THE WEEK IN D.C. ART Roller Derby Girls and Michael J. Fox
Exhibition Picks:
Roller derby girls are frightening: They wear torn fishnets, have tattoos and are into feminism. But Cory Oberndorfer makes them look as sweet as ice cream in his Flashpoint exhibition, “Flavor of the Month,” a collection of candy-colored graphic art prints. At Flashpoint, until Feb. 13. [Flashpoint]
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The Folgers Shakespeare Library offers a bootleg Newseum experience with their exhibit “Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper.” But unlike the Newseum, you don’t have to pay $20 for it. Until Jan. 31. [Folger]
The “Crossing Glances” exhibition is actually pretty interesting — two photographers, one from Reims, France, and the other, from Arlington, VA, trade locations and photograph life from their hometown perspective. Surprisingly, the Frenchie didn’t hate Arlington. At Ellipse Art Center, until March 28. [Arlington Arts]
Museum Events:
Thursday, Jan. 29: How is painting Michael J. Fox so very different from painting other people or TV actors? Find out this and more at the National Portrait Gallery’s 30-minute dissection of a single photograph of Fox. [Upcoming]
Thursday, Jan. 29: U.S. Naval Academy professor Marcus Jones uses photography to discuss the United States’ strategic bombing campaign during WWII. 6:45PM at the S. Dillon Ripley Center. [Ripley Center, Smithsonian]
Saturday, Jan. 31: Exactly what you needed: a $120 crash-course, all day lecture on ancient Turkish art from the Byzantine and Ottoman eras. Perfect for the person flying to Istanbul the next day to marry an art dealer, or the Lifelong Learner. [Ripley Center, Smithsonian]
Wonkette
How is painting Michael J. Fox so very different from painting other people or TV actors?
I am soooo not going to answer that with the first awful thought that popped into my head.
Malaka’s name is still not listed on the Wonkette team roster. Shame on all of you.
I can just imagine a Renaissance Newe Yorke Poste: “Woman shows ankle to chimney sweep: why Democrats are responsible for moral decline”.
“They wear torn fishnets, have tattoos and are into feminism”
That kind of stuff may not be for everyone, but I’m so getting a woody right now.
While having the look of mass production and silkscreen, these paintings are actually meticulously hand-painted.
Uh, Cory, ur doin it wrong. Why go through a lot of effort to make it look cheap?
Rodney Badger: There’s only room for one intern’s name in the masthead. Malaka and Juli are going to have a roller derby faceoff to determine who gets the slot.
Ah there goes your tax money - lessons in painting Canadian actors rather than Real Americans(TM).
masterdebater: Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls will crush that woody like a can of PBR.
Kev-O-Tron: masterdebater: So that means they’re PUMAs, right?
SayItWithWookies: Michael J. Fox would not have been upset at the joke you wanted to make. He just shakes these things off. Because of Parkinson’s.
Am I the only one who is tremendously disappointed that “Roller Derby Girls and Michael J Fox” were two different news items? I can’t express how much I’d enjoy a video of Fox and a bunch of ass kicking roller girls. It could be a PSA for washing your hands after using the restroom and I’d watch it a thousand times.
Into Feminism? I hadn’t realized one of the tenets of feminism involved breathlessly skating in a circle attempting to clothesline the nearest “sister” who comes into your vicinity. Somehow I don’t think Susan B. Anthony had this in mind, not that she didn’t herself deserve a shuddering knee to the ribs.
SayItWithWookies: He’s a fine subject for portraiture as long as the reference photo is obtained with the use of a strobe flash.
Mr Blifil-
Then you have no idea how liberating it is to hipcheck a girl into the wall, receive equal and equivalent violence in return, and then retire to the bar to buy beers for each other. BESIDES, clotheslining will result in immediate ejection.
Ah, Roller Derby. The inimical Markie D. Sod - of the Derby Dolls team The Tough Cookies in LA - is a family member. I’m so proud!
Funny, I conflated the two subjects in the title, and had images of Derby girls using Fox as some sort of secret weapon, Mario Kart style.
Mahousu: That’s called “match race”. Hockey has face offs, but I can understand your ignorance, since no one watches hockey anymore.
Lavender: Mr Blifil-
Then you have no idea how liberating it is to hipcheck a girl into the wall
Oh, don’t I?
masterdebater: Win. What does “into feminism mean”? Being paid equal wages? or not shaving in the places that women (but not womyn) sometimes shave? Either way’s good with me, just wondering.
Mr Blifil: not the way I do, darlin’. Not the way I do.
Kev: Rose city attack!
Mr Blifil: Tisk tisk, Mr. Blifil. Clotheslining is illegal in derby. Thanks to WFTDA, or more specifically to the insurance providers that work through them, fighting isn’t even allowed in flat track derby anymore, which in my estimation is a damn shame. Let others work their undies into a bunch over the boring question of whether competing in a demanding full-contact sport can be a form of feminism (although I definitely think it can); it’s just plain fun to watch a bunch of hot athletic chicks get into a dogpile.
tacodeluxe: I laughed. And then I felt bad about it.
Exactly what you needed: a $120 crash-course, all day lecture on ancient Turkish art from the Byzantine and Ottoman eras.
That better come with a pan of baklava and a pot of Turkish coffee.