Updated 10/9/17
Late last month, the Guggenheim museum withdrew three works involving animals from an upcoming Guggenheim show after protests outside the museum and threats of violence. The most controversial of the three is a video of a performance of Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other, 2003, by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, in which dogs were placed on non-motorized treadmills and encouraged to run toward each other. I first read about the controversy on Jerry Saltz’s Instagram feed, where the comments section was lively with denunciations of the Guggenheim for including the piece, even though Saltz’s post was about the Guggenheim being unable to defend the artwork, and not about the inappropriateness, or the cruelty, of the artwork itself.
Did the animals suffer actual physical or psychological harm from the artwork itself? You would have to ask the dogs, since none of them appear to be in pain or inordinately exhausted. Animal rights advocates have objected to the work based on their conviction that the animals involved had suffered during the filming of the artwork, but also, because the dogs had been trained to fight. Over 700,000 people signed an online petition asking the Guggenheim to “stand for” art “which does NOT include the promotion of cruelty against innocent beings.” The problem for the signatories appears to be the “promotion of cruelty,” i.e., the glamorization, the commodification, of what they perceive is a mere spectacle, which indicates a certain attitude about art, but also an accurate perception of what it means for something to be displayed in a museum: the price goes up, the artist becomes famous, etc. In recent months, the public has demanded that institutions respect almost daily updates to public morality; but museums have also been less cautious about public perceptions of their influence on the art market for at least the past decade.
A few days after Saltz’s post entered my feed, I found myself at MoMA, where I overheard a bunch of teenagers complaining about the museum. One giddily proclaimed, “a giant X just hanging on the wall is not ART!” (A Wade Guyton?) Another pointed at a small Ernst print and claimed she could have drawn it herself and “made a bunch of money.” “It’s just a bunch of lines,” she said. Their comments reminded me of similar comments claiming that Dogs was “not art.” Such statements were the most common complaint about the work online, and even the petition included mocking scare quotes around the word performance, as if it were not just a description of something that had been enacted but a dubious category. The phrase “this is not art” seems to be partly just a figure of speech, a judgment that something is not good, but it is also an incorrect statement posed by an uneducated person. If comments like these from inside the museum are any indication, museums are not doing a good job of education the public about art or their role as educational institutions and places of scholarship. One now wonders, is education even important to a museum like the Guggenheim? It is likely that the controversy, and the appearance of documentation of Dogs online, has done a better job of educating the public about the artwork, and the tradition of animal artworks in China, than the Guggenheim would have done. The flash mob that appeared online and later in front of the Guggenheim was, to me, a scary manifestation of ignorance about art and museums that museums have it in their own best interests to address.
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Art
Sanford Biggers’s Egypt 80, 2017, is a kind of key to another dimension.
I recommend…
- Jeff Geys, Some News From Balen, at Essex Street, LES. Unsold, bubble wrapped paintings displayed fresh as sculpture makes me not want to think too hard about the commentary, whatever it may be, but they look really good. Sensitive. They have been purposefully or accidentally daubed with dots of paint. There is also a series of diptychs, comprised of (a) framed herbarium pages and (b) unframed drawings—looking traced—of sex acts over brand lettering. The parts are separated in the gallery but sold together, one assumes. Ask for the free book. Through October 8
- Kara Walker: SIKKEMA JENKINS AND CO. IS COMPELLED TO PRESENT THE MOST ASTOUNDING AND IMPORTANT PAINTING SHOW OF THE FALL ART SHOW VIEWING SEASON!…at Sikkema Jenkins. I did not love this show, but a Walker show is always something to see. The walls are covered with large works depicting Walker’s idiosyncratic depictions of interracial violence, and it has all been done better before, by her. The best part, for me, was the press release. Through October 14
- Minimalism and Beyond, at Mnuchin, uptown. A really good show that includes a Cady Noland floor piece with doormats, Budweiser cans, etc.
- Sanford Biggers, Selah, at Marianne Boesky. The textile, and more particularly, the quilt, is used to indicate another dimension in a way that somehow moves past the incongruence of surface and depth. That is, this is another dimension, not simply a third or a pictorial dimension. It is not a dimension of space, but of meaning, suggested by space. In Egypt 80, 2017, what you see is a kind of key, a conspiracy theory of fabric, a theory that can be applied to the other works in the room. Through October 21.
- Robert Adams: Trees, at Matthew Marks. Pictures of trees, all of them good. Through October 21
- Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings, at David Zwirner. Do not miss.
