Haley McKey

The holiday season is officially here, and we’ve got gift-giving at the District’s best holiday markets covered. Sunset seems to arrive right after lunch. Wreaths, twinkle lights and blow-up Santas adorn every other door, railing and yard. The holiday season is upon us again here in the DMV.

From textile work to lacemaking, the exhibit focuses on work by women that’s often ignored by art scholars and historians. Who is an artist? For centuries, the answer to that question in Western art criticism was almost always a man, either a painter or sculptor, laboring alone in his genius. That’s not by accident. Giorgio Vasari’s enormously influential 1550 book “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” is considered the foundation of European art history.

The musicians talk balancing friendship and work, audience and artist boundaries, and all things spooky before headlining District Fray’s Cult Classic Halloween Party. The sun has just set in Congressional Cemetery, and Cat Janice and Cathy DiToro are sitting on the ground hugging in front of a solemn row of headstones. Strobes pop as they chat withphotographer Mariah Miranda and pose for District Fray’s October cover shoot. Their relaxed body language makes it easy to see they’re friends.