>> Get Avant-Garde Tonight: This evening the Phillips Collection hosts a special Artful Evening, with programming oriented around the museum’s latest exhibit, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. Swiss pianist Gilles Vonsattel will give a recital of modernist music from the period, there will be presentations on Dada artist Marcel Duchamp, co-founder of the Société Anonyme (6 and 7 p.m.), and at 6:30 p.m. there will be a special screening of four experimental short films by artists in the 1920s: Man Ray’s Emak-Bakia (1926), Fernand Léger’s Ballet mécanique (1924), Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler’s Manhatta (1921), and Réné Clair and Francis Picabia’s Entr’Acte (1924). See their Web site for ticket prices. (Charles Downey)

>> A Little Bit Country: The Fraser Gallery opens a new show this weekend for D.C. based photographer Maxwell MacKenzie. Sky Light follows the same vein of Christenberry’s simple photographs that focus not on the building in the image, but on the unseen people who crafted it and live their lives there. MacKenzie’s panorama’s (pictured) are a tour of farmhouses across the Midwest (and a few from Europe thrown in for good measure). Although this writer has a special place in her heart the Ventura Pier, I’ll wait to see the show in person to decide if these photos are the random inclusion they seem to be next to the stark black and white countrysides. Opening reception Friday from 6 to 9 p.m.