Art

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AND LEONARDO, TOO “Live Through This” features two new videos and a photographic series by American artist Alex McQuilkin. In the video “Romeo & Juliet (I Wanna Be Claire Danes),” she re-creates the final scene of Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” in which she acts the roles of both Romeo and Juliet. Through Monday, April 29, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Marvelli Gallery, 526 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, second floor, 212-627-3363, free.


GREAT BRITTON Landscapes and portraits by the American painter James Britton (1878-1936) are on display. Britton lived and worked in Connecticut, New York City, and Sag Harbor, Long Island, and was known as an artist and a critic. Britton moved to New York at 17 to apprentice as an illustrator at Scribner’s magazine and to study at the Art Students League. Later, while living in Greenwich Village, he organized a group of painters and sculptors known as the Eclectics. As a critic for American Art News, he reviewed events including the Armory Show of 1913. Through Saturday, April 29, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Nabi Gallery, 137 W. 25th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, free.


GARDEN GLIMPSE New paintings and drawings by Mike Cockrill are on display in “Over the Garden Wall.” The children in his storybook-influenced images are often surrounded by crows, foxes, or tigers. Through Sunday, April 16, Friday-Monday, 1-7 p.m., 31 Grand Gallery, 31 Grand St. at Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-388-2858, free.

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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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