Where to Go and What to See

One of my first photography exhibitions in New York was an Abelardo Morell opening at Bonni Benrubi a few years ago. I remember being amazed, and not only by the ingenious camera obscura photos of apartments' views reflected upside down on their own walls. Bonni Benrubi is a small uptown space and it was absolutely crammed with admirers. Hot and fidgety and loud, the crowd left little room to view the images...which was just fine since no one was even trying. I've since learned that this experience was exemplary of openings: both the breathtaking work and the widespread understanding that the opening is no time to actually appreciate it. Now I enjoy the openings for the people and return on a week day to enjoy the images.

I bring this up because this will be my last Where to Go and What to See for American Photo and Abelardo Morell once again has an opening at Bonni Benrubi, on Thursday. It feels very full-circle to me. Anyway, AP's new associate editor, Lindsay Sakraida, will be posting WtGaWtS starting next week, so you won't miss a show. As for me, details to come, but you haven't heard the last from me either.

~Miki Johnson

(Photo: Grand Canal Looking West Toward the Accademia Bridge in Palazzo Room Under Construction, 2007, © Abelardo Morell)

Follow the link below for details about this and many more photography events.

New York Events

September 23
New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937-1940
Opening
On view through January 4
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.

September 23, 6-8
Photography as Advocacy: A Half Century of Oil and Misery in the Niger Delta
Book signing and panel discussion with Ed Kashi, Michael Watts, Antoine Heuty, and Omoyele Sowore
Open Society Institute
400 W. 59th St., 3rd Floor

September 25, 6-8
Abelardo Morell: Pictures in Pictures
Opening reception with the artist
On view through December 6
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 E. 57th St.

 

September 25, 6-9
Patrick de Warren: Awoken Dream
Opening reception for the artist
On view through November 6
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
560 Broadway, #205

September 26
Catherine Opie: American Photographer
Opening
On view through January 7
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. (at 89th St.)

Other Events

September 25, 6pm
Fashion[able]: Vanda Catucci, Regina Gambatesa, Maki Kawakita, Olaf Martens
Opening
NNM.Gallery
Via Vincenzo Monti 28, Milan, Italy

September 25
Diva: A Group Exhibition of Immodest Photography
Opening
On view through December 13
Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum
5500 University Parkway, San Bernadino, CA

September 25
Paul Caponigro: Select Photographs: 1956 thru 2005; Lois Greenfield: Celestial Bodies/Infernal Souls
Opening
On view through December 14
The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography
Gallery 56, 2nd St. and Ave. A, Turner Falls, MA