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Presented by Theater J. At the Davis Performing Arts Center. Georgetown University 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC | 202-687-3838

The BMA's new black box gallery debuts with an 11-minute video set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. The 2008 film by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla depicts scenes of the lower Mississippi River Delta wetlands. Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD | 443-573-1700

If the words "crafting" and "decorative arts" conjure images of Grandma embroidering up a storm in her rocking chair, then the this exhibition is sure to change your impression. Art installation, fashion design, sculpture and even industrial design make up this showcase of artists born since 1972, the year the Renwick was founded. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

The BMA opens its new space dedicated to light-sensitive works on paper with 10 drawings from the 1960s and '70s by Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg and Antoni Tapies. Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD | 443-573-1700

The exhibit features eight color portrait photographs by the South African artist. Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD | 443-573-1700

Perez's architectural portraits of the Marina Towers in Chicago and the Watergate in Washington evoke modernism's futurist aspirations as well as the sadness of an always-impossible ideal. Corcoran Gallery of Art 500 17th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-639-1700

Surgical instruments, an elephant clock and the first camera obscura are among the artifacts collected in this traveling exhibition. National Geographic Museum 1145 17th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-857-7588

Center Stage 700 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD | 410-332-0033

The exhibit features objects excavated from several sites throughout the Arabian Peninsula, including alabaster bowls and fragile glassware, heavy gold earrings and Hellenistic bronze statues. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution 1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

Simon's detailed photographic archive of images and text reveals social changes driven by science, culture and chance. Corcoran Gallery of Art 500 17th St. NW, Washington, DC | 202-639-1700