>> The holiday gift season is officially here, which means we're going to start seeing a little more emphasis on the latter half of "arts and crafts" around the city, when the search for the perfect present for Aunt Sallie ends with you standing in front of a pile of handmade tea kettle cozies. You might want to start with the high quality stuff, and get to the Washington Craft Show this weekend at the......

The big news this week came on Tuesday, as the Washington Project for the Arts announced it was officially splitting from the Corcoran Gallery of Art at the end of 2007. The success of the partnership has boosted the WPA to a place where they can function solo once more, and are currently setting up shop in Dupont Circle. The Post has an excellent summary of WPA\C's history. >> The Arlington Arts Center is our......

Curator J. T. Kirkland couldn’t have landed a better location for his new exhibit, Supple, on display upstairs at the Warehouse Gallery. Sometimes a state of surprised desperation can work in one’s favor. As we noted last week, he originally planned to have the show at relatively unknown The Space at 9th and N Sts. NW. While he initially deemed the owners “extremely generous,” The Space cancelled on Kirkland just short five days before the......

It's not over yet folks: April is about to culminate with the biggest art weekend in recent memory. Artomatic and ColorField.remix continue to bring us a healthy helping of visual and performance art, and now we get one big, fat cherry of an art fair to top it all off this weekend, sprinkled with about a billion other shows placed to coincide with it, including one at a particular venue that deserves your attention. >>......

Imagine a well-renowned D.C. glass artist, a gallery-experienced (and ColorField.remix contributor) abstract painter, and at least seven people we already know are pretty talented photographers putting their work next to mermaids made out of garage sale rejects and Tic Tac sculptures, and you'll start to get the essence of Artomatic. This chaotic jumble of an art fair where "Fire" gets its own category has infamously drawn ire from some of the city's fine art critics......

Though it might give you flashbacks to the days you sat around squishing clay through your Play-Doh extruder, Laurel Lukaszewski's new show at Project 4 is anything but childish. Titled Kuroi Shiroi (black/white), her installation is comprised of eighteen sculptures, most of which were assembled onsite with regard to the size and shape of the gallery, giving the exhibit a unique and spontaneous vibe. She uses black stoneware and white porcelain, and separates the sculptures......

It's going to be a beautiful weekend, folks. Don't spend it inside watching some lame soccer game (yeah, I said it). Get some sun, some exercise, and - better than that - get some art this Saturday. Go ahead, grab your roommate, your sweetie-pie, or hey, subvert the Hallmark Establishment by bonding with Dad on your own time, and set off on an art walk to our local galleries. A number of shows are closing......