Arts Agenda
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>> Of course the big art news this week is that Conner Contemporary is coming back into the fold, after being closed for a year and renovating their new space at 1358-60 Florida Avenue NE. DCist is getting a peek at the gallery today and will report back soon; in the meantime, take a look at our interview with Leo Villareal for a preview of their first exhibit. See it all for yourself on Saturday, 6 to 8 p.m. RSVP required: info [at] connercontemporary.com.
>> The Washington City Paper's craft fair extraordinaire, Crafty Bastards, is this Sunday. Check out this year's vendors and festival events online before you go, then grab your crocheted wallet and hilariously ironic dinosaur T-shirt and head on over, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marie Reed Learning Center in Adams Morgan.
>> Honfleur Gallery opens an intriguing show with three popular Parisian artists in Three Lenses. Jean Francois Rauzier, Jean-Noel L’Harmeroult and Cyril Anguelidis feature a process called Digigraphie, using digital and photograpic means to three different ends. Check them out at the reception Saturday, 7 p.m.
>> The Women Photojournalists of Washington open Women by Women, with images tracking the lives of girls and women from Haiti to China to Mexico. See them at the reception tonight 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum.
>> The Maurine Littleton Gallery in Georgetown focuses solely on glassworks. On Sunday, they'll open three solo shows with the works of Tim Tate, Michael Janis, and Allegra Marquart. See their work at the reception, 5 to 7 p.m.
Image of work by Leo Villareal courtesy Conner Contemporary
>> Ganymede Arts, a GLBT arts company, begins their second annual Fall Arts Festival this Friday at the Church Street Theater (1742 Church St NW). Check out their schedule for 10 days worth of of play readings, music, poetry, and a big gala.
>> Looking for some place a little more interesting to watch the first presidential debate this Friday (if it happens)? The Arlington Arts Center, which is currently hosting the exhibit Picturing Politics 2008, will have an artist panel called From the Gallery to the Street. Welmoed Laanstra, Kriston Capps, and Josh Shannon will discuss political art and its impact, if any, outside the gallery. Begins 6:30 p.m., stay for debate watching at 7:30 p.m.
>> The Phillips Collection wants to know why people keep painting when there are so many new varieties of media to work in. They're holding a symposium this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with sessions including Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik, Director of the Phillips Collection Dorothy M. Kosinski, and a slew of other artists, curators, and professors. The entire day is included in the museum's admission.
>> See the work of some American icons at the Smithsonian American Art Museum this weekend when they open Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities.
>> We mentioned Foundry Gallery's auction to benefit Duke Ellington School for the Arts earlier this month when they opened bidding. On Saturday they'll have their final bidding and closing reception; bids on the 30+ artworks can be made until 7 p.m., after which the winners can collect their piece. Reception is 6 to 8 p.m.
Art Notes:
- Tonight, hear curators Paul Roth and Frank Goodyear discuss the Richard Avedon exhibit, Politics of Power, at the Corcoran. 7 p.m., $10.
- See a ten year retrospective for two exceptional painters, Joan Bevelaqua and Andrew Wodzianski, at Montgomery College's The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center. Reception tonight, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
- The Reyes + Davis gallery hosts a lecture tonight at 7 p.m. featuring sculpture Barbara Liotta and Pink Line Project's Philippa Hughes discussing Commissioning Sculpture.
- See some local modern style architecture this Sunday when the "3 Pavilion House" is open for self-guided tours. The house, designed by award-winning architect Hugh Jacobson, is the last of its type in D.C. Tours are at 1, 2, and 3 p.m., $25, at 2927 University Terrace, NW, Washington, DC 20016
- Studio Gallery is hosting The Art of Homebrew this Friday, when local home brewers from Brewers United for Real Potables (BURP, awesome) will do a demonstration and offer taste tests. 6 to 10 p.m.
- Catch a performance of Elected! by Jane Franklin Dance Company this Saturday or Sunday, both at 8 p.m., at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- If you missed Art Whino's Block Party reception because of the hurricane's storm a couple weeks ago, they're reprising the event tonight, 7 to 11 p.m.