Jun 26, 2009  |  By: Amy Cavanaugh  | COMMENTS     

New show at Honfleur includes work by gay artists

“Reincorporation Jamboree,” a new show at the Honfleur Gallery, includes the work of two gay artists, Sean Johnson and Theodore Knox, and the curator, Steven Frost, is also gay.

The show features work by Kristina Bilonick (Washington), Ben Fino-Radin (Providence, R.I.), Hatnim Lee (Brooklyn), Johnson (Boston) and Knox (San Francisco); Frost selected the artists for their perspectives on rites of passage, like middle school dances, under employment, financing higher education and urban survival.

The show’s title is a reference to reclaiming these rites of passage, as “reincorporation” is an anthropological term that refers to rejoining society after being separated from it.

The exhibition includes photography, mixed media installation and interactive works.

“Reincorporation Jamboree,” runs through July 25, and a closing reception will be held on July 24 at 7 p.m. Honfleur is located at 1241 Good Hope Road, S.E., and hours are Tuesdays through Fridays noon to 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For more info, visit www.honfleurgallery.com.

CRACK show this weekend at Town

The guys behind CRACK, the gay performance group dubbed a “low budget mess of stage and screen” are at it again with a show this weekend at Town. “CRACK: SUBURBIA … There Goes the Neighborhood” features drag queen Summer Camp (Shea Van Horn) at home in the suburbs, with performances by co-founders Chris Farris and Karl Jones along with participants from Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York in videos, live music performances, drag, singing and dancing.

Town is located at 2009 8th St., N.W., and the show is Saturday at 10 p.m. Tickets are available at the door on the night of the show and are $8, which includes admission to Town after the show. For more info visit www.crackdc.com or email info@crackdc.com.

Margaret Boozer opens ‘Dirt Drawings’ this weekend

Margaret Boozer unveils a new show, “Dirt Drawings,” Saturday night at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Boozer, who is a lesbian, works with unfired local clay to create installations of graphic compositions of color, pattern and texture.

Boozer started making dirt drawings in the summer of 2006 after she found clay deposits at a construction site near her studio.

“On the side of a hill, the foundation cut revealed an enormous expanse of stratified colors: red, yellow, white, raspberry, and at least two different purples,” she wrote in her artist statement. “I began working with raw clays on the floor in my studio, crushing them with the earth tamper, raking patterns, sorting particle sizes, organizing compositions spontaneously with colors activating each other, textures enhancing one another.”

“Dirt Drawings” runs June 27 through Aug.16, and the opening reception is tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. For more info, call the museum at 202-885-1300 or visit www.margaretboozer.com.

‘Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?’

The National Theatre’s summer movie series, “Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? Films of a Hollywood Legend,” celebrates the work of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.

The 1944 film “National Velvet” screens on June 29. Taylor, who was 12 at the time, stars as an English girl who loves horses, and after winning a steed in a lottery, decides to enter him in the Grand National Steeplechase.

The rest of the summer’s lineup includes her Oscar winner “Butterfield 8” on July 13, “Giant” (with Rock Hudson and James Dean) on July 20, “A Place in the Sun” (with late gay actor Montgomery Clift) on July 27 and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (based on a play by gay playwright Edward Albee) on August 3. “Woolf” brought Taylor her second of three Oscars. The third was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award she won in the ’90s for her AIDS work.

The screenings, which are on Mondays at 6:30 p.m., are free but seating is first-come, first-served and tickets are distributed 30 minutes before the screening. Screenings take place in the Helen Hayes Gallery of the National Theatre, which is located at 1321 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. For more info, visit www.nationaltheatre.org or call 202-783-6854.