Image on Kodachrome film from The American Tourist in Europe on display at the National Geographic Museum >> Saturday night, head over to the vacant lot at 1st and K Streets SE to see over 20 artists perform some live street art for Breaking Wave: Mural Jam. Presented by the Capital Riverfront BID and Artomatic, they’ll also have music, food and drink from 5 to 11 p.m. This event has been postponed.
>> Tonight the Hirshhorn features Kristen Hileman, Hirshhorn associate curator of contemporary art, and Blake Gopnik, chief art critic at The Washington Post, in conversation. They’ll discuss their views and interpretations of this year’s Venice Biennale. Free, 7 p.m.
>> Saddened by Kodak’s retirement of the popular Kodachrome film? The National Geographic Museum recently (and unrelatedly, actually) dug through their archives to feature Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe. See it during their regular hours.
>> Hey look, D.C. got its very own version of a hippie commune. Check out the District Playground this Saturday for Dream It, Do It, See It, Be It where, in addition to displaying art from their community of artists, you can enjoy music, drinks, food from their grill, and a “stone labyrinth.” The non-profit encourages you to share your art with them and wants people “to reach beyond the ordinary [and] find in themselves new realms of physical, mental, and spiritual strength.” Free, 3 p.m.
>> Civilian Art Projects opens two new shows on Friday night. Everything Must Go features Ryan Hill’s conceptual work that translates digital media from Google, Flickr, and YouTube onto paper. In the second gallery, a group show asks what it means to be living in a world that constantly requires an Upgrade. 7 to 9 p.m. Downstairs from Civilian, Touchstone opens Seven Takes, featuring work by each of their new represented artists. 6 to 8:30 p.m.
>> The Bethesda Art Walk is every second Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. If nine floors and a thousand artists were too much for you, visit the Fraser Gallery to see the ten artists they picked as the Best of Artomatic. Over at Gallery Neptune, find three artists’ very different styles of abstract painting.
>> Remember summer Saturdays at the Corcoran are free, so head over to see the last day of Maya Lin’s exhibit Systematic Landscapes, along with the new William Eggleston retrospective.
>> The National Building Museum has been opening a series of exhibits to celebrate The Year of the Photograph. This Saturday, head down to see Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager, whose large-format black-and-white images capture a wide range of architecture.
