Dupont Circle Neighborhood NEWS


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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