Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

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Anger is not market-friendly so you have to admire the artist who doesn’t hide it. The late, great Pope.L utilized his well, turning it inward with performance pieces that were ridiculous, painful and affecting, all while calling himself the “friendliest Black artist in America.” “You can almost hear the sneer in that slogan,” Martha Schwendener observed wisely.

Steve Locke may not share that........

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