Posted Arts Agenda to DCist
Image from the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit (c)Kate Baylor/National Geographic >> A major traveling exhibition hits D.C. this week: National Geographic hosts this leg of the Terra Cotta Warriors tour. Over 100 artifacts are on display from the 2000-year-old sculpted army that guarded China's First Emperor from any dangers as he entered the afterlife. The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through March 2010. Tickets are $12 (adult) and sold by date and 30 minute...
Posted Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week? to DCist
Photo by Pianoman75. No really, look up! Those are the Leonids streaking through the sky (they began on November 10). This meteor shower often gives one of the best shows of the year, on rare occasions being so spectacular that it surpasses being just a shower and becomes a "meteor storm," with over 1000 meteors per hour. We won't get quite that amazing a sight this year, but the debris from comet Tempel-Tuttle should...
Posted Arts Agenda to DCist
See work in "Pacguy" by Kenny George at Flashpoint on Thursday. We're still in the midst of FotoweekDC (visit their website for detailed listings of events, lectures and workshops), but there are also tons of other arts events going on this week. Here's a not-so-short and sweet calendar for you to plan your next few days of artiness. Wednesday: >> Well known local artist Jiha Moon opens her third solo show at Curator's Office....