Nathalie Djurberg – Manet through Travis Bickle eyes

Nathalie Djurberg, currently at the Frye.

With a jet-stream jolt of girl-in-charge, Djurberg’s puppets have a hard on for Manet as Travis Bickle.

All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Mel Ramos did his Olympia, and so did Rashid Johnson, here. Talk about pregnant with cultural possibility.