5 "Art Things" to Do Over Labor Day Weekend in NYC

BAM Cinematek, Brooklyn
September 4-8

Probably riffing off Straight Outta Compton, BAM screens a whole weekend worth of West Coast hip hop inspired movies like Boyz in the Hood, Set It Off, and Menace II Society. BAM says, “these movies feature the music and visionaries that put the LA scene on the map.

Long Island City
Noon. September 5

Make the last one count!

September 5
The Guggenheim Museum
Free with museum admission.

Matthew Barney’s The CREMASTER cycle is a series of five visually extravagant films made out of order, but presented here in the order of their creation. The films reveal the development of Barney’s relationship to the medium and to his own creative process, and is named after the muscle that involuntarily contracts to raise and lower the testes.

Closing Weekend
235 Bowery, Manhattan The New Museum has two exhibitions closing after this weekend: The Great Ephemeral and Leonor Antunes’ I stand like a mirror before you. Antunes’ lobby installation is a compositional structure based on ancient craft traditions. The Great Ephemeral, curated in collaboration with Meiya Cheng of Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC), responds to the speculative nature of the global market—perfect for your Labor Day musings. Part of the programming’s goal is to examine the “volatile relationship to faith as well as alternative economies focused on caregiving and collective labor."

Little West 12TH Street, Manhattan
Free

Talk a long walk on the High Line and look for the Rashid Johnson installation. The artist’s mixed media sculpture combines mirror, wood, and shea butter with “iconic objects including record covers, CB radios, historical books, and common domestic objects.

Wishing you an excellent Labor Day weekend, from all of us at The Creators Project.

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