Tuesday, July 19, 2011

MUST SEES - Art & Film / July 20 - 28

July 20 (6:00 pm) Nereo López Exhibition - Opening Reception. Celebrate Colombia's Independece Day with one of the greatest Colombian photographers. Plus music, poetry, and refreshments. At Union City Art Gallery  at City Hall, Union City, New Jersey. For more information click here.

July 20 (6:30 pm) Film Screening: "Tristana." This 1970 Luis Buñuel film is an adaptation of Benito Pérez Galdós' novel about an aging nobleman who seduces his young ward. At Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information click here. 

July 20 (7:30 pm) Film screening: "Argentina Fútbol Club". Opening the Kicking and Screening Soccer Film Festival (running through July 24), this 2010 film by Juan Pablo Roubió chronicles the historic competition between two Buenos Aires soccer clubs. At Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street. For more information click here. 

July 20-24 (various times; see below for schedules) Celebrate Tango Week. Featuring tango performances and competitions all over the city. For locations, times, and more information click here.

July 23 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm) Art in General in the Hamptons. Featuring work by Emily Roysdon, Ohad Meromi, and Carlos Motta. At Art in General, 79 Walker Street. For more information click here.

July 27 (6:30 pm) Film Screening: "Goya in Bordeaux." This 1999 film by Carlos Saura chronicles Goya's final years as an exile in southern France. at Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information click here.

July 28 (5:00 pm - 8:00 pm) Chelsea Art Walk. Artists and curators lead tours and talks, plus art, performances, screenings, and crafts. For event times and locations and for more information click here.

Ongoing:

El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011. El Museo del Barrio's sixth annual biennial showcases over 75 emerging artists as it celebrates the most cutting-edge work being done by Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino artists in the New York area. Running through January 8 at various locations. For more information, click here.


Dominican Republic: A Cultural Portrait. Photographer Katherine Taylor explores the cultural and natural beauty of Quisqueya. At CUNY Dominican Studies Institute's Art Gallery, City College, North Academic Center, Second Floor. Enter at 137th Street and Amsterdam. Runs through July 31. For more information, click here.

Urban Archives: Emilio Sánchez in the Bronx. Artist Emilio Sánchez exhibits photographs of buildings in Hunters Point, an impoverished area of the Bronx. Running through January 1 at Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx. For more information click here.

Consuelo Castañeda: For Rent. Exhibition curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui, in collaboration with Gabriela Rangel. Running through July 30 at Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue. For more information, click here

Jaume Plensa: EchoPlensa's site-specific sculpture depicts a nine-year-old girl from his Barcelona neighborhood, lost in thought, towering forty feet high. Running through August 14 at Madison Square Park, 1 East 23rd Street. For more information click here.

Otherworldly: Small Delusions and Optical Realities. This show explores the interest of many modern artists in "magical realism," the small-scale, handmade depiction of artificial environments and alternate realities. Running through September 18 at Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle. For more information click here

A Lebanese-Dominican Dominican York Is Born Again as a BronxiteNicolas Dumit Estevez explores the perceptions and misperceptions that have shaped the Bronx since the 1960s, and in a group show, a number of other artists respond with perceptions of their own. Running through August 3 at the Longwood Arts Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, the Bronx. For more information click here

Video Artists From Andalucia and The Bronx. This project pairs artists from the Bronx and Andalucia to collaborate on projects exploring cultural memory, day-to-day life, and popular ritual. Running through August 3 at the Longwood Arts Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, the Bronx. For more information click here

Inés Esnal: Linescapes. Artist Inés Esnal presents 25 pieces exploring the tensions of lines and planes and how they define spaces using monographic etching, screenprinting, and nstallation. Running through February 7 at Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street. For more information click here.

Bronx Calling: The First Aim Biennial. Guest curators Wayne Northcross and Jose Ruiz organize an exhibition of seventy-two artists from the Bronx Museum's Artists in the Marketplace program. Running through September 5 at Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx. For more information click here.

Dee Campos: El Salvador Series. Stark portraits of El Salvadoran children in an orphanage are juxtaposed with beautiful landscape photos of El Salvador. Running through September 5 at En Foco, 1738 Hone Avenue, Bronx. For more information click here.

Accumulations. Venezuelan artist Esperanza Mayobre and Colombian artist Gonzalo Fuenmayor explore the common theme of collage from opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum. Running through August 22 at artsolar, 44 Davids Lane, East Hampton. For more information click here.

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