Arts Agenda: New & Last Chance Exhibits
>> Transformer Gallery opened a new exhibition recently. "E2: Carving a Path" showcases the work of Djakarta, Ginger Farnham, and Nathan Manuel, 2nd year participants of The Exercises for Emerging Artists, a peer critique and mentorship program at Transformer.
>> "Current Evince: Selected Prints by William T. Wiley from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" also opened recently, at the Corcoran. The exhibit features 40 prints from a collection donated to the SAAM in 2003. The donation reflects the California-based artist’s long relationship with the museum and its curators. Since the SAAM is closed for renovations, the Corcoran is displaying the quirky works.
>> The next installment of Art Night on the Mall, featuring late museum hours and special performances, continues this Thursday. Highlights include a concert by Afro-Rican Ensemble -- an Afro-Latin-bebop band -- and a talk on synaesthesia at the Hirshhorn. The Freer/Sackler will also offer a performance of Sufi fusion music. While you're at the Sackler, see "Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation" before it closes this Sunday.
>> “Pilgrimage: Photographs by Steve McCurry” closes at Meridian International Center this Sunday. 50 photographs from India, Nepal, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Burma are included in the show. (You can read DCist's review of the exhibition here.)
>> If the Meridian show is of interest to you, be sure to also see "Surving Darfur" before it closes at the National Geographic Explorers Hall this Sunday. The exhibit -- presented in conjunction with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees' World Refugee Day -- documents the lives of the refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan.
>> "Ten," an exhibit of new prints and large scale drawings by Y. David Chung at Flashpoint closes this Saturday. In the work on view, Chung explores the iconography of historical Korean symbols of immortality.