If you love maps and a fine liquor, why not merge the two with a new D.C.-themed 11-ounce glass etched with a map of the city?

Do you find yourself bored by staid architecture around Washington, D.C.? If so, you’ll probably love the new renderings for two high-profile developments in the West End.

Images, clockwise from top left: Mark Newport, Batman 2, 2005; Mary Van Cline, Cycles of Relationship of Time, 2000; Christyl Boger, Waterwings, 2007; SunKoo Yuh, Can You Hear Me?, 2007 Courtesy Renwick Gallery. Opening today, the Renwick Gallery presents Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009 which brings together four artists who explore the narrative in their medium of choice. Ceramic artist Christyl Boger, fiber artist Mark Newport, glass artist Mary Van Cline and ceramic…

Trace #1197 By Etsuko Ichikawa. Courtesy of Randall Scott Gallery From the traditional to the more experimental, artists have used many different things to make marks on paper, and visual artist Etsuko Ichikawa tends toward the experimental. In Trace, now at Randall Scott Gallery, Ichikawa showcases her smokey, abstract drawings that were created with hot molten glass. Ichikawa’s work is consistent as each piece is an abstract pattern made from the glass on paper….

The Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass exhibition at the Renwick Gallery is on display now through January 11, 2009. The Renwick is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily (except December 25). Produced by DCist contributor Meredith Bragg…

Mandara, Image courtesy of Lino Tagliapietra, Inc. Photo by Russell Johnson October at the Museums brings much photographic portraiture with a dash of holiday activity at the end of the month. Get your calendar out now so you don’t miss a thing. >> Opening October 3, Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass is the first exhibition to thoroughly examine the art of Lino Tagliapietra, a master of glass blowing. Explore 140…