After the stumbling blocks of the Halloween weekend and the Election week, the DC art world is back with a vengeance and, while slowly revving up for FotoWeek, there are (SO MANY) exciting openings this week, you may need to actually apply a discerning eye to the calendar and pick and choose.
Below-a digest of worthiness.
Us it wisely
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THURSDAY
If you have not been to see Richard Avedon’s show @ The Corcoran, the power hours continue this week.
Also-it being first Thursday, The Phillips Collection is hosting its after hours this time with a guest speaker Rami Kashou (of last season’s Project Runway) in tow to talk shop, fashion and art.
Should be fun.
Pre-registration is required though, so….pre-register?
On top of that, Amy Domingues and her cello is teaming up with Judy Jashinsky for a one night only eve of music and art
FRIDAY
The big bad awesome wolf of the evening is, naturally, the BYT co-hosted Hirshhorn after-hours with Gavin and Dan Deacon and the opening of the Panza Collection.
Online tickets are already sold out but there is a quantity left at the door for early-comers, so come early.
If you are looking for something else to do, there is a few of politically charged art activities for the “world changer” in you: Hillyer is hosting an opening for their Iranian photo show, Civilian Art Projects is hosting a conversation with Brian Steidle & Gretchen Steidle Wallace, there is a show called Propaganda at a rather mysterious sounding New Art Community Center, that you HAVE TO RSVP TO (?) and National Geographic is putting their modern masters photography on display, so you just know that is going to be stunning.
after all that
SATURDAY
Brings the battle of the photo show openings but before anything, make a point to stop by Transformer and see Nilay Lawson speak about her terrific show If You Didn’t Know What This Was, Would You Know What This Is? which just opened last week.
A Joseph Sternberg film series is in full effect @ National Gallery of Art today (along with live music accompaniement) and Smithonian African art museum is hosting a super cool seeming multi-media one-off performance piece at 2 pm.
OK, then! then! so many cool things going on, I am both overwhelmed and overjoyed:
1. The 1515 14th street art complex which consists of Adamson, Hemphill, G Fine Art and The Curator’s Office is having an opening each, with Adamson’s Lawrence Schiller’s show being the standout.
(if you are in the neighborhood, stop by Randall Scott and see “The most normal person I know”, if you haven’t already. Beautiful)
2. The freshly opened Hamiltonian Gallery is hosting its second show, this time a really cool looking group photo exhibit.
3. And just down the street, the soon-to-be-relocated (to Hamiltonian) Project 4 is hosting an opening for Thomas Mueller of glossy photos of animals on top of fruits. Odd, beautiful, oddly beautiful. (subjectively-I am probably looking forward to this the most)
SUNDAY
This looks amazing. OR-take a day off. Spend it in Pompeii.
p.s. if I forgot anything worth not forgetting, let me know
Sunday - art, or stinky old plastic cars? Either way, i’ll swing by.
When the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989, thousands of East Germans rushed to reunite with friends and family. Their typical mode of transportation? The Trabant. Despite its poor performance and smoky two-stroke engine, this little car is now affectionately regarded as a symbol of East Germany and the fall of communism. Trabants are quite
November 6, 2008 at 1:00 pmrare in the U.S., but on 9 November, a caravan of the communist-bloc cars will converge on the International Spy Museum to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Come view the vintage cars, which will be parked in front of the Museum on F Street, NW, and win a
ride in a Trabant. While the cars are on display, experts will be on hand to answer questions about Trabants, the Cold War, and Communism, while the Blaskapelle Alte Kameraden German Band provides festive music.