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CHARLES WHITE AND HIS CIRCLE

This is the closing weekend for TRUTH & BEAUTY—CHARLES WHITE AND HIS CIRCLE, an exhibition of works by the great draftsman and his friends and colleagues, reflecting White’s working life in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles—the host cities of his concurrent retrospective.

Among White’s circle and included in the show are Romare Bearden, Betye SaarRoy DeCarava, Philip Evergood, Robert Gwathmey, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Norman Lewis, Ben ShahnJohn Biggers, Eldzier Cortor, Kerry James Marshall, and Hale Woodruff.

TRUTH & BEAUTY—CHARLES WHITE AND HIS CIRCLE

Through Saturday, November 10.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 100 Eleventh Avenue (at 19th Street), New York City.

 

CHARLES WHITE—A RETROSPECTIVE

Through January 13.

Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

The retrospective will be on view in Los Angeles in early 2019, along with two coincident exhibitions: LIFE MODEL—CHARLES WHITE AND HIS STUDENTS at LACMA’s satellite gallery at Charles White Elementary School—formerly Otis Art Institute, where the artist taught for many years—and a show at CAAM.

CHARLES WHITE—A RETROSPECTIVE

February 17 through June 9.

LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top:

Charles WhiteJ’Accuse! No.5, 1966, Wolff crayon and charcoal on paper.

Betye SaarThe Mystic Window #1, 1965, assemblage with etchings, graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper in antique window frame.

Romare BeardenFlights and Fantasy, 1970, mixed media collage of various papers and synthetic polymer paint on Masonite.

Charles WhiteUntitled, 1945, tempera and graphite on illustration board.

Charles WhiteJuba #2, 1965, Wolff crayon and oil wash on illustration board.

Image credit: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.

 

MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS

“I don’t know of any playwright more intuitive, more reliant on taking stuff from the unconscious, and letting that create form.” — Edward Albee on María Irene Fornés

Playwright, director, and educator María Irene Fornés will be celebrated this month with the screening of Michelle Memran’s documentary THE REST I MAKE UP at the Museum of Modern Art, and a twelve-hour marathon of readings from Fornés’ plays at the Public Theater.

“Writing plays is not a way of earning a living but earning a life… Learning how to become intimate with your own imagination is more important than finishing a piece.” — María Irene Fornés

Fornés—one of the most influential writing teachers of contemporary theater, and an advocate of an oblique approach to the blank page—prepared her students by immersing them in voice and movement workshops. She was, in the words of playwright Brooke Berman, a former assistant, “someone who had spent her whole life devoted to capturing the truth of a moment in theatrical space.”

THE REST I MAKE UP features extensive footage of Fornés in Greenwich Village and Havana and Miami—dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease—as well as interviews with friends, family, ex-lovers, and colleagues—Ellen Stewart, John Guare, Constance Congdon, Migdalia Cruz and many more.

“Her work has no precedents, it isn’t derived from anything. She’s the most original of us all.” — Lanford Wilson on Fornés

 

MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS—

THE REST I MAKE UP

Thursday, Saturday, and Tuesday,

August 23, 25, and 28, at 7 pm.

Friday, Monday, and Wednesday,

August 24, 27, and 29, at 4:30 pm.

Sunday, August 26, at 1:30 pm.

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

 

MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS MARATHON

Monday, August 27, from noon to midnight.

Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street, New York City.

María Irene Fornés died in October 2018.

Top: Mary Jo Pearson and John O’Keefe in Mud, by María Irene Fornés, at Theater for the New City in 1983.

Above: Scene from The Danube, by Fornés, at American Place Theater in 1984. Stage photographs by Anne Militello.

Below: Fornés (left) with “the love of my life” Susan Sontag.

TARSILA DO AMARAL

Organized by MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago, TARSILA DO AMARAL—INVENTING MODERN ART IN BRAZIL features over 130 artworks by this foundational figure of Latin American modern art.

 

TARSILA DO AMARAL—INVENTING MODERN ART IN BRAZIL, through June 3.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

moma.org/exhibition

From top:

Tarsila do Amaral, circa 1925.

Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporu, 1928.

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Abaporu

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN — KINETIC PAINTING

“Schneemann’s pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history have had significant influence on subsequent generations of artists.”*

The retrospective CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN—KINETIC PAINTING brings together six decades of work by this key figure of New York’s twentieth-century avant-garde.

 

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN—KINETIC PAINTING*

Through March 11.

MOMA P.S.1

22—25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens.

Above: Carolee SchneemannMeat Joy, 1964. Image credit: MoMA PS1.

Below: Carolee Schneemann, Nude on Tracks, 1962–1977. Image credit: P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.

ERIC MARCIANO AT MOMA

Eric Marciano’s feature THE AGE OF INSECTS—and the shorts SPIN CYCLE and NARROWCAST—will screen at MoMA this weekend as part of the show CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983.

The director will introduce the films, which were made during a transitional period when, per Marciano, “film married video and had a baby called digital.”*

 

ERIC MARCIANO—THE AGE OF INSECTS, SPIN CYCLE, NARROWCAST, Saturday, February 3, at 4 pm.

TITUS 2 THEATER, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

moma.org/calendar/events

americanmontage.com/age-insects

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Eric Marciano, The Age of Insects (1990), from top: Jack Ramey; Marciano directing Dallas Munroe. Images courtesy Eric Marciano.

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