On view through January 5, 2025
MoMA
Projects: Tadáskía, a display of the titular artist’s playful and unbound book of freeform drawings and poetic musings, which also features a massive wall drawing created in the gallery, runs through October 14. As of September 15, there are two exhibitions of witnesser of American strife, Robert Frank’s art: Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue and Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage with over 200 works by Frank including footage that was only uncovered after his death in 2019.
Projects: Tadáskía on view through October 14, 2024; Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue on view through January 11, 2025
Film at Lincoln Center
Between September 27 and October 14, Film at Lincoln Center buzzes louder than usual as the 62nd New York Film Festival gets up and running across its three-theater campus. Get a pass or buy your tickets à la carte and enjoy not just a brand new movie on the cutting edge but also a fabulously reactive audience (God bless New York City) and, often, Q&As with cast and crew afterwards. This year, they’ve got flicks from international greats like Steve McQueen, Pedro Almodóvar, Mike Leigh, David Cronenberg, Hong Sangsoo (whose film, A Traveler’s Needs, stars Isabelle Huppert), and Mati Diop to name a few.
The 62nd New York Film Festival closes October 14 with Steve McQueen’s Blitz
The Museum of Sex
The Museum of Sex makes the list for the first time with Looking at Andy Looking, presented in collaboration with Pittsburgh‘s The Andy Warhol Museum as well as MoMA—these two institutions together digitized the original film material presented in this exhibition. The theme here is desire, particularly homosexual desire, with the centerpiece being the 5-hour 21-minute Sleep (1963) depicting Warhol’s then-lover John Giorno lost in the titular act. There are 16 films in total, half of which have never before been screened before, so it’s worth popping in.
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Brooklyn Museum
Liza Lou: Trailer is exactly what it sounds like. Filling the insides of a 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer, this vivid tableau and new addition to the Brooklyn Museum’s collection aims to evoke the nebulous, glamorous pleasures of Hollywood noir. Everything on this set is rendered in glass beads, from the furniture, to the guitar, and shots of whiskey. On the same day, Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies (an amazing name) arrives to give the under-celebrated feminist sculptor and printmaker her due.
