>> Your major opening this weekend is brought to you by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The nearly 120 piece Saul Steinberg retrospective, Illuminations, features the artist’s witty and deeply observant take on world events throughout his 60 year history with The New Yorker, as well as the many other sculpture, painting, and various artworks that get a little meta in their parsing of creative methods. DCist is going to check out the show this…

Editor’s Note: We promise, there is more to the D.C. arts scene than just photography, but its just that there’s a lot out there photography-wise at the current time. J.T. Kirkland of Thinking About Art reviews another photography exhibit. Check out his recent photography reviews of Barbara Probst and Prescott Moore Lassman. Of the books in this DCist’s personal collection, only a small fraction of them have actually been read. Though we have every intention…

The city was in bloom this weekend. Near this DCist’s apartment, we spied a number of tourists blocking the Connecticut Avenue sidewalk near Woodley Road to snap photos of the giant bed of tulips on the embankment of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. From cherry blossoms the previous weekend to now tulips … what’s next weekend’s flower of choice? Over on Euclid Street, were this photo from DCist Photos was snapped, even the weeds and…

(Review from DCist contributor J.T. Kirkland of Thinking About Art) For as long as there have been magic tricks, magicians have worked very hard to keep the secrets of their trade, well, secret. Part of the allure of magic is that the viewer always asks, “How’d he do that?” We never question a magic trick before it takes place. That just doesn’t make sense. As soon as we’ve been fooled, however, we naturally want to…