Find an art decathlon, photo negatives and a memorial for a local artist in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

This month's theater is chock full of ongoing productions from November, numerous holiday offerings and some choice openings. more ›

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

Explorations of complex relationships, elements of steampunk, and the influences of far-away lands invade this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

Contrasts, existentialism, gastronomy, money saving tips, money spending tips, and a bunch of crafty bastards, all in this week's Arts Agenda. more ›

This weekend officially marks the kick-off of the Fall arts season with more festivals, openings, and events any one person could possibly attend. Consider this a challenge - we double-dog dare you. more ›

District of Pi, opening today, brings St. Louis-style pizza and craft beer to Penn Quarter. 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 ›

Sculpture, French silent films, wandering paintings, bodypainting, and more coming up this weekend. more ›

This week's art roundup includes monkeys, symbolism, boobs, interaction, a celebration and a fight. more ›

If you're not able to find an appealing art event this week, well, you're just not trying very hard. We've even made it easy for you -- our Arts Agenda has all the week's highlights after the jump. more ›

This week's art events are all about interactive exhibitions, celebration of cultural collective unity, and, of course, alcohol and cupcakes. more ›

>> Will D.C. soon be joining the ranks of fine art festival go-to locations like Miami and New York? The inaugural (e)merge art fair has been officially scheduled for September 22-25 at the Capitol Skyline Hotel. Behind the event, "a new vetted art fair that internationalizes the current groundswell of creative activity in DC," is Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith, of Conner Contemporary, and Helen Allen, former creator and Executive Director of PULSE Art Fairs. They'll be working with, among others, the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts to create events during the fair. (e)merge is accepting applications from galleries, non-profits and unrepresented artists through May 2. more ›

Hey, D.C., what's the hottest collection of photography by Washington area photographers ever put together in 114 glossy pages? The DCist Exposed Magazine, of course! This collection of nearly 200 photographs spans the entire history of the DCist Exposed Photography Show, including this year's winners. And, you, too, can get your sticky little hands on a copy. Order online or risk a sell-out at the show – your online order also gets you a digital version. While you're at it, reserve your ticket for the opening (in just two short weeks) to ensure your entry and cut the line.

Now with that out of the way: the first Friday of the month is upcoming, and we've got a busy schedule, so let's get started. 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's grand opening at Big Chair Coffee n' Grill might be the most highly anticipated new business event in River East in years. Dozens of curious customers dropped by the soft opening on Saturday to check the place out. There wasn't a whole lot to see yet: No sign, no food. But before Big Chair even opened its doors, it was already building a scene. more ›

At 11:30 a.m. this morning, the Black Rooster Pub will reopen its doors at 1919 L Street NW. The pub had been closed for several weeks after the building's landlord declined to renew its lease, but a combination of online petitions and intervention from local politicos ultimately helped save the business. more ›

This week the Washington Post published an article featuring three local pastry chefs creating recipes around exotic fruits. The article was a nod to the recent change that allows the legal importation from Thailand of rambutan, litchis, longans, new varieties of mangoes, and the "queen of fruits", the mangosteen. Many of these fruits were available fresh in Asian markets, but were often smuggled from Canada. The fruits will begin trickling in seasonally from Thailand, and initially be sold in gourmet markets such as Dean & Deluca, Balducci's, and Wegman's. more ›