2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home

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5 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Credit…Snow Yunxue Fu. Art included in the online exhibition: “Well Now WTF?”

Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are two shows worth viewing virtually.

The following art review by Will Heinrich-

James Luna

Ongoing. Garth Greenan Gallery, garthgreenan.com.

James Luna inaugurated his piece “Take a Picture With a Real Indian” in downtown New York nearly 30 years ago. As the title suggests, Luna, a member of California’s Luiseño tribe, simply offered himself to passers-by for souvenir photos. Later he would repeat the performance in a Washington Metro station, and in galleries, sometimes dressing for the occasion in “Indian” outfits, sometimes not, and always getting plenty of takers. The current show at Garth Greenan includes of these performances, a few life-size cardboard cutouts of Luna, and a handful of other works. […]

The following art review by Jillian Steinhauer-

‘Well Now WTF?’

Ongoing; wellnow.wtf.

“Well Now WTF?” is an online exhibition that’s also something of an extravaganza. Curated by the artists Faith Holland and Lorna Mills and by Wade Wallerstein, founder of the digital art space Silicon Valet (which is hosting the show), it features nearly 125 contributions. The result feels like equal parts experiment, grab bag and virtual gathering — which I love. It’s imperfect but energetic and genuine. […]

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