Made, Found and Collected: So Many Things

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES The artist Oliver Croy and the critic Oliver Elser preserved “The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz (1916-1992) Insurance Clerk from Vienna, 1993-2008.” The show includes 126 of them. Made, Found and Collected: So Many Things

gallery here — in the belief that they From Weekend Page 17 prevent evil from destroying the world. Poland, where she lived. Although by And the label falls squarely on the the time of her death, in 1997, she hadn’t career of Arthur Bispo do Rosário reached her goal, she had made an (circa 1910-89), a Brazilian artist who, impressive start, shooting the interiors after reporting that he’d had a visit of 20,000 rural homes. Most, however from Christ and some angels, was com- poor, were packed to the roof with mitted to an asylum where, using un- things, their walls plastered with im- raveled clothing and rubbish, he creat- ages of pop stars and Christian saints. ed tapestries, arklike ships and a line of Documenting — which is a version of celestial formal wear, all on view in the collecting — existing collections like museum’s lobby gallery. these constitutes a genre of its own in Yet art isn’t outsider just because it the show. In a 2013 video called “The looks that way. If that were true, the Trick Brain,” the contemporary British market would have long ago jumped on artist Ed Atkins adds terrifically creepy Shinro Ohtake, a highly regarded Tokyo spoken commentary to an old film tour noise-rock musician, who has for of the personal art collection amassed decades been compiling cut-and-paste by the French Surrealist André Breton. scrapbooks that suggest bulging, erup- Beginning in 2005, the Swiss photogra- tive crosses between Rauschenberg pher Mario Del Curto began to photo- “combines” and Warhol “time cap- graph the astonishing architectural sules.” structures by the Canadian artist Rich- Yuji Agematsu, his contemporary, ard Greaves on a patch of woodland in would be a big outsider name, too. A southern Quebec, each an immense New York City resident since 1980, he assemblage of discarded matter held sifts bits of organic matter from the together by wire, and all now de- streets — cigarette butts, chewed gum, stroyed. pins — and encloses them in tiny cello- And in 1993, the Austrian artist Oliver phane wrappers. The results, which Croy and the critic Oliver Elser rescued resemble mini-terrariums or museum almost 400 tabletop-scale models of vitrines, do the heroic job of preserving imaginary Swiss buildings from junk a culture’s base matter but are as port- shop oblivion. They were all made from able and personal as talismans. cardboard, matchboxes and magazine As to the view of art’s being essen- tear sheets, by one Peter Fritz (1916- tially talismanic, there’s a museum- within-the-museum devoted to the idea 1992), an insurance clerk from Vienna Ydessa Hendeles’s collected about whom nothing further is known. here, in the form of an installation photos of people with teddy called “Partners (the Teddy Bear A sampling of the Fritz collection — or Project)” by the German artist Ydessa is it the Croy and Elser collection? The bears, and the real thing. Hendeles. Designed as an insanely show deliberately confuses the roles of Left, over 300,000 drawings neat, claustrophobically dense collectors and artists — is at the New by Vanda Vieira-Schmidt. ethnological display on two levels, it Museum. A group was also included in holds some 3,000 framed photographs, the main exhibition of the 2013 Venice many from early-20th-century family Biennale, “The Encyclopedic Palace,” State Museum.) albums, of people and teddy bears organized by Mr. Gioni. Approximately What emotions propelled that artist’s posed together, and a few vintage ex- hand? Fury? Despair? A spirit-focus- a third of the participants in “The amples of the real thing. Keeper” were also in that Venice show. ing, nerve-steadying desire to deliver The teddy bear was introduced to truth to history? We can’t know. The Danish artist Henrik Oleson was, America around 1902 — Germany also Spiritual love was the force behind the too, though he’s at the New Museum lays claim to inventing it — as a work of the Swedish mystic Hilma af with different work, his 2007 survey homage to President Theodore Roose- piece called “Some Gay-Lesbian Artists Klint (1862-1944), whose 16 paintings velt and quickly assumed an independ- and/or Artists relevant to Homo-Social here are the largest number I’ve ever ent pop-cultural life. Ms. Hendeles, Culture Born between c. 1300-1870.” A seen in New York, and are alone worth multitasking as artist, curator and maze of funky digital prints attached to a visit. Her mind was on history, too. collector, has arranged her pictures in panels, it approaches art history She asked that her paintings be hidden units of classification to illustrate some through a queer eye, dividing it taxo- away for 20 years after her death, by of the toy’s social uses: political mascot, nomically by such categories as “The which time, she hoped, a new age emblem of class status, embodiment of Appearance of Sodomites in Visual would have the eyes for them. It did. commercial success, protector of child- Culture,” “Female Societies, Amazons, it has a reliquary air. Howard Fried, a That event is the subject of the But if she had not lived a middle- hood innocence, adult comforter in a Myths” and “Some Faggy Gestures.” California-based Conceptualist, exhibits show’s single most piercing entry: class life and been academically harsh universe. (Ms. Hendeles is a It’s no-such-thing-as-too-much-informa- the wardrobe of his mother, who died in reproductions of pocket-size pencil trained, would her paintings now be child of Holocaust survivors who lost tion brilliant. 2002. The dark, fetid-looking assem- drawings, probably dating from 1943, slotted as “outsider art” rather than everything in World War II.) It’s also quite personal, as the most blages of the reclusive Hannelore Bar- that are eyewitness depictions of the classic early Modern abstraction? As it As an object, single or multiplied, it absorbing work in the show is. Some of on (1926-1987) were made in the securi- daily horrors of life inside Auschwitz, as is, the outsider label hovers uncertainly serves the basic function that collecting ty of her Riverdale, Bronx, home but recorded by an artist who signed the over the Berlin artist Vanda Vieira- — call it hoarding, call it installation art “The Keeper” continues through Sept. 25 are saturated with a sense of panicked pictures MM. (The original sheets, Schmidt, who turns out streams of — does. It lets us keep the illusion that at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, Man- fatalism instilled by the Holocaust, found stuffed in a bottle, are in the abstract drawings, sometimes hun- we can forever embrace, and be em- hattan; 212-219-1222, newmuseum.org which she had narrowly escaped. collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau dreds a day — 300,000 are stacked in a braced by, what is forever fading away.

From left, “Estrela de São João,” by Arthur Bispo do Rosário; a detail from the artist Shinro Ohtake’s scrapbooks; and some of the Wisconsin whittler Levi Fisher Ames’s creature creations. C20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 On the Sidelines: Sport Photographers as Artists

From Weekend Page 17 for inches with the opposing linebacker. In conversation, Ms. Buckland compared the ball carrier to a Picasso Mi- notaur, for brute power and intent. “My killer photo,” said Heinz Kluet- meier, the photographer, one of the leaders of the pack in the past generation. Mr. Kluetmeier was punning about the fact that the ball-carrier, Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patri- ots, is currently serving a life sentence for murder. During a recent visit to the museum, Mr. Kluetmeier recalled how he caught this primitive physical battle in 2011. He knew the light in the stadium was coming from the left, so he positioned himself to get the best contrast between red and white jerseys. “And then the helmet came off,” Mr. Kluetmeier added with a smile. He said he knew it was a good photo as he looked through the lens. He made his own luck. The best photographers often do. A personal note: In 50 years of writing, predominately about sports, I have had the privilege of working with proud photographers who were competing not only against weather and light and time and space and whatever transpired on the field but also against one another, and most importantly, against their own inner sense of style. I saw them hate themselves when they missed a shot and exult when they had nailed the shot. “A lot of photos have a religious, iconographic aspect — particularly basketball, where somebody is ascend- ing, somebody descending,” Ms. Buck- land said about the cover photo of her accompanying book — Bill Russell DONALD MIRALLE, LEUCADIA PHOTOWORKS GALLERY

