘World We Want Wall’ Overcomes Obstacles, Brings art to Anacostia
It’s just past 6 p.m. The wall was supposed to be up and running by now, but there is only an empty building with bland plywood walls. The drone of the usual rumblings of a city are suddenly broken by...
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D.C. Music Festival Brings Drake, Wale, George Ezra and More (Memo)
By now, you’ve probably already heard the news. Yes, Drake, Miguel, Wale and a plethora of both mainstream and indie artists are headed to Washington, D.C., tomorrow for a first-ever two-day music...
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Landmark Music Fest: Q&A With The Mowgli’s, U.S. Royalty and More (Part 1)
Landmark Music Festival, a two-day event on the National Mall, brought more than 40 artists, a first-ever venue in Washington, D.C. The Trust for the National Mall is leading the coalition to restore...
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Landmark Music Fest: Q&A With The Joy Formidable and Ace Cosgrove (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This article features explicit language. Landmark Music Festival, a two-day event on the National Mall, brought more than 40 artists, a first-ever venue in Washington, D.C. The Trust...
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Rohmer in Paris in D.C. – Parisian Spaces at the National Gallery of Art
Like many of the audiences at the National Gallery of Art’s free film screenings I’ve been to, I was one of only a handful of individuals under the age of 60 at the screening Saturday. Perhaps this is...
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Colony House Cloaks D.C. With Its Intimate Rock
Hearts tangled with the microphones, soul and flesh blurring within the lights that resembled full moons, Colony House’s first show of their tour with nostalgic synth-pop band COIN and indie-pop band...
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Review: The Neighbourhood Delivers Chilling Performance at the 9:30 Club
Editor’s Note: This article contains explicit language. Correction: Prior to this correction it was reported The Neighbourhood’s two albums were “Let it go” and “Female Robbery.” These are in fact song...
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Gallery: The Strokes, Band of Horses, Daughter, George Ezra and More
English singer and songwriter George Ezra during his performance at the Lincoln stage on Sunday. (Cassie Osvatics/Bloc Reporter) Nick Valensi, lead guitarist of The Strokes, Sunday Night during their...
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Review: MS MR Leads Audience Members Into the Forbidden in D.C.
The fist-pumping boy with the white beanie was drowned out by the crowd, but he was no doubt ululating like there was no tomorrow. Whether in preparation for this weekend’s oncoming storm, or in...
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Review: Wavves Brings Surf Rock to the 9:30 Club
If you’ve ever needed a band to listen to, a band to thrash to or a band to relate to, check out Wavves. Their surf-punk, unpolished sound, coupled with their truthful lyrics about their disappointment...
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