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>> A major traveling exhibition hits D.C. this week: National Geographic hosts this leg of the Terra Cotta Warriors tour. Over 100 artifacts are on display from the 2000-year-old sculpted army that guarded China's First Emperor from any dangers as he entered the afterlife. The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through March 2010. Tickets are $12 (adult) and sold by date and 30 minute blocks; purchase them here.

We're still in the midst of FotoweekDC (visit their website for detailed listings of events, lectures and workshops), but there are also tons of other arts events going on this week. Here's a not-so-short and sweet calendar for you to plan your next few days of artiness.

The second annual FotoWeek DC Festival starts up this Saturday, and the city is already overflowing with all things photography and more than enough arty events to go around. We're featuring our picks in this week's Arts Agenda, but take a gander at the FotoWeek website, blog, and even their mobile site if you want full details. It runs straight through next Saturday the 14th, so even the busiest art lovers should be able to find time to stop in an exhibit or two over the next week and a half.

>> If you're looking for Halloween themed art this weekend, the place to go every year is Art Outlet's Ofrenda -- Art for the Dead exhibit at the Torpedo Factory. They'll have an all-day celebration starting at 3 p.m. that includes works by over 40 artists, a parade, activities for kids, music and dance performances and even a masked ball. Check the web site for the schedule of events. Free, cash bar.

>> 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.

This week in Gallery Musical Chairs, Civilian Art Projects is moving to the Warehouse Arts Complex. We've known for awhile that Civilian (who hosted our second DCist Exposed Photography Show) was moving; indeed, all three venues at 406 7th Street NW have vacated the address. The art and design store Apartment Zero moved out a few months ago and still hasn't found a new location; same with Touchstone Gallery, which had its closing party on September 25. Not to mention nearby Zenith and Numark galleries, which closed up over the past couple of years. Penn Quarter isn't a total art wasteland yet, though. A few other galleries, Carroll Square, Caos on F, and Reyes + Davis, all buried in office buildings, are still active. And of course there's still the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and a little farther west, Flashpoint.

>> Crafters (and those of us with some dollar bills to burn) look forward to this weekend all year -- it's finally time for Crafty Bastards. Celebrating its sixth year, the festival features a fantastic array of indie crafts, from jewelry and purses to paperworks and crazy toys. The Washington City Paper and Hello Craft DC always make sure everyone stays entertained, with live music, treats, and of course, the B-Boy battle to accompany the shopping. Saturday, rain or shine, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marie Reed Learning Center (18th Street at Wyoming Ave NW). Free admission.

>> The Washington Project for the Arts annual Experimental Media Series starts tomorrow at the Phillips Collection at 6:30 p.m. Read our preview and get the details on the other four nights of the series here.

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The arts season kicks itself into high gear this weekend. There's enough happening to keep your art plate full, with plenty of seconds.

As you might imagine, Labor Day weekend gets a little slow for the arts, but that's OK with us, since next week the new arts season begins in earnest. We do have a few tips for you, so keep on reading:

While we're sure you love the weekly Arts Agenda here at DCist, we're compelled to note the launch of (and urge you to bookmark) Pink Line Project's brand new web site this week. An easy-to-navigate calendar at the top lists the metro area's art events; detailed info and images pop up for each event below. Pink Line features a scrolling list of their own picks, or go down to the bottom of the page for "Today Only" events. The "Art Chat" is more blog posts than interactive discussion, but may feature lengthier previews and reviews by guest writers in the future.

>> Hillyer has events going on all weekend. On Friday, swing by their monthly HOME event. Poets should sign up for the open mic at 6 p.m.; everyone else be there by 7 p.m. $5. On Saturday, check out the performance piece Confirm or Ignore (from Facebook, get it?). The modern dance combines the work of Lotta Lundgren and Ilana Silverstein. Two showings, at 8 and 10 p.m., $10, RSVP strongly encouraged to dinnerpartyinfo[at]gmail.com or 202.386.2733.

>> This Saturday, join the "capital’s largest public art event" at the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center (next to the Rhode Island Ave Metro station) to see over 100 artists paint a football field-sized wall during Mural Jam. Sponsored by Albus Cavus, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program, local muralists mentored kids over the past couple months in developing and designing public art. Watch them work from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. while enjoying music, food and drinks for free.

>> On Saturday, stop by Hamiltonian Gallery for their first official fellows show of the new season. Almost Surely, Almost Everywhere features four artists, and we're always interested to see what Michael Dax Iacovone is up to; in the past we've seen his curiously notated, multiple exposure "maps," but it sounds like he's a bit more physical this time, in collaborative video work that features "drifting" through unfamiliar spaces. 7 to 9 p.m.

>> Connor Contemporary Art opens Academy 2009 this Saturday. This 9th annual MFA/BFA survey showcases the talent and work of recent fine art graduates of regional college art programs. Start the evening off with the No Artist Left Behind series: The Top 10 Things Every Artist Should Know, a panel discussion co-hosted by Washington Project for the Arts at 4 p.m. Opening reception for Academy 2009 starts at 6 p.m. and at 7 p.m. PULSE Contemporary Art Fair will award one of this year's Academy exhibiting artists an exhibition space at PULSE Miami 2009.

