Art Rx

Congratulations, my dears! You survived Armory Week (and so did we). Now it’s time to get back into a more regular arting routine. As always, the doctor has your prescription.

This week, there are a lot of exciting opportunities to see critics and writers, with talks by both Martha Schwendener and Holland Cotter on the bill. But the most exciting might be a discussion with Calvin Tomkins on the occasion of his new book, which features previously unpublished interviews with Marcel Duchamp. If you want to see and be seen at openings, we’ve got a couple all over the map, from midtown Manhattan to a new space in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn — and another one with free poundcake (47 of them)! Don’t miss a panel discussion about Eva Hesse either, or a Yiddish theater production that features farm life, an arranged marriage … and body snatching.

 Afternoons with Marcel Duchamp

When: Tuesday, March 12, 7 pm
Where: 192 Books (192 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan)

New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins will talk about his new book, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews, with artist Paul Chan, whose press has published it. The volume features Tomkins’s previously unpublished interviews with Duchamp from 1964, illuminating the artist as friend, mentor, and creative force. —AW

 After the Museum

When: Opens Tuesday, March 12
Where: Museum of Arts and Design (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

As we move further into the 21st century, designers have begun to question the protocol of museums. Radical practices and proposals have become a node for exploration and debate about the role of museums in representing the past, present, and future of design. After the Museum brings together members of New York’s design community to create a physical exhibition devoted to these issues, plus a bevy of related programs including a lecture series titled More Hacking and a grand game tournament at the museum this Friday night. —JDS

 47 Easy Poundcakes

When: Opens Wednesday, March 13, 7–9 pm
Where: BRIC Rotunda Gallery (33 Clinton Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn)

Certainly an interesting exhibition name, Forty-Seven Easy Poundcakes Like grandma Use to Make is a series of 47 digital drawings by artist Nyeema Morgan based on poundcake recipes. The recipes were gathered through Google search results and then sequentially edited into each other, resulting in a series of unique drawings that were each produced using exactly the same procedures. Furthermore, if you’re feeling a bit hungry, there will be 47 actual poundcakes served during the opening reception, all of them created from the recipes Nyeema Morgan used for her drawings and prepared by friends and volunteers of the BRIC community. (While you’re there, you can visit the opening for another BRIC exhibition, a group show called Cultural Fluency, on the same night.)  —KP

 Schwendener at Nurture Art

When: Wednesday, March 13, 7 pm
Where: Nurture Art Gallery (56 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn)

Art critic for the New York Times and the Village Voice and a veteran of the profession, Martha Schwendener is at the top of her game. Hear her speak about the art world and art journalism at Nurture Art’s monthy salon event, Muse Fuse, a meet and greet that allows emerging artists and curators to network and learn directly from accomplished professionals. —JDS

 Yiddish Theater

When: Special event Wednesday, March 13, 7 pm (FREE); regular shows March 7–30, times vary ($25)
Where: Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan)

The Target Margin Theater is coming to Abrons Arts Center with The (*) Inn, Peretz Hirschbein’s classic play on Yiddish life (commonly translated as The Haunted Inn). This benchmark of experimental Yiddish theater is best described by Target Margin’s press release: “You might be expecting the farm life, the chicken-plucking, and the arranged marriage, but not the S&M lust and the body-snatching wedding guests.” Sounds like fun, right? A special, free event on March 13 will feature readings from the original script in Yiddish and a discussion with David Mandelbaum, founder of the New Yiddish Repertory Theater. Regular shows run through March 30. —AW

 James Turrell’s Cosmos

When: Opens Thursday, March 14, 6–8 pm
Where: Pace Gallery (32 East 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan)

 Cotter at SVA

When: Thursday, March 14, 7 pm
Where: SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)

 Eva Hesse 1965

When: Saturday, March 16, 2 pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)

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With listings by Kyle Petreycik, JD Siazon, and Arianne Wack

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