The typically well-researched production addresses fascism by way of Italian Futurism.

One in a string of arts institutions to pack up and leave the Penn Quarter area.

Don’t miss the Sackler Gallery’s upcoming events and panels, this months’s Dupont-Kalorama arts walk, and more.

This measuredly apolitical show is a well-acted meditation on the (definitively political) nature of accidental shootings.

Much of Adam De Boer‘s work, including his new series of paintings in Finca — on display at Flashpoint through November 13 — is filled with young people: some listening to iPods, others wearing those ubiquitous thick-rimmed glasses, all looking as pensive and as self-aware as we ourselves hope we are. They’re visually of our time, yet they remain compellingly timeless, their postures and determined expressions faintly classical, despite the contemporary iconography. This otherworldly duality isn’t unique to De Boer. In fact, it’s often central in modern interpretations of figurative and narrative art. But his take is invitingly unassuming.

They served Pabst Blue Ribbon at the opening of Patrick McDonough‘s new installation reck room at Flashpoint. The unintentional reference to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, whose unforgettable character Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) proudly favored PBR to Heineken, is appropriate. Just as that film examined the dark side of suburban America, reck room finds something strange beneath a comforting artifice.

Until the arrival of Giotto di Bondone, artists were esteemed in the way that we now appreciate a good carpenter or a skilled tailor. That is, they were held in high regard as craftsmen, but their names were not part of the cultural conversation. Giotto’s rise to prominence as a Renaissance painter changed all that, and his emergence marks a new chapter in the history of art: the era of the great artist (things have not been quite the same since).

Photo of Jeffry Cudlin by Josh Cogan, courtesy of Flashpoint Gallery >> Jeffrey Cudlin’s tongue-in-cheek By Request opens at Flashpoint on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Cudlin surveyed seven of D.C.’s best-known patrons — including Martin Irvine, Henry Thaggert and Philippa Hughes — to find out their artistic preferences, and then selected seven area artists (Cory Oberndorfer, Trevor Young, and Jason Horowitz among them) to create work according to the survey results. Here’s…

Big thanks to the nearly 70 people who made it out last night for Emerge Exposed, our panel discussion for the DCist Exposed Photography Show. Brian Knight Photography took this wide angle shot as people filtered in to Flashpoint’s Mead Theater Lab to take their seats (and also gave his own live-tweet of the discussion, cut and pasted to his Flickr caption). You can see our four panelists waiting to share their knowledge about…

As you know, you can see the DCist Exposed Photography Show at Flashpoint anytime from Tuesday through Saturday, 12 to 6 p.m. through March 7, but we have one more big event associated with it. Last year we asked the Pink Line Project to hold a panel discussion during the exhibition, to talk to people about how and why one should buy art, particularly photography. The event sold out quickly and was packed with…