Lisa Ross' Unrevealed, site 3 (sufi shrine 2), 2008.Courtesy of the Artist and Bellwether, New York
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LinkArtist Team Os Gemeos Turn Art Gallery Into Favela
Os Gemeos's Marialva, Amidala e
Almondega (2007).Courtesy of Deitch Projects
Artist Asako Narahashi Is Lucky She Sprung for the Waterproof Camera
Asako Narahashi’s Iwasehama (2004).Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.
For Artist Bettina Sellmann, the Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep
Bettina Sellmann's The Clearing (2008).Courtesy of Derek Eller Gallery
Artist Pamela Pecchio Knows Which Way Is Up
Pamela Pecchio’s Inverted Compass (2008)Courtesy of Daniel Cooney Fine Art
What do you hang above your bed? Some people scatter pretty, colored glow-in-the-dark stars and moons that make them feel as though they are sleeping in a Roald Dahl novel. Others, like a friend of photographer Pamela Pecchio, hang wobbly compasses above their beds, the directions pointing all askew. Pecchio’s photograph, up at Daniel Cooney Fine Art through July 31, is more soothing than your average night-light, but we’d hate to be staring up at it after a night of drinking. —Emma Pearse
Artist Pawel Althamer Is in the Skin Trade
Pawel Althamer's Weronika (2001).Courtesy of Lithops Collection
Pawel Althamer's sculpture of a little girl is made of animal skin, stitched together with hemp, and sprouting some pretty tough straw-like hair. She is truly a beast: innocent and yet deeply creepy. In her hand she holds a fishing rod on which a single feather dangles, swirling beneath the air conditioner of The New Museum of Contemporary Art, where she is on view through September 21. In the museum's tonic new show, "After Nature," she joins Maurizio Cattelan's headless horse protruding from a wall, and a recreation of the Montana cabin where Ted Kaczynski shacked up making mail bombs, all inspired by Werner Herzog. It may have you running for the nearest mega-mall. -Emma Pearse
Photographer Edith Maybin’s Daughter Primps Up, Hose Down
Edith Maybin’s Untitled #3 (2006).Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
Photographer Peter Granser Takes an Early Retirement
Peter Granser’s Paar im Pool 2 (Couple in Pool) (2000).Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery
Artist Tetsumi Kudo’s Birdcage Has Overcrowding Issues
Tetsumi Kudo’s Portrait of an Artist in Crisis (Portrait d’artiste dans la crise).Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY
Andrea Rosen Gallery is decked out like a cemetery, its slightly decrepit grounds lovingly tended to by the late artist Tetsumi Kudo. Blue buckets overflow with pretty weeds, happy flowers sprout from patches of dirt, and spray-painted birdcages house bestial creatures who might be sad but not scary. It’s a little Jeff Koons — minus the bling — and a little James Joyce, especially here, in Portrait of an Artist in Crisis, which looks something like a Joycean window display for The Neverending Story. Through August 15. —Emma Pearse
Artist Mary Reid Kelley Goes to War
Still from Mary Reid Kelley’s Camel Toe (2008).Courtesy of Marvelli Gallery, New York.