INKA ESSENHIGH
May 10-June 23
photo courtesy of New Museum of Contemporary Art
Paul McCarthy's Sauce Box splatters onto the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Giants, dictators, terrorists, mercenaries, thugs, and sphinxes do dirty deeds in some 35 gruff works exploring excesses of individual and institutional power.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
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This show tracks the South African artist's animated films, drawings, and performance workswhich meld the personal and the politicalfrom 1989 to the present.
