WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson



Want to see the patriarchal social unconscious laid bare by a brand new artwork? Check out War of the Testicles by Sue Williams, now on view in "Al-Qaeda Is the CIA," a mini-retrospective at her gallery, 303. In this abstracted image of testosterone stress, Williams’ invention could be called the "scrotal line," a kind of ragged arabesque that is peculiarly familiar but never before committed to canvas. And that would be, of course, decrepit old-man scrotum, not fresh new baby scrotum. It’s a wow.

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