Art Out: Off the Record, Lars von Trier, Robert Longo, Family Matters
Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (3 of 10), 2006–09. Chromogenic print, 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm), edition 5/5. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the Photography Committee 2010.55. © Leslie Hewitt
Off the Record
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Closing September 27
Historical, documentary, state, and other records became the collectively accepted communicators of “truth” through their perceived objectivity and comprehensiveness. They presumably tell a story from a place of remove, with all relevant details included. Off the Record challenges this pretense, bringing together the work of contemporary artists from the Guggenheim’s collection who interrogate, revise, or otherwise query dominant narratives and the transmission of culture through official “records.”
Drawn from the context of journalist reportage, the phrase “off the record” here refers to accounts that have been left out of mainstream narratives. The exhibition’s title can also be understood in its verb form: to undermine or “kill” the record as a gesture of redress. Across various manipulations of “records,” artists in this exhibition seek to call out the power dynamics obscured by official documentation, complicate the idea of objectivity and truth, and surface new narrative possibilities.
Off the Record features works by 12 collection artists: Sadie Barnette, Sarah Charlesworth, Sara Cwynar, Leslie Hewitt, Glenn Ligon, Carlos Motta, Lisa Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Sable E. Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems. You can learn more about these artists and their work in the Collection Online. The presentation will also include a work by Tomashi Jackson.
Off the Record is organized by Ashley James, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art.
Melancholia, Justice of Ophelia, 2011 – 2021 © Lars von Trier and Zentropa Entertainments - ART von Trier, Freeze Frame Gallery. Courtesy Perrotin
Lars von Trier
Perrotin | September 4, 2021 to October 2, 2021
From Saturday September 4th, 2021 to October 2nd, Perrotin opens for the first time an exhibition of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier.
The photographic works, titled ARTvonTRIER, which works incarnates the world premiere of the exhibition, are extracts from Lars von Trier’s award-winning filmography. Audiences will be able to recognize legendary and iconic scenes from Trier’s films. A new involvement and reflection await in the transformed works.
Robert Longo, Untitled (Baseball Stadium, 2020), 2021 © Robert Longo, courtesy Pace Gallery
Robert Longo I do fly / After summer merrily
Pace Gallery | September 10 – October 23, 2021
540 West 25th Street
New York
New York – Robert Longo’s debut exhibition at Pace Gallery, I do fly / After summer merrily, will showcase the final installment of the artist’s Destroyer Cycle, a series of never-before-seen works examining notions of American power, violence, and mythmaking pulled from the “image storm” of society’s “culture of impatience.” In this series, Longo attempts to slow things down through the venerable medium of charcoal. Centered on themes of protest, freedom, and entropy, this suite of six large-scale charcoal drawings reflects on the turbulence of the current social and political circumstances while proposing an earnest hopefulness for the future.
Gillian Laub, Grandpa helping Grandma out, 1999. © Gillian Laub
Gillian Laub: Family Matters
International Center of Photography | September 24, 2021 to January 10, 2022
79 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
Photographer Gillian Laub Explores America’s Political Divisions Through the Lens of Her Own Family Dynamics in Gillian Laub: Family Matters
NEW YORK, NY (JULY 21, 2021) — A new exhibition this fall at the International Center of Photography (ICP) offers renowned New York-based photographer Gillian Laub’s picture of an American family saga that feels both anguished and hopeful. On view September 24, 2021 through January 10, 2022, Gillian Laub: Family Matters balances empathy with critical perspective, humor with horror, the closeness of family with the distance of the artist. The exhibition is curated by David Campany, ICP’s Managing Director of Programs, and coincides with the publication of a companion book by Aperture.
