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Datebook: Aug. 5, 2010

Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 06:00 AM

WNYC

Artsy books sales, Brooklyn art walks, and a Spanish-language film festival.

Here's your guide to what's happening now.

The David Zwirner Pop-Up Bookstore, at David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea. An excellent opportunity to fill your creaking shelves with rare and out-of-print art books, as well as signed artist catalogues. Opens Monday and runs through next Friday, in Manhattan.

First Thursday Dumbo Gallery Walk, in Brooklyn. A bevy of neighborhood galleries and art spaces are participating in Dumbo’s monthly arts walk, including the artsy bookshop PowerHouse Arena, the Henry Gregg Gallery and the Dumbo Arts Center. Be sure to pop into Mighty Tanaka, on Jay Street, to check out a photographic group show devoted to all things New York City. You can find a downloadable map with all of the participating galleries right here. This evening, from 5:30-8:30pm, in Dumbo.

Sharon Butler, Joy Curtis and Cathy Nan Quinlan, On Display, at Storefront, in Bushwick. At this relatively new Bushwick art space, blogger and critic Hrag Vartanian (of Hyperallergic) has organized a show that examines abstraction in myriad ways. Butler’s paintings are pre-occupied with color and form, Curtis’s sculptures reconfigure the shapes of found objects like battered picture frames and Quinlan’s paintings give ordinary items a surreal flicker. Should be an excellent opportunity for some contemplative gazing. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Brooklyn.

Beth Livensperger, Visible Storage, at the Abrons Arts Center. Precious items sheathed in glass are the current obsession of this New York-based artist, known for her painterly renditions of institutional interiors. This series of paintings — which depicts the visible storage rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — seem to smirk at the way in which humans hold objects in high esteem, by rendering them ordinary, piled high in clear vitrines like objects for sale at a common sidewalk shop. Opens this evening at 6pm, in downtown Manhattan.

Hector Canonge, Epistolar, at 58 Gallery in Jersey City. At the intersection of nostalgia and tech-savvy interactivity lies Epistolar, a 2009 installation crafted by the New York-based Canonge. In this piece, a series of albums contain photographs and other images, as well as barcodes, which viewers swipe with a common price scanner (of the sort used at department stores). The result: the myriad stories behind the image reveal themselves on an overhead screen. Opens this evening, in Jersey City, N.J.

Verano Tropical, a film festival at the Instituto Cervantes. Once a week throughout the rest of the summer, this institute, dedicated to all things Spanish-language, will be holding weekly screenings of Latin American movies, including features and documentaries from Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Mexico. Screenings – which are free – are held on Wednesday evenings. Up next is Sisters, an Argentinean feature film chronicling the lives of two siblings who come together many years after the country’s brutal dictatorship has driven them apart. Through Aug. 25, in Manhattan.

 

 

Courtesy Joy Curtis
'On Display,' at Storefront Gallery, in Bushwick: Joy Curtis's 2005-6 sculpture, 'Study for Amphibological Displays.'
Courtesy Sharon Butler
Sharon Butler's canvases play with geometry and color, such as 'Brightly Colored Separates 2,' also at Storefront.
Courtesy Cathy Nan Quinlan
Cathy Nan Quinlan's cross-hatch patterns give standard-issue still lifes an energetic quality. Above, 'Glass Bowl,' 2010, from a series in tribute to Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.
Cinema Tropical
Free films! The Institute Cervantes in Manhattan is hosting screenings of Latin American films throughout the summer. Above, a still from the Argentinean picture, 'Sisters.'
Cinema Tropical
An image from 'Days of Santiago,' a Peruvian feature about a weary vet trying to fit back into the unwelcoming urban landcape of Lima, at the Instituto Cervantes.
Courtesy Shane Perez and Mighty Tanaka
Documenting Gotham: Shane Perez's city pics will be part of a group show at Mighty Tanaka in Dumbo, on view as part of the neighborhood's monthly art walk.
Courtesy Mari Keelera and Mighty Tanaka
Also at Mighty Tanaka: Mari Keeler's 'Bici,' from 2010.
Courtesy Beth Livensperger
In Visible Storage: Beth Livensperger's paintings of objects on display are now on show at the Abrons Arts Center, downtown.
Courtesy Beth Livensperger
'Mirrors II,' 2010, also by Livensperger, on view at Abrons.

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Carolina A. Miranda is a regular contributor to WNYC and blogs about the arts for the station as "Gallerina." In addition to that, she contributes articles on culture, travel and the arts to a variety of national and regional media, including Time, ArtNews, Travel + Leisure and Budget Travel and Florida Travel + Life. She has reported on the burgeoning industry of skatepark design, architectural pedagogy in Southern California, the presence of street art in museums and Lima's burgeoning food scene, among many other subjects. In 2008, she was named one of eight fellows in the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program for her arts and architecture blog C-Monster.net, which has received mentions in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In January of 2010, the Times named her one of nine people to follow on Twitter. Got a tip? E-mail her at c [@] c-monster [dot] net

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