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Poor Forrest, Dead and Gone

To walk into the artist Robert Goberโ€™s installation of paintings, photographs and writings by Forrest Bess โ€” a visionary painter and self-described, self-surgically-altered โ€œpseudo-hermaphroditeโ€ โ€” was to encounter art frontloaded with (as the reader put it) โ€œcultural significance while also being visually intoxicating, or mesmerizing, you can choose a description.โ€

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Sothebyโ€™s Art Handlers & OWS Protest Whitney Biennial VIP Party

Tonightโ€™s Whitney Biennial VIP Party brought together two sectors of the art world that continue to butt heads in this post-Occupy Wall Street world. Chic art world partygoers were lined up on Madison Avenue waiting to drink champagne at the Sothebyโ€™s-sponsored Biennial, while a few dozen protesters and an inflatable cat were bringing attention to the museumโ€™s association with the auction house that has locked out union art handlers since early August.