It’s that time of the year again, when people make resolutions they do not plan on keeping. Join DCist in resolving to see more art in 2007, but let’s mean it. You could get started this week.
>> Studio Gallery will have an invitational show featuring artists from the greater D.C. metropolitan area (January 3 to 28). This will include Suzanne Quinlan, whose work is shown at right. Open Wednesdays to Sundays, 2108 R St. NW, with a reception this Friday, Jan. 5, 6 to 8 p.m.
>> Parallel to that show is a Sculpture Invitational at Gallery 10 (January 3 to 31). Open Wednesdays to Saturdays, 1519 Connecticut Ave. NW. If you want extra points on your DCist Arts Agenda scorecard, you could go reception hopping Friday night and stop in here, too (Jan. 5, 6 to 8 p.m.).
>> There’s an opening reception at up-and-coming Shaw gallery Project 4, for their latest show of work by Tim Pittman and Gregory McClellan called There’s No Time for This. We think we can make time. Reception Friday, Jan. 5 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., exhibtion runs through Jan. 27.
>> Kick off the Kennedy Center’s Shakespeare in Washington festival, which will eventually involve just about every cultural organization in the city, with two films being screened at the National Gallery of Art: Laurence Olivier’s portrayal of Othello, with Maggie Smith as Desdemona and Derek Jacóbi as Cassio (Jan. 5 at noon; Jan. 6 at 12:30 p.m.) and Orson Welles’ version of the same play (Jan. 5 at 3 p.m.; Jan. 6 at 3:30 p.m.). These free screenings take place in the East Building Auditorium (Constitution Ave. and 4th St. NW).
>> Thursday night is the first Artful Evening of 2007 at the Phillips Collection (Jan. 4, 6 and 7 p.m.). There will be presentations on “Kandinsky and Modernism in Eastern Europe,” in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, which closes on Jan. 21. Several artists from Eastern Europe first became known in the United States through the Société Anonyme.
>> The National Museum of Women in the Arts joins with Arlington Public Schools this week for Art, Books, and Creativity (Jan. 2 to 27), a new exhibit of artists’ books made by 4th grade students. This Saturday is the free Opening Reception (Jan. 6, 3 to 5 p.m.) at the Arlington Arts Center, where the exhibit is on display (3350 Wilson Blvd.).
>> This Saturday you could also get to know the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (545 7th St. SE), during their Open House (Jan. 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). They offer classes in photography, music, dance, theater, visual arts, and ceramics, for all ages.
>> This week is your last chance to see In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 at the Freer Gallery of Art (through January 7). In my review, I called this exhibit “a blockbuster, in a low-key way.” Also, it’s free.
>> The same goes for The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, an exhibit of recent sculpture at the Hirshhorn. It also closes on Jan. 7, and it is also free.
Image by Suzanne Quinlan, Statues, The Hermitage, archival giclee print.
