A new mural aims to enliven Columbia Pike and spotlight the diversity found along it.
“This is your community represented through art,” Columbia Pike Partnership executive director Andrew Schneider said at the Oct. 24 unveiling of “Plant Yourself Beside the River.”
A new mural with local symbols and bright colors is complete and ready for Instagram in Rosslyn.
Beneath an elevated walkway at 1101 Wilson Blvd, the 2,631-square-foot mural has been up since May and underwent final touch-ups two weeks ago, its designers told ARLnow.
Virginia is for lovers, and so is a new public art installation near Falls Church City Hall.
The art piece, which plays into the commonwealth’s iconic slogan while promoting the Little City as “a unique travel destination,” consists of a set of steel letters spelling out LOVE.
Arlington’s public art director has retired after over three decades in the role, leaving behind a range of ongoing projects in the county’s public arts pipeline.
In her role at Arlington Public Art, Angela Adams oversaw the delivery of artistic projects ranging from sculptures and outdoor light fixtures to artistic flourishes found in parks, on bus shelters and bridges under the Public Arts Master Plan.
It was not love at first sight, art-wise, for members of the Falls Church City Council.
As a result, city staff will return early in the new year with refinements to a proposed “LOVE” sculpture that will adorn the west side of the City Hall campus.
A “community mural” that residents painted in collaboration with a local artist was unveiled Saturday inside a Buckingham affordable housing complex.
“Growing Together: The Forest of Us” depicts a scene in Lubber Run, nearby The Cadence at 4333 Arlington Blvd. Artist Lianna Zaragoza led six community workshops to create the mural as part of the 2024 IMPACT Art Residency Program.
A bronze replica of the sculpture “Compassion,” depicting an adult and child embracing, was installed this morning (Tuesday) in Courthouse along Wilson Blvd.
The new replica replaces the original concrete sculpture that had been a fixture in the median along Wilson Boulevard, near Ireland’s Four Courts, for nearly six decades.
If you’re a fan of art and tacos, today is your lucky day.
This afternoon (Thursday), from 3-7 p.m., local art galleries in the Ballston and Virginia Square neighborhoods will open their doors for the annual Arlington Art Walk.
A concrete sculpture of an adult embracing a child has been moved from its home of nearly six decades, a planted median in Courthouse, and possibly damaged in the process.
This week, the statue — missing a chunk of concrete — could be seen on a pedestal of soil and flowers on a nearby sidewalk, surrounded by construction work.
Bright and early this morning, Lady Liberty in repose rolled into Arlington on a flatbed truck.
Then, the turquoise lady was lifted by a crane onto the front lawn of the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (MoCA), the county’s recently rebranded art museum at 3550 Wilson Blvd.
An American Legion post in Virginia Square has a new mural prominently displaying three young Legion representatives and encouraging more to join.
The 22-by-15-foot mural can be found at the American Legion Post 139 at 3445 Washington Blvd, which will soon re-open to members within a new affordable apartment building, Terwilliger Place, which replaced the former post building. It is also less than a mile from another muraled building, American Legion Post 85.
Three years ago this month, Amazon started setting the stage for construction of the first phase of its second headquarters.
Since then, construction work has continued on-pace, with banners across the Pentagon City site, located at the corner of 13th Street S. and S. Eads Street, heralding a 2023 arrival.
