A large banner featuring one of George Condo’s Jesters has been unfurled outside of the Metropolitan Opera. The banner promotes the Opera’s current production of Rigoletto, as well as Condo’s current show of work in Gallery Met, the exhibition space in the Met’s south lobby, which opens Monday. (more…)
Dana Schutz, Young Brünnhilde (2011)
With watercolors, colored pencils and crayons, Dana Schutz presents a whimsical and striking interpretation of the opera Götterdämmerung to complete the Gallery Met’s four-part series of exhibitions inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, organized by Dodie Kazanjian. While Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (which translates to “The Twilight of the Gods”) is a superpower of an opera—filled with betrayal, loss, and the clash of gods and men—Schutz’s exhibition breathes life and light into the melodrama.
