Chelsea Galleries Current Exhibits
Chelsea may be the New York art neighborhood that many people love to disdain. It also may be approaching a tipping point, where new apartment towers outnumber galleries. But the place is not monolithic.
Its scores of galleries come in all shapes, sizes and annual budgets, and as usual they offer a ton of art to be seen. Here is but a small sample. THE KITCHEN through May 12; 512 West 19th Street,. Chelsea’s busiest, most multimedia alternative space is presenting the outstanding “Charles Atlas: the past is here, the futures are coming.” It reviews the long, often brilliant career of Mr.
Washington National Gallery Exhibitions
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Atlas, who has few equals when it comes to blurring the lines among art, documentary, dance and film. Eight video collaborations made from 1982 to 2016 with different choreographers dazzle with their different camerawork and editing — especially those created with Michael Clark. The centerpiece is “2003,” an enormous five-channel-video montage of Mr. Atlas’s dance films and various interviews and current events, like the Iraq war. The totality equals a crash course in New York choreographic history that reveals an ingenious symbiosis of dance and film.