{"id":8972,"date":"2020-10-24T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:35:33","slug":"cindy-sherman-at-metro-pictures-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/24\/cindy-sherman-at-metro-pictures-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Sherman Photos at Metro Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not hard to slip from male to female in Cindy Sherman\u2019s reckoning.\u00a0 A bit of makeup and a change of clothing, and the iconic photographer became both halves of jet-set couples who are the subjects of her latest body of work at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metropictures.com\/exhibitions\/cindy-sherman20\">Metro Pictures Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea.\u00a0 With exceptions, Sherman has shied away from portraying male figures in the past; her current characters embrace gender fluidity in colorful or opulent clothing from Stella McCartney\u2019s archive.\u00a0 Placing them against backgrounds that Sherman shot in Bavaria, Shanghai and, here, Sissinghurst Castle Garden in England, the artist tempts viewers to read the identities of these eccentric characters.\u00a0 (On view through Oct 31<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Masks and social distancing are required.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8973\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/24\/cindy-sherman-at-metro-pictures-3\/cindy_sherman-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8973\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8973\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cindy_sherman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cindy_sherman.jpg 1969w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cindy_sherman-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cindy_sherman-500x350.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Sherman, Untitled, dye sublimation print, 62 \u00bd x 91 \u00bc inches (image, no frame), ed of 6, 1 AP, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not hard to slip from male to female in Cindy Sherman\u2019s reckoning.\u00a0 A bit of makeup and a change of clothing, and the iconic photographer became both halves of jet-set couples who are the subjects of her latest body of work at Metro Pictures Gallery in Chelsea.\u00a0 With exceptions, Sherman has shied away from &hellip; 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