The Art Show Sparkles with the Old and the New Once Again

Further employing mediated imagery, Beverly Semmes blew up pages from soft-core porn magazines and funkily painted out parts to protect the exposed women in a group of canvases shown alongside her equally offbeat ceramics at Susan Inglett Gallery. Gideon Rubin, meanwhile, sourced sexy, faceless characters from films and magazines for his tightly cropped, gorgeously brushed paintings at Hosfelt Gallery.