MONDAY >> The Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theatre in the James Madison Building kicks off 5 weeks worth of free Monday night rock and pop films with a rare showing of the 1966 documentary, The Big T.N.T. Show. David “Man from Uncle” McCallum hosts Ray Charles, Petula Clark, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Bo Diddley, Joan Baez, the Ronettes, Roger Miller, the Byrds, Donovan, the Seeds, the Modern Folk Quartet, and Ike and Tina Turner taped…

Written by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith. Tucked away in an upstairs corner at the Phillips Collection, two remarkable little watercolors, barely bigger than postcards, depict early experimentations into abstraction, decades before abstract art would really take hold in Europe. Washes of color dance across the page of Arthur Melville’s Dancers at the Moulin Rouge (at right), but the forms do not so much as hint at the shape of actual dancers. Instead, the bursts of…

This week in music, love is in the air and reality TV invades the District. MONDAY >> Kick off your week with the GZA and the RZA as the Wu Tang Clan works the 9:30 Club tonight, Shaolin style. If you weren’t able to get tickets to the earlier sold out show, a second later set has been added as part of the ODB Tribute Tour for $50 a ticket. First show — 7 p.m….

Boy meets courtesan. Families disapprove. Tuberculosis gets in the way. The tale may border on predictable. But Neil Bartlett’s Camille, making its American debut at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, in the tradition of the many adaptions which came before it, proves that it’s not always about a complex plot, if you know how to tell a story right. The play is based on the allegedly-autobiographical novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, (son of that…

Plays by women; plays about women. The fairer sex captures the imagination of many D.C. theaters this September, offering works by celebrated female authors and performing plays that focus on female characters. And if that’s not your thing, well, there’s always Kafka. Two area theaters present works by Caryl Churchill — Studio Theatre performing A Number beginning Sept. 7, and Fountainhead Theatre staging Top Girls, which opens Sept. 8. The former show explores ethical issues…

The visual arts scene around D.C. this week includes lots of new gallery and museum exhibits — keep reading for our picks. >> On Saturday, the long-awaited, 48th Annual Corcoran Biennial opens to the public. Curated by Jonathan Binstock and Stacey Schmidt, the Biennial (for the first time in years) includes several area artists as well as several international art stars. Look for the work of D.C. area artists Colby Caldwell, James Huckenpahler and Jeff…