Al Farrow will accompany Shepard Fairey tomorrow night in a discussion on political art at the Corcoran. Mausoleum II (front view), is made of bullets, artillery shells and steel, and will be shown alongside the work of Fairey and Paul D. Miller in Regime Change Starts at Home. Image courtesy Irvine Contemporary. Phew, it's a busy week for artlovers. If you dig political art, graphic design, or street art, head to cloud nine, and......

D.C.’s big art news arrived yesterday, when Artomatic announced the dates and location for their semi-annual massive and all-inclusive art exhibit. If you want to help organize the event, join them for an All Hands Meeting this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Plaza 1 building, located at 1st and M Streets NE. Artomatic is not until May 9, however, so get your art fix this week with the exhibits and events highlighted below.......

The 2008 DCist Exposed Photography Show has been quite a ride this year. We started with nearly 600 fantastic entries, giving our judges the tough job of picking only 47 winning images. We watched people line up down the street to get into our packed opening reception. The folks at Civilian Art Projects have watched a constant stream of visitors come into the gallery during their regular opening hours. Wednesday night we teamed with......

We hope you RSVP'd early to tonight's Emerge Exposed panel, because it's gonna be a packed house. Philippa Hughes and the Pink Line Project, in conjunction with Civilian Art Projects, have set up a fantastic line up for the panel discussion tonight, starting promptly at 7 p.m. Our four panelists will discuss the ins-and-outs of becoming an art collector and what you really need to know to make that first purchase. Our first panelist is......

On Saturday morning, we gave you a little DCist Exposed post-reception wrap-up, featuring pictures of the packed gallery and the line down the street; today, we have even more awesome footage. Last week, our Food and Drink Editor, Eddie Kim, posed the idea of making a time-lapsed video of the opening reception. So our own Eric Petersen brought in his camera equipment and set it up high on the gallery partition (did any of......

We're left with only a few short hours until the second annual DCist Exposed Photography Show opens to the public. Yesterday a few of us went to Civilian Art Projects to hang the 47 winning entries, and were blown away seeing them all professionally framed and on a gallery wall. We're so used to seeing the talents of our photography contributors on our monitors while surfing the Flickr pool, it's almost hard to believe how......

Currently in its 23rd year, the 2008 Corcoran print portfolio show brings a wide range of talent and interpretation on the theme You Won't Believe your Eyes to the walls at Civilian Art Projects (soon to be host of DCist Exposed.) What started as a portfolio exchange to give Corcoran's students a professional experience has grown into a highly competitive program involving current students, faculty, alumna and visiting artists. Participants in the project create a......

We know you all have March 7 circled in red on your calendar for the opening reception of DCist Exposed, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Civilian Art Projects. But get out your red pen again, because we want you to add another date: Wednesday, March 13 12. Last year, we were not only thrilled to see how many people showed up to view the exhibit of these emerging talents, but also how many people......

As we suspected, it was a near impossible job deciding which photos were the best of the best from the lot of contenders you threw our way. Over 250 people entered the 2008 DCist Exposed contest and gave us 601 original images from which to choose. We mulled and pondered and tore our hair out a little bit, but please follow the jump (if you haven't already) to find 47 incredible photos that we......

Okay folks, this is your very last reminder to get your photos into the DCist Exposed pool before it closes for good at midnight this Sunday. Over 180 applications and 300 photos have been entered so far, and a brief look through the pool tells us we'll have some tough judging on our hands next week. Unless we get tripped up trying to narrow this field down to just 45 photos, we'll be announcing......

Flickr user m hoek has taken a series of pictures that seem perfect to celebrate this unusually warm week in January. The unique light flare is the fun result of using a Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim, a plastic toy camera that some have called the "poor man's Lomo." The point and shoot can often be found very cheap and is a testament to the belief you don't need to spend thousands of dollars......

The Air Force Memorial has a certain architectural elegance that makes it almost hard not to photograph well, but some certainly stand far above the others, and we especially like Flickr user mosely.brian's crisp version here. Did you miss our announcement on Wednesday? The DCist Exposed Photography Show contest is open and accepting entries for our 2008 exhibition. Not only might you get to show your original work on a real gallery wall at......

Last year we were blown away by how many folks participated in our very first DCist Exposed Photography Show. What we hoped would be a fun event for our faithful photography contributors turned into a full-blown gallery event packed to the gills with supporters. Many of the selected 2007 photographers -- most of whom had never even framed their work prior to the show -- have continued to sell their prints and some even......

FRIDAY: >> The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception offers its annual Christmas Concert for Charity tonight. The Basilica's professional choir (featuring our very own DCist Charles!) will perform, followed by the choirs and orchestra of Catholic University. Admission is free, with a free-will donation to benefit the Spanish Catholic Center, a haven for immigrants to the Washington, D.C., area since 1967. The center provides services at locations in Mount Pleasant and......