No doubt you're just sick of all the traveling and lounging around on beaches you've done all summer. It's time to trade the coolers of Corona for free glasses of wine, and the sound of crashing waves for the amusing chatter of art scensters. The fall 2007 art season has begun!

Over the next two weekends you'll find too many opening receptions for even the most ambitious art lover to get to, so pick your poisons from the following:

>> Our number one pick for this weekend has to be Warehouse's Art Romp 20. This annual circus of an art show will include live performances, a picnic in the parking lot, outdoor projections, and -- this being the final Art Romp before Warehouse shutters their 7th Street doors -- works of art from all the past years of the show. Come see over 100 artists' work displayed in every space in the venue this Friday between 6 and 11 p.m.

>> See the works of E. Brady Robinson (pictured) at Flashpoint during the opening reception for Shift, Friday between 7 and 9 p.m. His travel photography will have you whizzing down country roads and seeing landscapes in a whole new perspective.

>> Tomorrow is the first Friday of September, which means the art venues in Dupont will be open for their monthly gallery walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Find a map of participating galleries here.

>> Next Tuesday see the opening of Gesture at the Honfluer Gallery. The installation of 2,996 brick-sized paintings by New York artist Manju Shandler show the colorful abstraction that the busy streets of Manhatten are every day from afar, but upclose reveal images from September 11, 2001. Stop by the opening at 7 p.m.; an exhibit by students coached by the artist will accompany it.

>> Saturday get up to Tenleytown for the official opening party for five new shows that kick off the third year at American University's Katzen Arts Center. The reception is from 6 to 9 p.m., but drop by an hour early to hear artist Keiko Hara talk about her culture clashing Topophilia Imbuing in Monet.

>> Lisa Sheirer uses the formations in ice crystals as a lens through which her landscapes come alive with natural patterns. See her work at Hillyer Art Space during the opening this Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

>> Check out the open house at the Capital Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday. The venue will offer demonstrations and information on their fall class line-up, which includes everything from photography and ceramics to dancing and yoga. Stick around for the opening reception of Chair of CHAW's photography department's Bruce McKaig's new exhibit from 5 to 7 p.m.

>> Over at the Arlington Arts Center, meet some of the featured the German artists at the reception for Arlington to Aachen: Imaging the Distance, this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m.

>> If you're trying to find like-minds who will help you assemble your massive army of robots to conquer nations, no doubt only to be done in by your own creations in the resulting Man vs. Robot War, find your fellow troops at Dorkbot DC. The next monthly meeting of these artsy/creative science types is Monday at 7 p.m. and includes presentations by three artists.

>> J.T. Kirkland views art better than you. Or at least that's how the press release for the One Word Project reads. Curator Kirkland chose over 30 artists to participate in the show, then prompted them with a one word reaction -- "minimiz[ing] the polluting influence of the viewer's agenda" -- to which the artist responded with 100-500 words. Bring your polluting mind to the Arts Club of Washington to see/read for yourself during the reception Friday, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

>> On Monday, the National Geographic Museum opens the exhibit Through the Eyes of the Condor, a collection of gorgeous aerial photographs taken in Latin America by artist and award-winning environmentalist Robert B. Haas.

Images courtesy Flashpoint Gallery and Hillyer Art Space, respectively.