Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA

At the New Museum, *VENUS VICTORIA* appears as a live-format exhibition event, placing performance and the gallery in the same frame. Sarah Lucas is among the featured performers, bringing a practice known for blunt materials, bodies, and jokes that land with a hard edge. In New York, where feminist art history is often narrated through institutions, the work reads as a contemporary footnote and a correction. Its most pointed move is how it refuses easy reverence, even while working with classical ideas of “Venus” and victory.