The Chris Ofili show is at the New Museum. Robert Smith writes for the NYTimes
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Chris Ofili makes paintings that will not let us be. For more than two decades, the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs. His paintings mesmerize, whether with their opulent dotted surfaces or bawdy eroticism, their perfumed colors or their riffs on established masterpieces. more
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| Chris Ofili: Night and Day at the New Museum |
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| Chris Ofili, Afrodizzia |
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| Chris Ofili, Afronirvana, 2002. Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, and Victoria Miro, London. ©Chris Ofili |