{"id":1920,"date":"2010-09-18T23:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/charles_ledray_in_boston_not_c\/"},"modified":"2010-09-18T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T06:45:03","slug":"charles_ledray_in_boston_not_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/charles_ledray_in_boston_not_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles LeDray in Boston (not coming to Seattle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.speronewestwater.com\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/artists\/record.html?record=20\">Charles LeDray<\/a> debuted in Boston with a solo show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icaboston.org\/exhibitions\/exhibit\/ledray\/\">ICA<\/a> through Oct. 17. Sebastian Smee in the Boston Globe loved it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> LeDray is one of contemporary art&#8217;s brightest stars, and this show, organized by the ICA&#8217;s Randi Hopkins, is the most beautiful, poignant, and witty show the ICA has mounted since moving to its new waterfront home in 2006.<br \/>\nLeDray treats clothes as surrogates for human identity, particularly male identity, and for the many types of work that go into constructing it. As such &#8212; and unlike the fashion industry, which is founded on an unblinking faith in the potential of clothes to communicate power, beauty, and self-worth &#8212; his work is intensely alive to the pathos clothes can communicate, and to the many senses in which they just don&#8217;t . . . quite. . . fit. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/theater_arts\/articles\/2010\/07\/16\/lifes_wear_and_tear\/\">more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LeDray&#8217;s <i>workworkworkworkwork<\/i> travels to the <a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/Exhibitions\/Upcoming\">Whitney Museum of American Art<\/a> (the entire third floor, November 18, 2010-February 13, 2011<b>)<\/b> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfah.org\/home.asp?par1=1&amp;par2=1&amp;par3=1&amp;par4=1&amp;par5=1&amp;par6=1&amp;par7=&amp;lgc=0&amp;eid=&amp;currentPage=\">Museum of Fine Arts, Houston<\/a> (dates TBA). Although LeDray comes from Seattle and was a guard at the Seattle Art Museum, his exhibit is not scheduled for a Northwest stop. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"charlesledrayplaid.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/charlesledrayplaid.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"440\" width=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles LeDray debuted in Boston with a solo show at the ICA through Oct. 17. Sebastian Smee in the Boston Globe loved it: LeDray is one of contemporary art&#8217;s brightest stars, and this show, organized by the ICA&#8217;s Randi Hopkins, is the most beautiful, poignant, and witty show the ICA has mounted since moving to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}