![]() Meanwhile, for “Implicit Tensions,” associate curators Lauren Hinkson and Susan Thompson chose a selection of works from six other queer photographers - Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya - to create a kind of dialogue with the vast array of Mapplethorpe works that the artist’s foundation recently gifted to the museum and that were shown in part one of the exhibition earlier this year.Īlong the way I encountered a treasure trove of fascinating work, much of it by artists I’d never heard of - the best possible benefit of seeing group shows like this. For “Artistic License,” six artists who’ve had solo shows at the Guggenheim - Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems - got a free pass to run through the museum’s collection and choose as many works to display as would fill one floor of the building’s famous spiral. Nevertheless, I had a fantastic time with the other two shows, which both operate on the premise of asking contemporary artists to dialogue with a body of artwork. ![]() Aaargh! I took a deep breath and resolved to come back when it was likely to be less crowded. So I moseyed up the ramp, strolling through the major show in the rotunda - “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” - and ducking into the side gallery showing “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now.” When I got to level 4, I noticed a long line snaking down the ramp - turned out it was all people waiting to get in to the tiny gallery showing the Basquiat, and the wait time was an hour…by which time the museum would be closing. I was determined to see “Defacement: The Untold Story,” the exhibition of a rare Jean-Michel Basquiat painting and other artifacts from the time period (early 1980s), before it closes November 6. A big rich cultural week - Faure’s Requiem sung by the Dessoff Choirs for colored girls at the Public Theater smart/sexy singer-songwriter Dane Terry at Joe’s Pub “Howard’s End” on Netflix Bong Joon-Ho’s crazy, creepy Korean Almodoviarian “Parasite” in the movie theater John Cameron Mitchell’s amazing podcast/radio series “Anthem: Homunculus” on Luminary Ira Sachs’s Chekhovian drama Frankie, starring Isabelle Huppert and exquisitely shot on location in Sintra, Portugal David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway, all good stuff - wound up at the Guggenheim Museum on NYC Marathon Sunday. ![]()
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