Amuse: The Art of Enjoyment brings together game boards, toss targets, circus poster maquettes, banners, photo-props, and carnival objects that once made amusement…Group Exhibition: Amuse brings together game boards, toss targets, circus poster maquettes, banners, photo-props, and carnival objects that once made amusement visible and believable — from boardwalks and midways to basement tables. Rooted in Frank Maresca's childhood relationship with Coney Island, the exhibition frames these objects not merely as diversions but as a deliberate architecture of desire, their surfaces still registering handwork, worn edges, and the density of paint on wood. Against today's weightless, screen-delivered entertainment, Amuse asserts the value of contact — pleasures that were once grasped, thrown, turned, and moved across a surface, fantasy built through physical experience rather than floating free of it.
