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From: DCist
Date: February 3, 2010
Arts Agenda
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstractions Opens at
the Phillips this Saturday; Other Art Events Next Week
If we get another
snowstorm this weekend, please check with each venue before you go; galleries
will often reschedule an opening if the snow accumulates.
(Washington, D.C.) –
The Phillips Collection opens Georgia
O'Keeffe: Abstraction, an exhibit featuring over 100 of her paintings,
early charcoal drawings and water colors, as well as photographs of O'Keefe by
Alfred Stieglitz. We'll have more on this exhibit for you, so stay tuned.
Opens Saturday, $12.
Also at the Phillips this week is their first Thursday event, Phillips
After 5 with some Art and Romance for a little pre-Valentine's
celebration. Hear the love story of Duncan and Marjorie Phillips during
gallery talks at 6 and 7 p.m.; dance to music by DJ Adrian Loving, accompanied
by a violinist and a poet in the Music Room, and enjoy champagne and
romance-inducing deserts. 5 to 8:30 p.m., donation-only at the door, cash bar.
Popular local artists and couple Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow are inviting the
public to their new exhibit opening Friday at Long
View Gallery, featuring new paintings in Til
Death Do Us Part and -- no kidding -- their wedding. The artists
reception starts at 6:30 p.m. with the nuptials to begin promptly at 7:30 p.m.
Free (no gifts please).
The Fridge opens Empty Time
on Saturday, featuring a few of our favorite D.C. artists like Al Minor, Kate
MacDonnell, and Victoria F. Gaitan, along with a handful of other artists
around the country. Curated by another D.C. artist, Trevor Young. 8 to 11 p.m.
If you're like our poor Martin
Austermuhle and keep tuning into The Real World D.C. every week,
you may have noticed all the art in the castmembers' house. The works were
provided by Gallery Plan B, which
will showcase 30 of the pieces in As Seen On TV, a two-day-only exhibit
this weekend. Reception Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.
GWU's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
opens an exhibit today featuring Polaroid and black and white photographs by
Andy Warhol, drawn from GW's extensive permanent collection. See them during
regular hours, Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ReadysetDC and No Kings Collective has filled a pop-up gallery in Columbia
Heights for Activation
2719. Join them Saturday, 6 to 11 p.m. for lots of art (including D.C.
mainstays Decoy and Tim Conlon) and music. RSVP required.
Make some time Saturday evening to see It's
Electric at The Electric Maid
in Takoma Park, featuring the "Robo-Artwork" of four artists,
including the awesomely hilarious photographs of Steve
Strawn. 7 to 11 p.m.
It's First Friday in Dupont Circle. Still no one has taken over a website for
this event since the last one disappeared, but we did stumble upon the Dupont
Circle Arts blog, which notes openings in the area. This week, the Washington
Studio Schooll will open their Annual Juried Student Show, Foundry
Gallery will have a New Members Exhibit, Studio
Gallery will open a number of new exhibits -- stroll around to find other
gallery openings, all 6 to 8 p.m.
Smith Farm's Healing Art Gallery
really lives up to their name in their new exhibit opening Friday. Curator Mia
Choumenkovitch has been working with prisoners for years, teaching them the
"liberating and rehabilitative power" of art (and receiving a
Mayor's Art Award in 2007 for her work). See a collection of her student's art
during the opening, 6 to 8 p.m.
Artist Patrick McDonough wants you
to watch "the sausage being made," so to speak, in his new exhibit
at The 39th Street Gallery & Project Space, part of the Gateway
Arts Center. Starting this Friday, stop by to see him working live on a
variety of subjects in winter worst/wurst weiss. Wed. 7-9 pm, Fri. 7-9
pm, Sun. 12-5 pm through February 28.
Performance Art and Festivals:
Head to the National
Geographic Museum to celebrate Chinese New Year this Saturday from 11 to 3
p.m., featuring film screenings, table tennis and martial arts demos, and food
from P. F. Changs. Free.
The 10th Annual Flamenco Festival,
brought to you by the GW Lisner Auditorium, starts early next week, featuring
five performances over three weeks. See the full schedule and get tickets here.
As part of the Flamenco Festival, join the Embassy of Spain at the Corcoran
for Dressed
to Dance featuring a runway show and dance performance with historic
and avant-garde Spanish costumes. Next Monday, 7 p.m., $35.
Art Notes:
- Artists: submit
your design for new bike racks to be installed in the Golden Triangle.
Due March
5 4.
- The Driskell
Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, opens Her
Story: Margo Humphrey Lithographs and Works on Paper on Thursday with
a reception 5 to 7 p.m.
- The Washington Printmakers
Gallery has made
their move from Dupont Circle to Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver
Spring and will open their first show, their 25th Anniversary Reunion
Show, this Friday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
- Susan
Calloway Fine Arts opens Here and There featuring the work of
Rodgers Naylor, Friday 6 to 8 p.m.
- Check with the Tudor Place Historic
House and Garden's web site for lots of art and history events for all
ages. This
Saturday enjoy a Valentine's Tea and Chocolate Workshop for Children,
1:30 to 3 p.m. $25 per child, $10 per adult.
- The Del Ray Artisans
open ARTIOMS, an exhibit about idioms, cliches, and other word
play. Opening Friday, 7 to 10 p.m.
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