The joke came to mind at the Heckscher Museum of Art's entertaining new exhibition "Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation," in which artists, rather than owners, add the mustaches — and more — to the work of older painters or borrow the style and the spirit of their predecessors.
Swiss Institute 495 Broadway, near Spring Street, SoHo Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village Both through July 16 This entertaining two-gallery exhibition introduces 14 Europeans who make high-concept works in nontraditional media.
Since the exhibition is entertaining (at least on its upper floor) and more serious explanations are given in the accompanying catalog, does it matter that this seems more like a brand promotion than a curatorial endeavor?
Many, including prominent Black athletes and friends, urged him to take the "Joe Louis" route, putting on a uniform but never being sent to combat, instead entertaining the troops with exhibition matches.
When entertaining the crowd becomes its stated priority, as in exhibition matches, it ironically becomes harder to achieve as the event is robbed of the chance of that real drama.
Christie's and Marriott also entertain clients at the exhibitions.
In 1945, he enlisted in the Navy and entertained sailors with pool exhibitions.
That being the case, the exhibition is not terrifically newsworthy, though it is consistently interesting and often entertaining.
The state is entertaining proposals from outside groups to rehabilitate and restore the turreted building, which is currently an exhibition site for occasional antique and craft shows as well as a shelter for homeless women.
His brilliant 2009 exhibition at the Pompidou, "La Subversion des Images: Surréalisme, Photographie, Film," was as audacious as it was entertaining.
