16 -- "Incidents & Accidents/Hints & Allegories: David Douglas/Bill Dunlap/Erling Sjovold/Alison Weege," an exhibition focusing on landscapes, opens at the McLean Project for the Arts. Through Oct. 16.
17 -- "Lucy Hogg: Sliding Landscapes," a show of intensely colored "cover versions" of top hits in the canon of art history, opens at Strand on Volta. Through Oct. 30.

"The Apostle Paul," part of "Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits," opening in January at the National Gallery.
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17 -- Hugh Shurley, a show of digitally manipulated photographs, opens at Fraser Gallery in Georgetown. Through Oct. 13.
17 -- "Meanwhile (While You Were Sleeping)," new paintings by Lynn Putney, opens at the District of Columbia Arts Center. Through Oct. 3.
17 -- "Architecture Untethered," a group show of art based on fictional structures, opens at Numark Gallery. Through Oct. 30.
18 -- "Sub-TEXT," an exhibition of text-based art from San Antonio, opens at Transformer gallery. Through Oct. 16.
18 -- "Views of Chinese Art From the Indianapolis Museum of Art," works spanning 4,000 years of Chinese culture, opens at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Through March 20.
18 -- "James Huckenpahler: Places I've Never/Always Been," digital photography, opens at Fusebox. Through Oct. 30.
18 -- "Gene Davis/Color," works from the estate of the Washington abstractionist, opens at Marsha Mateyka Gallery. Through Oct. 30.
18 -- "Maggie Michael: Run," new work by this Washington-based abstractionist, inaugurates G Fine Art's new gallery near Logan Circle. Through Oct. 16.
21 -- The National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian's new 260,000-square-foot building on the Mall, opens with displays of items selected from the museum's 800,000 objects. The three inaugural exhibitions are titled "Our Lives," "Our Peoples" and "Our Universe."
21 -- "Brian Kain-Ledelle Moe-Tammra Sigler," a group show, opens at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore. Through Oct. 30.
21 -- "Native Modernism: George Morrison and Allan Houser," an inaugural exhibition on contemporary aboriginal art, opens at the National Museum of the American Indian.
22 -- "Anatolian Impressions: Artists' Prints From the Istanbul Studio of Master Teckan," presenting work by several well-known Turkish artists, opens at Meridian International Center. Through January.
25 -- Viggo Mortensen will be presenting large-scale color and black- and-white photographs at Addison/Ripley Fine Art. Through Oct. 23.
29 -- "Small Treasures: From Whistler to Bartlett," including works by Dan Flavin, William Kentridge and others, opens at Robert Brown Gallery. Through Nov. 27.
29 -- Bob Rogers, Rob Liberace and Jack Boul exhibit works at the Arts Club of Washington. Through Oct. 30.
OCTOBER
TBA -- Hemphill Fine Arts opens an inaugural group exhibition in its new Logan Circle exhibition space.
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O: Liquid Universe" a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring the role of water in our lives, opens at the American Visionary Art Museum. Through Sept. 5, 2005.
1 -- Matthew Lively, Andrew Campbell and Bridget Camden present sculptures and installations at Artspace. Through Oct. 31.
1 -- "A Garden of Shawls: The Buta and Its Seeds," an exhibition tracing the development of Kashmir's famous wraps, opens at the Textile Museum. Through March 6.
2 -- "Frank Gehry, Architect: Designs for Museums," a multimedia showcase of the architect's cultural projects, opens at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Through Feb. 21.