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Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce its first New York solo exhibition of Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave, entitled ART HISTORY X. The show highlights Hargrave’s body of work made between 2015 and 2018 where the artist reimagines the canon of art history in the context of sexuality, identity, and today’s fraught racial divides. Colorful, and indeed almost kitsch in parts, his paintings surprise and tease the eye’s expectations by subverting revered classics – familiar to us but joyously reconstituted through an African-American and gay prism. The result is dramatic and highly personal, …