At the Guggenheim, Shaun Leonardo encouraged those on all sides of the gun control issue to find common ground with their opponents, by connecting physically.
As 25 participants filed into the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda Thursday night to enact the artist Shaun Leonardo’s newest work, called “Primitive Games,” it was anyone’s guess whether their gleaming white uniforms would remain as pristine by the hour’s end.
Mr. Leonardo, who has a reputation for sinking his teeth into contentious social issues — the numbers of black and Latino men in prison, racial inequality, police use of force — had invited the performers to engage in what the museum had mysteriously presented only as a “nonverbal debate” on an urgent social topic.
