THE UNFORBIDDEN
by Charlie Finch



My editor Walter Robinson has just forbidden me to write about the new exhibition at the Bowman/Bloom Gallery on East 7th Street, a three-person show including punk pioneer Richard Hell and Brigitte Engler, with the nifty title "The NinCompatibles." Somebody in the show has done dirt-cheap painterly confections of the major female stars of the day seductively sucking their fingers.

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