Artists living and working in Washington’s few remaining warehouse art spaces are a dying breed, but the stalwarts still there will open their studios to the public Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The NoMA Arts Coalition (for North of Massachusetts Avenue) is an artists’ collective in four buildings on Sixth streets NE and NW and Massachusetts and Florida avenues. Artists such as Stuart Gosswein and Betsy Damos meet with visitors, explain their work and sell art directly to customers without the usual gallery fee — all to live music and with delicious food served. In past years, the event has drawn hundreds of visitors. NoMA district open studios at 57 N St., 411 New York Ave., 443 I St. and 52 O St., all NW, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free. Contact Micheline Frank, 202/332-1599 and Betsy Damos, 202/543-7499.
—Joanna Shaw-Eagle
The American Film Institute Silver Theatre will revive three of the famous Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers of the 1950s over the next few weeks. The chronology begins in reverse Friday with North by Northwest, an enormously popular attraction in a banner year for Hollywood, 1959. Revivals of Rear Window and Vertigo follow on May 14 and June 4, respectively. Each film will be shown for a week.
Gavin Lambert, the esteemed editor of the British film periodical Sight and Sound during the 1950s, moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and became one of the more knowledgeable chroniclers of the movie colony. The author of a new biography about Natalie Wood, he will appear at the AFI Silver this weekend to comment on revivals of four of her films: Rebel Without a Cause and Splendor in the Grass on Saturday; Tomorrow Is Forever and Inside Daisy Clover on Sunday. Mr. Lambert wrote the screenplay for “Daisy Clover,” derived from his own novel.
The AFI Silver is at 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $8.50 for the general public, $7.50 for AFI members, students and seniors (65 and over). 301/495-6700.
— Gary Arnold
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