In a nod to bell hooks], Ellen Gallagher has taken derisive clichŽs of black representation and forced viewers to consider their continued prevalence in American culture....
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Whitney
Museum 945 Madison Manhattan, NY 10021 Upper
East Side Phone: (212)
570-3697
Museum, Arts
In a nod to bell hooks], Ellen Gallagher has taken derisive clichŽs of black representation and forced viewers to consider their continued prevalence in American culture... [more] (Harris)
Based mostly on found media images, Marlene Dumas's figurative paintings and works on paper explore themes as diverse as pornography, race, and art history, imbuing these once static sources with a painterly, psychological tension few of her contemporaries can match... [more] (Harris)
An important survey of Demand's terrific big color photos of the cut-paper constructions he bases on sites as varied as Jackson Pollock's studio and Saddam Hussein's hideout... [more]
ICP 1133
Sixth Ave Manhattan, NY
10036 West Side Phone:
(212) 857-0000 www.icp.org
Arts, Photo
For this much postponed retrospective, the charismatic photographer-filmmaker-troublemaker brings together work from the books that made and then sealed his reputation, Tulsa and Teenage Lust, as well as the collage sequences, video installations, and feature-length films that followed... [more]
Jack
Shainman 513 W 20th Manhattan, NY 10011 Chelsea Phone: (212)
645-1701
Chelsea, Events
A show inspired by the radical movements of the '60s with work by David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems, Leon Golub, Zwelethu Mehethwa, Ellen Gallagher, Radcliffe Bailey, and others... [more]
ZieherSmith531 W 25th Manhattan, NY
10011 Chelsea Phone:
(212) 229.1088
Photo, Arts
Oatman's elegantly conceived Conservatory is a working greenhouse that incorporates 2,500 glass-plate negatives of police mug shots made between 1899 and 1923... [more]
Belin shows large-scale black-and-white photos of Michael Jackson impersonators and European snack packaging along with sculpture by Drew and a Walker video... [more]
Howard
Greenberg 41 E 57th Manhattan, NY 10022 Upper
East Side Phone: (212)
334-0010
Photo, Arts
Although Leon Levinstein (1910-'88) is hardly the most famous of the many great New York photographers to emerge since the 1930s, he's surely one of the greatest... [more]