Arts Agenda

Image of "Swing, 2009" by James Osher, courtesy Addison/Ripley Fine Arts

>> This morning we showed you a preview of Long View Gallery's new venue. If you didn't RSVP for the opening party tomorrow night, stop by any time during their regular hours to check it out for yourself.

>> Construct: Space Transformed is a new project by the Cultural Development Corporation that put artwork in five storefronts in NoMa. Join them for an artwalk from 5 to 6 p.m. followed by a reception at 1100 First Street NE from 6 to 8 p.m. Free by RSVP required for artwalk. All pieces are visible from the sidewalk, so swing by to see them until January 5, including two more artwalks on November 5 and 19.

>> Addison/Ripley Fine Art has a new exhibit of photographs by James Osher in Three Seconds with the Masters. You might call his work a little meta, as it's art that explores the nature of viewing art. See it during the opening reception Saturday, 5 to 7 p.m.

>> Tonight see Mortified, a collection of real cringe-worthy high school "artifacts" -- journals, yearbooks, etc. -- presented live at Town. $15, 8 p.m., 21 and over.

>> At the National Portrait Gallery, see the winners of the 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition starting this Friday. Winners of the once-every-three-year contest will be announced at a special reception tonight.

>> Reyes + Davis will have an opening for Barbara Joseph Liotta's sculpture in Poseidon Project Part I this Friday, 6:30 to 9 p.m. The Phillips Collection continues their new contemporary art series by displaying Liotta's portrait Icarus beginning tomorrow.

>> Art Enables will have an opening Celebrating Annie Edson Taylor, Orville Wright and the Second Battle of Bedriacum this Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

>> The Freer and Sackler Galleries are showing the large-scale, wild paintings from Falnama: The Book of Omens. These works of divination date back to Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Opens Saturday.

>> The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland opens Toppled with work by Jessica Vaughn on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Her artwork focuses on Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

>> Congrats to The SPACE Gallery, which will have its Grand Opening for their new gallery at 200 North Street in Fairfax on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m.

>>The Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual Fall Fête is October 24, this year with a nautical theme. Regular tickets for the black-tie event are $100 and include a "cocktail buffet," desserts and open bar, along with a DJ and private viewing of Sargent and the Sea.

>> Workshops: Hamiltonian Gallery will help you write a better artist statement this Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $10, RSVP to jackie[at]hamiltoniangallery.com. Learn more about non-profit end-of-year fundraising with CuDC and Flashpoint next Wednesday, Oct. 26. $35, RSVP to redcircle[at]flashpointdc.org. Be a critic tonight at International Art & Artists, for Crit '09 at Hillyer. Twelve artists will show their work while viewers can provide helpful analysis. Free, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Dance:

>> Check out our preview of the 6th Annual Fall Festival of Indian Arts and see a show this Friday or Saturday.

>> At the Kennedy Center, enjoy the contemporary dance of KEIGWIN + COMPANY for a performance of Elements (Water, Fire, Earth, and Air). Tickets still available for Thursday's 7:30 p.m. show. $36.

>> Saturday, head to the Kuchipudi Kalanidhi Bethesda Studio for a Kuchipudi Lecture/Demonstration by Venkatanaga Chalapathy at 11 a.m. Tickets are $15: 202-361-3067 or kalanidhi.dance[at]gmail.com.

Art Notes:

Flashpoint and the Mead Theatre Lab Program has sent around their annual Request for Proposals for the 2010-2011 season. Send them your work by December 17 to get involved with the top-notch mentoring and grant assistance program.
We recommended Gallery Neptune's new show last week; see it this Saturday during Fashion and Cocktails, featuring clothes and shoes from De*Nada and Shoefly from 7:30 to 10 p.m. RSVP to info[at]galleryneptune.com.
We loved D.C. author Eric Nuzum's book The Dead Travel Fast. Get the Halloween spirit as he reads from the book on Friday at Past Tense, 7:45 p.m.
Slow Food by Patrick Wilson has its last day at the Curator's Office on Friday. In the same building, John Dreyfuss' Enigma closes at Hemphill on Saturday. Down the street, New Realisms closes Saturday at Irvine Contemporary.
Next Tuesday, award winning architect and urban planner Léon Krier will have a lecture and book signing at the National Building Museum. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $20.
Monday night see paintings and prints by D.C. artist Michael Gross in the lobby of 505 9th Street NW during a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Sixth & I will host Tattoos & Taboos with Ami James of Miami Ink to discuss the controversy around Jewish body modification. Sunday 7 p.m., $10 at the door.
We hope you got your tickets to Friday's Hirshhorn After Hours already, because tickets are sold out.
The Kreeger Musuem will have a panel discussion about their ongoing exhibit, Kentridge and Kudryashov: Against the Grain on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. $12, RSVP to 202-338-3552.