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Happy Inauguration Week.



Many things are happening on Monday! Stussy is throwing a party for those of you have decided to forgo the ball option.

Tuesday, BYT has amassed a maniacal lineup of DC musical acts for their all-day Inauguration getbombedfest. Art of Junk, guys. ART OF JUNK. Randomly, Nappy Roots play DC9.

Wednesday! You will be so hungover at work. Drink as much water as you can, eat a lot of fruit, and take comfort in the fact that Lost premieres tonight! It will be you + jammies + Sawyer.

Thursday, the American Art Museum hosts a screening of short films from their collection. Beach Boys/Geto Boys looks really cool. Or: learn to fix a flat at City Bikes.

Jonathan Adler is having a sale! Anything you serve at your next dinner party (perhaps on Friday?) will look adorable on his peacock platter.

New Year, New You

Along with today's Get To It, reader, we have a surprise for you: a new banner! It's nuthin' fancy, but we are taking baby steps here at virtual Listopad in an effort to spice things up in 2009. (Insert "change we can believe in" jokes/puns/etc.) Enjoy!


Richard Colman, Two Other Eyes

Wednesday! Farrar, Straus and Giroux senior editor Lorin Stein leads a discussion of Roberto Bolano's 2666 at Politics and Prose. Or! A series from Art in the Twenty-First Century (the episode "Place") screens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Friday, you could go to Trinidad and Tobago Association and have your mind blown by Nadastrom. Or you could go to the Black Cat for the Prince vs. Madonna vs. Michael Jackson dance-off (or Party Lights, the free Backstage affair). Or you could fly to Sundance for the premiere of The September Issue. (Ok, this last one is not a local event - but raise your hand if you are waiting with some seriously bated breath to see this movie. That's what I thought.)

Saturday is your last chance to see "Aspect Ratio" before it closes at Irvine Contemporary. Do not sleep on this cool little show featuring the works of Listopad stalkees (and DC homegrowns) Iona Rozeal Brown and Richard Colman, among others.

Get To It (Halloween Edition!)

Two awesome (and free!) events tomorrow night: the famed High Heel Race in Dupont Circle and a talk at the Hirshhorn by artist Joseph Kosuth.

Wednesday, Breakfast at Tiffany's screens at the American Art Museum. Just in time to get inspiration for your Halloween costume!

Thursday, catch Rainer Simon's Till Eulenspiegel at the Goethe-Institut.

Friday and Saturday, head out to Bentonville, VA, for the Haunted Forest at Shenandoah State Park. Take a break from boozing and costumery to go hiking in the dark. Legit scary!

Get To Art

Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in Her Halloween Costume

Museum week! Some shows are closing, many are opening, and they all look good enough to eat.

Monday, catch Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury before it closes at the American Art Museum.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts gives me heart palpitations yet again with Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography, which opens on Friday. Mary Ellen Mark! Cindy Sherman! Nan Goldin! Oh my.

Regime Change Starts at Home, a group show featuring Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, and Paul D. Miller opens on Saturday at Irvine Contemporary.

Sunday brings yet another opening! Can you stand it? Yes. Beadazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry arrives at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.