# Washington Review > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Washington_Review > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Washington_Review.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Review > Source revision: 1328787398 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American bi-monthly journal}} {{Multiple issues| {{Paid contributions|date=August 2023}} {{COI|date=December 2023}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Use American English|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox Journal | title = Washington Review | image = File:Art Sites 6.jpg | image_size = 260px | alt = Washington Review | caption = Art Sites 6, 1994 edition | former_name = | abbreviation = Wash. Rev. | bluebook = | discipline = [The arts](/source/The_arts) | language = English | editor = Clarissa Wittenberg
Mary Swift | publisher = Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts | country = Washington, D.C., United States | history = 1974–2002 | frequency = Bi-monthly | openaccess = | license = | impact = | impact-year = | ISSN = 0163-903X | eISSN = | CODEN = | JSTOR = | LCCN = | OCLC = 4526135 | website = | link1 = | link1-name = | link2 = | link2-name = }} The '''''Washington Review''''' was an American bi-monthly journal of arts and literature published from 1974 to 2002 in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) The ''Review'' brought together information about art, dance, poetry, literature, music, photography, sculpture, theater, and events. The journal published artwork, essays, poems, commentaries as well as interviews by and about artists, curators, writers, performers, poets, choreographers, and directors, both emerging and notable. ==History== The ''Washington Review'' was founded and edited by Clarissa K. Wittenberg.{{cite web|url=https://dcfilminstitute.org/about/ |title=Clarissa Wittenberg|work=Washington Film Institute |place=Washington D.C.|date=|access-date=2022-12-12}} Inspired by ''[The Paris Review](/source/The_Paris_Review)'', in 1974 she started the journal initially with Jean Lewton, a colleague with whom she had worked with at ''[X magazine](/source/X_(magazine))''.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1978/02/12/finding-happiness-on-f-street/b5fe84e5-e8ff-42cb-90e0-c50bda8cc1be/ |title=Finding Happiness On F Street |newspaper=Washington Post |author=Anne Chamberlin|date=February 12, 1978|access-date=2023-06-26}} Wittenberg wanted to document the underrepresented avant-garde culture of Washington. ''Review'' topics covered poetry, fiction, essays on the arts, book and art reviews, plays, interviews, photographs, graphics, and original artwork.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/198889directoryo00coor/page/126/mode/2up?q=%22Washington+Review%22+%22Journal+of+Arts+and+Literature%22 |title=The 1988-89 Directory of Literary Magazines|work=Moyer Bell Ltd |place=|date=1998|access-date=2022-09-24}} The first Issue of the ''Washington Review'' appeared on May/July 1975. It was published by the Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, Inc., a non-profit, tax-except educational organization. [Tabloid-sized](/source/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)), it used two of the large pages per issue for poetry, and was saddle-stapled on high-quality [newsprint](/source/newsprint). The ''Review'' had a circulation of 2,000 with 700 subscriptions, and was in 10 libraries.{{cite journal |date=1994 |title=Art Sites 6 |url=https://archive.org/details/cor5_0_s06_ss01_boxrg5_0_2008_025_21/page/n1/mode/2up |journal=Washington Review |volume=20 |issue=2 |access-date=2022-09-24 |place=Washington D.C.}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/poetsmarket198700jero/page/312/mode/2up?q=%22Washington+Review%22+%22Journal+of+Arts+and+Literature%22 |title=Poet's Market|work=Writers Digest |place= Cincinnati, Ohio |date=1986|page=312|access-date=2022-09-24}}{{cite web|url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/EXTUID_2749282 |title=Friends of the Washington Review of the Arts, Inc.|work=Open Corporates|place=|date=|access-date=2022-09-24}} thumb|right|Magazine Cover of the ''Washington Review,'' the special artists 98 Edition, No. 1998, June/July 1998 Wittenberg worked with local contributors to develop the ''Review'' into an arts journal: gallerist [George Hemphill](/source/George_Hemphill), artist [Clark V. Fox](/source/Clark_V._Fox), dancer [Maida Withers](/source/Maida_Withers). The [DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities](/source/DC_Commission_on_the_Arts_and_Humanities) was a regular provider of grants, along with a handful of local foundations. Mary Swift served as both chairman and president. Her key roles were as managing editor, interviewer, journalist, and photographer-in-residence from the journal's inception to its closure in 2002. Swift's contributions included photographs, reviews of art exhibitions, and interviews with dancer [Lucinda Childs](/source/Lucinda_Childs), painter [Robert Indiana](/source/Robert_Indiana), sculptor [Anne Truitt](/source/Anne_Truitt), painter [Howard Mehring](/source/Howard_Mehring) and museum director and gallerist [Walter Hopps](/source/Walter_Hopps). Swift interviewed DC artist [Martin Puryear](/source/Martin_Puryear) in the first article of his career.{{clarification needed|reason=it is unclear what this means, was it the first issue of the review or the first exhibition of Puryear's career or?|date=February 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/20/mary-davidson-swift-dead-arts/|title=Mary Swift, doyenne of Washington arts scene, dies at 95|newspaper=The Washington Post|place= Washington, D.C. |date= May 20, 2022 |author=Adam Bernstein|access-date=2022-12-07}} For the February/March 1980 issue, Swift took the photographs and interviewed artist [William Christenberry](/source/William_Christenberry) in his studio, including his collection of vintage signs, landscapes, and abandoned buildings from his home state [Tuscaloosa, Alabama](/source/Tuscaloosa%2C_Alabama).{{cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/william-christenberry-papers-21732 |title=William Christenberry papers, circa 1917-2018|author=|work=[Smithsonian Libraries and Archives](/source/Smithsonian_Libraries_and_Archives)|place=Washington, DC |date=|access-date=2022-12-08}} The ''Washington Review'' ceased publication in 2002, when Wittenberg and Swift retired. ==Legacy== The full set of ''Washington Review'' journals are in the [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress) and the Mary Swift Papers (1973-2004) at the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. In November 2016, Swift donated thousands of contact sheets, negative, and prints, and more than one hundred cassette tapes of artist interviews to the archives of the [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution). Swift's collection measure 8.2 linear feet and date from 1973-2004. Most of the collection contains photographs that Swift took while working for the ''Washington Review.''{{cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/mary-swift-papers-17433|title=Mary Swift Papers, 1973-2004|work=[Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)|place= Washington, D.C. |date=1973|author=|access-date=2022-09-24}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/blog/2018/01/acquisitions-mary-swift-papers |title=Acquisitions: Mary Swift Papers|work=[Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)|place=|date=January 2, 2018|author=Mary Savig|access-date=2022-09-24}} ==See also== * [List of avant-garde magazines](/source/List_of_avant-garde_magazines) * [Arts journalism](/source/Arts_journalism) ==References== == External links == * [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/promotional-card-washington-review-vol-xv-no-2-18433 Promotional card for Washington Review vol. XV, no. 2., 1989] * [https://www.artnet.com/artists/sidney-lawrence/ Sidney Lawrence artworks] {{commons category}} {{Authority control}} Category:Contemporary art magazines Category:Arts journals Category:English-language journals Category:Visual arts magazines published in the United States Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1974 Category:Magazines published in Washington, D.C. Category:Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year Category:Bimonthly journals --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Washington Review](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Review) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Review?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.