It's a week jam-packed with openings, receptions, talks, films, and art markets, where small is the new big. more ›

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, this week's Arts Agenda has a lot to see. more ›

Now entering it's fourth year, FotoWeekDC will kick off this Friday. The annual festival highlights photography as an artistic medium and will showcase numerous collections and exhibitions over the course of the week. more ›

Warhol, have your portrait drawn, the Phillips turns 90, new galleries to check out, and more -- all in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

This week is a little quiet in the art world, but that doesn't mean there's nothing interesting going on. Just consider it a bit of a breather before the pace picks up again in November. more ›

Collective curation, fashion, gastronomy, personal branding, and when you'll need to grab your dancing shoes -- all in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

The (e)merge art fair explains that it is the first American event to feature "a virtual art fair originating from a physical fair." But the physicality of the fair is what makes or breaks it, and where (e)merge is most successful is where the artists and galleries make the best use of the Capitol Skyline Hotel. more ›

If you're unlucky enough to be stuck in town while all your friends are traveling to far-away lands, let screenprints, art discussions, cold refreshments, dynamic installations, and free movies trick your brain into thinking you've escaped to paradise (and simultaneously LOL at your friends' angry tweets about sunburn and airline delays). more ›

While visual art events may be few and far between this week, the Dance DC Festival asks you to bring it. more ›

Exhibits on technology, the creative process, photo albums, the Civil War and an opening that directly appeals to the DCist commentariat -- all that and more in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

In 1962, then NASA Administrator James E. Webb began to invite artists to have special access to the astronauts, engineers and spacecraft during the tail-end of the Mercury program, just as Gemini was getting off the ground. NASA | ART includes over 70 artworks from the nearly 50 year span that has so far gathered 3000 pieces in both NASA and the Air and Space Museum's collections. As co-curator Burt Ulrich notes, the exhibit is meant to "see how far we've come as a nation, and as human beings." more ›

With this being the weekend that jump starts summer, the arts calendar is a little lighter than usual, though curiously full of science. more ›

In this week's arts agenda, find pop culture sheep sculpture, an opportunity to write your own theme song, and two DCist writers throwing-down for the local critics crown. All that and more, after the jump. more ›

There are a lot of events and openings this Friday and Saturday. Are you ready? Let's go. more ›

Mia Feuer's sculptures don't care for your personal space. They take inspiration from the inner workings of the urban landscape and bring fractured outdoor structures into the gallery, usually at such a large scale that you'll have to duck. Her massive site-specific installation at Conner Contemporary Art, Stress Cone, on display through April 30, is no different. more ›

In a release sent out last night, Bethesda's Fraser Gallery said it will close at the end of March. This gallery is the last of a pair; owner Catroina Fraser opened a Georgetown location in 1995 and closed it in 2005, following the opening of the Bethesda location in 2002. more ›

>> Jessika Tarr and Helen Glazer will discuss their work -- Monstrous and Clouds InFormation, respectively -- tonight at Hillyer Art Space. The work by both artists is surreal and dream-like. Tarr's illustrations are similar to those of German storybooks: dark and provocative, yet seemingly innocent in its imagery. Glazer's clouds examine the illusion of stability and ever-changing reality. 7 to 8 p.m. $5 - $10 donation suggested. more ›

>> Closing this Saturday is "Debt" at the Curator's Office. An exhibition about artistic debt, specifically the indebtedness felt by Andy Moon Wilson to Simon Gouverneur after he was introduced to Gouverneur's work in 2006. As a compulsive drawer, Wilson's goal is to cause visceral reactions to his visually complicated, textile-like works. Can you handle it? Word is there's also PBR and Prosecco in it for you. 5:30 to 7 p.m. more ›

You may have seen some guys around town sporting giant silver, uh, tube things on their backs and had no idea what was going on. Well, tonight is your chance to find out what they're all about. George Mason University's School of Art is presenting an exhibition titled "Expeditions in Usonia" by the Floating Lab Collective (FLC). more ›

