Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is in the Morgan Library & Museum’s small Thaw Gallery, but it fits in a lot of bare breasts, tumescent tummies, and perfectly rounded bottoms. All are skillfully rendered, and belong to women with few individualizing features. Visiting the show is a little like coming upon J. P. Morgan’s secret Playboy grotto.
But what caught my attention more than the exhibition’s works were a few words on the institution’s website: “female transgression and empowerment.” Terms like “transgression” come up a lot in texts about Yuskavage and her art, often in a positive light. So do “provocative” and “vulgar,” usually used to signal the stuffiness of art types.
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