It’s summer and our beloved Arts Editor is away this week, so the agenda is a little on the short side. Here are a few things to see.
>> We have written before about the Washington Project for the ArtsCorcoran’s Experimental Media project. Starting this week, WPAC is hosting a new show called SiteProjects DC. Curator Welmoed Laanstra has asked 15 local artists to create site-specific outdoor artwork, both installations and performances, through July 28, along U St. NW between P and V Sts. The artists were asked “to explore the issues of poverty, gentrification, community, and revitalization of the historic 14th street corridor.” The opening is scheduled for Friday night (June 15, 7 to 9 p.m.) at the Black Cat. That evening, at 8 p.m., Laanstra will lead a tour of the project sites, departing from the Black Cat.
>> Documentary filmmaker Patrick Cazals will introduce two recent films being screened at the National Gallery of Art this weekend (June 15 and 16, 12:30 p.m.). Irina Gedrovich’s Amateur Photographer, from 2004, is based on the diaries and photographs of a German soldier on the Eastern front. Sergei Loznitsa’s 2005 film Blockade is a compilation of Moscow silent archival footage of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, with reconstructed sound and no dialogue. Films are shown in the East Building auditorium (use the 4th St. entrance, just below Constitution Ave. NW).
>> Also on Friday (June 15, 5:30 p.m.), Smithsonian curator Jackie Serwer will lead an illustrated presentation and discussion on the Washington Color School, Washington Art Makes Its Mark: The Color School and Beyond with Jackie Serwer, in the McEvoy Auditorium, on the lower level of the Reynolds Center (8th and F St. NW).
Photo of the Black Cat by Eye Captain, from the DCist Flickr Pool
