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A cyanotype is a photographic process that produces a cyan blue print. The print can easily be made on a large variety of materials, so I wanted to see what would happen when experimenting with fabric.

On Mother's Day 2011, photographer B.D. Colen got an unexpected call from his college best friend, Rev. Bill Potter. Potter, a 62-year-old Episcopal clergyman and a heavy smoker who had spent months volunteering at Groun...

You know Mary Doyle Keefe, but maybe not by that name. In 1943, the then-19-year-old telephone operator had been called upon to provide a unique kind of service during the war effort: become the face of dedicated patriot...

Gay activism comes in many guises, but we often don't stop to appreciate the role cinema has played in championing queer lives. Films generally reflect the sociocultural milieu of the time in which they are made, but can...

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There's more to LGBT homeless youth than the stereotypes used to describe them. A deeper level exists -- a level the Reciprocity Foundation wanted the world to see. The foundation, which is dedicated to helping homeless,...

Much of the graceful interiors of the historic Corcoran Gallery of Art will remain intact, despite the wishes of new owner George Washington University, thanks to a successful preservation campaign by a District nonprofi...

Christine Nichols has built her career on listening and watching. She understands artists' approach to their work, whether it be works on paper or formed by fiberglass. She is careful in her curating, generous in her exh...

The celebrity boîte in the Hotel Carlyle enshrining today's only public mural art of Ludwig Bemelmans is a fitting incubator for the blossoming musical talents of multi-instrumentalist/singer Kate Davis. The painter Bem...

It's 2015, and we're back in uncharted territory, testing historic gender boundaries by pondering what it would mean to have a woman in the Oval Office -- and her husband in the East Wing. With Hillary Clinton officially...

For the first time ever, common folk can have lunch in the Peers' Dining Room at the House of Lords. While Parliament is not in session this spring, you can dine like a legislator. Bloomberg's Richard Vines describes the...

For those bummed by the end of "Downton Abbey," there may be solace in the form of a possible new TV show offering another "upstairs, downstairs" dynamic, this one with a Yankee accent.Former Bloomberg reporter Kate Ande...

Nearly a dozen Native American actors and a cultural adviser walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie that’s currently filming because of depictions they found insulting, according to a report by Indian Country Toda...

I've noticed it's hard for me to get to the point. That's because I don't see one. There is no bitterness whatsoever in that statement. Playwright-actor Deb Margolin's new solo performance piece, 8 Stops, mines the uniqu...

The original hardwood floors in the kitchen/dining after being sanded, looking towards the music room. Name: Ed and Maggie Williams (of MVW Architect) Type of Project: Kitchen/Dining/Music Room Renovation Location: Frere...

"Frailty, thy name is egg. How like thee I am. For I am -- what I am, and what I am doth be an illusion." Nick Bottom recites his line, the spitting image of angst and internal turmoil as he contemplates the delicacy of ...

Kristi's guest bedroom is a walk-through room, so a regular bed just doesn't work. But neither was this plain futon, so she decided to build something more functional.

Okuwi Enwezo, the director of the Venice Biennale has chosen Italian artist Fabio Mauri as the central artist around which the universal exhibition's curatorial program is going to coalesce later this year. This choice i...

The other day, while reading a newspaper article, I was reminded of one of those well-travelled clichés that offer conventional, slice-of-life wisdom, such as, "What goes around comes around," or "There's nothing new un...

A quirky question, but let's ask it anyway: If an artist decided to paint the same picture more than once -- say, Andrew Wyeth chose to do another "Christina's World" -- would that be legal? Paintings are supposed to be ...

Willow said to me the other day whilst grabbing my belly-"mama-why r u so squishy?"And I said.."b/cuz I'm happy baby" pic.twitter.com/69wuVHg6QMHow common is it for celebrities to get slammed for their weight? So much th...

Willow said to me the other day whilst grabbing my belly-"mama-why r u so squishy?"And I said.."b/cuz I'm happy baby" pic.twitter.com/69wuVHg6QM — P!nk (@Pink) April 13, 2015 How common is it for celebrities to get sla...