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In One Artist's Body, the Legacies of Continental Trauma
Carlos Martiel continues his gripping, often devastating explorations of bodies marked by history, culture, and place with a performance at Y Gallery.
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The Cautionary Tales of Dead Birds Fashioned from Textiles
Tamara Kostianovsky's exhibition at Y Gallery features sculptures of butchered fowl made from salvaged fabric.
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Walls that Border on the Absurd
In the hands of artist C.J. Chueca, walls become objects for philosophical inquiry.
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Women Do Run This Thing
We Run Things at the Y Gallery, featuring the artists Mie Olise, Manuela Viera-Gallo, and Summer Wheat, is an excellent show.
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Nature’s Dark Edge
To get to Y Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you have to climb five long flights of rickety stairs.
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Brief Interventions with Hideous Men
Oscar Wilde was suspicious of men in suits. He once famously remarked that "with an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized."
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Guilt Complex: Selling Painting by the Square Foot
One of the most cleverly paradoxical shows to come around in a long time is G.T. Pellizzi’s The Red and the Black at Y Gallery, an installation of plywood walls built out a couple of feet into the exhibition space and painted entirely in — you guessed it — red and black.