- Mira Schendel, Sarrafos and Black and White Works, at Hauser & Wirth, uptown. Great show of abstract paintings with a sculptural aspect. In some, a ridge creates a surprising illusion of a painted line. Her smaller works on paper are remarkable for their ability to get maximum drama, balance, and emotion out of very few marks. I thought of Richard Serra’s drawings, which always struck me as concealing something, the mark spreading itself out. Schendel’s drawings reveal and resolve the paper they are on.
- Eliza Douglas / Anne Imhof, at Galerie Buhholz uptown, has some large, austere paintings by the two artists that feature the artists’ sigatures in black on white canvas. Paintings by each of the two artists are also on view, and my favorite were Anne Imhof’s reflective aluminum panels covered with glossy acrylic paint, completely flat, in which she has abstractly made a number of scratches. The marks are ambiguous—forceful, but unintentional; studied but random—in a way that is not simply a message but a condition.
- Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays, at Paul Kasmin. The Olitskis are spectacular. The gallery has a large skylight, and on a partly cloudy day, with sun coming and going, it’s like watching TV. The Caros are good too. Notice I did not write Olitski’s or Caro’s. This is because using an apostrophe would be incorrect. Through October 25.
- While you are on 27th St., check out The Enormity of the Possible, at Kasmin location on the north corner of 27th and 10th. Great paintings by Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Milton Avery, and others. There are also two almost shockingly bad early abstract landscapes by Pollock and Rothko, made before they found their respective styles. Through October 28
- Rosmarie Trockel, Plus Quam Perfekt, at Gladstone 64, uptown. A great show of new work by Trockel, very cold, funny, literally glossy (ceramic), reflective work that pushes your gaze back at you—it’s hard to really SEE these works, they seem charged with something, malevolence maybe.
- Josef and Anni and Ruth and Ray, at David Zwirner uptown, is a knockout show of art created during the artists’ years at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1940s. Stuff you’ve never seen. Through October 28
- David Salle, Ham and Cheese and Other Paintings, at Skarstedt uptown. See the show, go to E.A.T. to get a ham and cheese sandwich, and check out this article about David Salle’s new paintings on your phone.
- Arte Povera, Curated by Ingvild Goetz, at Hauser & Wirth. A historical survey of the movement over three floors at the old Dia space. Through October 28
- Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, at MoMA. Drawings, prints, collages, and several paintings ranging from silly to miraculous. Through January 1, 2018
Coming up…
- Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci, Curated by David Hammons, at MoMA, October 7 to January 1, 2018
- “Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination: A Conversation with Homi Bhabha, Alondra Nelson, Charles Taylor, and Glenn Lowry,” at MoMA, Tuesday, October 17, 6:30
- “Pope.L in Conversation with Christopher Y Lew,” at Whitney Museum, Thursday, October 19, 6:30-8:00
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Film
The 55th New York Film Festival at Film Society Lincoln Center (FSLC) runs through October 15, and the few screenings of each film, some of which are during the day while we are all at work, sell out quick (and have probably sold out by now). Thus, I have not bothered to put any of the screenings on the schedule. Nevertheless, the “main slate” always brings news of exciting films, some of which are not yet released, and most of which will probably end up on best of 2017 lists in December. We have a lot to look forward to, and these are just the directors I know:
- Last Flag Flying, Dir. Richard Linklater
- Wonderstruck, Dir. Tod Haynes
- Wonder Wheel, Dir. Woody Allen, a 1950s era drama with Kate Winslet, James Belushi, and Juno Temple
- BPM (Beats Per Minute)/120 battement par minute, Dir. Robin Campillo (Eastern Boys), about the French contingent of Act Up!
- Call Me by Your Name, Dir. Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love)
- Faces Places, Dir. Agnès Varda
- Lady Bird, Dir. Greta Gerwig, with Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf
- Let the Sunshine In, Dir. Clair Denis
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Dir. Noah Baumbach
- First Reformed, Dir. Paul Schrader, with Ethan Hawke
This being October, there are plenty of horror flicks to see, most notably the 35mm 3-D films at Quad, but also an extended version of Argento’s Suspiria at Sunshine, and Honda’s Mothra at Film Forum. See calendar for schedule.
