Weekend Art Roundup

Here's the weekend art roundup. Nothing new opened this week at the museums, but there are some coming up soon (Color as Field, American Painting 1950-1975 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The American Evolution, A History Through Art at the Corcoran), so I'll have previews on those for you here next week.

Friday:

• Lisa McCarty opens her first solo exhibition, AstralBodies (right), at the District of Columbia Arts Center, which is a nonprofit arts space dedicated to promoting the area's under-recognized artists. Opening reception is tonight from 7-9 p.m.


Saturday:

• Kerry Brougher, acting director of the Hirshhorn and co-curator of The Cinema Effect, speaks about the making of the two-part exhibition at 2 p.m.

• Akemi Maegawa opens Invisible, Inc. at Irvine Contemporary tonight from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition features the her sculptures and installation works in a range of media.

Sunday:

• The National Portrait Gallery screens Wild Style! a film by Charlie Ahearn. Wild Style! is a portrait of the early days of hip–hop in the New York boroughs. A conversation with Ahearn follows the screening. 2 p.m. Make sure to stop by the RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture show if you go.

Keep on your radar:

The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents David Berman onstage on February 28. Berman is from the band the Silver Jews, and is the subject of Jeremy Blake's Silver Fox digital portrait, which is part of Wild Choir, a show of three Blake works on display at the gallery. It runs through March 2, and really, I adore Blake, so I think you should go see it. Berman is onstage at 7 p.m. and tickets are $20.