Museum Exhibitions
“Nam June Paik: Global Visionary,” opening at the
American Art Museum December 13, pays tribute to the Korean-American multimedia artist, credited as the
originator of the video-art genre. Paik who died in 2006, created “Electronic Superhighway,”
the TV-and-neon-light installation in the museum’s third-floor gallery. Through August
11.
Lincoln Schatz interviews 89 of Washington’s most powerful residents for “The Network,” a single,
constantly recalibrating video portrait of people like Michael Kaiser, Ted Leonsis,
Grover Norquist, Karl Rove, Nancy Pelosi, and Mera Rubell. The work is unveiled at
the
National Portrait Gallery December 11.
It’s the last chance to see
Sandra Cinto’s “One Day, After the Rain,” the immersive, delicately beautiful ink and acrylic drawings of waves and water currently
hanging in the
Phillips Collection’s cafe. On display through December 30.
Gallery Shows
December 6 through January 20,
Artisphere’s Terrace Gallery plays home to
“W3FI: A Digital Experience Revealing the Connections Between Our Online and Offline
Selves.”
The large-scale, immersive digital installation projects information gathered from
visitors in real time.
Through December 16 at the
Katzen Arts Center, see
“Inside the Underworld: Beetle Magic,” an exhibition of 72 fused-glass creepy-crawlies by Joan Danziger invading the Katzen’s
space.
Opening at
the Fridge December 1 is
“Taxi Gang’s Exclamation Point,” a solo show by owner and director Alex Goldstein. The exhibition features stencil
and spray-paint works inspired by city streets. Through December 30.
Studio Gallery has two shows running this month:
Andrew Acquadro’s “Mindscapes” and
Suzanne Goldberg’s “Meditation on the Rocks.” Acquadro paints bold, exotic images inspired by foreign cultures; Goldberg exposer
the links between nature and human emotion. Through December 22.
At
Hillyer Art Space in December:
“Accumulations” by
Erika Kim Milenkovich, a show looking at how
movement creates almost everything in modern
life.
Through January 5,
Heiner Contemporary presents
“Housebound,” an exhibition of work by six female artists:
Rachel Farbiarz,
Bella Foster,
Allison Gildersleeve,
Allison Reimus,
Ann Toebbe, and
Augusta Wood.
Events
December 1 is meet-the-artist day in Anacostia.
Michael B. Platt talks about his current exhibition at
Honfleur Gallery, and
Caroline Mayorga discuses her photography show at
Vivid Solutions.
December 3 at the
National Portrait Gallery, artist
Ronald Sherr unveils his new portrait of Colin Powell and discusses his process in a “Gallery360”
talk.
December 6, the
Corcoran and the Danish Embassy co-present a
“Creative Christmas” exhibition at the embassy from 3 to 5 PM.
The
Corcoran’s annual
Off the Walls fine art sale returns December 6 through 8.
December 7 through 9 is the
Sugarloaf Crafts Festival in Chantilly.
December 15 at
Artisphere, buy work from local indie designers at the
Grump fair in what sounds to us like a
real-life manifestation of
Etsy.
