04 Made, Not Born
Nobody arrives as an icon; the icon is manufactured, frame by frame. A route from the machinery behind a legend to the invented selves staged downtown.
Nobody arrives as an icon; the icon is manufactured, frame by frame. ’Becoming Marilyn’ at Staley-Wise lays the machinery bare — Avedon, Halsman, Bert Stern and a dozen others catching the seam between a person and the persona built on top of her. That question of how identity gets assembled ripples downtown: ’Trade Winds’ gathers a diaspora of makers reworking inherited images of self, and Perrotin’s Orchard Street rooms stage invented worlds with a wink. The route runs SoHo to the Lower East Side and keeps asking the same thing — where does the real face end and the made one begin?
- 01Trade WindsJenkins Johnson Gallery · 385 BroadwayCloses Aug 21
- 02Perrotin130 Orchard Street · 3 shows
- HUGO TORO — ’OJO DE AGUA’
- HOLLY LOWEN — ’COLOSSEUM’
- TOUCH GRASS
- 03Becoming MarilynStaley · 100 Crosby StreetCloses Aug 21
Becoming Marilyn
Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.
Trade Winds
Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.
HUGO TORO — ’OJO DE AGUA’
Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.
HOLLY LOWEN — ’COLOSSEUM’
Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.
TOUCH GRASS
Deep dive in progress - who/what/why/connection coming from Lude.