Luhring Augustine Gallery

Playing in the back room of Luhring Augustine, behind the camp maximalism of Yasumasa Morimura’s huge photo self-portraits, is a mesmerizing reel of Charles Atlas videos that he has titled “Anamneses,” or “remembrances.” Accounting for edits and adjustments, its eight pieces date from 1972 to the present. Altogether the videos are infused with an astonishing amount of emotion, some of it coming from the anguished context of the AIDS crisis. They’re also about gender, photography, irony, performa