The Fertile Battlefield

Here I find myself in an unusual situation - three shows I'd like to go see, but haven't seen yet. If you're in New York, I'd like you to know they're out there to be seen, so I'm posting slideshows of work from each of them here. In the "what to say" department, I am fortunate in that all three shows are strongly linked to the New York Academy of Art. So there's a ready-made theme. The Academy is an art school which I did not attend, but which I have contemplated at some length, because they ke...