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Old 03-12-2013, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Baltimore / Montgomery County, MD
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Don't ya love how all these people have to defend DC's art scene but they can't name anything specific. Where are all these art studios and performance spaces you speak so highly of?
Brookland has a growing arts scene. Also Mt. Rainer and Hyattsville (Arts District) in the Maryland suburbs have a growing arts scene as well.
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Old 03-12-2013, 05:59 PM
 
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Don't ya love how all these people have to defend DC's art scene but they can't name anything specific. Where are all these art studios and performance spaces you speak so highly of?
I didn't think it was necessary to name specific studios and groups because I didn't think you wouldn't even bother to go to the Washington Post Going Out Guide like I recommended, where you would have found dozens of such specific groups.

But since you still refuse to admit you were wrong, even though you were, here are some links to where you will see specific DC-based artists and galleries mentioned:

2013 Spring arts preview: Galleries - The Washington Post

And some performance spaces:

http://www.woollymammoth.net/about/index.php

ATLAS

I could go on. There are just SOME examples. More exist.

Needless to say, you were wrong that arts in DC is "non-existent."
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Old 03-12-2013, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Compared to NY Subway: Poor
Compared to SF Bart and Muni: Seems better, I haven't tried either during rush hour, I don't mind the systems though
Compared to Paris Metro: Poor

DC probably has the 2nd best system in the US, maybe tied with a few others, but that doesn't mean much when the first place system is so far ahead.
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Old 03-12-2013, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, MD
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The art scene in DC is pitiful and I don't know why some continue to defend it. Every place in the world has some sort of art scene, you're letting DC off too easy. Anyone in the arts field as teens leaves the DC area when they become adults unless they come from money and don't need financial support. Having an arts and music scene on par with Fairbanks, Alaska or Provo, Utah is very shameful in an international city like DC.
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Old 03-13-2013, 12:30 PM
 
Location: The Port City is rising.
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Don't ya love how all these people have to defend DC's art scene but they can't name anything specific. Where are all these art studios and performance spaces you speak so highly of?

Artisphere


Torpedo Factory Art Center
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Old 03-14-2013, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Eastchester, Bronx, NY
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DC probably has the 2nd best system in the US, maybe tied with a few others, but that doesn't mean much when the first place system is so far ahead.
If it's tied with any city for 2nd, it's Chicago's. No other city comes close except maybe Boston or Philly.
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Old 03-14-2013, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Baltimore / Montgomery County, MD
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The art scene in DC is pitiful and I don't know why some continue to defend it. Every place in the world has some sort of art scene, you're letting DC off too easy. Anyone in the arts field as teens leaves the DC area when they become adults unless they come from money and don't need financial support. Having an arts and music scene on par with Fairbanks, Alaska or Provo, Utah is very shameful in an international city like DC.
The same reason why the media and entertainment industry in DC sucks is the same reason why the arts scene is bad. The government doesn't want DC to have an identity besides being the nations capital. Why do you think not that many movies have been filmed here and even then its only in the posh parts. Whenever a movie takes place in DC its either filmed in Baltimore, Philly, NYC, or Boston.
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Old 03-14-2013, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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The government doesn't want DC to have an identity besides being the nations capital.
Oh yeah, that's right up there on the priority list with sequestration and corporate tax reform...

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Why do you think not that many movies have been filmed here and even then its only in the posh parts. Whenever a movie takes place in DC its either filmed in Baltimore, Philly, NYC, or Boston.
So here are the actual reasons: Why All Those Movies "Set In D.C." Are Actually Filmed Somewhere Else - Housing Complex
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Old 03-14-2013, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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I would say this about the art scene in DC: the struggling artist scene is not very visible. Do we have an advant garde section of the city where artists survive on nothing but creativity and righteous suffering? Not really.

I've seen some posts that start off with the condition of discounting things like the Smithsonians; well reality doesn't work like that. They're here. Our world class art scene is... well world class. Whether you're going to see the Phillips collection, studying at the Corcoran, laughing at the Improv there are no lack of arts here. We have the second most theater seats for the performing arts of any city in the country. Whether you want to go small (DC9, Longview Gallery) or big (Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art) we've got the spectrum.

And all of this is crammed into a city the size of El Paso; not some megalopolis. We're doing alright on the arts scene.

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Old 03-14-2013, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, MD
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I would say this about the art scene in DC: the struggling artist scene is not very visible. Do we have an advant garde section of the city where artists survive on nothing but creativity and righteous suffering? Not really.

I've seen some posts that start off with the condition of discounting things like the Smithsonians; well reality doesn't work like that. They're here. Our world class art scene is... well world class. Whether you're going to see the Phillips collection, studying at the Corcoran, laughing at the Improv there are no lack of arts here. We have the second most theater seats for the performing arts of any city in the country. Whether you want to go small (DC9, Longview Gallery) or big (Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art) we've got the spectrum.

And all of this is crammed into a city the size of El Paso; not some megalopolis. We're doing alright on the arts scene.
That's a bit off to call museums of world famous art an "arts scene". Thats like saying Las Vegas has one of the world's greatest art scenes because Steve Wynn has great art masterpieces in his hotels like the Bellagio. It's all stuff from somewhere else, the Improv has great comedians from places like NYC and LA, Verizon Center and 9:30 have great musicians from other places performing etc. The Smithsonian should be discounted, its not a producer of art, it collects it. Smithsonian and Library of Congress have amazing collections but nothing to do with anything active, its historical preservation.
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