The Agenda’s a little late this week, and we’re awfully sorry to leave you hangin’. We’ve been expanding our regular visual arts coverage (hope you noticed), but in so doing got behind on our long-standing duties. Luckily, there’s a slew of events this weekend to point out, so hopefully you’ll forgive our tardiness and not throw any drinks in our faces when we see you at openings over the next few days. White wine may not stain clothes, but we’d rather not reek of the stuff anymore than we already do. People will talk.

The place to be tonight is at video artist (but not in a Knox Harrington sort of way) Hiraki Sawa’s Meet the Artist talk at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Sawa’s the man behind the videos being shown in Hirshhorn’s lower level these days (a still from Dwelling is at left), all of which were produced in his student flat in London. My favorite is probably Migration, which opens with tiny human figures cut across the floors and window sills, and are joined by horses, elephants, a pig, and a variety of other animals to create a sort of meditation on the physical impermanence of the modern world. Sawa’s talk should be a sure winner for anyone who’s a fan of making art with what you’ve got right in front of you. At 7 p.m. in the Ring Auditorium.

Openings: Two new shows at Hemphill FineArts open this Saturday: Private Property, an exhibition of large scale photographs by Anne Rowland, and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corrine May Botz, which concerns a collection of crime scene models built during the 1940s and ’50s as a training device for detectives. Opening reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Through April 22.

An opening reception for Nathan Manuel: Flocks & Flowers is planned for Friday, March 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Flashpoint. The work is a site-specific installation that explores the experience of Christians with each other and with other cultures and religions throughout the world. Through April 1.