>> Hamiltonian Gallery presents the work of two Hamiltonian Fellows in a duo-show, Bound, opening on Saturday. Examining the limits of their medium, Katherine Mann and Selin Balci create vivid abstractions depicting growth within the confines of their materials. Mann's oversized works on paper are jam-packed with sequins, paint and ink, reflecting high-decorated elements found in systems of nature, and lead to a study of the sometimes conflicting intersection between growth and overabundance. Balci's laboratory-like approach creates more controlled micro-environments that incorporate biological materials derived from traditional laboratory processes, such as a bacterial culture in a petri dish, to convey a network of biological exchanges very similar to the boundaries of our own social systems. Opening reception Saturday, from 7 to 9 p.m. Mark your calendars for an artist talk on Thursday, January 27 at 7 p.m. Free. more ›

>> Today, Blank Space SE is hosting its first open house since it was created back in October. The new permanent creative pop-up space will be open until 7 p.m. tonight with a special performance by Urban Artistry, a non-profit collective of dancers, artists, historians, musicians, folklorists and documentary filmmakers on a mission to preserve and continue the practice of urban dance, music and arts culture, beginning at 5. A special, one-day only photo exhibition by Critical Exposure, a non-profit organization founded in 2004 which teaches youth to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change, will also be on display. more ›

It might be cold enough to freeze your toes (and other more sensitive appendages) off, but that shouldn't stop you from getting out there and seeing some art this week. more ›

>> Take a trip to South Africa at The George Washington University's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and relive all the FIFA World Cup action you watched on TV. Three former G.W. students documented their travels this summer (as DCist did) through Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and captured their own perspective on the largest soccer game in the world from the view of the first African country to ever host the tournament. See why South Africa Kicks starting today through December 17. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. more ›

Much of Adam De Boer's work, including his new series of paintings in Finca -- on display at Flashpoint through November 13 -- is filled with young people: some listening to iPods, others wearing those ubiquitous thick-rimmed glasses, all looking as pensive and as self-aware as we ourselves hope we are. They're visually of our time, yet they remain compellingly timeless, their postures and determined expressions faintly classical, despite the contemporary iconography. This otherworldly duality isn't unique to De Boer. In fact, it's often central in modern interpretations of figurative and narrative art. But his take is invitingly unassuming. more ›

Fotoweek DC, the international photography festival, kicks off its third year this weekend. The event corrals photography lovers into exhibits, lectures and workshops all over town. This year they've moved their headquarters to the more central Corcoran Gallery of Art; they're still using their former Georgetown HQ, 3333 M Street NW, but now as the oxymoronically named Satellite Central, each with its own exhibits and programming. more ›

What does America look like in the twenty-first century? One stark answer is suggested by Noelle Tan's The America Project: Utopia at Civilian Art Projects. more ›

>> Critical Exposure presents their third annual silent auction and fundraiser Picture Equality 2010, of which DCist is a proud media sponsor. The event raises money to support youth empowerment programs to stir social change and school reform through photography. Help out some kids and add to your own collection while you're at it -- professional photographers from National Geographic, Getty Images and more have donated photographs for sale. Get your tickets for Thursday night's event here. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. more ›

Miles Davis said that Louis Armstrong anticipated everything in jazz, "even modern [stuff]." The photographs featured in TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 at the Phillips Collection might seem like photographic Dixieland to twenty-first century eyes. But this old-fashioned band of photographers anticipated much of modern photography -- by some accounts, even the Hipstamatic. more ›

>> On Saturday, all you bastards better head down to the Marie Reed Learning Center in Adams Morgan and mingle with the best of indie craft. For the seventh year running, Crafty Bastards, presented by the City Paper, returns to bring all the handmade goodness -- like all your favorite Etsy shops coming to one convenient location -- and you even get to meet the bastards who make it all, including Jay McCarroll (Project Runway's first-ever winner). Arrive early, bring lots of spending money (but pay your rent, first) and friends to help carry all your purchases and stick around awhile -- learn a new skill in Demo Square, the Hello Craft Make Something Awesome Area. Take advantage of the free bicycle valet courtesy of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association. Don't forget about the ever-popular B-Boy Battle! Returning to the Performance Pit for the sixth year, these skilled and witty breakdancers compete for crowd support and bragging rights. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. more ›

>> Start your weekend early with some Asian Pop Rock at the Freer and Sackler Galleries with Asia After Dark. While no actual Pop Rocks are involved, as far as I know, you can still enjoy music from DJ Yellow Fever while creating your own self-portrait avatar using a retro photo booth and giving a short video interview to the crew from The Pink Line Project. A cash bar will offer drinks and food from area restaurants. 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance or $20 at the door; one free drink included. more ›