ArtRx NYC
This week, a liberated Regina Rex, queer classical nudes, Mr. Turner at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, a retrospective of Xavier Le Roy, and much more.
This week, a liberated Regina Rex, queer classical nudes, Mr. Turner at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, a retrospective of Xavier Le Roy, and much more.
Trioceros
When: Through Sunday, December 21
Where: Regina Rex (221 Madison Street, Chinatown, Manhattan)
A group exhibition of photos and video by Sascha Braunig, Judy Chicago, and Benny Merris, this is part of the new (it’s hard to get used to) Manhattan-based Regina Rex gallery. “Liberated from traditional forms, this work conjures the magic of shamanistic rituals, hallucinatory catharsis, and chameleonic body shifting.”
Chris Verene: Home Movies
When: Opens Friday, November 28, 5:30–8pm
Where: Postmasters Gallery (54 Franklin Street, Tribeca, Manhattan)
Home Movies consists of footage artist Chris Verene shot of his family and friends throughout the city of Galesburg, Illinois. Filmed in a variety of formats, Verene follows the lives of the city’s residents as they grapple with the aftereffects of the 2008 recession. Verne’s subjects include his cousin Libby, whose farm was foreclosed, and Amber, a friend and former methamphetamine addict raising three young children. As stated in the show’s press release:
Verene worked his way from cellphone to an amateur DSLR camera, and eventually used sound equipment. In recent months he finally began to watch the videos and edit them into “Home Movies,” short documentary video-novellas.
A Drawing Show
When: Ends Saturday, November 29
Where: Matthew Marks Gallery (526 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)
A Drawing Show features 36 works on paper spanning a period of 75 years. The exhibition’s dizzying array of artists includes Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Anne Truitt, Betty Tompkins (whose “kiss paintings” are currently on view at 55 Gansevoort), Ken Price, and Gladys Nilsson (the subject of a recent essay by John Yau for Hyperallergic Weekend). You’d be hard pressed not to find something you’d like. See it before it closes.
Queer Classical Nudes
When: Until January 4, but open November 28–30 during Thanksgiving weekend
Where: Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (26 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan)
Curated by Jonathan David Katz, Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History explores the centrality of the classical nude over centuries of art. The exhibition looks at how classical imagery has acted as an important part of same-sex representation. With a variety of works and medium (including some museum loans), the show makes the case that queer desire has always always been intertwined with the classical ideal. The influence of classical imagery is still felt in contemporary gay and lesbian or queer culture.
Sari Dienes, Addie Herder, and Stella Snead
When: Through Saturday, December 20
Where: Pavel Zoubok Gallery (531 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan)
The Pavel Zoubok Gallery is showing the work of “three fiercely independent” (i.e., critically overlooked) artists: Sari Dienes, Addie Herder, and Stella Snead (Dienes, renowned for her street “rubbings,” is probably the best known of the three). Their careers intersected at the legendary Sherwood Studios, a pioneering “headquarters of art,” and all three were closely associated with Surrealism. Judging from the works on the gallery’s website, this triumvirate installation should be absolutely fascinating.
Mr. Turner
When: Sunday, November 30, 3pm ($25)
Where: Museum of the Moving Image (36–01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This Sunday, director Mike Leigh will be in attendance for a preview screening of his latest film, Mr. Turner (2014), a dramatization of the last 25 years of J.M.W Turner’s life. Though the artist was made a royal academician, the British public was deeply divided on Turner’s achievements as an artist. The prevailing art historical narrative is that Turner was well ahead of his time, a romantic precursor to the Impressionists. The Hyperallergic team hasn’t seen the film yet, but we love the trailer, especially the scenes of critics tutting and gasping at the academy hang.
Hockey and More at Brooklyn Night Bazaar
When: Friday, November 28, doors open at 7pm
Where: Brooklyn Night Bazaar (165 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn)
Friday night is a lot of fun at Brooklyn’s Night Bazaar, and this week there will be performances by Hockey, Born Cages, EVVY, and Napoleon. An event fashioned after the traditional Asian night markets, this version is half hipster night mall and half nightclub with all the artisan food, cool T-shirts, and other trappings you’d expect at such a locale.
Xavier Le Roy Retrospective
When: Ends Monday, December 1
Where: MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens)
For the inaugural US museum survey of French artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy, a team of performers will continuously recycle and transform Le Roy’s past solo works. From the museum:
Le Roy brings his past works to life by consolidating and reimagining them into a new whole. In the process the exhibition unfolds across several different time axes that introduce temporal complexity to the galleries: the period during which Le Roy conceived the referenced solo works (1994–2010), the duration of the individual gallery visits, the performers’ daily labor time, and lastly the transformation and development the exhibition undergoes over the course of its two month run.
