By Patricia Marx If you had been a guest at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Plains Indians exhibition, last month, you might have been wondering, as you sipped your special brown cocktail (called Earth) or your blue one (called Sky), why so many people were pushing their business cards on a shy-looking teen-age girl.
Recently opened New York gallery Magenta Plains' ongoing exhibition, Record Lines This Summer, responds to the art world's obsessive relationship with travel.
The "Plain or Fancy?" exhibition, which is culled from the museum's permanent collection of European decorative arts, begs viewers to stand in front of its forty objects and engage in similar internal disputes.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The "Plain or Fancy?" exhibition, which is culled from the museum's permanent collection of European decorative arts, begs viewers to stand in front of its forty objects and engage in similar internal disputes.
The exhibition makes plain how detailed the model is.
Soane, as this exhibition makes plain, was profoundly influenced by Piranesi.
Somehow, the section devoted to Iki, or Edo Chic, provides an excellent denouement to the exhibition, bringing plain and fancy into unexpected alignment.
8, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, (212 334-7479; $15. (Jack Anderson) CREATIVE TIME (Today through Sunday) The choreographer William Forsythe is one of 14 (mostly visual) artists participating in an exhibition, "The Plain of Heaven," inspired by the proposed redevelopment of the High Line, the defunct elevated railway on the West Side of Manhattan.
His installation featuring 24 hanging pendulums and a former Frankfurt Ballet dancer, Brock Labrenz, is part of Creative Time's "PLAIN OF HEAVEN," an exhibition by 14 artists that uses the proposed redevelopment of the High Line, the old elevated rail line that runs along the West Side of Manhattan, as its theme.
In the show's catalog, the curators, Bruce Bernstein, assistant director for cultural resources at the museum, and his deputy Gerald McMaster, a Plains Cree, state, "This exhibition and catalogue mark a cumulative moment in an ongoing shift in which people are coming to enjoy the art rather than to learn about Indians".
