The Art Scene: 03.08.18

Photos at Ashawagh

Photographers East, a group of East End photographers formed in 1991, will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday and Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Participating artists are Bill Alves, Nina Bataller, Fred Bertrand, Marilyn Di Carlo-Ames, Gerry Giliberti, David Gilmore, Art Goldberg, Dennis Maroulas, Joe O’Haire, Sandy Peabody, Dainis Saulitis, Fred VanderWerven, and Denis Wolf.

Wilson in Minneapolis

Robert Wilson, the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, has created “Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty,” an exhibition on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art through May 27.

Each room of the exhibition evokes an aspect of life within China’s imperial palace during the Qing dynasty, which ruled for more than 250 years, until 1911, and combined power with beauty to create a golden age of art. 

“I go through all the spaces until I know something about what it smells like, and something about the light, generally speaking,” Mr. Wilson said of his approach to the exhibition in an interview in Apollo magazine. “And then I work with curators, because the curators know the collection much better than I do. . . . I’m not trying to lecture people with this exhibition — this is something I experience, and something I want to see, and it’s also something for children.”