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Delicate Paintings from Drag Icon Vaginal Davis Meet Monumental Sculpture From Louise Nevelson
With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.
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Hints of Queer Desire in Erased Pornographic Images
In Stephen Irwin's altered images of pornography magazines, figures previously engaged in sex acts are now alone, or barely present at all.
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Torpedoing the Masculinity of Military Power
Marianne Vitale’s exhibition at Invisible-Exports, Equipment, cannily alludes to the preening masculine vanity that comes to the surface through the machinery of military power.
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Cary Leibowitz and the Comedy of Contempt
Cary Leibowitz seems to want to make us laugh.
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Clifford Owens’s Scatological Whispers
In the past five or six years, Clifford Owens’ provocative performance work has begun to garner notable, sometimes polarizing, attention.
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Best of 2014: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows That Weren't in Brooklyn
Let's face it: there's Brooklyn, and then there's the rest of New York City. (Sorry, rest of New York City!)
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Consummating the Erotic Art of Two Souls
Invisible-Exports’ current show represents the agglutination of two transgressive, visionary, and carnal artists born 50 years apart in the 20th century.
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Cary Leibowitz's Particular Shade of Pink
Not all shades of pink get equal attention. The glut of carnation pinks, the flood of hot pink, and the surges of magenta in street fashion, web design, and art — well, it adds up to a visual culture that leaves out other shades of pink. Cary Leibowitz's new solo show (paintings and belt buckles) is
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The Death of Context at NADA New York
With the permanent invasion of art fairs into the art world economy like a plague, most galleries, no matter how cutting-edge or avant-garde, seem to believe (whether from actual or perceived necessity) that they must participate in all of the increasingly frequent art fair seasons. This endless str
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LOST on the Lower East Side
Some people look at the world and imagine it will all disappear. The sun expands into a red giant and consumes the Earth, charring everything away. Technology overtakes humanity and the rational shapes of geometry replace the uncertainty of modern life. The frenetic urban canyons of New York are deserted
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Angry Art Letters on the Lower East Side
Ridykeulous, founded by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner in 2005, describes itself as an effort to “subvert, sabotage, and overturn the language commonly used to define feminist and lesbian art,” primarily through exhibitions, performances, and zines. Attacking the marginalization of queer a