PERFORMANCE

Suzanne Bocanegra: Honor, an Artist Lecture

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022
7:00 PM

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25-$125
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The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. What’s weird is that the two of these I’ve seen already were fascinating, compelling: a seemingly bad idea gone right. This one addresses Bocanegra’s obsession with a 16th Century tapestry in the Met’s collection called Honor. Lili Taylor becomes the first actor to do more than one of these.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I myself learned French Bistro at the original Downtown Quatorze, and it’s wonderful that they’re still plugging away in a more northerly location that arguably needs them more.