Angel Otero's studio in industrial Ridgewood, Queens currently lies fairly empty. Sitting in the main workspace is a reduced-scale model of Lehmann Maupin's Chrystie Street gallery, complete with mock…
Mickalene Thomas's large-scale, sequin-bedecked panel paintings starring seductively posed black women speak as much to the history of the portrait as they do to contemporary bling, hip-hop culture an…