The Beach - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 02 May 2016 00:11:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png The Beach - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Here’s What Happened to the Plastic Balls From the Building Museum’s “Beach” https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/04/29/heres-happened-plastic-balls-building-museums-beach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-happened-plastic-balls-building-museums-beach Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:59:49 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=191124 Visitors to the National Building Museum last summer went loopy over the “Beach,” a massive ball pit constructed in the middle of the atrium that allowed people to swim in a sea of hundreds of thousands of plastic balls. When the exhibit closed, the balls were packed up and given to the Dupont Underground, the perennially snake-bitten subterranean space […]

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Dupont Underground Passed Over These Four Designs for Repurposing the Building Museum’s “Beach” Balls https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/03/23/dupont-underground-passed-four-designs-repurposing-building-museums-beach-balls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dupont-underground-passed-four-designs-repurposing-building-museums-beach-balls Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:54:25 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=188268 After months of waiting, we now know the fate of the plastic balls that filled the National Building Museum’s “Beach” exhibit last summer. On April 30, they’ll be reintroduced at the Dupont Undergound art space as a magnetic art installation called “Raise/Raze,” which lets people finesse the balls into various shapes and designs similar to “sand in a massive sandbox” […]

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Braulio Agnese Leaves Dupont Underground https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/02/02/braulio-agnese-steps-down-as-director-of-dupont-underground/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=braulio-agnese-steps-down-as-director-of-dupont-underground Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:14:31 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=184846 Dupont Underground has undergone a change at the top just as it develops its first installation. After more than a year managing the nonprofit, which aims to bring art and events to the abandoned streetcar tunnels underneath Dupont Circle, Braulio Agnese is no longer with the group. Philippa Hughes, the head of Pink Line Project, will take over some of […]

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