To Do in NYC: Shearer show

Speaking of stuff happening in New York: I was interested in this from Deborah Solomon’s Q&A with Harry Shearer in the NYT Magazine:

This Friday, you have a show opening at the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York. Are you a visual artist of some kind? I collect video footage of political and media types who are always yakking at us on television — the footage I collect is of them not talking. The project is called “Non-Talking Heads.”

The gallery’s site says:

Well-known personalities from politics and the media are caught here in the moments before “going live”. Each portrait hangs silent, still, cheek to jowl in Shearer’s living, breathing portrait gallery.

I’m not sure what the presentation will be from either of these bits, but I’m picturing a bunch of TV screens with silent video loops, and I think it sounds fantastic. I believe I have mentioned before Shearer’s “Silent Debates” series on My Damn Channel. That’s here, link goes straight to video.

The gallery is at 522 West 24 Street, New York. It opens Friday night, per above, but normal hours are Tue-Sat 10 to 6, and personally I’d rather look at these in silence, not at a party.