Rina Banerjee, “Preternatural passage came from wet whiteness and mercantile madness, paid for circular migrations, she went thirty six directions that is all the more different, where empire threw her new born and heritage claimed as well, this lady bug was not Scarlet,” 2011, installation view
"Greater New York," the title of MoMA P.S. 1's every-five-years roundup of local art, has come to sound like a wish, not a statement of fact. Since the show's first appearance in 2000, the city's gallery population has exploded. But abundance has settled into blandness. A tour of Chelsea these days can be a deadening experience. Art neighborhoods that might once have offered alternatives, don't.