On July 12, Cyrus Katzen passed away at the age of 91. He was a major benefactor for many D.C. institutions, not the least of which was American University's Katzen Art Center. Pay tribute to this arts patron by checking out the ongoing exhibits at his eponymous gallery; on Saturday you can hear amazing local sculptor Margaret Boozer talk about her installations of unfired local clays in Dirt Drawings. 2 p.m.

>> Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 launched to take the first manned mission to the Moon. Included in the celebrations at the National Air & Space Museum is an exhibition of paintings by Alan Bean, a former NASA astronaut and the fourth person to walk on the Moon, with the Apollo 12 mission. After resigning from NASA in 1981, he became a full-time artist, using an eye that's seen parts of the universe most of us will never see to create reams of space-themed paintings. His work is on display though next January. Space enthusiasts should check the museum's calendar for Apollo 11 events all through July, and be sure to check out the web site We Choose the Moon to watch Eagle and Columbia travel to the Moon in real time with some impressive animation and the archived audio tapes between Mission Control and the astronauts playing continuously.

>> Saturday night, head over to the vacant lot at 1st and K Streets SE to see over 20 artists perform some live street art for Breaking Wave: Mural Jam. Presented by the Capital Riverfront BID and Artomatic, they'll also have music, food and drink from 5 to 11 p.m. This event has been postponed.

>> Photography pioneer William Eggleston (who we heard gave an lively, if ornery, presentation to members last night) is featured in the Corcoran's new retrospective, opening Saturday. Democratic Camera shows how Eggleston changed the way photographers treated and viewers looked at color photography, using every day objects as subjects. The exhibit also includes some of his video and rare black and white photos. This week is also the start of Corcoran's Free Summer Saturdays (through August 29); head down for this Saturday's Earth First Family Day featuring art workshops, music, tours and more.

Today's arts agenda comes to you from Charlottesville, Va., where the annual LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph is starting. About a two and a half hour drive from D.C., you can get a single day or Festival Pass for tons of lectures by the likes of Sylvia Plachy, workshops on software and techniques, and exhibits from James Natchway and more. The festival goes on all weekend, so come on down and say hello to your DCist arts editor -- I'll be the one drooling over everything.

This weekend is the 26th annual Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk. Enjoy free admission and a plethora of activities at the ten participating museums including the Phillips Collection, the Woodrow Wilson House and the Textile Museum, just to name a few. The Museum Walk will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Free shuttle bus service is provided between venues and bike parking will be available at key locations. A complete list of activities and events can be found online.

As you might guess, Memorial Day weekend isn't usually crammed with gallery openings, but we found a couple items of note in our inbox, so consider this your holiday art hodge-podge.

>> Transformer opens a thought provoking exhibit that challenges traditional notions of gender. Domesticated: Men and the Domestic Interior opens Saturday, with a curator and artist talk at 4 p.m. followed by a reception from 5 to 8 p.m.

Don't forget to vote for your favorite Make Your Own Morandi photo from our three finalists. Tonight go see the real things at the Phillips Collection and check out the first installment of this is not that CAFÉ, designed to create interaction between artists and viewers. The café, run by On the Fly, will be open for purchases, and tonight visitors are encouraged to meet the project collaborators, the dB foundation. The event will take place every first Thursday during Phillips After 5.

Tomorrow is the deadline for our contest with the Phillips Collection, Make Your Own Morandi. Get your photos in by midnight!

>> Presented by Project 4 and Civilian Art Projects, artists Noelle K. Tan and Laurel Lukaszewski exhibit new works tonight in A Fine Line in the lobby at 505 9th St NW. See how each pushes the threshold of their respective mediums, in photography and clay, at an artist's talk and reception. 5:30 to 7 p.m.

>> Tonight is a good time to head to the Arlington Arts Center, where you can always see tons of art in one space. They'll open their annual Spring Solos show, featuring an in-depth look at five up-and-coming artists, curated by the Hirshhorn's Anne Ellegood and D.C. collector Philip Barlow. Also in the Center are two more exhibits: in the "experimental gallery" downstairs, catch Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project, and in the Wyatt gallery, Lisa McCarty's Neutrogena ad gone wrong in Time Sheet, made from blotting papers pressed to her face over the course of a year. 6 to 9 p.m.

>> The new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery is our pick this week, with Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture. With 100 portraits and self-portraits of the artist in a wide range of media, the exhibit is a thorough examination of the way he reshaped the field through his own work and by influencing his peers. Fifty-eight other artists are included in the exhibit, such as Richard Avedon, Man Ray, and Andy Warhol. If you can make it by at 10 a.m. tomorrow, catch a discussion by conservators and curators from NPG, MoMA, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Jean Crotti's Duchamp portraits. Opens Friday, visit during regular hours, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

>> The 24-hour Drawing Project is back again this year, this time at Hamiltonian Gallery (it was at Warehouse last year). The group of artists involved will work on their own individual projects for the full 24 hours, though "drawing" can be interpreted loosely. Stop by to see them work from 9 a.m. to midnight tomorrow and 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday morning.