And Rina Banerjee's elegant mixed-media wall piece isn't much better. Annette Lemieux's figurative bits and pieces suggest this able artist is searching for the lost thread of her art. The uncanny Sixth Sense feeling produced by these works is amplified on the fourth floor, where the curators lay out one of their ideas about painting. It is said that once tuberculosis comes to a region it never leaves. The fourth floor offers a textbook example of that germ carried through three generations.
Several painters stand out.
John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage look very good here. You can forget photography, because the curators almost did. It's a voyeuristic view of voyeurism in which all parties look pathetic, playing out private fantasies and sexual stereotypes. The video installations save this show. Their removal would trigger the equivalent of a fatal hemorrhage.