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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love opens October 11th at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This exhibition, Walker’s first full-scale American museum survey, features the artist’s signature cut-paper silhouettes as well as her film animations and works on paper which elegantly confront oppression, liberation, violence, and sexuality.

(Kara Walker, Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress (detail), 2002. Courtesy: Sikkema Jenkins & Co.)

New Photography 2007: Tanyth Berkeley, Scott McFarland, Berni Searle is at MoMA through January 1st. In particular, Berkeley approaches questions of gender and conventional beauty in her portraits of transgender women and striking local characters.

(Tanyth Berkeley, Grace in Window, 2006. Courtesy: Bellwether Gallery.)

In Chicago, at Columbia College’s A+D Gallery, Girl on Guy: the object of my desire shows that there is no contradiction in being a feminist and loving men. The show includes work by over twenty female artists in various mediums and aims to engage in the national dialogue of feminism from a Midwestern perspective.

(Sylvia Sleigh, Max Warsh Seated Nude, 2006. Courtesy: A+D Gallery)