The Summer of Haight

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Genuinely unsettling is David Kennedy-Cutler's naked tree branch hung with a tattered Confederate flag fabricated from used bubblegum-like a flayed carcass, it's as ugly and abject as the thought of flying a symbol of treason, oppression, and hatred atop Southern statehouses. Avery's best work reduces mountains, trees, and clouds to bold shapes and lively textures; quick daubs of rich gray and cascading blots of blue give drama to his shorelines, the sea foam conjured from the rough, unpainted white paper, hi Abandoned Pier (1957), the brushstrokes are as black as creosote and dryly dissipate like rotten, splintering wood.

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The Summer of Haight

Best in Show

Recommendations byR.C. Baker

'Summer of Love'

Whitney Museum

945 Madison Avenue

Through September 16

The Summer of Haight

In Oliver Stone's film The Doors, as the group navigates a trippy Warhol party, Ray Manzarek says to Jim Morrison, "This isn't our sce...

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