Runs of New and Repertory Films
- Una, Dir. Benedict Andrews, starring Rooney Mara, at Sunshine through October 12
- Beach Rats, Dir. Eliza Hittman, at Sunshine through October 12
- Faces Places, Dir. Agnes Varda, at Quad Cinema through October 12
- Bobbi Jene, Dir. Elvira Lind, about an Israeli dancer, at Quad Cinema through October 12
- Night of the Living Dead, Dir. George Romero, at Film Forum, October 13-26
- 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe, at IFC starting October 13
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Dir. Noah Baumbach, on Netflix and at IFC starting October 13
- Wonderstruck, Dir. Todd Haynes, at Angelkia starting October 20
- BPM (Beats Per Minute)/120 battement par minute, Dir. Robin Campillo, screening at Metrograph 10/10; opens October 20 at Angelika
- Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), with Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, limited release October 20
- The Square, Dir. Ruben Östlund, with Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West, at IFC starting October 27
- The Sacrifice, Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, at Quad starting October 27
Film Series
Giallo x 3, at Metrograph
October 13-22
An Italian pop cinema trend called “giallo,” or yellow, after the color of the covers of cheap paperback mysteries. Three films: What Have You Done to Solange?, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, and Death Laid an Egg. A few are sold out.
Written by Stephen King, at Metrograph
October 11-November 1
Carrie, Firestarter, Dead Zone, etc. I did not calendar any of these but would love to go to a few.
Comin’ At Ya! 35mm 3-D, at Quad
October 13-19
Jaws 3-D. I still remember the two bones sticking out of a severed arm, floating mid screen, that so terrified me I had to take off my glasses. I was nine years old. Also fun might be Friday the 13th Part III 3-D, Amityville 3-D, Parasite 3-D, The Bubble 3-D, and Comin’ At Ya! 3-D, an Italian spaghetti western.
Films of Paul Bartel, at Anthology Film Archives
October 13-19
Actor and Director Paul Bartel was known for the car race movies Death Race 2000 and Cannonball!, but he also directed some campy comedies. I scheduled a short film program and two films, Lust in the Dust, and Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.
Film Calendar
Tuesday, October 10
BPM (Beats Per Minute)/120 battement par minute, Dir. Robin Campillo
7:15, Metrograph
Wednesday, October 11
The Dead Zone, Dir. David Cronenberg
4:15 & 10:00, Metrograph
Friday, October 13
What Have You Done to Solange? Dir. Massimo Dallamano
10:30, Metrograph
Friday the 14th Part III 3-D, Dir. Steve Miner
8:35, Quad
Saturday, October 14
The Films of Paul Bartel: Short Film Program
4:15, Anthology Film Archives
Lust in the Dust, Dir. Paul Bartel
9:15, Anthology Film Archives
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Dir. Sergio Martino
10:30, Metrograph
The Bubble 3-D, Dir. Arch Oboler (uncut 1966 version), with film restoration supervisor Bob Furmanek in person
12:15, Quad
Sunday, October 15
Nothing But a Man, Dir. Michael Roemer
4:00, MoMA
Lust in the Dust, Dir. Paul Bartel
4:15, Anthology Film Archives
Amityville 3-D, Dir. Richard Fleischer
5:55, Quad
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Dir. Paul Bartel
6:30, Anthology Film Archives
Jaws 3-D, Dir. Joe Alves
8:10, Quad
Monday, October 16
Comin’ At Ya! Dir. Ferdinando Baldi
6:50, Quad
Tuesday, October 17
Jaws 3-D, Dir. Joe Alves
4:30, Quad
Amityville 3-D, Dir. Richard Fleischer
6:45, Quad
Friday the 13th Part III 3-D, Dir. Steve Miner
9:05, Quad
Wednesday, October 18
Parasite 3-D, Dir. Charles Band
7:00, Quad
Thursday, October 19
Comin’ At Ya! Dir. Ferdinando Baldi
4:50, Quad
The Films of Paul Bartel: Short Film Program
6:45, Anthology Film Archives
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, Dir. Paul Bartel
9:15, Anthology Film Archives
Friday, October 20
What Have You Done to Solange? Dir. Massimo Dallamano
9:45, Metrograph
Suspiria (Extended), Dir. Dario Argento
11:55, Sunshine
Saturday, October 21
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Dir. Sergio Martino
10:30, Metrograph
Suspiria (Extended), Dir. Dario Argento
11:55, Sunshine
Sunday, October 22
The Dead Zone, Dir. David Cronenberg
1:30, Metrograph
Monday, October 23
Mothra, Dir. Ishirô Honda
7:10, Film Forum
The H-Man, Dir. Ishirô Honda
5:30 & 9:20, Film Forum
Thursday, October 26
The Dead Zone, Dir. David Cronenberg
7:00, Metrograph
Friday, October 27
Halloween, Dir. John Carpenter
11:55, Sunshine
Saturday, October 28
Halloween, Dir. John Carpenter
11:55, Sunshine
The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935), Dir. John H. Auer
5:00, MoMA
Monday, October 30
Spirited Away, Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
7:00, AMC Empire 25
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Dance
Oh God, here we go. Dance season layered upon music season. New York City Ballet’s fall season is now in full swing; and as soon as that is over, American Ballet Theater’s season begins (and ends). See also: Ballet Collective at Skirball, Bill T. Jones at BAM, and Movement Research at Judson Church on Mondays. I will see ABT’s Gala performance on October 18, the only night Lang’s world premier will be performed, but otherwise my schedule is open.