Guards Parade Ground, with the sun giving the clouds and the historic Lon- don skyline a rusty glow. Mr. Burnett said that he had also photographed that view, using black and white — a perfectly good picture, he allowed. “Then I saw this one, and I realized somebody had eaten my lunch” — a tribute to Donald Miralle, who took the photo and later told Ms. Buckland that his best work is “pre-con- ceptualized,” that is to say, no accident. She compared his photo to work by the Venetian painter Canaletto for its color and urban setting. The show does not neglect history and social significance: young Cassius Clay evolving into Muhammad Ali; a 19th-century black baseball catcher and a black French cyclist and a modern black West Point gymnast; early female athletes in bulky outfits; two male DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL AND ROBERT ADAMSON, SCOTTISH fans kissing to celebrate a sports vic- NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY tory; and beautiful, muscular champi- Clockwise from top: Volleyball ons of more recent times — Serena Williams, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Magic at the 2012 Olympics in Lon- Johnson. don, by Donald Miralle; a ten- The newer extreme sports are repre- nis player in 1843, by David sented by Krystle Wright, a 29-year-old Octavius Hill and Robert Ad- adventurer from Australia, who climbs amson; and BASE jumpers in and glides in mountains — and also Utah, by Krystle Wright. takes photos. “Freefall” was snapped while Ms. Wright was in a motor-driven parachute off a 400-foot peak in Utah. KRYSTLE WRIGHT “The pilot thought I was an idiot,” she said, recalling how a BASE jumper blocking Elgin Baylor’s path to the readily answer he delivered his opin- accomplished work had also been done and neck supported by a steel rod, leapt — “with the worst possible tech- basket during the 1966 N.B.A. champi- ion: Robert Riger, one of the first stars by the best and brightest sports pho- holding him perfectly still for 120 excru- nique,” a distant stick figure, in freefall, onships, looking like elongated dueling at Sports Illustrated. tographers, including my friend Barton ciating seconds while rudimentary the stuff of nightmares — and she aced angels in an El Greco painting. The two After Ms. Buckland produced a 2009 Silverman, formerly of The New York exposure took place. the shot. men were snapped by Walter Iooss Jr., show for the Brooklyn, “Who Shot Rock Times, admired in the photographers’ She laments that new equipment has The museum has installed a pop-up one of the stars of his generation. & Roll?,” she needed a project, and her scrum as a gifted, intense colleague. He cut back on storage of bulky prints and gift shop, appropriately mimicking a Ms. Buckland’s path to this show partner, Everett Cox, made a one-word is represented in this show by Derek negatives. “In this digital age, they boxing ring, with caps, T-shirts and destroy photos,” Ms. Buckland said of pins, as well as Ms. Buckland’s lush began when she was working in Chi- suggestion: “Sports.” She said he was Jeter sliding fingertips-and-nose-first photographers and agencies that accu- companion book. cago in the early 1970s and met Hugh crazy — she knew nothing about sports into third base, raising a sandstorm. Edwards, the photography curator at mulate great backlogs of photos. “They One of the most stunning photos is by — then she plunged into it. Most Americans’ image of early don’t have them hanging around.” the Art Institute of Chicago. He asked Bob Martin, from directly above the In years of research, she found sports photography involves gory Civil War Many artists in this exhibition are pool, of a swimmer in the Paralympic her who was the greatest photographer photographs from recognized artists scenes by Mathew Brady and col- like athletes, in that they give credit Games, his prosthetic legs waiting on a of the century, and when she could not like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard leagues. Ms. Buckland’s earliest sports when they have been outplayed. David chair — a mixture of Hockneyesque Avedon, Walker Evans, Andy Warhol photo is from 1843, by David Octavius Burnett, an Englishman who has cov- color with geometry and the glory of “Who Shot Sports: A Photographic and Annie Leibovitz, as well as a photo Hill and Robert Adamson, both Scot- ered the White House and Vietnam and the human spirit. Mr. Martin has the History, 1843 to the Present” runs of male cricketers by Lewis Carroll tish, of a young male court-tennis play- the Olympics, recently visited the mu- most photos in this exhibition — six, by through Jan. 8 at the Brooklyn Museum, when he was not visiting the Liddell er, named Laing or Laine, holding a seum and spotted a large and glorious the curator’s count. Not that any of the 200 Eastern Parkway; 718-638-5000, sisters. (All are in the exhibition.) racket. He seems quite poised, consid- color shot of beach volleyball at the proud sports photographers I know brooklynmuseum.org. Ms. Buckland soon realized that ering he is leaning backward, his head 2012 Olympics, in front of the Horse would ever keep score.

Oh, the Horror: A Backyard Barbecue Recalled Liane Moriarty usually packs her Clementine and her husband, Sam, have lit the fuse to much more trouble name writer, there’s a good chance that books with dishier secrets than those come, too. than they can imagine. It hardly helps “Truly Madly Guilty” will be widely that give “Truly Madly Guilty” its title. None of the guests, who include Sam that once the barbecue gets going, read, no matter what. It has all the And you need to get through endless and Clementine’s two young daughters, Tiffany starts talking about her earlier requisite trademarks of one of her hits hinting, foreshadowing, stalling and know much about their grandiose host. life. She used to be a dancer. Her style (“The Husband’s Secret,” “What Alice chapters that end with But the men can’t keep their eyes off of dance required a pole. It wasn’t the Forgot”), a three-word title included. It JANET loud noises (“there was his wife, “the smoking-hot Tiffany,” who limbo. probes some of the things she writes MASLIN a piercing yell from is treated by Vid as one of his prized From around this point onward, Ms. about best: fraught friendships, covert upstairs”) even to find possessions. Add Vid and Tiffany’s Moriarty begins to have serious credi- backbiting, stale marriages. And its out what they are. quiet, spooky daughter, Dakota; their bility problems. She means to use the BOOKS format has become standard for her, OF THE TIMES This Australian au- yappy dog; and a cranky old man, barbecue episode as a way of delving with brief, maddening flashes of What- thor’s winning formula Harry, who often comes by to complain into deep, unresolved hostility between ever-It-Is that don’t gel until she’s always relies on such tactics. In her about the noise, and you have almost ready to let them. All of it is formulaic very popular “Big Little Lies,” she used the full cast. But since Erika and by now. them to good effect, even though the Clementine have known each other But it’s a shame to see her resort to book revolved around a kindergarten. I since childhood, they have irritating Fraught friendships, the level of contrivance that this book mothers lurking in the background, too. actually missed that kindergarten while requires. You’d have to be a very dedi- following the nonevents that go on Now what life-altering event(s) could stale marriages and cated Moriarty fan to believe much of here. emerge from a gathering like this? It’s anything that happens post-crisis. One “Big Little Lies” focused on a terrible, worth plowing through the first half of covert backbiting in factoid borrowed from the plot of a terrible night that Ms. Moriarty used as the book just to find out, even if you Robert Redford film seems absolutely a tease, by endlessly dropping in need to stifle an inner scream every suburban Sydney. glimpses of it and then cutting away. It UBER PHOTOGRAPHY time the author drops one of these: a loony in the context of this story. also had a full panoply of bitchy parents reference to Clementine’s “feelings of When the recriminations involve one character’s blaming himself for trying and nice ones, who went to war. “Truly guilt and horror over what had hap- Erika and Clementine, for one thing. Truly Madly Guilty pened at the barbecue.” Guilt? Horror? to open a jar of nuts, the whole book Madly Guilty” unfolds on a much They have indeed had an awful history, smaller scale: It’s about the day of a By Liane Moriarty “Like the memory of a nightmare you seems to have gone haywire. When in which Clementine was the queen terrible, terrible barbecue, and features 418 pages. Flatiron Books. $26.99. can’t quite get out of your head.” We everyone is tormented by guilt over bee, and Erika was a needy, resentful only a small group of characters. They also learn piquantly that “in Clem- and over again, even torment starts to are well delineated and saddled with entine’s mind what happened would mess; Erika’s mother is a terrible get boring. The most honest thing that various pathologies. (Ms. Moriarty is backyard in Sydney. The event happens forever be tied up with sex. Skanky, hoarder, and Erika still bears the shame happens is that the two old pals, Erika quite good with this kind of detail.) But spontaneously when Vid, a rich electri- sleazy sex.” And that Clementine liked of her upbringing. In other words, the and Clementine, regain their old ability hey, it’s just a barbecue. How earth- cian said to look like Tony Soprano, it. book now moves into its psychiatric to curse at each other in German, using shaking can the fallout be? impetuously invites his dreary next- As Ms. Moriarty peels her onion of a phase, which, unfortunately, carries no words, like “dummkopf,” that they once The author does her damnedest to door neighbors, Erika and Oliver, over plot, we begin to see that Sam and suspense and little interest. Ms. Mo- thought of as terms of endearment. make it seem colossally important. She for the day. Vid is cagey enough to Clementine’s suburban marriage, all riarty has worked her readers into a Like so many small touches in Ms. gives each character enough baggage know that Erika has a much more but sexless, is on the rocks. And that lather without much of a plan to lead Moriarty’s other books, it sounds like for a world tour, even though this is just attractive friend, a cellist named when Erika and Oliver bring up the them out of it. something real people might actually an afternoon in a showy suburban Clementine. And he suggests that subject obliquely, pre-barbecue, they Since Ms. Moriarty is now a brand- do. THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C21 A Son’s Sleuthing, A Father’s Archive And a Lost Brooklyn

