Moving Perspectives: Yeondoo Jung

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Nov. 21
This exhibition features two new video works, including a multi-screen installation in which anonymous strangers are filmed recalling moments in their lives. As stories of past loves, youthful ambitions, hardship and lifelong secrets are shared, a team of stagehands reconstructs the settings for these memories. Jung’s videos suggest that reality, filtered through nostalgia and the passage of time, exists somewhere between truth and imagination.

 

Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Nov 30
This exhibition is inspired by the lavish cinematic tableaux associated with Peter Greenaway and responds to the endless appetites of pre-economic crash consumerism. It is a film that brings a part dream, part morality tale scenario to life. The themes continue to resonate during this time of global struggle to regain economic equilibrium. In 2008, the 12-minute film was awarded Best Short Film in Cannes.

 

Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan

Freer Gallery of Art
Dec 19
In 1600 Japan, a heightened fascination with the design and uses of ceramics launched an era of extraordinarily diverse ceramic production. The island of Kyushu was the center for this efflorescence, which included stoneware coated in muted glazes and porcelain ornamented with cobalt blue or multicolored enamels. Hundreds of kilns produced vessels for the domestic market (with a focus on utensils for dining and for the tea ceremony) and for export to Europe and Southeast Asia. This exhibition illuminates the engaging variety of local styles of glazing and decoration invented by Kyushu potters over three centuries.

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