Leo Villareal, “Cylinder,” white LEDs, mirror-finished stainless steel, custom software, electrical hardware, 2011 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Phillips de Pury & other locations
450 Park Ave. at 57th St.
Thursday, August 18, $25, crawl 5:30 – 8:00, cocktail reception 8:00 – 10:00
www.artlog.com
Phillips de Pury, the Humble Arts Foundation, and Artlog have teamed up with six local galleries for this summer’s 57th St. Art Crawl, being held on August 18. Ticket holders first check in to the auction house’s new space on Park Ave. and 57th St., then can head over to Gering & López, where gallery associate director Julie Bills will give a talk at 6:00 on Leo Villareal’s glittering “Cylinder,” a dazzling installation composed of more than twenty thousand white LED nodes, more than 160 vertical rods, and a mirror at the top. At 6:30, art writer Kristen Lorello will discuss the group exhibition “Damnatio Memoriae (or) Creating Memory” at Greenberg van Doren, consisting of works by goldiechiari, Sissi, Cesare Pietroiusti, and Giacinto Occhionero. At 7:00 at Marian Goodman, Dara Birnbaum will discuss her current exhibit, “Arabesque,” a multichannel installation that features YouTube videos of people playing “Arabesque Opus 18,” composed by Robert Schumann for his wife, Clara, and “Romanze 1, Opus 11,” composed by Clara for Robert, along with clips from Clarence Brown’s 1947 biopic Song of Love, in which Katharine Hepburn plays Clara and Paul Henreid portrays Robert. In addition, several other galleries will remain open late, including David Findlay Jr. Fine Art (which is showing the group exhibition “Summerset”), Frederico Seve (“Gego: Prints & Drawings 1963 -1991”), and Pace/MacGill (“Wanna See My Portfolio?”). The evening concludes with a cocktail party back at Phillips de Pury, where crawlers will receive a copy of the Humble Arts Foundation’s The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2.