As the District’s central library, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library serves as the city’s official information repository. Within its three stories, users can explore D.C.’s history in the Washingtoniana room, check out a variety of contemporary fiction titles, and, for the next month, interact with 11 different works of art, installed at the library as part of its celebration of Banned Books Week. As part of “UNCENSORED: Information Antics,” the artists present work that responds, in some way, to the capture and dissemination of information. Some, like Billy Friebele’s “Ultrasonic Reflector” (pictured), a music-making robot that makes different sounds based on how near or far you are from it, appear fun and whimsical, while other projects appear more somber. Nate Larson and Marnie Shendelman’s image series, “Geolocation,” is fueled by publicly supplied information (in this case the geographic location tags attached to tweets); the pair then went to those locations and photographed them. Guests can see the work at the exhibition’s opening celebration on Sept. 25, when area bartenders will serve cocktails inspired by famous banned books, or wander through the installations at their leisure throughout October. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Thursdays 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., to Oct. 25, at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. (202) 727-0321. dclibrary.org/mlk.
“UNCENSORED: Information Antics” at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Friday, Sept. 25
