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(Yayoi Kusama Painting 1989 - 2005, 2006. Print archival ink on canvas, 24.5″ x 46″, Edition 1/5. Courtesy: Diane Althoff Alysia Duckler Gallery.)

Sotto Voce, an exhibition of works related to the idea of one color as object, subject, idea, and ultimately a presence, opens at Yvon Lambert, New York on Saturday, May 3, and includes work by innovative feminist artist and performer, Yayoi Kusama.

(Tamara Kostianovsky, Actus Reus, 2008. Courtesy: Black & White Gallery.)

Tamara Kostianovsky’s Actus Reus continues through May 24 at The Black & White Gallery in Chelsea. Kostianovsky examines human consumerism through the slaughtering of animals. Actus Reus, Latin for “the guilty act,” employs beef carcasses made from discarded human clothing. Brooklyn-based artist Tamara Kostianovsky’s Actus Reus is the second segment of the three-part series, “The Proper Animal.”

(Anne Hardy, Centre, 2007. Courtesy: Bellwether Gallery.)

London-based artist Anne Hardy continues her debut New York exhibition at Bellwether Gallery through May 17. Hardy employs used and discarded materials to create interior installations. These photographed installations lend to ideas of human life and human narratives, though human beings are never photographed in her works.

(Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher, The Searchers, 2008. Courtesy: The Front Room Gallery)

The Searchers, by Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher, continues through May 4th at The Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn. This exhibition of photographs explores Western tourism in India, specifically focusing on spiritual tourism. Both Bezzubov and Sucher, artistic partners since 2002, examine themes of politics, tourism and spirituality.

(Fara’h Salehi, Female of the Species, 2008. Courtesy: Art 101)

Artist, metal fabricator and welder Fara’h Salehi continues her exhibition, Female of the Species, through May 11 at Art 101. In this exhibition, Salehi examines the hierarchies and survival methods in insect life as commentary for the many hierarchies in human life.

(Dawit L. Petros, Proposition 1: Mountain, 2007. Courtesy: Studio Museum Harlem.)

Flow, an exhibition featuring seventy-five works by African artists under the age of forty, continues through June 29 at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In Flow, the twenty featured artists employ sculpture, painting, video, digital photography and installation art to examine and comment on global, environmental and economic issues facing human beings in contemporary society.

(Theatre ALFORT, Lilliput, 2008. Courtesy: gallery hanahou.)

Lilliput, My Little Friends, by Theatre ALFORT, continues through May 14 at gallery hanahou. ALFORT, a Japanese avant-garde art cooperative, creates an installation based on popular fashion doll Blythe.

(Judith Supine, Dirt Mansion, 2008. Courtesy: English Kills Gallery.)

Judith Supine, the self-proclaimed “street art-ist” and “psych-collage provocateur,” continues to show his art at Dirt Mansion through June 8th at English Kills Gallery in Brooklyn.

**Many thanks to interns Lauren Nicole Nixon and Jessie Shaffer for helping to compile this week’s Picks!