Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan”June 13, 2025–June 5, 2026
About This Event
Live event at Brooklyn Museum
About Ruckus Manhattan
“Ruckus Manhattan” is presented at the Brooklyn Museum as a live, exhibition-driven event built from Red Grooms and Mimi Gross’s pop-inflected vision of city life, realized with The Ruckus Construction Co. It treats Manhattan as both subject and material: streets, crowds, and spectacle reduced to bright, compressed scenes that read like reportage rendered in paint and construction. In a city where art often chases novelty, its value is historical. It preserves a downtown-era sense of New York as lived theater, not brand.
About the Artists
Red Grooms
Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist known for bright, pop-inflected constructions that turn city life into crowded, kinetic tableaux. Early on, he studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, where he picked up the nickname “Red” while working restaurant jobs.
Mimi Gross
For the first time in more than 30 years—and on the city’s 400th birthday—experience a fantastical and hilarious tribute to New York. Ruckus Manhattan opened at Marlborough Gallery in 1976 as a sprawling, 6,400-square-foot “sculptural comic book” of urban life.
The Ruckus Construction Co.
Ruckus is a full-service digital agency specializing in web design, app development, branding & interactive marketing.