The best times to come are during April’s National Cherry Blossom Festival and the more temperate months (May, June & Sept). The nation’s capital puts on quite a display for its guests, and, best of all, admission to all major attractions on the National Mall is always free; the most famous sites include the White House, memorials to four of the greatest presidents and the superb museums of the Smithsonian Institution. Between the Mall and the main spine of Pennsylvania Avenue – the route that connects Capitol Hill to the White House – the Neoclassical buildings of the Federal Triangle are home to agencies forming the hub of the national bureaucracy. In recent years, even the once-blighted area known as Old Downtown (north of the eastern side of the Mall), has had a dramatic uptick in visitors and nightlife around its Penn Quarter, centred around 7th and F streets. West of the White House, Foggy Bottom is another cornerstone of the federal bureaucracy.
Distance Learning
Plenty of artists have used pain as inspiration for their work think
Pablo Picasso‘s Blue Period, for example. And 2020 provided plenty of fodder for pain-based work. But a new show fuses pain with joy by letting teachers reflect on the hardships of the last year
and how they stayed connected with the communities and children that they serve. Made possible by a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant, the DC Teacher Art Show
Distance Learning seeks to share some of their works. Curator
Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell gathered pieces from 21 art teachers in the D.C. area that explore isolation and mental health during the pandemic and social unrest of the past year. The online gallery includes portraiture, sculpture, print, digital and abstract art, and spoken word pieces. Some of the artists featured have an established presence, like
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Nighttime in Pyongyang: Aesthetics and Deterrence Under Kim Jong Un
By focusing exclusively on the traditional hard power implications of North Korea’s missile systems, analysts are missing much of Pyongyang’s strategy.
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January 30, 2021
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North Korea and its nuclear weapons program are often analyzed through the lens of hard power the power of coercion, achieved through military, technological, or economic force. Such analysis is important, but it’s incomplete.
When North Korea conducts large, publicized demonstrations of its military capabilities for example, the October 2020 and January 2021 military parades how and why these capabilities are portrayed are just as important as what they represent. From the opening shots of these events, it was clear that they were not just technical displays of military systems. Instead, they represented a large-scale exercise in aesthetic composition designed to support Pyongyang’s st
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