the Johnson Museum and the Creative Writing Program, funded by a grant to the Museum from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | BSB is happy to share the vibrant, multi-layered work of local painter Mary Beth Grable. Creative Space Gallery| 215 The Commons/ E State St, Ithaca | Solo show by recent alumna, Carolyn Hoffman (BFA ‘15). The mixed-media paintings explore relationships at play within oneself and the polarity that can exist within a single character. CAP Art Space | 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Elizabeth McMahon, “Dash, Lift, Slide” With a spontaneous play of color, shape, and line, Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon moves in and out of abstraction and reality in her new paintings, prints, and collages. Visit http://www.artspartner.orgVisit http:// www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street | Michael Sampson “Re-Worked” I put aside and returned to these oil paintings for two years. As time went on the paint became thicker–a concrete or stucco–and as I worked and re-worked the paintings, they became denser. The end result is a thick impasto, which borders on relief. Call 319-0500 or visit www.thecellardor. com Ink Shop | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center , 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Annual Members’ Exhibit. Kitchen Theater Company | 417 West State St, Ithaca | Sally Ryan “OPEN DOORS,” a collection of Ryan’s paintings, is on display in the Judith Holliday Lobby Gallery. State of the Art Gallery | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Lyric Viisions, Part II - Gallery members show work created in response to the poetry of sixteen regional poets. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture. A poetry reading will take place Sunday, February 14 at 2pm. www.soag.org Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | Kent Goetz: Branching Out. Kent Goetz explores the way tree limbs intersect and collide with each other forming intricate, organic shapes and revealing the drama implicit in the way
HeadsUp Deadpool’s Screen Debut by Bryan VanCampen Deadpool, directed by Tim Miller, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.
R
yan Reynolds has been knocking around the movie business for more than 20 years. I first remember seeing him in 1999’s tween Nixon satire Dick, and if I had to pick a stand-out role, it would be his surprising turn in 2006’s Smokin’ Aces. For me, Reynolds has remained generic and anonymous no matter what he does. Now, as the potty-mouthed psychopath comic book anti-hero Deadpool in the new movie by the same name, Ryan Reynolds has finally found the movie role that puts him on the map. Reynolds’s Marvel character has a pleasing alliterative name—Wade Wilson—and he does play a guy with superpowers trying to protect his girlfriend (Morena Baccarin) from the obligatory British bad guy (Ed Skrein), but the whole thing is blown so far over the top with profanity, obscure pop references (my favorite might be Ronnie Milsap or Juice Newton) and meta breaking of the fourth wall, that it sure doesn’t feel like the same ol’ same ol’ superhero stuff. It’s also the eighth film in Fox’s X-Men series, but it even makes so much fun of that mutant gang that it feels like the Mel Brooks version of itself. Deadpool lets you know from its
they integrate and conflict with the world they inhabit. Call: 273-2848 or Visit: collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | BEN ALTMAN: SEEING MEMORIALS. Ben Altman addresses remembrance of intractable modern histories through 48 photographs of memorials, preserved sites, and evocative scenes and signs. Call: 272-1774 or Visit: csma-ithaca.org Elevator Music and Art Gallery | @ New Roots Charter School (116 North Cayuga Street/The Clinton House elevator music | Ashley Click: Smoke and Mirrors. Visit newrootsschool.org or call (607) 882-9220 EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen. Jim is no stranger to Ithaca, as his murals adorn the walls of many
very first shot—one of those signature David Fincher camera moves through a giant freezeframe of incredible ultraviolence set to Newton’s “Angel of the Morning”— that it knows what kind of genre movie it is satirizing. The credits are credited to “A Gratuitous Cameo” and “The Comic Relief,” the producers are, well, unmentionable, and the writers are “The Real Heroes Here.” Reynolds’ Deadpool, clad head to toe in a red vinyl suit, starts out as a special forces op/hired goon, gets incurable cancer and is remade by X Forces agents into the title character, a sarcastic ne’er-do-well who likes Salt N’ Pepa and breaking the fourth wall to make Groucho-like comments. At one point, he breaks the fourth wall, then does it again, resulting in what, 16 walls? This isn’t even Reynolds’ first comic book rodeo. He played a terrible, mute, neutered version of the Deadpool character in the first solo Wolverine movie, sending fans into Hulk-sized hissy fits. He then made the thoroughly generic and undistinguished Green Lantern movie a few years back, so going into this, his geek cred with Comic Book Nation was in serious doubt. Luckily, Reynolds isn’t so delusional as not to know all this, and so Deadpool doesn’t just rip on the conventions of funny books and funny book movies, it also rips
