No More Room For d.c. space

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 22, 1991| Author: Eve Zibart | Copyright information

THERE CAN have been few places in Washington so congruously named as d.c. space. From a generic phrase chosen to accommodate all those various arts - music, cabaret, visual arts, poetry, "performance" - that the nonprofit District Curators intended to showcase, it has gradually taken on a more urgent connotation: room. Room to experiment, to demonstrate, to deviate. Space as in personal, social, fashionable (or anti- all of the above). Space as in safe house, last stand. Space, as Gene Rodde...

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