Half of Bushwick

By Charles Kessler

Sunday I went to 11 galleries, 17 exhibitions, 2 restaurants and a performance – and that's only about half of what Bushwick has to offer now. And most of the art was excellent. Here, chronologically, without comment, is what I saw and did:

David Brody and Cindy Tower at Valentine Gallery, 464 Seneca Avenue, until October 5th. 

Liz Ainslie at Valentine Gallery, 464 Seneca Avenue, until October 5th.

And there are paintings by Cathy Diamond in the Valentine Gallery gift shop (no photo).

Colin Thomson at Outlet, 253 Wilson Avenue, until October 5th.

Matthew Deleget at Outlet, 253 Wilson Avenue, until October 5th.

L A Burrito, 67 Wilson Avenue (at Jefferson) – good guacamole and chips.

Vilaykorn Sayaphet at English Kills, 114 Forrest Street.

Daniel Leyva, video installation at Interstate, 66 Knickerbocker Avenue, until October 12th.

Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, A Lot of Sorrow at Luhring Augustine, 25 Knickerbocker Avenue,
 until December 21st. 

Roberta Smith wrote an excellent review about this six-hour video (above) of a six-hour concert in which the same song was played over and over. I saw it at about the fourth hour, and it was intense.

The new Life on Mars Project Gallery space, 56 Bogart, includes paintings by Peter Acheson, Brenda Goodman, Farrell Brickhouse, Karen Schwartz and John Walker, until September 28th.

Todd Bienvenu, Backseat, 2013, oil on canvas, 47 x 37 ½ inches at Life on Mars Gallery, 56 Bogart, until September 28th.

Naomi Safran-Hon, installation view, at the Slag Gallery, 56 Bogart, until October 5th.

Liz Jaff installation at Robert Henry Gallery, 56 Bogart, until October 12th. 

Jason Tomme, an enlarged close-up detail of Potted Plants: Vultures, 2014, at THEODORE:Art, 56 Bogart,
until October 19th.

Brian Gaman, installation view at ArtHelix, 299 Meserole Street, until October 19th.

Kate Elliot, one of three exhibitions at Storefront Ten Eyck, 324 Ten Eyck Street, until October 19th.

Shrimp and okra at Falansai Vietnamese restaurant, 112 Harrison Place.

The chief was kind enough to let me try some beet wrapped spring rolls he's been experimenting with. They were delicious – as was the shrimp and okra above.

Any Size Mirror is a Dictator, "a processual dance-opera" created by Panoply Performance Laboratory and DREARYSOMEBODY at MomentaArt, 56 Bogart. 

Any Size Mirror is a Dictator, "a processual dance-opera" created by Panoply Performance Laboratory and DREARYSOMEBODY at MomentaArt, 56 Bogart. 

Other performances by this group will take place Thursdays through Sundays from 7-9 pm, until October 19th.

Corny end-of-the-day photo.