Dance Calendar
Sunday, October 1
NYCB: Swan Lake
3:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Monday, October 2
Fall For Dance Festival
Miami City Ballet, Polyphonia, Christopher Wheeldon
Vincent Mantsoe, GULA, Vincent Sekwati, KoKo Mantsoe
Trisha Brown Dance Company, You can see us, Trisha Brown
*Dorrance Dance, Myelination (World Premiere), Michelle Dorrance
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Movement Research
Tingying Ma, Kensaku Shinohara, Ea Torrado, Zhaxi Wangjia
8:00-9:00, Judson Church, FREE
Tuesday, October 3
NYCB: Here/Now
Wheeldon’s Liturgy, music by Arvo Pärt
Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, music by Gyorgy Ligeti
Ratnamsky’s Odessa, music by Desyatnikov
Peck’s The Times Are Racing, music by Deacon
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Bill T. Jones
A Letter to My Nephew
7:30 p.m., BAM
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
7:30 p.m., Joyce
Fall For Dance Festival
Miami City Ballet, Polyphonia, Christopher Wheeldon
Vincent Mantsoe, GULA, Vincent Sekwati, KoKo Mantsoe
Trisha Brown Dance Company, You can see us, Trisha Brown
Dorrance Dance, Myelination (World Premiere), Michelle Dorrance
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Wednesday, October 4
NYCB: 21st Century Choreographers
Martin’s The Chairman Dances, music by John Adams
Four new world premiers by Lovette, Peck, Reisen, and Schumacher
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Bill T. Jones
A Letter to My Nephew
7:30 p.m., BAM
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
7:30 p.m., Joyce
Fall For Dance Festival
Pennsylvania Ballet, Rush© (NY Premiere), Christopher Wheeldon
Cie Art Move Concept, Nibiru (US Premiere), Soria Rem and Mehdi Ouachek
Stephen Petronio Company, Bloodlines: Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton
German Cornejo’s Tango Fire, Tango Fire, German Cornejo
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Thursday, October 5
NYCB: All-Balanchine
Square Dance, music by Vivaldi
La Valse, music by Ravel
Cortège Hongrois, music by Glazounov
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
7:30 p.m., Joyce
Bill T. Jones
A Letter to My Nephew
7:30 p.m., BAM
Fall For Dance Festival
Pennsylvania Ballet, Rush© (NY Premiere), Christopher Wheeldon
Cie Art Move Concept, Nibiru (US Premiere), Soria Rem and Mehdi Ouachek
Stephen Petronio Company, Bloodlines: Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton
German Cornejo’s Tango Fire, Tango Fire, German Cornejo
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Friday, October 6
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
7:30 p.m., Joyce
Bill T. Jones
A Letter to My Nephew
7:30 p.m., BAM
NYCB: All Balanchine
Square Dance, music by Vivaldi
La Valse, music by Ravel
Cortège Hongrois, music by Glazounov
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Fall For Dance Festival
Sanjukta Sinha, IceCraft Dance Company, Kin-Incede (US Premiere), Padma Bhusan Kumudini Lakhia
American Ballet Theatre, Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Alexei Ratmansky
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Open Door, Ronald K. Brown
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Paquita, after Marius Petipa
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, SOLD OUT
Saturday, October 7
NYCB: Here/Now
Wheeldon’s Liturgy, music by Arvo Pärt
Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, music by Gyorgy Ligeti
Ratnamsky’s Odessa, music by Desyatnikov
Peck’s The Times Are Racing, music by Deacon
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
2:00 p.m., Joyce
Bill T. Jones
A Letter to My Nephew
7:30 p.m., BAM
Fall For Dance Festival
Sanjukta Sinha, IceCraft Dance Company, Kin-Incede (US Premiere), Padma Bhusan Kumudini Lakhia
American Ballet Theatre, Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Alexei Ratmansky
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Open Door, Ronald K. Brown
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Paquita, after Marius Petipa
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, SOLD OUT
NYCB: 20th Century Violin Concertos
Martin’s The Red Violin, music by Corigliano
Robbins’s In Memory Of, music by Berg
Balanchine’s Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
8:00 p.m., Joyce
Sunday, October 8
Twyla Tharp Dance
Dylan Love Songs, Fugue, and The Raggedy Dances
2:00 p.m., Joyce
NYCB: Here/Now
Wheeldon’s Liturgy, music by Arvo Pärt
Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, music by Gyorgy Ligeti
Ratnamsky’s Odessa, music by Desyatnikov
Peck’s The Times Are Racing, music by Deacon
3:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Monday, October 9
Movement Research
Massimiliano Balduzzi, HECTOR CANONGE, Fana Fraser, The Olimpias
8:00-9:00 p.m., Judson Church, FREE
Tuesday, October 10
NYCB: 20th Century Violin Concertos
Martin’s The Red Violin, music by Corigliano
Robbins’s In Memory Of, music by Berg
Balanchine’s Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Wednesday, October 11
NYCB: 20th Century Violin Concertos
Martin’s The Red Violin, music by Corigliano
Robbins’s In Memory Of, music by Berg
Balanchine’s Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Fall For Dance Festival
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Streams (US Premiere), Andonis Foniadakis
Abraham.In.Motion, Drive (World Premiere), Kyle Abraham
Sara Mearns and Honji Wang, No. 1 (World Premiere), Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez
Ballet BC, Bill, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Thursday, October 12
NYCB: Here/Now
Wheeldon’s Liturgy, music by Arvo Pärt
Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, music by Gyorgy Ligeti
Ratnamsky’s Odessa, music by Desyatnikov
Peck’s The Times Are Racing, music by Deacon
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Shared Evening: Jasmine Hearn / Mariana Valencia
8:00 p.m., Danspace, $22
Fall For Dance Festival
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Streams (US Premiere), Andonis Foniadakis
Abraham.In.Motion, Drive (World Premiere), Kyle Abraham
Sara Mearns and Honji Wang, No. 1 (World Premiere), Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez
Ballet BC, Bill, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, $15
Friday, October 13
NYCB: 21st Century Choreographers
Martin’s The Chairman Dances, music by John Adams
Four new world premiers by Lovette, Peck, Reisen, and Schumacher
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Shared Evening: Jasmine Hearn / Mariana Valencia
8:00 p.m., Danspace, $22
Fall For Dance Festival
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Solo Echo, Crystal Pite
San Francisco Ballet, Concerto Grosso, Helgi Tomasson
*David Hallberg, Twelve of ‘em (World Premiere), Mark Morris
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Matria Etnocentra (US Premiere), George Céspedes
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, SOLD OUT
Saturday, October 14
NYCB: All Balanchine
Square Dance, music by Vivaldi
La Valse, music by Ravel
Cortège Hongrois, music by Glazounov
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Shared Evening: Jasmine Hearn / Mariana Valencia
8:00 p.m., Danspace, $22
Fall For Dance Festival
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Solo Echo, Crystal Pite
San Francisco Ballet, Concerto Grosso, Helgi Tomasson
*David Hallberg, Twelve of ‘em (World Premiere), Mark Morris
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Matria Etnocentra (US Premiere), George Céspedes
8:00 p.m., New York City Center, SOLD OUT
NYCB: 21st Century Choreographers
Martin’s The Chairman Dances, music by John Adams
Four new world premiers by Lovette, Peck, Reisen, and Schumacher
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Sunday, October 15
NYCB: All Balanchine
Square Dance, music by Vivaldi
La Valse, music by Ravel
Cortège Hongrois, music by Glazounov
3:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Monday, October 16
Movement Research
Aye Eckerson, Audrey Elaine Hailes, Lailye Weidman
8:00-9:00 p.m., Judson Church, FREE
Wednesday, October 18
ABT
Season Gala:
Lang: World Premier (one night only)
Ratmansky: World Premier
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
6:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Thursday, October 18
ABT
Lang: Her Notes
Ashton: Symphonic Variations
Robbins: Other Dances
Ratmansky: Serenade After Plato’s Symposium
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Friday, October 20
ABT
Ratmansky: World Premier
Lang: Her Notes
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Saturday, October 21
ABT
Ratmansky: World Premier
Ashton: Symphonic Variations
Robbins: Other Dances
Ratmansky: Serenade After Plato’s Symposium
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
ABT
Ratmansky: Serenade After Plato’s Symposium
Ratmansky: World Premier
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Sunday, October 22
