A picture of Dorian Gray from space
Updated 9/5
While Hurricane Dorian menaces Florida, cool breezes blow down the avenues, refreshing all New Yorkers. They die in pain, we sigh in pleasure: fall is here! Sounds cruel, but it all comes out in the wash. This summer, I lived the portrait’s life instead of Dorian’s. Everyone was gone, and the calendar was bare as a bone in the desert. What else could I do but guzzle whole milk and binge TV and internet porn? It sounds like fun, and it is; but it gets old, and I got old. Which is why I am so pleased to present to you: Fall in New York, a festival of song, dance, film, and art. Now that’s more like Dorian, who is currently living his BEST LIFE! Spin, honey! There is no “cone of uncertainty” for this hurricane of things to do, my friends, but there is a calendar full of conflicting events! Enjoy!
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Art
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ORLAN
At first glance, the fall art season looks dull. This may be due to a lack of advanced publicity for upcoming shows, but perhaps…it’s all junk? We’ll have to wait and see. Luckily, some of my favorites have shows: Sara Sze, David Hockney, and Roe Ethridge, to name a few. And there are a few surprises. 1) Gus van Sant paints? And has been since the 1970s? He will have his first solo show in New York this month at Vito Schnabel Projects, downtown. 2) ORLAN. I remember reading about her in Art News in the 90s. She was one of the first artists to call her plastic surgery art, and was often mentioned along with Jocelyn Wildenstein, who was then just beginning to look like a cheetah. Back then, plastic surgery was shocking, but the 90s were full of shocking art, and after a while Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, and The Chapman Brothers replaced her in the media’s attention (I remember photos of Hirst’s cow head—the one on the floor in a pool of blood—in literally every issue of Art News). I had forgot she ever existed, until now. Her show opens at Ceysson & Bénétière on September 12. I am excited to see how this 90s phenomenon holds up.
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Chelsea
Peter Hujar at Pace
- “Sarah Sze,” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21, September 5 – October 19
- “Allora & Calzadilla: Cadastre,” at Gladstone Gallery, 530 W 21, September 13 – November 2
- “Paul Klee: 1939,” at David Zwirner, 537 W 20, September 10 – October 26
- “Anni Albers,” at David Zwirner, 537 W 20, September 10 – October 19
- “Paul Chan: The Bather’s Dilemma,” at Greene Naftali, 508 W 26, September 12 – October 19
- “Christian Marclay: 48 War Movies and Screams,” at Paula Cooper Gallery, 524 W 26, September 12 – October 12
- “Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina,” at Petzel Gallery, 456 W 18, September 12 – December 5
- David Hockney, “La Grande Cour, Normandy,” at Pace, 540 W 25, September 14 – October 19
- Peter Hujar, “Master Class,” at Pace, 540 W 25, September 14 – October 19
- “Alexander Calder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere,” at Pace, 540 W 25, September 14 – October 26
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Uptown
ORLAN, at Ceysson & Bénétière
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- James Whistler, “Whistler as Printmaker,” Frick Collection, 1 E 70, through Sunday, September 1
- George Grosz, “Eclipse of the Sun: Art of the Weimar Republic,” at Neue Galerie New York, 1048 5th Ave at 86, through Monday, September 2
- “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave at 82, through Sunday, September 8
- “Giorgio Morandi: Linear Impulse,” at Dickinson New York, 980 Madison, through September 10
- “ORLAN: Saint ORLAN,” at Ceysson & Bénétière, 956 Madison, September 12 – November 2
- Pierre Huyghe, “The Host and the Cloud,” at French Institute : Alliance Française, 22 E 60, September 12 – October 12
- “Albert Oehlen: FN Paintings,” at Skarstedt, 19 E 64, September 12 – November 2
- “Anna Sui,” at Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, September 12 – February 23
- “Sturtevant: Bethlehem Hospital,” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Harlem, 439 W 127, September 15 – October 28
- Walt Whitman, “Bard of Democracy,” Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave at 36, through Sunday, September 15
- Mrinalini Mukherjee, “Phenomenal Nature,” with the artists fiber sculptures, rave reviews, at Met Breuer, 945 Madison at 75, through Sunday, September 29
- Robert Mapplethorpe, “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” at Guggenheim, 1071 5th Ave at 89, through Sunday, January 5, 2020
- “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection,” a group show curated by six artists, at Guggenhiem,1071 5th Ave at 89, through Sunday, January 12
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Downtown
Gus van Sant at Vito Schnabel Projects
