the female gaze

Cecily Brown, Raspberry Beret. Click to enlarge

The show is called "Women Look at Men", but for the most part it's specifically women looking erotically at men. The sexualization of men doesn't seem gratifying from a feminist point of view (with the exception of individual pieces), but it does result in better art than the objectification we usually get when the roles are reversed. Check out the Louise Bourgeois drawing, Cecily Brown, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh among others.

​@ Cheim & Read, through September 2