ABT
Lang: Her Notes
Ashton: Symphonic Variations
Robbins: Other Dance
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Tuesday, October 24
ABT
Lang: Her Notes
Ashton: Symphonic Variations
Scarlett: Elegy pas de deux
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Wednesday, October 25
ABT
Ratmansky: Souvenir d/un lieu cher
Millepied: World Premier
Milepied: Daphnis and Chloe
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Ballet Collective
Troy Schumacher: Translation; The Answer; The Last Time This Ended
Gabrielle Lamb: Orange
7:30 p.m., Skirball Center
Thursday, October 26
ABT
Ratmansky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Robbins: Other Dances
Millepied: Daphnis and Chloe
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Ballet Collective
Troy Schumacher: Translation; The Answer; The Last Time This Ended
Gabrielle Lamb: Orange
7:30 p.m., Skirball Center
White Light Festival
Mark Morris: Layla and Majnun
7:30 p.m., Rose Theater
Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer: Tea for Three
8:00, Danspace, $22
Friday, October 27
ABT
Ratmansky: World Premier
Robbins: Other Dances
Millepied: World Premier
Ratmansky: Serenade After Plato’s Symposium
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Ballet Collective
Troy Schumacher: Translation; The Answer; The Last Time This Ended
Gabrielle Lamb: Orange
7:30 p.m., Skirball Center
White Light Festival
Mark Morris: Layla and Majnun
7:30 p.m., Rose Theater
Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer: Tea for Three
8:00, Danspace, $22
Saturday, October 28
ABT
Lang: Her NOtes
Scarlett: Elegy pas de deux
Millepied: World Premier
Wheeldon: Thirteen Diversions
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
White Light Festival
Mark Morris: Layla and Majnun
7:30 p.m., Rose Theater
Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer: Tea for Three
8:00, Danspace, $22
ABT
Ratmansky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Scarlett: Elegy pas de deux
Millepied: World Premier
Millepied: Daphnis and Chloe
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Sunday, October 29
White Light Festival
Mark Morris: Layla and Majnun
7:30 p.m., Rose Theater
Monday, October 30
Jaimé Yawa Dzandu, Havanna Fisher, Mina Nishimura, kris seto + shoey sun | v e s s e l s |
8:00-9:00 p.m., Judson Church, FREE
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Music
An unusual number of free concerts (13!) are taking place this month, and prices for tickets at several venues have dropped. Bargemusic concerts dropped in price from $45 to $40, for example, and tickets are slightly cheaper at Lincoln Center and Carnegie. Most events at smaller venues are between $25 and $45.
I am going to try to get rush tickets to Bellini’s Norma at some point, but there is also Met Live in HD broadcast on October 7, in theaters around the city. Taymor’s staging of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte—still have not seen.
Top picks
- The four day Momenta Festival is free this year. Each night is curated by a different member of the quartet. October 1-4
- William Christie conducts Juilliard 415, Juilliard’s historical performance ensemble, in a mostly Monteverdi program, October 5, $20
- Pierre Boulez, Répons, performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, twice each evening, with the audience moving to new seats before the second performance, October 6 & 7 at Park Avenue Armory, $60-80
- Yarn/Wire performs Enno Poppe at The Kitchen, October 7, $20
- Stephen Beck, piano, plays Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg at Bargemusic, October 13, $40
- Masaaki Suzuki, who has recorded every single Bach Cantata in existence, conducts Juilliard 415 and Yale Schola Cantora in an all-Bach program at Saint Michael’s Church on October 14, FREE.
- JACK Quartet performs Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 2 and Morton Feldman’s Structures, and other works, at Miller Theater, October 19, $20-30
- Music by Elaine Radigue will be performed on clarinet, harp, and a new electronic instrument called Spring Spyre, at ISSUE Project Room, October 20, $20
- Juilliard 415 plays Campra, Rameau, Telemann, and Vivaldi, October 25, Alice Tully Hall, $20
- Steven Osborne, piano, performs Messaien’s Vingt regard sur l’Enfant Jésus, October 31, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, $45
Music Calendar
I have highlighted top picks above, and some others, in GREEN, below.
Tovey's List 