By JOSHUA BARONE RUMAN CAPOTE, stern-faced, looks down from the spiral stair- case of his sprawling home in Brooklyn Heights. Three women —T one framed by her furs — sit by the glow of a window at the Hotel Bossert, once known as the Waldorf Astoria of Brooklyn. A dignified W. E. B. Du Bois poses in his house at 31Grace Court, near the Brooklyn Bridge. All of these portraits and more were taken in 1958 by the commercial and fine- art photographer David Attie while he was on assignment for Holiday magazine. They spent decades boxed away and never published and, in many cases, his negatives were only recently printed. It took years of a son’s sleuthing to un- earth his father’s long-forgotten work, but now 40 of these images have made their way to the Brooklyn Historical So- ciety in the exhibition “Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of Da- vid Attie,” on view through next July. One of the photos of Capote, shadowy he had been influenced by his father’s and composed in the crook of the stair- 1977 photography book, “Russian Self- case — “floating upward in white, swan- Portraits,” and asked if there were more simple curves to a skylight of sunny am- images on hand that could be used to re- ber-gold glass,” as Capote once de- vive and exhibit David’s work. scribed it — has a Hitchcockian quality. They met at Eli’s childhood home, a Other images are atmospheric glimpses townhouse in Manhattan where his of an era that feels both bygone (horse- mother, the painter Dotty Attie, still lives. drawn wagons for delivering flowers) Mr. Attie used his iPhone to take some and ever-present (children on the stoops photos of framed prints around the of Brooklyn’s classic brownstones). house, and he sent them to some gallery The show “really captures that time curators. “If anyone responded,” he said, PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID ATTIE when Brooklyn Heights was not the “it was with a brutal rejection.” wealthy place that it was in the He was told that if he wanted his fa- The exhibition “Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie” includes images of Capote, above; mid-1800s, when it was the original sub- ther’s work to get any attention, he would a montage used for a cover of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” above left; and a street scene, below, all from 1958. urbs, and certainly not the place it is now, need to gather any photos he could of fa- but was a little marginal,” said Marcia mous people. In searching, he found sur- “Holiday, Capote, A3/58.” live in Brooklyn. By choice.” on stationery with the scribbled-out let- Ely, who organized the exhibition with prising photographs and undeveloped “For me, it was just another celebrity,” Capote’s writing, like David Attie’s terhead of the Italian ship line Società di the help of the Attie family. outtakes. When Mr. Attie was younger, “I photography, is impressionistic: small Navigazione, are also displayed in the Eli Attie, David’s son, was a teenager didn’t give his work much thought,” he Mr. Attie said of the discovery. But then sketches of life in the neighborhood and exhibition, as are more of the “Tiffany’s” when his father died in 1982. He knew of said. As an adult looking in earnest, he he bought the February 1959 issue of Hol- his home, which was owned by the stage montages, one of which was eventually the work, which often took place in their was impressed to find his father’s photos iday, which included some of the photos designer Oliver Smith. (Capote, true to used as the cover of a paperback edition home studio, but only recently did he re- of the Band, Leonard Bernstein and his father took for the Capote essay “A his character, often said he was its of the book by Vintage International.) alize the extent of the archive and the Bobby Fischer, among others. House on the Heights,” famous for its owner.) Later printed as a small book, Did the writer and the photographer number of 20th-century luminaries his He also found an envelope that said opening line, provocative at the time: “I father photographed. Procrastination, the essay was reissued last fall with the keep in touch after Capote’s essay was he admits, led him to the discovery. photographs, under the title “Brooklyn: published? The unanswered questions While working on a script — he is a tele- APersonal Memoir, With the Lost Photos have piled up. vision writer whose credits include of David Attie,” with an afterward by Eli. One day, Angela Hederman, who pub- episodes of “The West Wing” and It’s possible that “Breakfast at lished the book of Capote’s essay with “House” — he looked up his father on Tiffany’s” played a role in the photogra- David Attie’s work, pointed to a photo Google. The results were few and disap- pher’s hiring for the magazine piece. and asked Eli, “Is that W. E. B. Du Bois?” pointing. The novella, one of Capote’s most be- It was. Ms. Ely, of the Brooklyn His- “He had not left a digital footprint,” he loved works, was published in Esquire in torical Society, asked the Du Bois biogra- said. “That just bothered me. My father, November 1958 but had been originally pher David Lewis about the connection. and someone who I thought was very tal- purchased by Harper’s Bazaar for publi- They speculated that, as neighbors and ented, was unrecognized.” cation earlier that year. At the time, the writers in Brooklyn Heights in the 1950s, Eventually, the younger Mr. Attie art director of Bazaar was the influential Capote and Du Bois may have occasion- found a 2011 blog post about his father’s designer Alexey Brodovitch, who was ally crossed paths; another theory is that graphic design during the early 1950s. David Attie’s mentor and photography the elder Mr. Attie knew Du Bois and was “I knew I’d heard that name before, teacher at the New School. (Among paying him a visit while on assignment. but there doesn’t seem to be much by At- Brodovitch’s other protégés were Rich- Eli also found correspondence between tie on the internet — and even less about ard Avedon and Irving Penn.) the two writers, from around the time the him,” the post’s author wrote. So Eli com- Mr. Brodovitch hired David Attie to il- Capote photo shoot took place. mented: “David Attie was a direct rela- lustrate “Tiffany’s” with montages of im- The mysteries continue with each tive of mine. He actually left commercial ages layered upon one another, the elder newly opened box of negatives, which fill illustration in the 1950s, as it began to Mr. Attie’s signature style at the New several closets from floor to ceiling. The fade, and became a fairly successful School. But Bazaar pulled out. Capote whole process, Mr. Attie said, is “a con- commercial photographer.” sold the story to Esquire, and wrote in a versation with my father, and I get to sort A British photographer, Brian Homer, letter to its fiction editor, L. Rust Hills, “I of be there with him, in many cases be- reached out to Eli on Twitter to say that would not be interested if you did not use fore I was born.” Attie’s photographs.” Esquire published And, with the book and exhibition, he “Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost only one of the montages — “a laughing is beginning to raise his father’s profile. Photographs of David Attie” runs girl with an El Morocco background,” in “Part of what I always sought for him through July 2017 at the Brooklyn His- Capote’s words — but that, Eli said, was a little bit of legitimacy,” Mr. Attie torical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street; helped his father’s career take shape. said. “It’s all getting a little closer to 718-222-4111, brooklynhistory.org. (Capote’s letters, written from Greece that.”

