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Article: An afternoon in Chelsea: summer in Chelsea is when gallerists are more likely found in Quogue or Crete, leaving behind shows often seen as seasonal filler. But that doesn't mean the neighborhood isn't worth a visit, as this--the first in a regular series of gallery tours--proves.(A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts)(The name of this show is not Gay Art Now)(The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art)(Dereconstruction)(Theater review)
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- July 17, 2006
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The name of this show is not Gay Art Now
1 Paul Kasmin, 293 Tenth Ave.; through July 14
Jack Pierson knows how to push the boundaries of gay iconography, as in his photographs of pouty, bare-chested young men exhibited under the series name "Self-Portrait." His curatorial effort here, however, comes off conservative. Pierson has included artists who are not gay but whose work is associated with gay identity, so we see one of Elizabeth Peyton's tousled dandies and an early work by Matthew Barney ("for his willingness to 'go there' and ... because he is cute," writes Pierson). Icon-worship dominates, in portraits of Liz and Judy. But there may be some life ...