FRIDAY:
>> DCist Exposed opening reception, OBVS. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., at Warehouse.
>> If you’re looking for more hip art happenings afterward, head over to the Hirshhorn After Hours party, which goes until midnight. It’s a celebration of the opening of Virgil Marti and Pae White’s new site-specific installation in the Hirshhorn lobby, which is the latest in the museum’s Directions series. Ian Svenonius is spinning and it looks like there’ll be a number of fun things to do, including a Lite-Brite station on the 2nd floor and an 11 p.m. Insomniac tour with curator Anne Ellegood of Light Works from the Collection. $12 at the door, $10 in advance, 8 p.m. to midnight.
SATURDAY:
>> Put on your dancing shoes for another night of INFAMY at 9:30 Club, with a live performance from Soft Complex, a DJ set by Will Eastman, and images projected by BrightestYoungThings. 11 p.m., $10.
>> In 2006, Uruguayan singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler won an Oscar for best song written for a movie (“Al Otro Lado del Rio” for The Motorcycle Diaries). Since then this pop-folkie has gotten divorced and covered a Radiohead song. Hear his melancholia at Lisner with Peruvian diva Tania Libertad. 8 p.m. $25 to $35.
>> When Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä leads the National Symphony Orchestra, it is an event not to be missed. For the latest visit by the greatly admired conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, get yourself to the Kennedy Center for the remaining performances of this week’s all-Finnish program, which also features violinist Leonidas Kavakos playing the Sibelius violin concerto. Full-time students may still be able to buy $10 tickets — for the Friday performance only — through the Attend! program. 8 p.m. (also Friday at 7 p.m., but you’ll be at DCist Exposed).
SUNDAY:
>> There are still a few $80 tickets still available for Sunday at the Washington D.C. International Wine and Food Festival at the Reagan Building. Is it worth it? Depends on how much of a foodie you are, but the Grand Tasting that day runs from 2 to 6 p.m., so theoretically you can eat and drink as much as you can for 4 hours. Probably not a totally terrible dollars to high quality calories ratio.
>> Kiefer Sutherland will be closing out the D.C. Independent Film Festival in person, with a q&a following a screening of his new film, I Trust You to Kill Me. It’s at 6 p.m., and it’ll cost $25 bucks for the privilege of locking eyes with torturtastic Jack Bauer and trying not to piss yourself.
Charles Downey and Steve Kiviat contributed to the Picks.
