A new show looks at the work and music of D.C.’s visual artists in the late 70s and early 80s,

It’s not over yet folks: April is about to culminate with the biggest art weekend in recent memory. Artomatic and ColorField.remix continue to bring us a healthy helping of visual and performance art, and now we get one big, fat cherry of an art fair to top it all off this weekend, sprinkled with about a billion other shows placed to coincide with it, including one at a particular venue that deserves your attention. >>…

The new gallery season celebrations continue tomorrow, with openings galore. If you can’t make the parties at night, take a Saturday afternoon stroll and check out the shows that opened last week. Friday >> Lycra’s not just for undergarments anymore — now it’s art! Visit Project 4 and see how Alex Gutierrez turns ass-molding spandex into a site-specific installation that is “a sort of ‘bodyscape’ architecture … that is both prison-like and protective.” Who doesn’t…