Thursday: >>We haven’t heard the details of what’s going on at Warehouse tonight, but you can stop by for the first evening of Freaky Art, in which “Artists Dana Ellyn and Russell U Richards set your funny bone for laughter and pain.” The last day of Exchange, Baltimore @ D.C. is this Saturday, so you get a two-fer. Warehouse is open tonight from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday: >>It’s Second Friday, so make your way…

We’ve mentioned it before, but in case you missed it, Fusebox is closing its doors, and they have indeed announced a closing reception: It’s this Saturday, Feb. 11 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sarah and Patrick would like to invite everyone to come and drink a toast to five years of great art. Other gallery owners no doubt are also encouraged to attend and poach their now homeless roster of artists. See you all there….

>> With $14,000 in cash prizes, the inaugural Bethesda Painting Awards includes one of the top painting prizes in the nation. On Friday the winning artists will be announced by the three jurors during an opening reception (6-9 p.m.) for a show of work by the eight finalists, at Fraser Gallery Bethesda. The three jurors looked at the work of several hundred painters from the D.C., Maryland and Virginia before selecting eight painters as finalists….

Editor’s Note: As DCist continues to grow, we’re looking to revamp and expand our Arts coverage to better cover the varied local geography of the D.C. area’s artistic community. If you are interested in contributing to our Arts section — visual, fine, performing, et al — please e-mail Mike or swing by our happy hour this Friday. In the meantime, here is this week’s Arts Agenda, compiled by F. Lennox Campello of the Fraser Gallery…