Red Grooms’ first major artistic breakthrough was Ruckus Manhattan , a 1976 installation at New York’s Marlborough Gallery that cemented his reputation while elevating the gallery’s profile. Now 88, Grooms has returned to his native Tennessee , where David Lusk Gallery has assumed his representation following Marlborough’s closure earlier this year. The timing feels apt: As the Brooklyn Museum revisits Ruckus Manhattan in Excerpts From “Ruckus Manhattan,” Lusk celebrates the artist’s enduring local legacy with an exhibition devoted to Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel , the beloved work that endeared him to his home state .

Red Grooms: Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel

Through Dec. 20 at David Lusk Gallery

Grooms will be in conversation with former Tennessee State Museum curator James H

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