Gabriel Grossman

Gabriel Grossman is a film programmer and writer based in Brooklyn.

Performance

A Political Opera With Big Ambitions Feels Off-Key

Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang's prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.

Performance

Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps

Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.