Holding Things Together: He is known, Mr. Dziadual said, Antiques as “the lefty destroyer.” Cuff Links as Reflections Mr. Rodriguez has 20,000 Eve M. Kahn additional cuff links tucked away in his private collection. He said Of Their Owners he planned to write a book about Cuff links have a simple pur- them and create museum dis- pose, but their innumerable plays. forms reflect their owners’ per- A few institutions keep cuff sonalities and manufacturers’ links on view. They appear on ingenuity. After decades of ne- clothing in the Los Angeles glect from academics, they are County Museum of Art’s survey coming to the fore in museum PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD G. PORTER of men’s wear, “Reigning Men,” shows and private collections. Left, cuff links by Victoria Flemming, a glass artist. Above left, on display through Aug. 21. The Richard G. Porter, a marketing Yale University Art Gallery has consultant in Brooklyn, has filled fish cuff links by William Spratling, who had a silver workshop brought out gold oval cuff links an upstairs room in his town- in Mexico that catered to Hollywood celebrities. Above right, a made around 1840, and the New- house with about 3,500 pairs of gold-and-amethyst pair by the jeweler Art Smith. ark Museum is showing exam- cuff links, most from the ples made of sapphires and mid-20th century. “They’re like masks; they were designed by by chains through their cuff mastodon ivory. little canvases,” he said. Winifred Mason Chenet, a Brook- buttonholes. From the 1870s to One particularly important He organizes them by ma- lyn-born modernist coppersmith the 1910s, Czar Nicholas II made pair of cuff links, worn by George terial, color, designer, nationality who mentored Art Smith. She sketches of cuff links that he Washington during one of his and subject matter. During a received as gifts. He owned well inauguration ceremonies, is in recent tour, he opened one of his spent years in Haiti, and returned to the United States in the over 100 pairs, “all of which are the University of Hartford’s dozens of drawers and revealed a holdings of political memorabilia. 1960s after soldiers killed her sadly lost today,” Mr. von Würt- blaze of red, teal and blue rectan- The collection, amassed by J. husband, Jean Chenet. (Nancy temberg writes. gles. He asked me, “You’re ready Doyle DeWitt, an insurance Till, a design historian in New The Missing Link, a specialty for some German enamel cuff executive, was long displayed in York, is planning to publish re- store on West 25th Street in links?” the university’s Museum of cently unearthed details of Ms. Manhattan, has preserved origi- Other materials in his col- American Political Life, which Chenet’s largely forgotten ca- nal boxes with 20,000 cuff links lection include pewter, copper, closed in 2004. The university for sale. They are arrayed in turquoise, agate and lapis lazuli. reer.) has been trying to sell the col- Sports are represented in the The Brooklyn Museum will categories with labels like “Art lection, which is costly to main- form of tiny windsurfers and soon display Mr. Porter’s Chenet Deco Enamels” and “Victorian tain in storage; its potential badminton shuttlecocks, and he cuff links. As rare examples of Bean Backs.” The materials dispersal has caused legal con- has acquired some oddities, like modernist jewelry for men, and include Egyptian scarabs, Wedg- troversy. John Carson, a univer- helicopters, pencil stubs, aba- rare examples of jewelry for men wood porcelain wafers and sity spokesman, said its fate has cuses and matchbooks. “I do designed by a woman, Mr. Har- blood-red feldspar cylinders not been decided. Washington’s have a little gambling theme wood said, “the cuff links expand flecked with gold. The store cuff links remain in limbo. section,” he said, bringing out the gender realm; they totally owner, Michael Rodriguez, and cuff links shaped like stacks of in Mexico catered to Hollywood He sometimes buys tie clips open up and broaden the presen- his assistant, Tom Dziadual, can playing cards with tiny dice celebrities. He owns about 200 and tie tacks that match his cuff tation.” explain which cuff link shapes inside. products from Fenwick & Sailors, links, and he owns a few single- In a new book, “Precious Cuff- were favored by celebrities like Mr. Porter has spent up to a a company based in Hollywood ton cuff links. “My fantasy is links: From Pablo Picasso to Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby, few thousand dollars apiece for known for novelty cuff links in somehow finding the match,” he James Bond,” the jewelry histori- and how designers over the cuff link pairs; his priciest acqui- the form of telephones, micro- said. an Walter Grasser and the gold- centuries have tinkered with cuff sitions, made of gold and ame- phones, oil derricks and horses’ Barry Harwood, the decorative smith Franz Hemmerle point out link formats by adding snaps, thyst, were designed by Art behinds. arts curator at the Brooklyn that “only very few cuff links toggles, pivoting bars and straps. Art for Sale 9002 Smith, a Greenwich Village arti- At business meetings, he said, Museum, pored over the Porter have found their way into public During a tour, Mr. Dziadual ART AUCTION san. Among Mr. Porter’s other “They’re a great little ice- drawers a few weeks ago. “I collections and museums.” The pointed out a shelf full of crystal Wednesday, July 27th at 11am EDT favorite makers are the artist breaker.” They help form connec- completely admire that sort of book, also written by the art cuff links the size of golf balls. ROGALLERY.COM Bid Online or In-Person Victoria Flemming, who drizzled tions between strangers. “They tenacity” in collecting, he said. historian Alexander von Würt- “We have a televangelist who Over 400 Lots of Paintings, Prints, Photos & Sculptures. Picasso, Miro, Soyer, gold streaks on glass, and hold things together. There’s Mr. Porter has given the mu- temberg, describes their origins: wears those,” he said. Another Longo, Ramos, & many more! 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PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP GREENBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Rachel Whiteread’s “Cabin,” on Governors Island, is an inside-out concrete cast of a building, which, if its windows were real, would have a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline. Outside Art: No Museum Walls Here, Just Sun

