Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Today @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an ongoing series of fictional gallery-size installations. These models in red, white, and chrome—unassuming though resonant and referential to other art-historical works—present an infinite array of potential exhibits past, present, and future. The gallery space is taken over by these small scale works, which don't quite fill the space, and instill an Alice in Wonderland kind of awe. In their sleek and tiny presence, the mind expands with questions and possibility.
Coming Up
I Heart Nerds Speed Dating and Singles Night
Today @ Bar 4
Single nerd lovers get happy. I Heart Nerds has been reborn at Bar 4 in Park Slope, and this ad hoc appreciation society kicks off its new look with a speed dating contest. They're spinning indie rock and "fun favorites" to warm nerd hearts. So come out, and join the fun. If you don't want to speed date, mingling is welcome.
Today @ The Invisible Dog Art Center
The Rehearsal series — a works-in-progress showcase — presents dancer and choreographer Tara Willis. Willis stages a short work and, as with each event in this series curated by Sophia Cleary, there will be a discussion in which audience members can give Willis structured feedback about what they've seen and how they've responded. If you're interested in an inside perspective on the development of a performance piece, and want to help shape a work in progress, it doesn't get much closer to the goods than this.
Everything I Know About Love I Learned at this Reading
Today @ Pete's Candy Store
If you're anxious about Valentine's Day, an event hosted by Nerve is probably a good antidote to your heart-shaped-box-of-chocolate blues. Tonight, writers Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly present "Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations," and Nerve blogger EJ Dickson reads from her essays. Come for love, company, and for drinks.
Today @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery when Secretary of the Smithsonian Wayne G. Clough removed a video by David Wojnarowicz, Fire in My Belly, in response to objections from conservative politicians raising a debate about artistic freedom and political influence. The first major museum exhibition to focus on themes of gender and sexuality in modern American portraiture, HIDE/SEEK, which presents the over 100 works by 67 artists, has now opened in New York having found a home at the Brooklyn Museum — a venue that is no stranger to controversial shows (see the 1999 Sensation exhibit). Above and beyond its penchant for presenting divisive shows, the museum may be a good fit for other reasons. "[The museum] is uniquely positioned to host this landmark exhibition," stated the museum's director Arnold Lehman, "since New York is where many of these artists and their subjects discovered their voice and where the gay rights movement discovered its voice."