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- “Roe Ethridge,” at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortland Alley, TriBeCa, September 6 – November 2
- Elaine Cameron-Weir, “strings that show the wind,” at JTT, 191 Chrystie, LES, September 8 – October 27
- Sergei Tcherepnin, “Dophin Rock,” at Baby Company, 73 Allen, Suite 303, LES, September 11 – October 13
- “Raul de Nieves: As Far As UUU Take Me,” at Company, 88 Eldridge, 5th Floor, LES, September 11 – October 13
- “Gus van Sant: Recent Paintings,” at Vito Schnabel Projects, 43 Clarkson St., 1A, TriBeCa, September 12 – November 1 (M-F, 11-6)
- “Nam June Paik: Music is Not Sound,” at James Cohan, 291 Grand, LES, September 14 – October 20
- “Nate Lowman,” at The National Exemplar Gallery, 59 Franklin, TriBeCa, September 15 – December 5
- Group show with Henni Alftan, Matt Hilvers, Ruth Ige, and Andrew Sim at Karma, 188 E 2, East Village, through Sunday, September 15
- “Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking, through September 22
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Outside Manhattan
Pierre Cardin at Brooklyn Museum
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- Simone Fattal, “Works and Days,” PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, through Monday, September 2
- Gina Beavers, “The Life I Deserve,” PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, through Monday, September 2
- “Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion,” at Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, through Sunday, January 5, 2020
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Film
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Chained for Life (2019), dir. Aaron Schimberg
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New Releases
- It, Chapter Two, dir. Andy Muschietti, opens September 6. I can’t help it, I love the actor who plays the clown
- Satanic Panic, dir. Chelsea Stardust, with Rebecca Romijn, opens September 6
- Chained for Life, dir. Aaron Schimberg, with Jess Weixler, opens September 11. Great reviews for this one, which stars actors with strange diseases
- The Goldfinch, dir. John Crowley, opens September 13. Obviously
- Hustlers, dir. Lorene Scafaria, with Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Julia Styles, opens September 13. Eh
- The Sound of Silence, dir. Michael Tyburski, with Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, opens September 13. A Marjorie Prime, or Her feel to this one
- Depraved, dir. Larry Fessenden, opens September 13. Gross. Will stream
- Monos, dir. Alejandro Landes, with a score by Mica Levi, opens September 13. A trendy sense of dread
- Ad Astra, dir. James Gray (The Lost City of Z), with Brad Pitt, and a score by Max Richter, opens September 20
- The Day Shall Come, dir. Chris Morris, with Marchant Davis and Anna Kendrick, opens September 27. Could be bad
- Extra Ordinary, dir. Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, with Maeve Higgins, opens September 27. Funny trailer
- The Laundromat, dir. Steven Soderbergh, with a large ensemble cast including Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Sharon Stone, opens September 27 (Netflix)
- The Report, dir. Scott z. Burns (writer of The Informant, Contagion, and Side Effects), with Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, opens September 27 (Amazon)
Trailers Playlist
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Series
- 57th New York Film Festival begins September 27, with previews of new films by Scorsese, Baumbach, Almodóvar, Varda, Assayas, and the Dardennes. Here is the list.
- Metrograph A to Z: Round 2, at Metrograph of course, an ongoing series of classic films that start with the letter A, September 6 – October 31
- Vito Acconci. Anthology Film Archives will screen Acconci’s films in 11 different programs, running nightly from September 5 – 13, with only a few repeats—intense!
- Lutz Dammbeck, September 16 – 24, at Anthology Film Archives, with films The Net (35mm), Overgames, Time of the Gods, and others. Both The Net and Overgames are available on YouTube (see The Net below), and my guess is there is even more to see online. I watched The Net, a documentary about the Unabomber that makes connections between 1960s counterculture and the US military’s development of the internet. The connections are mostly suggestive, and the filmmaker verges on being irresponsible, but at the same time, there are too many suggestive connections to ignore. The result is a kind of conspiracy theory without the conspiracy, which may be OK, since it is difficult even for historians to understand the relatedness of unrelated but similar simultaneous occurrences. I hesitate to recommend it even as a stream, but the film has a low-budget charm (over-the-shoulder shots of videos playing on laptops, hands sifting through photographs or drawing flow charts, and tracking shots from car windows), and the unscripted interviews with counter-culture figures and letters from Kakzynski are worth the price of admission.
