Ever been to the Washington Museum of Art? Of course, there isn’t one, but that’s likely to change tonight with the dedication of the City Hall Art Collection at the John A. Wilson Building. For the first time the District will have a permanent collection of art to show off the talent of our local artists. The exhibit features a broad swath of media and contemporary stylings, not to mention representation from every ward, with…

Transitional moments, rites of passage, metamorphoses … as many ways as there are to define liminality, that’s how many directions the artists went in DCAC’s exhibit, Space of Change, curated by Claire Huschle and Margaret Boozer, with help from Anne Surak. And with work ranging from superior to mediocre, the show is a slightly confused amalgam of pieces that might have been better served with either fewer artists or a theme that wasn’t so totally…

Clear your calendar because the gallery season opens with a bang this weekend. Ditch work early tomorrow, meet your cohorts for a quick drink (what, you don’t pre-game for gallery receptions?) and head to the closest art house at six sharp. Beer and wine abound at these showpiece sacella, so bring a date (or find one there!) and up your culture quotient a few notches. If you’ve never been to a gallery before, well, why…

>> New exhibits around the Dupont Circle area include an exhibit of recent work by Matthew Arnold, Knut Hybinette, Emily Noelle Lambert, and Jason Robert Bell at JET Artworks. The multi-media show features paintings by Arnold and Lambert, photographs by Hybinette, and “trashsures” by Bell (one of which, “Papa Petra,” is shown at right). >> Across town, Warehouse is now showing “SEVEN,” an exhibit curated by F. Lennox Campello of DCArtNews. Work by over 60…