Brightest Young Things

Spring is quite literally in the air and now, no matter what, you have no excuse but not to go and support the DC art world at it's struggling but budding best. Last week, everyone and their gallery director were up in NYC at SCOPE but this weekend, it is back to DC.

Before we list the events though, as always, a couple of links and notes:

• Hirshhorn After Hours tickets are on sale. Everyone knows how fast they go, everyone hates the lines once they are there, and still, everyone goes. Get yours here.
• Artini season is in full swing. Make plans to go to a tasting, buy tickets, plan outfits accordingly.
• Make sure you check out our weekly DC Art History series. This week: THE LARGEST SUNDIAL
• Controversial portraits of American soldiers between tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, which were pulled from roadside billboards during the 2008 Republican National Convention because of their vivid content, will be on view in DC from March 9 to April 4. Photographer Suzanne Opton and curator Susan Reynolds will talk with the public about the images in the Pentagon City Metrorail station on March 12 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and in the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station on March 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A private reception will be held in their honor on March 12.

• Apparently 1800+ people made it to the DCist Exposed show opening this year. Congratulations. In conjunction, Pinkline will be hosting a panel "Emerge Exposed" about photography collecting next Tuesday @ Long view. Tickets are 8 dollars in advance.

NOW-Onto what to do this week/end:

THURSDAY

• Colorforms opens today @ Hirshhorn & tonight at 7pm, catch an In Conversation w/ director Richard Koshalek & graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff about their Joseph Albers show
• G40 Summit is still going on and out of control in Crystal City and tonight, BYT is sponsoring a Merrifield records party there. If you don't make the button room your profile photo, you're dead to us.

• Much like every second Thursday of the month, Hillyer is hosting V.O.I.C.E.S, an event (which costs 5 bucks) to raise funds and awareness for grassroots organizations in Africa that support youth empowerment, development and leadership through the arts. Music, performances, food and more, 6:30 TONIGHT.
• The Fridge hosts CHISPA, an event about "what artists are thinking, doing, dreaming about"
• The DC Commission on Art and the Humanities will hold their monthly Art Salon at the Historical Society of Washington. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. sharp, RSVP to dccahevents@gmail.com.

FRIDAY

• Big event today is Honfleur Gallery's 3rd year anniversary. Anacostia is not far at all (or at least it is really, really metro accessible), and Honfleur's space is one of the coolest galleries you may never have motivated to check out-GO.
• Also, from 6 to 9- it is time for the monthly Bethesda Art Walk
• Matthew Hemerlein is heading off to SXSW and BBC is stopping by to film his send-off while Katie Schuler live-draws @ SOVA

SATURDAY

• Every time Project 4 opens a show, you know you're in for a treat: this Saturday stop by the reception for the group outing, "The Fantastical" which explores "revealing idiosyncrasies of the artist's mind...fantastical realms arise in conjunction with existing curiosities and tension"

• Amy Lin who is currently featured in Irvine Contemporary's On/Off the Grid, opens a solo show @ Addison Ripley gallery today called "Kinetics", featuring her precise but manic drawings.
• The National Geographic Museum opens John Stanmeyer's Sacred Waters today, showing the "many ways different cultures relate spiritually to water."
• visit one of the only Buddhist shrine rooms (spectacularly ornate and intricate, if we say so ourselves) in the country is being shown at the Freer Gallery, starting today.
• On the more DIY Tip-stop by BORED OF TRADE

THAT'S ALL WE KNOW. TELL US WHAT WE MAY HAVE MISSED IN COMMENTS.

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