Art Calendar
March
MOMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave.
718-784-2084
“Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970–1980”
On view April 15 through Sept. 3
MoMA PS1 presents the US premiere of photographer
Gauri Gill’s most recent body of work, Acts of
Appearance, a series of vivid color photographs for
which the artist worked closely with members of an
Adivasi community in Jawhar district, Maharashtra,
India. Gill’s collaborator-subjects are renowned for
their papier-mâché objects, including traditional
sacred masks. In these pictures they engage in
everyday village activities while wearing new masks,
made expressly for this body of work, which depict
living beings with the physical characteristics of
humans, animals, or valued objects.
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Photos courtesy of Gauri Gill and Nature Morte
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
36-01 35th Ave.
718-777-6888
“The New Genres: Video in the Internet Age”
On view from April 14 through Sept. 2
“The New Genres” presents a survey of the most significant, influential,
and representational of these videos, including the vlog, a direct-to-camera
diary in dialogue with the audience; Let’s Play, a narrated video
game playthrough; unboxing, the unwrapping of a consumer product
or object; and ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response),
created to produce a tingling sensation on viewers’ skin. Like all
genres, they are sculpted by repetition, each iteration working inside
the possibilities of its technology and in dialogue with its audience as a
collection of generic conventions take shape. These new genres, which
have crystallized over the course of the last two decades, speak to the
wide possibility of the micro-audience, the internet’s capacity for rapid
feedback, and humankind’s vast diversity of taste.
NOGUCHI MUSEUM
9-01 33rd Rd.
718-204-7088
“The New Genres: Video in the Internet Age”
On view through Jan. 27, 2019
“Sculpture by Other Means” will occupy the Museum’s second-floor
galleries. It includes several installations that allow visitors
to experience ways that Isamu Noguchi’s Akari—a modular
ecosystem of lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns—can create
and transform space. Noguchi’s electrified paper, bamboo, and
metal Akari light sculptures have quietly become among the
most ubiquitous sculptures on Earth. Their origins lie in 1951
when, on a trip to a still devastated post-war Japan, Noguchi
was asked by the mayor of the small town of Gifu City to help
revitalize the local lantern industry by creating a modern lamp
for export using the traditional washi paper (made by hand from
the inner bark of the mulberry tree) and bamboo.
