Yesterday, Chris and I caught the orchid exhibit at the Botanic Garden. I wouldn’t exactly call it exciting, but (as you can see) the flowers are gorgeous.We hit the portrait gallery twice this week. Thursday, we went to see the new hip hop portraiture exhibit called Recognize! The highlight of the exhibit is definitely the paintings by Kehinde Wiley. He paints contemporary hip hop stars in intense colors, but puts them in poses reminiscent of classical portraits. They may hold pool cues instead of royal staffs and often have royal crests painted into the scene. Very cool.
Also yesterday, we went back to the portrait gallery on our way back from the Botanic Garden. It’s one of the only mus
eums open later (until 7:00). We hit the top floor where the portraits of music and sports legends are housed in a very cool part of the historic building. But first we stopped to see the portrait of Stephen Colbert. Incredibly, this is a picture of the line in front of the bathroom where Colbert’s portrait is. I assure you there was no line in front of any of the presidents’ portraits next door.Thinking about the pictures of all those old, dead, white dudes reminds me. We also voted last week. DC went 75% for Barack Obama, helping to give him another primary day sweep. What a great time to be in DC.
The week before, Chris and I headed over to the Rock and Roll Hotel for the Sex Worker’s Art Show. Former and current sex workers entertained us with tales of their exploits and plenty of nudity. They started us off with a male prostitute reading the letter he wrote to Rick Hilton while staying in one of his hotels. It then moved on to burlesque and a crazy fetish show. Some poor guy from the audience ended up tied and forced to blow Mistress Keva’s strap-on while the crowd chanted “faster” in Vietnamese. It was all topped off with a naked transvestite sticking a sparkler up her/his ass and lighting it. They couldn’t go anywhere from there and neither can I.
Until next week...
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