eateries and public buildings. His is a world unto itself with colossal-headed men and a fiery sense of fun. He has done some cracking new work for the show and it’s sure to excite. Call 342.4414 or visit eyeithaca.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | OPENING EXHIBIT - Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island January 30-May 29 | The first public display of three conserved abstract murals from the future Cornell Tech campus in New York City. ONGOING EXHIBITS: The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai January 23-May 29 | Video and new work by Arunanondchai alongside a monumental print by his
Ryan Reynolds stars as Deadpool. (Photo Provided) on Reynolds, his forgettable film oeuvre, and his crappy track record. When he gets wheeled in to finish his heroic transformation, he begs the bad guys, “Please don’t make the suit green … or animated!” Aside from Ant-Man and the Thor movies, I’ve been enjoying the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe films, but even they are settling into a PG-13 pattern where all the heroes are very chaste, no one really dies and everything is somewhat family-friendly and sanded down to appeal to the global box office. Then the Netflix series Daredevil and Jessica Jones laid the groundwork for a
mentor, Tiravanija, showcase two generations of Thai artists. Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art - January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www. museu cornell.edu Lot 10 | (106 S. Cayuga Street) | Dan Emerson, a recent BFA graduate from SUNY Cortland, will be exhibiting his work at Lot 10 during the months of January and February. Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca |Project for a Re-volution in New York features installations by 22 local, national and international artists. The Project asked artists to contemplate the meaning of revolution in all its connotations,
as a rotation, an overturning, in its Marxist sense, and as an action of a whirling mechanical device. The exhibit is made possibly in part by funds from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County and the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation. Other exhibits on display in the Avenue of the Friends include “Hats, Shoes and Accessories from the Downton Abbey Era” and the winners of the MLK Poster Contest. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www.tcpl.org Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs. 11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | LOST TREASURES FROM THE TITUS GALLERY COLLECTION. Original art and limited edition silkscreens by well known artists including Leonard Baskin,
Mercada and Daphne Sola, to name a few. Call 277-2649 or visit http://www. titusgallery.com Ulysses Philomathic Library | 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Showing Jim Mason’s Digital Photography. Many of the pieces are limited edition giclée canvas prints with rich color and detail. Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Hannah Leeber. Hannah will be exhibiting her photo series “The 5th Stage”. The show runs through February 28. Monthly exhibits are curated by Allison of ARTe, http://www. ARTeFLX.com.
Got Submissions? Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.
ThisWeek
Kyle Robertson,
much grittier, sexual and violent version of the MCU. As I wrote in my column about the best films of 2015, I stated the obvious, that these shows were most emphatically not for children. But as someone who grew up during the transition from comic books to graphic novels, I began to wonder when or if the films would ever catch up to books like Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. Surely the Zack Snyder adaptation wouldn’t be the only comic book movie with graphic sex and violence. With the arrival of Deadpool, it isn’t. •
Momenta Quartet,
Buffalo Street Books, Sunday, February 21, 1:00 p.m.
Barnes Hall, Sunday, February 21, 2:00 p.m.
Praised by the Washington Post for “an extraordinary musical experience” and by the New York Times for its “diligence, curiosity and excellence,” the Momenta Quartet is celebrated for its innovative programming, juxtaposing contemporary works from widely divergent aesthetics with great music from the past. Momenta has premiered over eighty works and collaborated with over 100 living composers while maintaining a deep commitment to the classical canon. In addition to its concerts at prestigious venues in the continental U.S., Momenta has performed in Hawaii, England, Singapore, and Indonesia.
“Broadway. New York. 1922. The population lives in fear as a masked criminal stalks the streets and haunts the theaters, causing disaster wherever he goes. No production is safe from his deviously brilliant methods of sabotage. In the opinion of lower-class janitor Tom Wilkins, the snobby actors and managers who....” So begins recent Ithaca College graduate Kyle Robertson’s debut novel The Showstopper. Come and meet the author as he reads from said book.
T
h e
I
t h a c a
T
i m e s
/
F
e b r u a r y
1 7
-
2 3 ,
2 0 1 6
33