Soho

This is a painting by Cecily Brown. She is showing at Deitch Projects 76 Grand Street in Soho. The exhibition is called The Garden Party and It had some great work in it. The curation of the show was interesting in that it had a baroque feel with paintings placed on a wallpapered installation and a mixture of sculpural objects and photographs. There was a selection of Vanessa Beecroft photographs of naked young women in high heels in garden settings. I find her work fetishistic and degrading and wonder why she has such an appeal in the art world?

I also went to see a film called Tsotsi on the recommendation of some of the students at the Truce school in Harlem. It is set in the black townships in South Africa. It is a violent film about redemption and its complexities. The central performance of the young man who played Tsotsi was powerful and moving.