Review: I wanted to love this Leonard Cohen exhibit, but was overwhelmed by gimmicks and kitsch
Leonard Cohen is the focus of a new exhibition, “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything,” though Sept. 8 at the Jewish Museum in New York. By Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee Art critic Email Bio Follow Art critic April 17 at 12:00 PM NEW YORK — Leonard Cohen died the day before Donald Trump was elected president.
The problem is that, by and large, the art is blah. That’s a shame, because there is some great Leonard Cohen-inspired work out there that’s fresh, uncomplicated, poetic and true. It’s just not in this show. It sounds impressive, but it felt digital and tacky. When the dirge finally ended, I rose to my feet with relief.
But it gets better. The seat beneath you vibrates in proportion to how loudly you sing into the microphone, thereby “closing the circuit of collective resonance,” says the wall label, and connecting you to “the universal Cohen magic.”There are better things in the show — Christophe Chassol’s “Cuba in Cohen,” for instance.
Candice Breitz’s “I’m Your Man ,” 2017. Candice Breitz, an artist with a knack for taking singalong cliches and shifting them up a gear into something more interesting, has a video installation called “I’m Your Man .” Breitz separately filmed 18 aging men passionately performing Cohen’s 1988 comeback track, “I’m Your Man,” in a recording studio.
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