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New at P.S.1 for winter

Have you walked the halls at PS1 lately? It's cold out; it's warm in there. And they have a lovely cafe catered by super-awesome Sage. So go. Here's what's new:

‘ADEL ABDESSEMED: DEAD OR ALIVE’ For more than a century, artists have given up on idealization, the dominant aesthetic vision at least since the Renaissance. Instead of showing us what we could be, artists have reflected back to us an imperfect image of who we are and the world in which we live. This shifting attitude has resulted in a variety of artwork that is troubling, ugly and rooted in the baser instincts of human nature, as demonstrated by the Algerian-born artist Adel Abdessemed in his first solo New York exhibition, now at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

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