At Sikkema Jenkins & Co., the normally interesting Vik Muniz takes a real misstep with a show titled "Verso" which consists of painstakingly crafted 3-dimensional recreations of the backs of famous paintings and their frames. Laid out on the floor on wooden blocks they look boring and give off nothing. While it's not his style, simple photographs of the backs of the real paintings (or even my photographs of Muniz's new work) seem more interesting to me. But don't worry - it gets better ... and worse!
Case in point for better: a show at Carolina Nitsch Project Room of a collection of seminal Japanese postwar photography books. While it seems that everyone has been all over Japanese photography, the show is done with great care and even includes a video projection of every page of every one of the 20 or so books that make up the collection.
A general view followed by a close-up of a rare Sugimoto accordion fold book:
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