Art Calendar May Noguchi Museum 33-38 10th Street (718) 204-7088 “Isamu Noguchi: Functional Ceramics” On view through July 24 In honor of Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, which will include a display of more than 300 of Sachs’ handmade porcelain chawan (tea bowls), the Museum is showing a selection of Noguchi’s more “functional” ceramics: plates, bowls, trays, and other traditional forms—along with other pieces that play with the notion of use value. SCULPTURE CENTER 44-19 Purves Street 718-361-1750 “In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New” The title of this exhibition, taken directly from Freud’s lecture on dreams, is a sentence stopped midway. He completes the thought by stating that the creative process of the mind can only regroup elements from already existing sources—that any one creative fantasy is a work of translating what one knows of reality into an imaginary space. The exhibition, organized from proposals for new work submitted through SculptureCenter’s annual open call, borrows from the operation of the dream composite—what Freud termed “condensation”—to foreground practices that employ the means of combining and blending often contradictory elements into a collective image. The artists in the exhibition each propose fantastical places or narratives that are differentiated by distinct material approaches. MOVING IMAGE 35-01 35th Avenue 718-777-6888 On view May 21 through Oct. 9 “Arcade Classics: Video Games from the Collection” Arcade Classics features more than 40 video arcade games released between 1972 and 1993, drawn from the Museum’s collection. All of the games will be playable. Though the era of the video arcade game is long gone, arcade games were the grounds for innovation and experimentation that informed the genres, conventions, and play mechanics of the video games that we know today. Included will be the first video arcade game Computer Space (1971), Asteroids (1979), Space Invaders (1978), Ms. Pac-man (1981), Donkey Kong (1981), and many more. MOVING IMAGE 35-01 35th Avenue 718-777-6888 “Panorama Europe” On view through May 22 IFrom mind-bending genre experiments that reinvent the musical, sci-fi film, and horror movie, to gripping dramatic features and documentaries capturing the tenuous nature of modern life for a variety of wanderers and refugees, Panorama Europe 2016 is a vibrant selection of some of the finest and most riveting films coming out of Europe today. Filled with New York premieres, often with the filmmakers in person, this is a great opportunity to discover some of the most exciting new international filmmakers. The Wednesday Child courtesy of Museum of Moving Image
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