Kahlil Joseph’s FLY PAPER—now on view at MOCA/PDC in West Hollywood—is a companion piece to ONE DAY AT A TIME—MANNY FARBER AND TERMITE ART downtown.
ONE DAY AT A TIME—KAHLIL JOSEPH’S FLY PAPER
Through February 24.
MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.
Kahlil Joseph, Fly Paper, 2017, featuring Ben Vereen. Images courtesy the artist and MOCA.
KAHLIL JOSEPH—SHADOW PLAY, Joseph’s first solo show in New York City, features the premiere of FLY PAPER (2017), a film installation that pays tribute to Roy DeCarava (1919–2009)—photographer of jazz and Harlem life—and “extends DeCarava’s virtuosity with chiaroscuro effects to the moving image and brings together a range of film and digital footage to contemplate the dimensions of past, present, and future in Harlem and New York City.”*
KAHLIL JOSEPH—SHADOW PLAY, through January 7.
NEW MUSEUM, 235 Bowery, New York City.
See Andrew Matson ‘s interview with New Museum assistant curator Natalie Bell in Mass Appeal:
Kahlil Joseph, Fly Paper (2017). Image credit: Kahlil Joseph and the New Museum.
Through the end of the 1950s, the bourgeois protagonists of Michelangelo Antonioni’s films actively engaged their surroundings and maintained some sense of control.
Everything changed in 1960. The surroundings became monolithic and oppressive, and the world took notice as the great modernist director—in a series of films featuring Monica Vitti—cast an excoriating eye on the moral rot and entropy in contemporary Italian society.
After L’Avventura (1960) and before L’Eclisse (1962), Antonioni conjoined a triangle of great European stars—Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, and Jeanne Moreau—for LA NOTTE (1961), dismissed by Pauline Kael as another “sick-soul-of-Europe” display, but praised by more thoughtful viewers as a feminist critique of capitalism.
Bring a sweater and a blanket for a night of LA NOTTE in The Underground Museum’s Purple Garden. This Film Foundation screening is part of a series—Purple Garden Cinema—curated by Kahlil Joseph.
LA NOTTE, Friday, September 15. Doors open at 8 pm. Free popcorn!!
THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM, 3508 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles.
theunderground-museum.org
See: benefitofthedoubt.miksimum.com/2010/10/searching-out-sick-soul-la-dolce-vita.html
From top: Jeanne Moreau (left) and Monica Vitti in La Notte; Vitti and Marcello Mastroianni; Vitti; La Notte opening title card; Mastroianni and Moreau, nightclub scene in La Notte. Image credits: Criterion.
“Colors, like scents, are a royal road from the outside world to our emotions.” — Peter Schjeldahl*
The Underground Museum—founded in Los Angeles in 2012 by artists Noah Davis and Karon Davis—is dedicated to the exhibition of museum-quality art, and serving as a cultural hub for low-to-moderate-income communities.
According to UM director Megan Steinman, the museum’s current show ARTISTS OF COLOR—the third UM show curated by Noah Davis before his death in 2015—explores “how color is perceived or deployed, and how that can shift over time or by culture.”** Artists represented in the show include Josef Albers, Lita Albuquerque, Michael Asher, Jo Baer, Jeremy Blake, Noah Davis, Dan Flavin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joe Goode, Carmen Herrera, E.J. Hill, Jim Hodges, Jennie C. Jones, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Imi Knoebel, Diana Thater, and Brenna Youngblood.
The museum has strong local partnerships with LAXART, MOCA, and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation. and future programming will be organized by Karon Davis (Noah’s wife), artist and director Kahlil Joseph (Noah’s brother), and MOCA chief curator Helen Molesworth.
All programs are provided free of charge.
ARTISTS OF COLOR, through February 4, 2018.
THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM, 3508 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles.
theunderground-museum.org/Artists-of-Color
A Friday night cinema series runs through October in the museum’s Purple Garden:
LA JETÉE (1962, directed by Chris Marker) and CRY OF JAZZ (1959, Ed Bland), Friday July 21, at 8 pm.
THE CHILDHOOD OF THE LEADER (2015, Brady Corbet), Friday, July 28, at 8 pm.
CITIZENFOUR (2014, Laura Poitras), Friday, August 4, at 8 pm.
PURPLE GARDEN CINEMA, THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM, 3508 West Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles.
*Peter Schjeldahl, “Going Pop: Warhol and His Influence,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2012, 94.
From top: Joe Goode, Purple, 1961–1962. Photograph by Brian Forrest. Image credit: Underground Museum, MOCA, and Joe Goode Studio.
Noah Davis, 2004 (1), 2008. Image credit: Collection of Lindsay Charlwood and Ryan McKenna, and the Underground Museum.
