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"How do you photograph something you can't see?," was the question Edward Burtynsky faced when creating the images in Oil, on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art starting tomorrow. The world-renowned photographer began his career focused on consumerism and consumption, but around 15 years ago he had his "oil epiphany" – that oil is at the center of everything in an industrialized world and yet, we never see it, only its end products. The resulting portfolio of work is not a heavy-handed political statement, but a gorgeous documentary on the uses and ugliness of oil. I first discovered Burtynsky's work in the (must-see) 2006 documentary Manufactured Landscapes and, admittedly, have eagerly been looking forward to seeing his work in person. It did not even remotely disappoint.

>> 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.

April showers have overstayed their welcome, but the area's museums are offering some great indoor fun.

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.

DCist's guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

DC Creates Public Art Program, a program of the DC Commission on Arts and the Humanities, dedicated sculptures by Omri Amrany of Josh Gibson, Walter Johnson and Frank Howard and a suspended installation by Walter Kravitz entitled The Ball Game yesterday at Nationals Park. We'll have our own look at these works later.

>> The National Museum of African Art opened Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas on Wednesday. The exhibition explores the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata, examining the world of water deities and their seductive powers. On view now through July 26, 2009.

We just announced our new contest in conjunction with the Phillips Collection, and it isn't too early to get a jump start on your entry. Head out to the Phillips tonight for their monthly Phillips After 5 program and take in a lecture about sustainable design and mass production of household objects, and get guided tours of the Morandi exhibit for research and inspiration.

>> 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.

>> Tonight head over to Flashpoint and watch artists Kate McGraw and Ann Tarantino collaborate on planned and improvised drawings created directly on the walls of the gallery. Workbook will feature the artists' own signature styles as well as their response to one another's mark-making. McGraw and Tarantino will collaborate for ten days and document the process through video and in a twist to the typical "buy the painting on the wall," they'll instead make small 7x7" paper prints, each handmade, unique and available for $50. The video will be incorporated into the project and on view on March 28. Opening reception tonight from 6 to 9 p.m.

We're sad, but perhaps not surprised, to report the closing of two more D.C. art spaces. Daily Campello Art News has the full report that the Kathleen Ewing Gallery and Jane Haslem Gallery, both in Dupont, will shut their doors. With Kathleen Ewing, D.C.'s dearth in photography-focused venues becomes even more palpable, after the Randall Scott Gallery moved to NYC a few weeks ago. Ewing plans to continue dealing art from her Cleveland Park home, but by appointment only. Haslem, who helped bring the art world to the internet 15 years ago, will put her focus on artline.com. In the past few weeks, Zenith Gallery on 7th Street NW and the Burdick Gallery, also in Dupont Circle, have also closed. (No wonder the recently revamped Dupont First Friday artwalk web site suddenly disappeared.) Though we're saddened to see the physical spaces go, most gallerists seem to be adjusting their focus by leaving the expensive real estate behind, rather than leaving the business altogether, so we hope to see more from them soon.

>> 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.

Only a few more days to catch the DCist Exposed Photography Show. The show is open daily at the Gallery at Flashpoint, 12 to 6 p.m. through Saturday.

As we'll remind you a few more times over the next ten days, DCist Exposed continues to run at the Gallery at Flashpoint until March 7. See it Tuesday through Saturdays, 12 to 6 p.m. While we'd love to encourage you to attend our panel discussion, Emerge Exposed, next Tuesday, it seems we just hit capacity this morning. Thanks to those of you who RSVP'd early.

As far as any of us are concerned, there's only one art event going on this weekend that should be on your calendar. (Okay, that's not entirely true; we've got your abbreviated agenda below.)

As you know, Valentine's Day is this weekend, and with it comes plenty of opportunities for arty couples to go on dates, and for singles to pretend the Hallmark holiday isn't happening at all. Read on for details about a whole art weekend taking place near the Navy Yard Metro, a flamenco festival and Presidential cupcake art.

We knew this was coming, but Randall Scott of the eponymous art gallery on 14th Street NW confirmed with us today that he'll be closing up his D.C. shop at the end of next week. Scott told us this morning:

I have been considering NY for over a year, the pace of the city attracts me, as does the community of artists and people involved in the arts. I have met an amazing group of people in DC over the past 2+ years, from collectors and gallerists, to artists, but I have been feeling that northward pull.

Continue reading "Randall Scott Gallery Moves to NYC"

>> We're proud to give our top spot this week to DCist jazz writer Sriram Gopal and his arts collective Subcontinental Drift, who have put together the exhibition opening at Smith Farm Healing Arts Gallery tomorrow night. Positive Exposure: The South Asian Experience Through the Camera Eye is in two parts. The larger exhibit was picked from an open contest and includes photography from both local and international artists that feature South Asia and its diaspora; the second part includes work from The Clean Hands Project, where professional photojournalists trained Dalits (Untouchables) in Nepal to use digital cameras to document their lives. Visit the opening reception Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and be sure to mark your calendar for a whole month of events, including Subcontinental Drift's regular monthly open mic night, held at the gallery on Feb. 12, and a panel discussion about challenges minority artists face getting into the mainstream on Feb. 17.

>> This week we recommend heading to Hemphill Fine Arts for the opening of Selections from the Barnett-Aden Collection: A Homecoming Celebration, featuring two centuries of work by and about African-Americans. The collection began in a private home in Northwest D.C. by a professor and student of Howard University in the 1940s, when African-Americans could not show their work in museums and galleries. A number of people came together recently to recollect the artworks, restore them, and curate a portion of the 250 pieces into the show at Hemphill. DCist got a preview of the exhibition this morning, and we're impressed by the artworks themselves, the broad swath of styles and media they cover, and the rich history — much of it local — they encompass. We'll have a more in-depth review for you next week, but see them at the reception this Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

>> At the Randall Scott Gallery, find Etsuko Ichikawa's large "pyrographs," images made from fiery burns of blown molten glass as the tendrils fall and bubbles burst on the paper. See them at the reception on Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m.

We already gave you the low-down on the bigger art events and parties going on this weekend, but we've been getting so many notices in the past 24 hours with great stuff to check out, we had to put up a supplemental agenda for you. Add the following visual arts, theater and dance events to your schedule:

Did you hear that? It's the squealing tires of art world hitting the gas and letting go of the clutch as they careen into the political art scene like a carful of 16-year-olds off to their first kegger. Sure, there was political art going on the last eight years, but not a whole lot of it, and scanning our arts agendas for the past few years, it wasn't really happening in the District, home of the White House, much at all. The coming out party has arrived with the election of Barack Obama, and artists are harnessing the excitement to say hooray! Happy days are here again! Hope and stuff!