- Laws of Desire: The Films of Antonio Banderas, at Quad, September 18 – 26, with several Almodóvar films in 35mm, Labyrinth of Passion, Law of Desire, Matador, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Also, de Palma’s Femme Fatale (35mm)
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Short Runs, Engagements, Special Screenings
- Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray) (1986), dir. Éric Rohmer, is back at Metrograph, in 35mm, and currently scheduled through September 12. I plan on seeing it again now that I have read the eponymous Jules Verne novella—a wonderful book, and the fairy tale to the film’s reality
- The Place Without Limits (1978), dir. Arturo Ripstein, at Quad, a Mexican comedy ahead of its time with its frank treatment of homosexual themes, as part of Quad’s occasional Coming Out Again series, Thursday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.
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Film Calendar
Thursday, September 5
Vito Acconci: Program 1 (1970)
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Friday, September 6
Vito Acconci: Program 2 (1970)
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Saturday, September 7
Vito Acconci: Program 3 (1971)
6:00 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Vito Acconci: Program 4 (1972)
8:15 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Sunday, September 8
Vito Acconci: Program 5 (1973)
6:00 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Vito Acconci: Program 6 (1973)
8:45 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Monday, September 9
Vito Acconci: Program 7 (1973)
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Tuesday, September 10
Vito Acconci: Program 8
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Wednesday, September 11
Vito Acconci: Program 9 (1974)
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Thursday, September 12
Vito Acconci: Program 10 (1974-75)
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Friday, September 13
Vito Acconci: Program 11
7:30 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Saturday, September 14
Vito Acconci: Program 1 (1970)
6:00 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Vito Acconci: Program 2 (1970)
8:15 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Sunday, September 15
Vito Acconci: Program 3 (1971)
6:00 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Vito Acconci: Program 4 (1972)
8:15 p.m., Anthology Film Archives
Tuesday, September 24
The Place Without Limits (1978), dir. Arturo Ripstein
7:30 p.m., Quad
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Dance
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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Fase, at New York Live Arts
New York City Ballet’s fall season opens on Tuesday, September 17. There are six programs in all, with the four playing this month (see below) The Fall Gala is scheduled for Thursday, September 26.
I was surprised to see that Balanchine had choreographed a piece to Pierre Henry’s Variation pour une porte et un soupir (Variations for a Door and a Sigh), a major work of musique concrète. The Variations is composed of the magnetic tape recordings of a creaking door, a wobbling saw, and heavy breathing, but aside from the absence of tonality, it has all the form and drama of a symphony. I am very excited to see how Balanchine dramatizes this piece. Read the contemporary New York Times review here.
The highlight of the calendar this month, however, is Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker at New York Live Arts. Keersmaeker’s dance company Rosas will stage two seminal works, Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (September) and Rosas Danst Rosas (October). (You may recall that Rosas Danst Rosas was plaigarized by Beyoncé.) I am very excited to see these works performed in an intimate space.
NYCB Programs in September
“Jewels”
- Emeralds, by George Balanchine, music by Gabriel Faure from Pelléas et Mélisande, and Shylock
- Rubies, by George Balanchine, with Stravinsky’s Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
- Diamonds, by George Balanchine, with Tschaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29
“Balanchine + Wheeldon”
- Raymonda Variations, by George Balanchine, music from Glazounov’s Raymonda
- Varations pour une Porte et un Soupir, by George Balanchine, with Pierre Henry’s piece of the same title
- DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse, by Christopher Wheeldon, with Michael Nyman’s Musique à Grand Vitesse
“All Balanchine” – Three ballets by George Balanchine
- Valse Fantaisie, with Glinka’s Valse Fantaisie for Piano, orchestrated
- Kammermusik No. 2, with music by Hindemith
- Union Jack, traditional music orchestrated by Hershy Kay
“Classic NYCB”
- Opus 19/The Dreamer, by Jerome Robbins, with Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
- New Lauren Lovette, with music by Tan Dun
- New Edwaard Liang, with music by Oliver Davis
- Symphony in C, by George Balanchine, with Bizet’s symphony
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Dance Calendar
Friday, September 6
Co-Lab Dance
Three world premiers by Gemma Bond (formerly of ABT), Danielle Rowe (formerly of Nederlands Dans Theater), and Xin Ying (Martha Graham)
Dancers from ABT and NYTB
7:30 p.m., Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Opening Night: $50
