"Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen," a solo exhibition of works by Erica Simone will run at the Dash Gallery from April 14 to April 28, 2011.
Opening: April 14th, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm @ The Dash Gallery, 172 Duane Street, 10013 NYC
Approximately 20 pieces from Simone, a contemporary NYC and Paris-based photographer, show the artist exposed in various spots in the city, crossing boroughs, above-ground spaces, and the underground. The artist’s nakedness comments on the social uninterpretability of the bared body and the (im)possibility of a naked existence.

Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, today opens the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, which will house his mind-blowing collection of art. Juan Carretero visits

It was no small party in Mexico City the other evening. What else would you expect when the host is Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world by a wider margin than ever according to the latest Forbes billionaires list – that would be $74bn in his account – and the occasion is the inauguration of a new museum to display his personal art collection.

This season, the Brooklyn Museum acquired an important, paradigm-shifting oil painting by Italian painter Agostino Brunias. The piece, entitled “Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape,” depicts women of mixed race on the Caribbean island of Dominica, which changed hands multiple times between the powers of Britain and France during the colonial period.
“The painting depicts two richly dressed mixed-race women, one of whom was possibly the wife of the artist’s patron.