From #blacklivesmatter to the gentrification of Fort Greene and online dating, the series delves into the male gaze in art, the aftereffects of sexual harassment, and a feminist street art project that taps into body politics.
It won't let you gaze upon art with a martini per se, but that's just because its liquor license covers only beer and wine.
For the casual visitor who comes to gaze at art if not for the collector looking to buy, the Biennale as a show has never been better.
We're supposed to maintain healthy boundaries, gazing at art from an Olympian distance.
True, apps can't replace the experience of gazing at art in person.
Modernism's proponents, who found inspiration in everything from African masks to the daily newspaper, turned their omnivorous gaze on folk art and the idiosyncratic work of untrained artists, and found proof that modern art's radical visual ideas had deep American roots.
In London, galleries in Chelsea allow in all and sundry for their openings and give you wine while you gaze at conceptual art.
After dinner, Mr. Govan paid tribute to Mr. Ruscha, quoting the novelist J. G. Ballard: "Ed Ruscha has the coolest gaze in American art".
This past week, in an article in New York magazine on the male gaze in fine art in the #MeToo era, the twenty-eight-year-old painter Tschabalala Self, one of many artists interviewed, discussed "Thérèse Dreaming," Balthus's controversial painting of a young girl in a seductive pose.
Traditionally, the gaze in fine art has represented a privileged access to the body, usually from that of a white male.
