The Photography of Dorothea Lange

Tatkon Center Art Gallery

Aug. 21 – Sept. 30

As part of “The Grapes of Wrath at the Tatkon Center” series, a collection of Dorothea Lange’s photographs will be hanging until tomorrow. The collection includes the most famous images of her photographic documentation of the lives of California migrant workers in the 1930s, as well as some of her photographs documenting U.S. internment camps. The exhibit contains some of Lange’s most iconic works.

The Film and Video Works of Gordon Matta-Clark

Johnson Museum of Art

Sept. 12 – Dec. 13

The Johnson will be exhibiting the work of Cornell graduate Gordon Matta-Clark ’68 this fall. The self-described “anarchitect’s” deconstructionist work is largely preserved only on film. The museum will be repetitively screening two films per week. The exhibit is in its third week and will restart its rotation Oct. 10. Also included as part of the exhibit, Matta-Clark’s film “City Slivers” will be projected onto the east of the museum Sept. 12 – Nov. 5, sunset until 11 p.m.

First Friday’s Gallery Night of Ithaca

Ithaca Commons

Oct. 2, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m.

The work of local artists (including some Cornell professors and students) will be exhibited next Friday at 14 galleries in the Commons. The event will feature tours of all the participating galleries, and will take place the first Friday of each month. This week will be the second Gallery Night.

Zevi Blum: A Retrospective

The Ink Shop and Olive Branch Press

Oct. 5, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Artist Zevi Blum ’78 will be speaking as part of a retrospective of his work. The event is in accompaniment with the exhibition running Sept. 4 – Oct. 28. The Parisian born artist spent a great deal of his life in Ithaca, graduating from the Architecture Program at Cornell and teaching at both Cornell and Ithaca College. He will also be at Second Reception Oct. 2 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

— Ruby Perlmutter