“Bedtime for Bonzo” Curated By Matthew Porter At M+B
Bedtime For Bonzo was a 1951 film staring future president Ronald Regan and a chimpanzee in which the commander in chief of 80s economy tries to teach with a lab monkey right from wrong. Pretty telling of Regan’s presidential endeavors. Now, Bedtime For Bonzo takes on a new meaning as curator Matthew Porter brings Walead Beshty, Gil Blank, Matthew Brandt, Andrew Bush, Eduardo Consuegra, Moyra Davey, Arthur Ou, Matthew Spiegelman, James Welling, Hannah Whitaker and Mark Wyse to M+B for a group exhibition of images that, when stripped of their original contexts, serve as both index and icon for a decade best defined by a sententious leader. They can also be seen, in the decade before the Internet, as a late-century analog swansong.
Check out the work in the exhibition here.
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