As part of your pact to be completely open and say “yes” to everything (even if it’s shocking and painful), please consider attending the Wes Anderson pop-up art exhibition this weekend.
Everyone likes Wes Anderson, but you really, really like him. You’ve liked him since “Bottle Rocket” — the full-length movie and the 1994 short that came before it, obviously. Anderson was finding his form then, breaking into the highly stylized world of surrealism that has morphed into his eight-film directorial canon of precisely controlled color palettes and handwritten notes.
With “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” his appeal broke out of its once-cultish appreciation. The other day you even heard your mom make appropriate use of the term “Anderson-esque” when describing a scene of endearingly polite slapstick. It’s unfair. Being a fan is all about having a great thing to yourself and a few other people.
Anyway, if you live in New York — or more specifically, Brooklyn, like Saoirse Ronan does in this film of this same name — you can make loving Wes Anderson feel special and niche once again. This weekend, Joseph Gross Gallery is hosting their annual “Bad Dads” show. Over 70 artists have gathered for the sixth iteration of the pop-up gallery. Stop by between August 7 and 9 to check out paintings, sculptures and, according to the website, “affordable screen prints,” which you can buy as a token of your personal stake in pre-mainstream Anderson fandom.
See a preview of the show below:
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