1. 1. Sue de Beer

   At Marianne Boesky Gallery

   A new video installation titled “The Quickening,” inspired by the Salem Witch Trials, takes an oblique look at female sexuality, sin, persecution, and the possibility of being freed from such constraints.

2. 2. Robert Bechtle

   At Gladstone Gallery

   The artist’s San Francisco streetscapes from 2000 to 2006, including the first American exhibition of his beautiful “Twentieth and Mississippi—Night.”

3. 3. Robert Pruitt

   At Clementine

   Life-size conté-crayon portraits on butcher paper capture the artist’s neighbors in Houston’s largely African-American Third Ward.

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