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Byline: Mark Jenkins In the Western imagination, Marrakesh is as sunny as a certain Crosby, Stills and Nash song. But Steve Alderton returned from a 2018 trip to that city [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins A man's home is his castle, says a maxim coined back when women rarely had property rights. The adage posits a sense of security, a feeling that's [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The spiritual crisis in 'I Still Believe' takes about two of the movie's dawdling 115 minutes. Bristling with grief, Christian soft-rocker Jeremy Camp (KJ Apa) does a [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Evil eyes, fleshy tendrils and jutting incisors abound in the pictures of Luis Lorenzana, which jumble comic-book and monster-movie imagery with the bloodiness of Catholic Counter-Reformation paintings. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Evil eyes, fleshy tendrils and jutting incisors abound in the pictures of Luis Lorenzana, which jumble comic-book and monster-movie imagery with the bloodiness of Catholic Counter-Reformation paintings. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Mike Burden is a troubled young man, without meaningful goals and prone to violent outbursts. Clearly the namesake of the film 'Burden' needs to find a kindhearted [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When they began the process that led to Stable, local artists Tim Doud, Linn Meyers and Caitlin Teal Price were primarily looking for studio space. But what [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When they began the process that led to Stable, local artists Tim Doud, Linn Meyers and Caitlin Teal Price were primarily looking for studio space. But what [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Marc Anthony is a terrible flirt. Which is to say, the salsa star is really very good at beguiling a stadium-size crowd with nothing more than a [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Although Eve Stockton's pictures are unusually large for woodcut prints, their scale suits her subjects, which include sea, sky and sun. 'Origin Stories,' the Alexandria artist's show [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Historically, artists have stood alone or been grouped -- not always with their consent -- as members of movements. But in this globalized age, there's a vogue [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Perhaps there's more than one path to understanding. Glen Echo Park is now offering two, leading either to 'Paper Complex' at the Popcorn Gallery or 'Food for [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Perhaps there's more than one path to understanding. Glen Echo Park is now offering two, leading either to 'Paper Complex' at the Popcorn Gallery or 'Food for [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Too bad for Johannes Vermeer that jelly beans weren't invented (probably) until the 19th century. Thanks to Anna Katalkina's Touchstone Gallery show, 'Candy and Mementos,' we can [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Where: Japan When to go: Spring and fall are most comfortable, but if you can abide the heat and humidity, July and August are great for traditional [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Many of the sculptures in '6@35 -- Fabricating Culture' incorporate objects or archetypes that are commonplace and easily recognizable. Vienne Rea erects ladders. Gil Ugiansky balances cubes. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Artists of the world, unite! That won't happen, of course. But in the early 20th century, many artistic sects issued manifestoes that echoed the urgent tone of [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Garden gnomes, candy dispensers and children's toys are among the items that either delight or dismay the 18 artists in Von Ammon Co.'s 'Focus Group.' Where do [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins During the first half of 'The Kingmaker,' filmmaker Lauren Greenfield's fresh look at Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines first lady appears vulgar and bombastic yet fundamentally harmless. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins One of the National Gallery of Art's more cinematic holdings is Thomas Cole's 'The Voyage of Life,' a four-painting suite. The 1842 parable stars a traveler, solitary [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins One major subset of modernist art is known for clean lines, elementary forms and pristine surfaces. Everything indirect, inessential and, above all, historical has been stripped away. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Los Angeles artist Lia Halloran wants to touch the heavens and to celebrate women who had the same ambition long before her. Her 'The Same Sky Overarches [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Globe-hopping Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija likes to disturb the pristine detachment of contemporary temples of art. Boy, did he come to the right place this time. In [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins When Sleater-Kinney first played D.C. almost 25 years ago, the trio's stripped-down, souped-up rock sounded like the future. Friday night at the Anthem, the Pacific Northwest band's [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins First as a fashion designer and now as an artist, Helmut Lang creates. Yet his Von Ammon Co. show, '63,' is grounded in destruction. The Austria-bred New [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins 'Western Stars,' a new documentary co-directed by and starring Bruce Springsteen, swaggers across the landscape like a cinematic epic, but it's basically a concert flick, with some [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Dead is dead, but there's a special finality to separating head from body. That form of demise also offers dramatic pictorial possibilities, as local painter Timothy Johnson [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins It's easy to see what Lee Ufan's minimalist sculptural installations are made of. To see what they are is more complicated. Positioned in the outdoor plaza around [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, Jorge R. Gutierrez hopped the border legally every weekday to attend a Catholic school in nearby California. He's now an American citizen [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In his formal portrait of venerable D.C. milliner Vanilla Powell Beane, Benjamin Ferry depicts her surrounded by hats and standing in front of a large mirror. People [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Imar Hutchins's portraits of figures from African American history contain multitudes, but in this case that phrase refers to experiences as much as chromosomes. The D.C. artist's [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins For three South Korean women making art in the United States, being connected means retaining ties to their families and their culture. But more literal sorts of [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In his native Niger, Mdou Moctar is known as a poet as well as a musician. When playing outside his home region, however, the guitarist lets his [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins By combating gender discrimination that was enshrined in American law, future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped expand the concept of 'equal justice for all' to [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The centerpieces of 'Infinite Space,' media artist Refik Anadol's retrospective at Artechouse, include a virtual sea of data, aptly titled 'Bosphorus.' This and two other video projections [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Pondering its stark exterior, observers might guess that the modernist Norwegian citadel photographed by Dornith Doherty is some sort of prison. Not exactly. The Svalbard Global Seed [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins It was probably just a way of avoiding the dreaded word 'reunion,' but Jawbox singer-guitarist J. Robbins was onto something when he called the band's Friday 9:30 [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins At first glance, Dickson Carroll's creations don't appear especially functional. Made of wood and stained with bright shades of tinted varnish, the D.C. artist's pieces suggest children's [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Mark Kelner was born in the United States, but just barely; the D.C. artist's mother was pregnant when his parents fled the Soviet Union. He grew up [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins The second annual By the People festival -- an arts celebration that incorporates visual art, performance and dialogue -- opens Saturday at various venues throughout the District. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Cities and buildings have an organic quality in Ben Tolman's astonishingly detailed drawings and prints. Among the artist's pictures at Gallery Neptune & Brown are ones in [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Popsicles are not forever. Neither are 1 million species threatened with extinction, according to a recent United Nations forecast. In his contribution to Arlington Arts Center's 'Spring [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Classical and Renaissance art depicted the same things again and again, but most canvases and statues stood alone, as if imagining their subject for the first time. [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Local painter Sally Kauffman finds her footing in crowds. After the 2017 Women's March, she produced vast, loosely gestural views of massed humanity. Those soft-detailed pictures verged [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins In the early 1960s, a group of New York artists turned down the heat of the contemporary art world. Charles Hinman was central to this movement away [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Ex Hex, the all-female D.C. trio that galvanized a nearly full 9:30 Club on Friday night, could be described as a back-to-basics outfit. Except that the pithy, [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Like American landscape photographers of earlier eras, Noelle K. Tan likes to hit the road with a camera and a cache of black-and-white film. The pictures that [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins Posing in photographic vignettes as various female archetypes, Carolina Mayorga once assumed the identity of Edith Piaf, whose signature song is 'La Vie en Rose.' But that's [...]