>> What’s more fun than gathering your friends to go see your very own art on the wall of a gallery? The Wall Mountables community event kicks off this week, so we hope you’ve pulled that painting/photo/whatever out of the closet and prepared it for the limelight. The first installation date was last night, but you’ve still got tonight, 3 to 8 p.m., and tomorrow night, 3 to 6 p.m., to grab a space of your own. Read the official rules, then head down to DCAC in Adams Morgan with $15 and your work. The opening reception is Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.
>> Add some rhythm to your art this Sunday. Kuchipudi Kalanidhi performs their classic Indian dances in Rasa at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, Montgomery College, in Rockville at 7:30 p.m. Fluid, fast moving and emotive movements characterize the Kuchipudi style dance that will show you the Navarasa, or “nine emotions.” The U.S.-based group has been invited to perform in the popular Ananya Festival in New Delhi, and the proceeds from the tickets, which run $15, $25, and $50, will go to finance their trip abroad.
>> Project 4 Gallery won’t have you standing around looking at art with no soundtrack. This Friday stop by to hear the experimental, hypnotic music of Aphrodizia, with a touch of South American flair provided by a set by Lulacruza. While you’re there take in the hollow and surreal BUILDING, which our reviewer calls an “altogether successful collaboration of artists.” The event begins at 9 p.m. and is $10 at the door, with free beer and wine.
>> The Reynolds Center, which houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, has a couple of interesting events this week. Tonight at 5 p.m. you can hear the adorable tiny musicians from the Blues Alley Summer Jazz Camp show off their nascent talents out on the Portico Cafe. At 6 p.m., square it off with a lecture on the period frames hanging throughout the museums. Both events are free.
>> As usual, the Phillips Collection will hold its Artful Evening tonight, with a conversation about a couple of masters — El Greco and Picasso — and how their influence turned modern and expressionistic art to its current incarnation. Hear the lecture at 6 or 7 p.m., free with admission.