cast-bronze assemblages of detritus From Weekend Page 1 recovered from around the island, (1993), a two-story building in East apparently the only direct connection to London since demolished, which the place. earned her a Turner Prize in 1993. Yet the setting has the effect of imbu- “Cabin” resembles a backyard tool ing “Cabin” with allusive poetry. With shed or a mountain way station, except the Statue of Liberty rising in the dis- that it’s made entirely of pale gray tance — a beacon of extroverted, all- concrete and can’t be entered. In fact, embracing spiritual generosity — “Cab- it’s a cast of the inside of the original in” suggests an inward-turning intran- Martin Puryear’s “Big Bling,” above, a 40-foot-tall sculpture with a gold-leaf shackle, in Madison Square Park. structure. What you see on its exterior sigence. Calling to mind precedents Left, Meg Webster’s dirt-walled “Concave Room for Bees,” at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. is actually a reproduction of its interior from Thoreau’s humble dwelling at walls and ceiling. Up close, you see a Walden Pond to the Unabomber’s hide- fossilized patchwork of corrugated out in the Montana woods, it evokes an metal, wood clapboards and other types often cranky, sometimes delusional abandoned architecture at the edge of 360-degree flower garden growing from The sculpture calls to mind the Tro- of siding punctuated by blind, mullion- do-it-yourself individualism that still the vast sea may find in it themes of concavely sloped ground and forming a jan horse by which the ancient Greeks gridded windows. runs deep in the grain of American permanence and flux, the material and wok-like bowl 70 feet in diameter. Here tricked their foes. This invokes a popu- Park visitors here for the spectacular consciousness. the ethereal, and grief and celebration. in this blossoming arena, you find your- lar theory of avant-gardism, that of views of New York Harbor and the self in a sacred space of geometric and troublemaking art that conceals sub- Manhattan skyline may wonder why botanical order, a place to meditate on versive purposes under cover of ap- this mute, opaque, tomblike work of art Rockaway Beach Socrates Sculpture Park the wedding of nature and culture and pealing aesthetics. The main clue to Mr. is here. “Cabin” bears no readily dis- Coincidentally, a piece by the Ger- Founded 30 years ago by the sculptor the place of humanity in the universe. Puryear’s intentions is in the gold cernible relationship to the island’s man artist Katharina Grosse also cen- Mark di Suvero on an abandoned wa- shackle and the titular word “bling,” geography or its history as the former ters on a small building on the grounds terfront where ships once docked, which refers to the sort of ostentatious site of a United States Army installa- of a former United States Army base, Socrates Sculpture Park is a charm- Madison Square Park jewelry favored by hip-hop artists of tion. Around the sculpture’s base are Fort Tilden, which is now part of the ingly scruffy green space on the One of Manhattan’s most beautiful past decades. Bling subsequently came National Park Service Gateway Na- Queens side of the East River. The main green oases, Madison Square Park is to refer to anything of flashy, exorbi- Rachel Whiteread’s “Cabin” continues tional Recreation Area. Standing just a attraction of “Landmark,” an exhibition the setting for Martin Puryear’s spec- tantly pricey excess like yachts and through Sept. 25 on Governors Island, few yards from the beach, it’s a derelict celebrating the park’s 30th birthday, is tacular “Big Bling,” a 40-foot-tall slab of multimillion-dollar artworks. a sculpture by Meg Webster called govisland.com/hills. The island is acces- one-story concrete structure, formerly a sculpture whose silhouette resembles Inserted into the middle of a city “Concave Room for Bees.” Inspired by sible by ferry at govisland.com/info/ an aquatics center for the fort’s person- that of an animal of indeterminate whose dominant industry is high fi- nel. Ms. Grosse spray-painted it in land-art works like those of Robert species. It could be an elephant or a ferry. nance, “Big Bling” may be seen as a billowing Abstract Expressionist Smithson, Ms. Webster creates large- sitting cat. Its outer skin is made en- Katharina Grosse’s “Rockaway!” runs messianic admonition to those who swaths of various shades of red, from scale installations indoors and out that tirely of chain-link fencing through through Nov. 30 at Gateway National worship money. Value wealth above all, burnt orange to magenta, inside as well involve dirt, rocks, moss, flowers and which you can see its gridded, wooden Recreation Area at Fort Tilden, Queens; and it will shackle you to a blinkered momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/410. as out, including the shingled roof. It other natural materials organized into infrastructure. Its body is perforated by looks as if it had been painted by the archetypal configurations intended to a kidney-shaped hole, and its head existence of soul-eroding avarice, Meg Webster’s “Concave Room for Bees” wind, which is appropriate considering connect people to the greater cosmos. sports an enormous shackle — a U- making you a slave of the capitalist is on view through Aug. 28 at the Socra- that the building was ruined by Hurri- Approaching “Concave Room for shaped link attached to a bolt running machine. What’s the alternative? Mr. tes Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boule- cane Sandy. The Rockaway! Art pro- Bees” from the park’s main gate, you through the head — finely carved from Puryear’s sculpture offers no explicit vard, Long Island City; 718-956-1819, gram, conceived and directed by Klaus see a five-foot-tall, curving, Minimalist wood and covered in gold leaf. Like a prescription, but in this presidential socratessculpturepark.org. Biesenbach, director of MoMA PS1, has wall of dirt held in place by heavy wire horse’s bit or the ring in a bull’s nose, it election year, it stands as a valuable Martin Puryear’s “Big Bling” is on view been integral to Rockaway’s recovery. mesh. Around the other side, at a point suggests a device by which the great monument to something greater than through Jan. 8 at Madison Square Park; Beachgoers who pause to contemplate facing the river, an opening allows beast might be controlled were it to lucre, a call to liberate life from its madisonsquarepark.org. Ms. Grosse’s virtual dissolution of the visitors to enter and discover a nearly come to unruly life. chains of gold.

Young, Young, Young Critics Evaluate the City’s Longest Slide

By DANIEL McDERMON There was plenty for kids — and adults knowledged that they had not yet en- A verdant expansion of parkland — to do on the island already, said Leslie countered a disagreeable slide. But they opened on Governors Island this week, a Koch, president of the Trust. She noted allowed for the possibility that one could 10-acre parcel called the Hills, with sin- the miniature golf course, playgrounds exist. gular views of Upper New York Bay, far and water sprinklers, a vegetable garden From its base, Slide Hill is just the least across to the bustling docks of Bayonne, and a pair of friendly goats named Rice bit vertiginous at 40 feet, with four shiny N.J., out toward the arc of the Verrazano- and Beans. All of which have helped the metal tongues wagging their way down. Narrows Bridge, or north to the spiky island grow more popular. “Who’s going first?” Manhattan skyline. “We’re at 20 percent more than last “Me,” both critics said. It was designed by an esteemed land- year, already,” said Ms. Koch, who plans Negotiations continued in this vein un- scape architecture firm, West 8, and has to step down this year. til a settlement was reached. The elder been endowed with an appropriately in- But is bigger really better when it critic went first, followed by his junior scrutable piece of concrete art, “Cabin,” comes to slides? Accompanied by two colleague. by an award-winning artist, Rachel freelance critics — experts in the field — They quickly agreed: This slide, and Whiteread. a reporter set out to investigate. its three smaller neighbors, needed more Fine. Great! But what about the In an interview aboard the Governors extensive testing before a judgment slides? Island ferry, the critics — Hudson, 5, and could be rendered. One of the four hills that constitute the Jacqueline, 3 — proffered a slippery set This further research took 10 minutes. Hills is adorned with four gleaming of criteria, verging on the tautological. The slides were deemed impressive. slides, including what the Trust for Gov- “What makes a good slide?” a reporter “Two thumbs up?” ernors Island described as New York (a.k.a. Dad) asked. “Ten thumbs up,” Hudson said as the City’s longest, 57 feet, and reachable only “That it’s a good slide,” Hudson re- critics prepared to depart. by scrambling up an imposing mound of plied. Ms. Koch seemed pleased with the ver- blocks. (The previous record-holder, 45 “Do you mean that it’s all in the slid- dict and shared a bit of advice. PHILIP GREENBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES feet long, is the curving granite slide at ing?” “It’s faster when you’re wet,” she whis- the Billy Johnson Playground in Central “Yeah,” Hudson said. Slide Hill, including a 57-foot slide, is one of the newest entertainment fea- pered, in a nod to the nearby sprinklers. Park.) Pressed to elaborate, the critics ac- tures on Governors Island. A 3-year-old and a 5-year-old recently tried it out. “Much faster.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 N C23 Rocking Out in the Mosh Pit, With Baby in Tow

By ADRIENNE DAY HEN Melissa Auf der Maur goes to work, she often takes her 4-year-old daugh- W ter, River, as well as River’s protective earmuffs: twin plastic clamshells that nearly double the cir- cumference of her head. Ms. Auf der Maur, a musician, and her husband, Tony Stone, a filmmaker, are founders of Basilica Hudson, an arts center in a reclaimed factory in Hudson, N.Y. In April, Basilica hosted a drone festival featuring 24 hours of low-frequency sound with attendees fanned out on sleeping bags inside a cavernous main room. Despite the event’s length, River was hardly the only child on the floor; dozens more from across the Northeast joined her daughter, Ms. Auf der Maur said. “One family made the four-hour drive from Philadelphia with their baby and ended up camping out for the dura- tion.” At a place like Basilica, she said, parents appreciate that kids can run around and be themselves. But kids being themselves is precisely the issue for some music fans. Festivals proliferated in the early 2000s in the United States, when revenue streams shifted from CD sales to live performance. Every year, more and more festivals enter the fray — Panorama makes its debut on Randalls Island in New York this weekend — and they feature as many styles of music as there are shades of glow sticks, bolstered by the money- minting machine known as electronic dance music. But most people who go to festivals are in their 20s, many of them single and looking to have a good time, not censor themselves in case a toddler wanders by. On the other hand, certain longstand- ing pop festivals like Lollapalooza are approaching the quarter-century mark, and fans of live performances like these

