Thursday:

>>We haven’t heard the details of what’s going on at Warehouse tonight, but you can stop by for the first evening of Freaky Art, in which “Artists Dana Ellyn and Russell U Richards set your funny bone for laughter and pain.” The last day of Exchange, Baltimore @ D.C. is this Saturday, so you get a two-fer. Warehouse is open tonight from 5 to 10 p.m.

Friday:

>>It’s Second Friday, so make your way to Bethesda for their monthly art walk from 6 to 9 p.m. Check out Gallery Neptune’s new show, with work by Elyse Harrison, the gallery’s owner. Her heavily jointed figures look like jilted dolls who have better things to do than wait around for you to study them. The Washington School of Photography opens their 4th Annual National Photography Show this night, so take a look and tell us who’s better: these fancy photos in a “gallery,” or our awesome Flickr photogs. (We already know the answer.)

>>It’s a big night at the Arlington Arts Center. From 6 to 9 p.m. you can attend not one, but two receptions for a whole basket-full of artists. Inside the gallery you’ll find six solo shows, including Trish Tillman’s installation with carnival toys that looks into the human nature in communication, and Suzi Fox’s intricately folded paper sculptures that explore kinetics and movement. Then head outside to see Insight Out, the inaugural exhibition for their Sculpture on the Grounds series, featuring works that blur the line between the natural and the artificial. The gallery is one short block from the Virginia Square Metro stop.