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Berman’s Alley
Savvy
The Hill, March 8, 2006
 Who
but a wild-eyed, wilder-haired artist like Mike
Berman would found a Hill real-estate empire
by buying 28 garages? Definitely off the beaten
track, Berman’s mind is humming with ideas.
Like founding a Hill art colony on a secret,
unused alley space between 14th and 15th streets
S.E. Like opening up the Hill’s alleys
and...
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Art on Capitol Hill
Hill Rag, February 2003
 If
you have strolled through the throngs of people
and specialty vendors along the promenade of
the Eastern Market on a weekend within the past
eights years, you have seen the art of Michael
Berman. It is a dance of color that leaps out
at your imagination. In the midst of the dance
is a dream-like image of the market itself,
looking quite...
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'Shuttle Diplomacy'
Yields Green Light for F St. Project
Washington Business Journal , July 20 –
26, 2001
 A
mediator has forged an agreement that will free
The John Akridge Cos. to proceed with a major
office complex in the 900 block of F Street
NW, where historic preservationists have fought
a two-year battle to block demolition of most
of the block's older buildings. It took 11 months
of "shuttle diplomacy" by Lee Quill, an architect...
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Downtown
Hotels, Offices, Arena Squeeze Out Artists With
High Rents
Washington Times, September 25, 2000
 The
Downtown Arts District in Washington has offices,
hotels and a sports arena, but few artists.It
hasn't always been this way. For years, cheap
studio rent and proximity to the downtown galleries
and theaters brought painters, photographers
and sculptors to the city's designated arts
district, roughly defined as a 10-block swath...
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For D.C. Artists,
A Dark Period
Washington Post, May 18, 2000
 Michael
Berman's light-drenched studio used to be
filled with his fiery abstract images, but
now the walls also display much different
work: old buildings, rendered in haunting
colors and lines that seem to communicate
ache and doom. This is what comes of working
within century-old walls slated to be demolished...
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