Joan Braderman: The Heretics

Award-winning video artist and writer Joan Braderman chronicles the feminist influence in art and life in her latest film, "The Heretics," an insider's look into the New York artists' collective that produced Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics in the mid-1970s. The film tracks the collective's response to the transformative social changes brought about by the civil rights movement and second-wave feminism.

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Sonic Circuits DC 2009: Welcome To Plugland

That D.C. produced musical innovators such as Duke Ellington and Bad Brains helps explain the city's growing global status as a leading laboratory of experimental music. Such a feat is due in no small part to the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, an annual celebration of outsider music and sonic rebellion, now in its ninth year.

AFI Latin American Film Festival 2009: Southern Views

Nothing spotlights the cultural complexities of our neighbors to the south quite like the AFI Latin American Film Festival. For two decades, the popular film series has treated local audiences to the best new cinematic offerings the region's silver screen has to offer.

Mary Timony: Come On Feel The Soft Power

Indie-rock songstress Mary Timony would be the first to tell you that Soft Power, her new band, is not her band per se. It's a D.C. foursome whose lyrical, psychedelic guitar rock is born of sonic synchronicity.

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Full Blast Trio: Heavy Swingers

Full Blast Trio, the Swiss-German improvisational grind unit featuring saxophone powerhouse Peter Brotzmann, wield a pile-driving skronk-rock sound mightier than that of most metal bands.

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Juana Molina: Dramatic Song Form

Argentine artist Juana Molina is a masterful creator of hypnotic, loop-infused pop music. Using both manual and mechanical means, Molina creates evolving patterns of wordless vocals and flowing guitar lines that interconnect and flower into dramatic song form.

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Linn Meyers / Richard Chartier: Here Today

Linn Meyers' new wall drawings unwind in epic proportion in "here today," her latest exhibition on display at the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park. Like her small-scale works, Meyers' new oversized efforts — including one created with local sound artist Richard Chartier — reveal Meyers' purposeful process to flattering effect.

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Anish Kapoor: S-Curve

The recently installed sculpture at the Sackler Gallery by acclaimed Indian-born artist Anish Kapoor, on display now through mid-July, has an awesome physical presence and reflective effect that forces an instant readjustment of the viewer to his or her environment.

Read: The Shape of Meaning: Anish Kapoor's S-Curve