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Closing Friday, April 17: We all know how your Wonkette feels about a certain New Yorker luminary, but one bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch. The Austrian Embassy is, for just a few more days, showing paintings and self-portraits by famous New Yorker cartoonist Peter Steiner. Free. [Embassy of Austria
Wednesday, March 25: As part of the Francophonie 2009 cultural festival, the Ripley Center will be playing a movie about a French-Canadian family in the ’70s, Histoire de Famille. Oh, goodie, can’t wait. [Francophonie]
Christopher Sims’ photographs of Guantanamo Bay are devoid of soldiers and prisoners. Rather, he captures objects and scenes of their everyday life: a Koran hangs from a fence, a drying Christmas tree is pushed to the corner of a room, an electronic menu board flashes the lunch specials.
The newest exhibit at the Hirschhorn (opening today!) is a retrospective of 97-year-old sculptor Louise Bourgeois. With a career spanning back to the 1940s and more than 100 sculptures in this exhibit alone, there’s a lot to know about Bourgeois. The Hirschhorn is giving two lectures to help out!
