ART
15.See Gladys Nilsson
A museum survey is way overdue.
Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street,
through April 18.
Here, 50 years of work by Gladys Nilsson, the great
Chicago-based artist. Her wild imaginings—
arrays of crazy, partially clad, cartoonish figures
and narratives of sex and violence and making art
and getting by—create teeming compositional
blankets that bathe the eye in detail, wit, femi-
nism, bad behavior, and laughter. j.s.
DANCE
16.See Proceso Eterno
The body is a drum.
Baryshnikov Arts Center, March 13 and 14.
Great flamenco has all the cathartic power of a
Greek tragedy and the sympathetic endorphin pro-
duction of watching Olympic diving—the rhythm,
speed, sound, intensity, and ecstasy communicate
themselves directly to your root brain. Patricia
Guerrero, one of Spain’s young innovators in the
field, presents her solo piece with guitarist-
composer Dani de Morón, singer Sergio Gómez “El
Colorao,” and percussionist Agustín Diassera.h.s.
BOOKS
17.Read
The Lantern Man
An assemblage of fears.
Down & Out Books, March 9.
This weird novel by Jon Bassoff starts with a “news
clip” about a teen’s suicide, then reveals an apocry-
phal killer’s tale under cover of multiple framing
devices—journals salvaged from a fire, pages of
footnotes, collagelike photos, stultifying police
reports—to keep the horror disarmingly off center.
POP MUSIC
18.Listen to
Heartbreak Weather
A story of a relationship.
Capitol Records, March 13.
Irish singer-songwriter and former One Direc-
tion member Niall Horan follows up his 2017 solo
debut, Flicker, with Heartbreak Weather,which
seems informed by his 2018 split with Hailee
Steinfeld. The singles “No Judgment” and “Nice
to Meet Ya” trade Flicker’s acoustic folk for a more
wide-ranging, pop-oriented vibe. c. j.
TV
- & 20. Preview and
Wat ch The Plot
Against America
If you’re missing The Man in the High Castle.
92nd Street Y, March 6; HBO, March 16.
Philip Roth’s alternate-history novel, about the
rise of fascism in America as Charles Lindbergh
becomes president, is given the HBO limited-
series treatment, with David Simon and Ed Burns
writing and Winona Ryder and John Turturro
among its stars. Catch the first hour of the six-
part show at a 92nd Street Y screening and con-
versation before its release. j.c.
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