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Clockwise from top, the have likewise grown older and started Coachella festival in families. For these fans, music festivals, 2012; Meha Holden, 5, at like braces and Little League, can be a Coachella; festivalgoers DAVID B. TORCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES rite of passage for their children — and playing with the they’re not bothered by any sidelong Convergence installation TRAVIS DOVE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES looks. at Moogfest this spring; “Your life doesn’t stop when you have and the twins Iris, left, daughter was especially excited to see years. “Because it’s in a park, you can al- early because my kids are tired or a kid, nor does your experience of cul- and Fiona Bedford at ture,” said Kendel Shore, vice president Capital Cities, while her 11-year-old son ways get away from the music and re- bored.” of communities at Kickstarter. “It feels 2012 Bonnaroo in was all about Skrillex. group if you need to,” he said. Similarly, Henry Owings of Atlanta completely natural to bring our son Tennessee. “My kids really love crowds and visual But do families tie into the less savory has taken his 5-year-old daughter to see along because for us, it’s about experi- entertainment,” Ms. Geigenmiller said. aspects of music festival culture, the type smaller shows, but not mainstream festi- encing music and culture and connecting “We definitely bond over music.” that tend to make headlines when the vals. “A festival isn’t for her, it’s for me,” with our friends.” tion, but for us, Bonnaroo is a combina- Kidz Jam at Bonnaroo features differ- Electric Daisy Carnival rolls into town? he said. “She’d rather go to the beach.” Connecting with like-minded adults is tion of all of the things we love, like camp- ent child-friendly activities each day, in- While the smaller, esoteric festivals For festivalgoers who do take their one reason Rebecca Hopkins takes her ing and listening to music under the cluding instrument making, communal are a far cry from mainstream festivals children, angry comments can bubble up 15-month-old daughter to festivals like stars.” canvas painting and a tie-dye party. like Lollapalooza, Governors Ball and on forums like Reddit, where one first- the sun-dappled, mellow Huichica, at the Ariel Meadow Stallings also considers Since 2007, Bonnaroo has also had a fam- Coachella, certain elements of hedonism time Bonnaroo attendee posted in 2014: ily camping area, and for those up early endemic to the communal experience of Gundlach Bundschu winery in Sonoma, family time paramount. She took her “I was shocked and dismayed by all the enough, before the music starts around 1 music keep some parents from taking Calif. “There’s a kids’ zone where we’ve then-5-year-old son to Beloved, a music- children there. I saw a mom breast-feed- p.m., there is yoga and a 5K run that fam- their children. met other parents, and there’s space to and-art festival in Tidewater, Ore., to ing her baby during Cake!” ilies are welcome to join. “I can’t expect adults to behave well in put out a blanket under the trees,” she share her passion for dancing. “Of When the actress Alicia Silverstone And for the first time in its 11-year his- that sort of setting,” said Diana Sherman course, we can always dance in the living took her 11-month-old son to Coachella in said. tory, the Chicago-based Pitchfork Music Whittles, a mother in Hoboken, N.J., who room, but there aren’t many places to 2012, there was much hand-wringing by While most event promoters don’t Festival had a dedicated children’s area attends music festivals, but without her dance to a full sound system and light the gossip blogs and a photo-shaming track data on the attendance of children, show,” she said. “Music festivals give me this year. Michael Grant, a lawyer in Chi- sons. “Plus, I don’t want to have to make “Coachella baby” Tumblr. more and more festivals now include ar- the chance to share that part of my life cago, has taken his four daughters, all 10 multiple trips to the bathroom or for Kate Fisher, a former teacher in Ashe- eas designed for families. Fun family with my favorite person.” and under, to Pitchfork for the past three snacks, and I don’t want to have to leave ville, N.C., who has taken her sons to time, traditionally the preserve of theme Parental interest in attending festivals Moogfest and the electronic dance music parks, is another reason cited for taking with the whole family isn’t lost on festival children to music festivals. Why not organizers. Some festivals, even small festival Mountain Oasis, said that choos- Skrillex instead of Six Flags? independent ones like Basilica, encour- Tips for Unfettered Music Appreciation ing festivals is important, as is a parents’ That’s the case for Kristi Roe-Owen, a age children to participate, while others own behavior, which children will model. Bonnaroo veteran. She has made six To quote the Boy Scouts: Be pre- ous families can try Panorama. “You want them to feel like they behave programming specifically for pared. trips to the festival since 2002, its inaugu- them: Austin Kiddie Limits at Austin IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU Your child’s needs long, that they are welcome,” Ms. Fisher CHECK THE RULES ral year. In 2009, she and her husband City Limits; Kidzapalooza at Lolla- Before you go, come first. You must be willing to said. One year, Fishbone played the festi- drove 10 hours to Tennessee from Tulsa, palooza; and Youngershoot at Bumber- become familiar with the festival’s miss the act you most want to see. val Leaf in Black Mountain, N.C., and af- Okla., with Arthur, then 15 months. Some shoot. These festivals offer activities like policies. Know what you cannot bring THINK SAFETY Create a safe retreat ter the first few songs the mosh pit really friends were critical. “People thought we mural-making, music lessons, tempo- inside. (For example, some festivals away from the chaos. got going, so she took her sons back to were just dragging our poor baby welcome strollers, but others ban the tent for s’mores. rary tattoos and child-oriented music SCOUT OUT FIRST AID Know where to around,” Ms. Roe-Owen said. “But for us, them.) Don’t forget sunblock, water But the experience was no deal- performances. find the medical tent. That’s also one it’s all about strengthening the family The programing is generally designed — some festivals allow patrons to breaker. “Are you going to put your kids bring in empty bottles for on-site place to breast-feed if you want pri- bond.” for the under-10 set, but some parents vacy. in a bubble and not let them be exposed Everyone, including Arthur, got more find that their children prefer main-stage refilling — and ear protection. to anything?” she said. “If you’re not PARENT POOL out of Bonnaroo than they did on a subse- acts. Yvette Geigenmiller has taken her START SMALL If it’s your first time Go with other families. O.K. with things being a little messy or quent trip to Disneyland, she added. “For children to Austin City Limits for three bringing the kids, start with a small SKIP THE CROWDS Avoid arriving and loud during nap time, then don’t take the some people, a cruise is their ideal vaca- years running. In 2014, her 6-year-old festival, such as Huichica. Adventur- leaving with the masses. kids.”

Friday File 83 Years Ago “My Man Godfrey” “the daffiest comedy Weekend Entertainments From the the aforesaid live monkey, “the initialed were accorded to him.” Oh, Pokémon Go. You are so today. of the year” and “an exuberantly funny Archives of The New York Times handkerchief of New York’s most charm- The red lanterns were not a problem, Let’s look at yesterday for a moment. movie.” ing and honest banker, a shoe of Jimmy apparently, because the Police Depart- Before augmented reality games had The scavenger hunt that pretty much Durante, the wittiest, funniest or most ment was in on the game and had agreed adults running around on wild pixel started the craze was in New York in amusing man in New York (who was not that scavenger hunters “who had taken chases, their analog precursors had 1933, at a party in the Waldorf-Astoria participating in the hunt) and the right red lanterns from the streets would not them running around searching for mon- hosted by the gossip columnist Elsa man on Park Avenue with a card,” what- receive summonses if the lanterns were keys and hankies and parking tickets. Maxwell. If technical glitches haven’t al- ever that meant. returned within a reasonable time.” The classic scavenger hunt still exists ways made it easy for New Yorkers to First prize was $500, The Times re- The cooperation of the police was not today, of course, but it’s doubtful many of capture little Pokémon monsters, try ported. Third prize was “a case of post- obtained for a scavenger hunt a couple of them are quite the way they were in their rounding up a live monkey in Manhattan. repeal champagne.” years later, in 1935, when an Illinois man 1930s heyday, when New York socialites That was one item on the list at the Wal- The animals were tricky. “One of the “was assigned recently to get a speeder’s conducted such outlandish ones that dorf event, where “a favored diversion of hunters, unable to find the required goat ticket,” The Times reported via The they were lampooned in the 1936 screw- cosmopolitan society in Europe,” the ac- and monkey, returned to the Waldorf too Associated Press, “and started out with a ball comedy “My Man Godfrey,” starring count in The Times said, “had its New late for the judging with a honey-bear right good will.” The policeman who William Powell and Carole Lombard. York premiere on a vast scale.” Other cub, which he had obtained at a Broad- pulled him over was not amused. He Powell played a down-and-outer living items included a “live goat (non-po- way nickelodeon,” The Times reported. slapped the scavenger hunter with a $10 as a derelict on the East River. Lombard litical), a red lantern, the most beautiful “The entrance of the cub made a distinct cash bond to take possession of the ticket claimed him as the “forgotten man” of woman in New York (not present at the hit with those present, and the freedom and forced him to appear in court to an- her scavenger hunt. In his review in The party), the future Mayor of New York of the ballroom floor and the privilege of swer charges. He probably didn’t win. New York Times, Frank S. Nugent called City or his signature, dated last night,” being photographed with his captors MARY JO MURPHY THE NEW YORK TIMES C24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016

