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The Evangelist Matthew by Jan Lievens is part of a new show of the artist's work that opens this weekend at the National Gallery. (Photo courtesy the National Gallery of Art) |
>> The Smithsonian American Art Museum might be holding the most interesting art event this weekend, with the alternate reality game “Ghosts of a Chance.” On Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m., head to the museum to play a scavenger hunt that will rid the museum of haunted spirits. The six “quests” can be played by people of all ages, but become increasingly difficult. “Ghosts of a Chance” was also an online game that 4,500 people across the country participated in, and artifacts made by participants will be on display. Clues are distributed via cell phone, so make sure you bring yours. And if all that still sounds confusing, click over to the web site for more information.
>> The National Gallery of Art continues their busy fall calendar with the opening of Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered on Sunday. A friend of Rembrandt, many of Lievens’ paintings were mistakenly attributed to the more famous artist, as they feature similar subjects and techniques. The show includes over 100 works by Lievens, who besides being a prolific painter, delved into printmaking and drawing. His works are bursting with action and feeling, and topics range from Biblical scenes to the five senses. Two opening lectures will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. in the East Building Concourse Auditorium.
>> Civilian Art Projects opens two contemporary photography shows this weekend — the traveling exhibit DARFUR/DARFUR, which features photographs snapped by photojournalists on the Darfur crisis, and Pastime, which includes work by emerging photographers. The opening reception is Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.
>> The Torpedo Factory Art Center hosts an art and wine night on Sunday. A panel, including Philippa Hughes of the Pink Line Project, Shauna Lee Lange of the Arts Advisory and Susannah Parnin of Art Whino, discusses how to buy art. Virginia wines will be available to taste in honor of Virginia Wine Month. 6:30 to 9 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Chris Anderson's Chivalry Towards Ladies, 2007 (Photo courtesy Randall Scott Gallery) |
>> Chris Anthony’s show, I'm the Most Normal Person I Know, opens with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Randall Scott Gallery. Anthony is a photographic artist and filmmaker, and his images are like a trip back in time. With elaborate costumes and set design, Anthony’s work resembles a film still. He shoots with antique photographic equipment and finishes pieces with modern post-production techniques.
>> Art meets politics, yet again. An Obama/Biden fundraiser on Saturday at the Warehouse promises theater, music and Obamartinis. The party kicks off at 7 p.m., and at 8 p.m. there’s a performance of the one-man show 7 x 1 Samurai. OmegaBand performs at 9 p.m. The cost is a $75 minimum donation made out to the Obama Victory Fund. RSVP to warehousebarocks [at] gmail.com.
>> Jimbot: Machine, Man, Monster opens on Saturday with a reception from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. at National Harbor’s Art Whino. The exhibition by the Milwaukee based painter and illustrators includes paintings and prints of the fanciful stories in his mind. Don't want to head out to National Harbor? On Friday, hit the preview at Georgetown's Adidas store from 7 to 11 p.m. There will be a wine tasting and a panel discussion on how contemporary art trends fit into the world of fine art.
>> DCist arts editor Heather Goss, who produces the DCist Exposed show, has expanded to create Ten Miles Square, a venture to promote emerging photographers around D.C. Move Along, the inaugural exhibit for Ten Miles Square, runs this weekend at BloomBars. On Friday from 8 to 11 p.m., local acts will be performing, on Saturday, BloomBars is open from 4 to 11 p.m., with a screening of So Goes the Nation at 8 p.m., and the show will also be on display Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.
Art Notes:
- Head to the Smithsonian American Art Museum today at 5:30 p.m. to hear a lecture on The Art of Ansel Adams: Techniques and Ideas.
- The Long View Gallery opens New Works by Tony Savoie on Friday, with a reception from 6-9 p.m.
- Judy Jashinksy’s The Fisherwomen, Paintings and Drawings opens at Reyes + Davis on Friday, with a reception from 6:30 – 9 p.m.
- Local sculptor Mary Early’s new solo show Sculpture 1275 opened yesterday at the Washington Sculptors group.
- Editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson’s show, Cartoons You Can Believe In and The Cartoons You Deserve, runs through the end of the month at Susan Calloway Fine Arts.
- Art Enables hosts a day of outsider and self-taught art on Saturday from 11 a.m.-6 p.m., with art and music.
- The Panza Collection opened today at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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But did Lievens have a vibrating pink dildo? Because who could take him seriously as an artist if he never mastered that genre?
That old man and that pink baby don't sit to well with me. I'm tellin!
Now that's art. You got something that looks like what it's supposed to look like. Unfortunately, it looks like an old honkey perv and a half-naked kid. Still, take that giant vibrating pink anvil!
and the second image looks like midget porn. look at all those little people running around there. what's the deal?