Saturday, September 7
Justin Cabrillos: as of it
7:00 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49th Avenue, LIC, Queens
FREE, RSVP to blaze@chocolatefactorytheater.orgCo-Lab Dance
Three world premiers by Gemma Bond (formerly of ABT), Danielle Rowe (formerly of Nederlands Dans Theater), and Xin Ying (Martha Graham)
Dancers from ABT and NYTB
7:30 p.m., Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, $25-45
Wednesday, September 11
Table of Silence Project 9/11
Buglisi Dance Theatre will lead an ensemble of 150+ dancers in this performance ritual for peace, which begins at 8:15 am and ends precisely at 8:46 am, the time the first plane hit the North Tower
8:15-8:46 a.m., Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center, FREE
Friday, September 13
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company
Three Premieres:
Evolution: The Letters of Charles Darwin
Triple Sextet, with music by Steve Reich
Memoir, a solo for Lance Westergard
8:00 p.m., 92Y, $25
Saturday, September 14
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company
Three Premieres:
Evolution: The Letters of Charles Darwin
Triple Sextet, with music by Steve Reich
Memoir, a solo for Lance Westergard
4:00 & 8:00 p.m., 92Y, $25
Sunday, September 15
Works & Process at the Guggenheim
National Ballet of Canada: Orpheus Alive by Robert Binet and Missy Mazzoli
3:00 p.m., Guggenheim Museum, $45
Monday, September 16
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Pelenakeke Brown, Zachary Tye Richardson, Erik Thurmond, Anh Vo
8:00-9:00 p.m., Judson Memorial Church, FREE
Tuesday, September 17
Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly
7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, $26 and up
“Jewels”
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Wednesday, September 18
Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly
7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, $26 and up
“Balanchine + Wheeldon”
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Thursday, September 19
“Jewels”
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Freemove Dance
Jenn Freeman, …it’s time…
7:30 p.m., 14th St. Y, 344 E 14, $25
Friday, September 20
Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly
8:00 p.m., Joyce Theater, $26 and up
Freemove Dance
Jenn Freeman, …it’s time…
7:30 p.m., 14th St. Y, 344 E 14, $25
“Jewels”
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Saturday, September 21
Freemove Dance
Jenn Freeman, …it’s time…
1:00 & 7:00 p.m., 14th St. Y, 344 E 14, $25
“Jewels”
2:00 & 8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly
2:00 & 8:00 p.m., Joyce Theater, $26 and up
Sunday, September 22
Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND
Ever So Slightly
2:00 p.m., Joyce Theater, $26 and up
“Balanchine + Wheeldon”
3:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Monday, September 23
Brain to Brain: A Celebration of the life and work of Mary Overlie
8:00 p.m., Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, $10
Tuesday, September 24
Rosas
Fase, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, $50
“Balanchine + Wheeldon”
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Wednesday, September 25
Rosas
Fase, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, $50
Jerome Bel, Isadora Duncan (US premier)
Performed by Catherine Gallant
7:30 p.m., FIAF Florence Gould Hall, $35
“All Balanchine”
7:30 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Thursday, September 26
Rosas
Fase, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
Plus a conversation after the performance
7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, $50
New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala
New Lauren Lovette, with music by Tan Dun
New Edwaard Liang, with music by Oliver Davis
Symphony in C, by George Balanchine, with Bizet’s symphony
7:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Friday, September 27
Rosas
Fase, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, $50
“Classic NYCB”
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Saturday, September 28
Rosas
Fase, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
7:30 p.m., New York Live Arts, $50
“All Balanchine”
2:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
“Classic NYCB”
8:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Sunday, September 29
“All Balanchine”
3:00 p.m., David H. Koch Theater
Monday, September 30
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Vincent Chong aka Crystal Monkey & Clara Lu, Eryka Dellenbach, Babacar Top / Topdance Company, Adrienne Westwood
8:00-9:00 p.m., Judson Memorial Church, FREE
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Music
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Herrmann’s Psycho score performed by the New York Philharmonic
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Tons of free stuff this month. Check out, in particular:
Celebrating Ten Years of Musical Innovation, September 12-15, St. Paul’s Chapel, FREE
Ongoing Organs
Pipes at One
Every Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway
Bach at Noon
Tuesday-Friday, 12:20 – 12:50 p.m., starting September 10
Grace Church, 802 Broadway
Weekend Organ Meditation
Every Saturday and Sunday at 4:00 p.m., starting September 7
Grace Church, 802 Broadway
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