July 22-28

there will certainly be dancing in the Lincoln Center plazas at this free annual celebration. The day kicks off For Children at 11 a.m. with a block party on Josie Robertson Plaza, led by Illstyle & Peace Productions, a Philadelphia- ‘ADVENTURES FROM EZRA JACK based dance collective. That com- KEATS’ (Friday, Saturday, and Tues- pany will then perform at 1 p.m. at day through Thursday) Characters the Hearst Plaza, followed there at 2 of all ethnicities came to modern by the Dance Theater of Harlem children’s books largely through the Company and School. The shows end efforts of the beloved author and back at the Josie Robertson Plaza at illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, and now 3 with She’s a Rebel: the Girl Group his creations are back onstage, Project. It features young women, courtesy of Tada! Youth Theater. ages 12 through 18, who worked with This adaptation consists of “Skates!,” original members of 1960s girl a dance-theater rendering of an groups to master their techniques almost wordless picture book about and who will perform with some of two dogs trying to master roller their mentors. More information: skates, and a revival of the musical lcoutofdoors.org. “Maggie and the Pirate,” the story of ‘MOTH NIGHT: SNUG AS A BUG’ a girl and her missing pet cricket. (Through Aug. 4.) Fridays at noon; (Saturday) Moths are irresistibly Saturdays at 2 and 4 p.m.; Tuesdays drawn to light, and the Staten Island through Thursdays at noon and 2 Museum is hoping that children will p.m.; Tada! Theater, 15 West 28th be just as irresistibly drawn to this Street, Manhattan, 212-252-1619, Ext. celebration. The centerpiece is a 5, tadatheater.com. nature hike in which participants will look for moths with a museum guide. CELEBRATE THE CARIBBEAN! (Sun- (Visitors should take flashlights, day) It’s going to feel a lot like the cameras, notebooks and containers West Indies in Brooklyn this week- for observation.) The night will also end, and not just because of the heat. include a related dance performance, This annual festival at the Brooklyn moth-inspired art, a tour of the Children’s Museum introduces museum galleries, face painting and visitors to Caribbean culture through another summer evening treat: workshops that include making a Popsicles. From 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., Jamaican punch; creating a crown 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, for the West Indian American Day Livingston, 718-727-1135, FILIP WOLAK/MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Parade; and, for preschoolers, em- statenislandmuseum.org. barking on a messy art adventure SPRINKLER DAY UPTOWN BOUNCE (Wednesday) El museums — neighbors, across the (The series runs Wednesdays with the Bahamian artist Lavar (Saturday) Asphalt Munroe. The fun will culminate in a Green says that all you need to bring Museo del Barrio and the street from each other — offer, through Aug. 17.) From 6 to 9 p.m., dance party with the Jamaican-born is a towel, but a swimsuit might be Museum of the City of New York clockwise from top, dance, 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, musician Father Goose. From 10 a.m. another good idea. This sports and to 4:30 p.m., 145 Brooklyn Avenue, at fitness nonprofit is inviting children team up for a third year of art-making, tours and D.J. sets. East Harlem, 212-831-7272, St. Marks Avenue, Crown Heights, to drench themselves in fun, cour- summer block parties. The The lineup is at mcny.org/bounce. elmuseo.org. (Joshua Barone) 718-735-4400, brooklynkids.org. tesy of the high-powered sprinklers on its athletic field. The water’s free, ‘DYNAMIC H2O’ (through Septem- and so are the flavored ices ber) Children see New York City’s participants can enjoy on their way water system in action every time out. From 1 to 3 p.m., 1750 York they turn on a faucet. But just how Avenue, at 91st Street, Manhattan, does that water get into the pipes? 888-979-4669, asphaltgreen.org. This new outdoor exhibition at the TWEEN PRIMES Children’s Museum of Manhattan (Thursday) There’s allows small visitors to become no reason that those who love num- architects, engineers and even bers shouldn’t also love words — and plumbers as they learn how water vice versa. The National Museum of makes its way from reservoirs to Mathematics combines those pas- their sinks. A 16-foot water table with sions in this math-centered book club interactive components will encour- for ages 10 to 15. The subject here is age them to make “rain,” build aque- the novel “The Number Devil,” by ducts and conduct experiments. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, in Sussman Environmental Center, the which Robert, a math-averse boy, has a series of 12 dreams in which a CARUCHA L. MEUSE/EL MUSEO DEL Tisch Building, 212 West 83rd Street, FILIP WOLAK/MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK CARUCHA L. MEUSE/EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO BARRIO 212-721-1223, cmom.org. sly creature called the Number Devil leads him on mathematical adven- GET UP & GO! FAMILY ADVENTURE tures. Participants won’t have to RACE (Sunday) Children sometimes subsist on pi alone: A pizza and ice Indian’s free, outdoor summer con- 6:30 p.m., Museum of the City of tend to run away from their parents, cream party will be held between the cert features the rock band Indian New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Walking Tours but in this free fitness competition two sessions of this drop-off pro- City, a First Nations-minded group Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org; sold from the City Parks Foundation, gram. At 4:30 and 6 p.m., 11 East 26th from Canada. You can prepare by out, but a waiting list will be avail- they’ll run with them. Children ages Street, Manhattan, 212-542-0566, Around Town WE BUILT NEW YORK: A LABOR 8 through 12 and a parent or guard- momath.org/home/tween-primes; listening to their albums, the 2012 able at the museum. HISTORY TOUR (Saturday) Work- ian will run a course that includes 12 registration is required. Information on events for possible debut “Supernation” and 2014 follow- THE SECRETS OF PUBLISHING up “Colors.” At 5 p.m., 1 Bowling related landmarks on the Lower East activity stations. Each team (one inclusion in Spare Times should be (Tuesday) Writers, editors and ‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ (Saturday and Green, Lower Manhattan, 212-514- Side, as well as in the East Village, adult and up to two children) must sent to [email protected] by agents gather for this celebration of Sunday) In this version, they won’t 3700, nmai.si.edu. are among the stops on this walking complete a station’s task — basket- Friday at 5 p.m. for publication the the Tin House editor Rob Spillman’s follow the Yellow Brick Road to tour. Highlights include the locations ball free throws, hurdles and a mini following week. Longer versions of OZY FUSION FEST (Saturday) Part literary memoir “All Tomorrow’s “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.” This of the devastating Triangle shirt- climbing wall among them — before Around Town and For Children music festival, part TED Talk, part Parties.” Speakers on the panel, adaptation by Nicolas Coppola, waist factory fire of 1911 and the road advancing to the next stop. The top listings are in a searchable guide at food fair — this event’s debut aims to moderated by the New School pro- artistic director of the Brooklyn where the first Labor Day parade three finishers will receive awards, nytimes.com/events. accomplish a lot. But with a packed fessor Susan Shapiro, include the company Puppetworks, features an took place, in 1882, as well as sites and everyone completing the course schedule lasting from morning to Salon editor David Daley, the Norton original country-and-western score associated with labor luminaries like will get a T-shirt and a certificate. At night, there’s plenty of room to give editor Jill Bialosky, the Grove Atlan- and marionettes playing the parts. the philanthropist Peter Cooper and 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., Marine Park, near the star-studded lineup room to tic editor Corrina Barsan, the Berke- But you can still expect a tornado Museums and Sites the anarchist Emma