This review was written by DCist contributor Adrian Parsons.

There’s a new Dada exhibit at the National Gallery this weekend with an awesome review. With Man Ray and Duchamp at the helm, there will no doubt be another child-crushing mob lining up to check out the show—go see it. Unfortunately, it’s passé. Where are the starving artists of WWI’s disillusion and dadaism? The new artist is the credit card debt imbued artist, and D.C.’s representatives bring The Relationship Show to reveal the mine-filled challenges of making art happen in the District.

As you approach transformer gallery, you’ll hear the show before you see it. Breck Brunson’s sound piece slows down pop R&B classic “Always and Forever” to a long moan at 1/10th its original speed, blasting outside on to plainly unnerved Whole Foods shoppers. It’s not just tongue-in-cheek, it’s a call, with the scared curiously stepping in to the gallery to discover why, what, and who.

2002 Corcoran graduates Nilay Lawson, Breck Brunson, and Solomon Sanchez have put together a tight show that explores the social and financial underdog status of artists. If you aren’t an artist, don’t let that stop you. Lawson’s painting “Spite Night” shows party goers reveling, drinkers spitting livers, smokers spitting lungs, and one lone mastubator viewed from a godlike video game perspective. Isolation and degradation compiled, Lawson is not conceding that the artist is the one underdog in the room, or the gallery.