a Titanic remake, a critique of American football and an art-filled lemonade stand

Tales of two Camerons

“Close to, far, wherever you might be…”. These lyrics—from Celine Dion’s theme track for the 1997 blockbuster Titanic—are perpetually printed on the minds of Millennial youngsters turned on by tragic lovers Jack and Rose. All devotees of this watery James Cameron movie will little doubt take pleasure in avant-garde comedian performer Dynasty Purse’s model of the iceberg drama—co-conceived with the video artist SUE-C—to be unveiled at Pioneer Works in Crimson Hook, Brooklyn this week (Titanic Melancholy, 20-21 Might). Dynasty, the alter ego of artist Jibz Cameron, guarantees a multimedia smorgasbord, telling us: “I play all of the characters. A few of them are cartoons. The Billy Zane character is a blue dildo named Dick Assinhole.” Dynasty, there is just one factor to say—draw me like considered one of your French ladies.

Conceptual artwork titan Matthew Barney is having a second. The leisure firm Metrograph is displaying his Cremaster Cycle sequence (1994-2002) at its Decrease East Aspect cinema by means of June. However the occasion that has artwork world tongues wagging is his new work Secondary (2023), a five-channel video set up reflecting the “advanced overlay of violence and spectacle inherent in American soccer”, as his web site says, focusing particularly on a 1978 incident—with some up to date parallels—that left Darryl Stingley of the England Patriots paralysed after colliding with Jack Tatum of the Oakland Raiders.

Lemonade stands are as American as apple pie and Abe Lincoln’s beard, giving youngsters the possibility to promote their finest citrus-flavoured drink whereas internalising the American values of free enterprise and unfettered capitalism. A “lemonade stand” that may promote artwork, not juice, on the Nada New York honest (18-21 Might), comes courtesy of Kids’s Museum of the Arts (CMA), which had the tip-top concept of promoting works created by the youngsters of New York. All gross sales proceeds profit CMA’s Emergency Arts Training Fund, an initiative responding to Division of Training funds cuts. Get your wallets prepared.