Nancy Elsamanoudi’s Leg Up marks her first solo show with SFA Projects. The exhibition debuts new paintings that the artist has completed in the wake of her previous solo show at Amos Eno gallery in 2018. Elsamanoudi exposes the fantastic and sexualized aspects of the everyday, reveling in the psychological fantasy her nude figures embody.

In his 1946 short story “On Exactitude in Science”, Borges imagined a fallen empire whose cartographers were so precise that their map of the realm was the same size as the territory itself. The map crumbled alongside the empire until all that remained were a few tatters in the desert.

DIRTY SECRET II at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn was a mental journey through consumption, the macabre and over-indulgence. It was entirely interactive, subversive and transformative. Four femme masked performers sloshed about, indulging in gluttonous behavior, getting live tattoo’d and consuming the “American dream” to an original industrial soundscape by renowned artist Brian Wenner of Prism House and accompanying video projections.

The Female Eye at Gallery Henoch is a group exhibition of eleven contemporary female realist painters investigating their present-day truths. The exhibition opened with an invite-only benefit for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on September 19th and will be on view to the public through October 22nd, 2019.

In 1971, philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002) published A Theory of Justice. One of the most significant tracts from this seminal text involves a now-famous thought experiment about “the original position.” Rawls maintained that our own biases, prejudices, special interests, and privileges blind us from objectively seeing justice.

Brazilian artist Gustavo Prado makes simple materials work for him in increasingly inventive ways. His sculptures, incorporating multiple mirrored elements, split apart the self and question contemporary society’s self-obsessed culture, while individual works’ varied configurations and finishes give off a unique vibe.