It often feels like you have to be Annabelle Bronstein to find a decent pool to lounge by this time of year. But for anyone who doesn’t have an “in” at Soho House or the will to book it all the way out to Connecticut or Fire Island, The Swimmer at FLAG Art Foundation is immersive and refreshing enough. Most organizations of its size tend to play things straight, but FLAG is distinct for being unusually committed to the bit. The foundation has proven over the years that it's willing to throw white wall tastefulness out the window by making the absolute, maximalist most of its two floors of gallery space. Its curators have a unique ability to wrangle big name artists in service of genuinely bonkers concepts while bringing together the resources to execute that vision on a grand scale. This can just as easily mean detonating a contemporary-meets-classical pastel supernova as it does maxing out their wallspace with cartoon drawings of people pissing and shitting themselves.
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