Cheim & Read
547 W 25th St
212.242.7727
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Glenn Ligon, Salimu (Version 1) #1, Courtesy Cheim & Read
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June 26, 2008 – Aug 29, 2008
Tuesdays–Fridays (10am–6pm)
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The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches a ginormous monocled Mr. Peanut (Stay Puft's saltier, Midwestern accomplice?) in the act of destroying the Cincinnati Art Museum. Takashi Murakami contributes the colorful, multi-ocular egg monster Peaked Cao; YBA standard-bearers Dinos and Jake Chapman reference Henry Darger by misplacing genitals on a nekkid-toddler sculpture; and E.V. Day shrouds seven Barbie dolls in silver gauze. You can also whet your appetite for C&R's upcoming show Echo with The Runaway Girl by Louise Bourgeois — who's recently been the subject of a Guggenheim retrospective and a new documentary.