Goldman. The the Nature Center, 3301 Avenue U, breathe. Among those making ap- ley/Penguin editor Danielle Perez, near East 33rd Street, Brooklyn, and the melting of the witch. tour begins at at 11 a.m., across from pearance are Abbi Jacobson and the agent Ayesha Pande and the 718-760-6999, goo.gl/JWFAIp. Regis- (Through Aug. 21.) At 12:30 and 2:30 ‘ECHOES: CITY, SOCIETY, CONFLICT the Washington Square arch at Ilana Glazer of “Broad City,” the memoirist Aspen Matis, author of tration is required. p.m., Puppetworks, 338 Sixth Ave- & SELF IN HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRA- author Malcolm Gladwell and “Girl in the Woods.” At 7 p.m., Strand Washington Square North and Fifth nue, at Fourth Street, Park Slope, LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS PHY’ (through July 30) This ex- Will.i.am. The full list is at ozy.com/ Book Store, 828 Broadway, at 12th Avenue, Greenwich Village, 888-606- Brooklyn, 718-965-3391, puppetworks FAMILY DAY hibition, part of the citywide festival ozyfest2016. From 10:30 a.m. to 9 Street, 212-473-1452, strandbooks 9255, bigonion.com. (Saturday) There won’t .org. Reservations advised. Modernity X Hungary, is a focused p.m., Rumsey Playfield, Central .com. JOSHUA BARONE quite be dancing in the streets, but LAUREL GRAEBER complement to the sprawling show Park, midpark at 70th Street. “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,” at the Guggenheim Museum through STAR TREK OVERNIGHTS (Saturday) Sept. 7. The geometric photographs This series of sleepovers — of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy are on view conveniently timed for both the Bug Day here, along with photos by contem- latest “Star Trek” film and the ex- The cynical among us might porary artists whose artworks show hibition “Star Trek: Starfleet Acad- say that every date in June, his influence well after his death in emy Experience,” on view at the July and August is Bug Day. 1946. Alma Gallery, 625 West 27th Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Not to mention Bug Night: Street, Chelsea, 347-237-1428. Addi- through Oct. 31 — provides private, Who hasn’t struggled to fall tional events at modernityxhungary after-hours access to the Intrepid asleep while hearing the high- .com. and a chance to watch classic pitched buzz of a hungry mos- episodes of “Star Trek” outdoors on quito? THE FENCE (through Sept. 20) For its the flight deck. The event also in- fifth year, this outdoor photography cludes access to the Space Shuttle But while insects can cause show returns with 1,250 feet of fenc- Pavilion, where the Enterprise damage and disease, the New ing displaying works presented by (sound familiar?) is housed. At 6:45 York Hall of Science’s annual United Photo Industries — the p.m., Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Bug Day mostly highlights organization behind Photoville, Museum, Pier 86, 46th Street and their contributions; mosquitoes which opens on Sept. 21. The show’s 12th Avenue, Clinton, 877-957-7447, won’t crash this party on Sun- roster of photographers, 40 in all, intrepidmuseum.org. day. And it is in many ways a were chosen by a jury, which will TABLE MUSIC BRUNCH SERIES: party, with children’s crafts, also select a grand-prize winner to intriguing favors and even be exhibited at Photoville. 2 Old MARY AKPA (Sunday) One of the latest brunch options in Williams- more unusual hors d’oeuvres. Fulton Street, at Furman Street, “We’re doing a bug tasting,” Dumbo, Brooklyn, fence.photoville burg, Brooklyn, is this prix fixe meal said Liz Slagus, this Queens .com; free. and performance at National Saw- dust. The concept is a throwback to museum’s director of public NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: ‘ALEX- the 16th- and 17th-century “Tafel- programs. The menu will in- ANDER HAMILTON: STRIVER, musik” — music meant for eating clude crickets, which she re- STATESMAN, SCOUNDREL’ (through and drinking. The next artist, Ms. ports taste somewhat fishy, like Dec. 31) It’s the New York Public Akpa, was born in Nigeria and raised their crustacean cousins. Less Library’s turn to take advantage of in California, and her fluid style adventurous palates can try “Hamilton”-mania. This exhibition, blends soul, jazz and electronic protein bars made from cricket PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW KELLY/NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE made from the library’s collection, music. At 11 a.m., 80 North Sixth flour, with flavors like apple provides some answers to that Street, at Wythe Avenue, Williams- cinnamon and peanut butter Above, visitors at a previ- question posed at the beginning of burg, Brooklyn, 646-779-8455, and jelly. ous New York Hall of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical nationalsawdust.org. Science Bug Day. Left, a about the “founding father without a “I have to say they’re pretty UPTOWN BOUNCE father,” Alexander Hamilton: “How (Wednesday) On tasty,” Ms. Slagus said. Not that tobacco hornworm and a does a bastard, orphan, son of a Fifth Avenue, at East 104th Street, children need encouragement. tarantula. whore and a Scotsman, dropped in see photo highlight. Every year those who may have recoiled at broccoli hap- the middle of a forgotten spot in the beehive to observe and honey pily down cricket products. Caribbean by providence, impover- to taste. The truly intrepid can ished, in squalor, grow up to be a The tasting will follow a talk Spoken Word handle creatures like hero and a scholar?” Stephen A. at 12:30 p.m. by Louis Sorkin, Schwarzman Building, New York tarantulas, grasshoppers, to- ‘RE: ZONING: 100 YEARS OF SHAP- an entomologist at the Ameri- Public Library, 917-275-6975, bacco hornworms (sphinx moth ING NEW YORK’ can Museum of Natural His- nypl.org/locations/schwarzman. (Monday) The larvae) and the museum’s own Municipal Art Society hosts this tory, who will explain both entomology (the study of in- Madagascar hissing cock- panel discussion to celebrate the roaches. centennial of New York’s 1916 Zoning sects) and entomophagy (eating them). “We’re taught just to squash Events Resolution, which still informs the bugs, from a very young age, way that urban growth is planned in “They’re an amazing source and this event is just the oppo- NATIVE SOUNDS DOWNTOWN! the city today. Speakers include of protein,” Ms. Slagus said, Hilary Ballon, an architectural “and the reason they’re such a site,” Ms. Slagus said. “It’s (Thursday) This year’s edition of the “You can see through the plant motion movies. Rogue Making, about celebrating them and National Museum of the American historian; Michelle de la Uz, of the sustainable food source is that New York City Planning Commis- you can grow them with a very membrane,” Ms. Slagus ex- which specializes in do-it-your- learning from them.” And may- sion; Patrice Derrington, a professor small carbon footprint.” plained. Each child can pot a self electronics, will help young be bugging out slightly less at Columbia University; James von Carnivorous plants, of plant to take home. visitors make motorized bug when we encounter them each Information on events for possible in- Klemperer, president and design Other workshops will focus bots based on actual species. summer. clusion in Spare Times should be sent course, need no persuading to principal of the architecture firm devour bugs. Midtown Carni- on designing and building bugs. Preschoolers can construct bug (Sunday, noon to 4 p.m., 47-01 to [email protected] by Friday KPF Associates; Gina Pollara, presi- at 5 p.m. for publication the following vores will supply several varie- The Queens World Film Festi- habitats. 111th Street, Flushing Meadows- dent of the Municipal Art Society; ties for workshops at 1 and 2:30 val will host an animation But there’s nothing like the Corona Park, 718-699-0005, week. Longer versions of Around and Jack Robbins, a principal at the station where children can real thing. BoroughBees, of nysci.org.) Town and For Children listings are in architecture firm FXFOWLE. p.m., in which youngsters may a searchable guide at nytimes.com/ Charles V. Bagli, a reporter for The view one digesting an insect. create insect stars for stop- Brooklyn, will return with a LAUREL GRAEBER events. New York Times, will moderate. At