OF NOTE- People In The News: Tuesday, November 12
OF NOTE
People In The News
Gallery Owner David Zwirner is once again staging an exhibition from Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who works primarily in contemporary sculpture and painting. Kusama is best known for her interactive installations and a distinctive painting style with brightly colored polka dots. The last time Zwirner hosted a Kusama exhibition, the famed ‘Infinity Mirrored Rooms’ in November 2017, the line to get into his Chelsea gallery was well over two hours long, even with a one-minute time limit in the room for groups of four. The new exhibition features another infinity room called “Dancing Lights That Flew Up Into The Universe,” along with dozens of paintings, reflective sculptures and an LED light and mirror display called “Ladder to Heaven.” The exhibit opens Nov. 9 at David Zwirner’s gallery, located at 537 West 20th Street.
Producer, editor and theatrical artist Maggie Cino is directing a gender-swapped production of “Macbeth,” now playing at The Brick theater in Williamsburg. The play, set in a post-apocalyptic future where power structures are crumbling and gender roles are turned on their head, stars Moira Stone as Macbeth and Mick O’Brien as Lady Macbeth. Other female and nonbinary actors are playing traditional male roles and male actors are playing women, while wearing costumes that match the actors’ real-life identity. “One of the things that it does is it frees you from all the clichés that this play usually comes with,” Cino told the Brooklyn Paper. “Unsex Me Here: The Tragedy of Macbeth” runs at The Brick through Nov. 23rd.