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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...

Open your mouths and say ahhh for that appetizing pill that is seriously experimental art. Thanks to the folks at Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran, you can get your fill tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in Corcoran's Hammer Auditorium when they conclude their Experimental Media Series with Night #3. It’s difficult to exaggerate just how far from the canvas we have come, and somewhat serendipitous that WPA\C has chosen to present experimental media as...

Anyone who is at all familiar with the goings on in D.C. is well aware of the drastic changes taking place along 14th Street NW. To reflect and comment on this change, the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran is mounting SiteProjects DC, a collection of thirteen installations, performances, and projections examining the fluidity of the surrounding urban landscape. As can be expected from an exhibition of a diverse group of artists, the results are varied.

It's summer and our beloved Arts Editor is away this week, so the agenda is a little on the short side. Here are a few things to see. >> We have written before about the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran's Experimental Media project. Starting this week, WPA\C is hosting a new show called SiteProjects DC. Curator Welmoed Laanstra has asked 15 local artists to create site-specific outdoor artwork, both installations and performances, through July 28,...

Remember last week when we told you to mark your calendar for this evening? Force yourself away from the One Tree Hill season premiere and head down to the Corcoran Hammer Auditorium for Night 1 of the second Experimental Media Series. Presented by the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran, tonight promises Cowboys, Clichés, Codes, and Conspiracies.

If you're pouring one out for your boys at tonight's happy hour, give pause for Kim Ward. It's Ward's Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran that has set aside Georgetown's former Staples store for some face melting art exhibits in the past few months (that small Post Secret thing, for example).