Summer is the Time for Off Broadway Comedy

Goings On
Helen Shaw, Richard Brody, Brian Seibert, Vince Aletti, Dan Stahl, and Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, July 25, 2025

Since the Bruce Silverstein gallery moved to larger quarters in Chelsea earlier this year, it’s put on two excellent, unusually wide-ranging group shows. The current one, “In Sequence,” gathers work that counters the decisive moment with a series of moments, both charged and incidental. Four Man Ray filmstrips from 1928 establish an elegant cinematic model echoed here by Barbara Morgan, F. Holland Day, Francesca Woodman, and Aaron Siskind, all of whom shatter narrative into separate frames. Ryan Weideman’s black-and-white photos of the dramas, comedies, and spontaneous portrait sittings of passengers in the back seat of his taxi fill one wall: a night in the life of a New York cabbie unreeled in a series of moody noir stills with a cast of intriguing characters.—Vince Aletti (Through Aug. 29.)

 
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