ANDY WARHOL, “Untitled (Skeletons),” 1976

We’ll admit that we’re a sucker for anything with a skull in it, so it’s no surprise that “I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art,” a group show chronicling the appearance of the human undercarriage in art through the ages caught our attention when it debuted at CHEIM and READ gallery last week. Featuring multimedia work by an impressively diverse list of both modern and historical A-Listers including Salvador Dalí, Damian Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Edvard Munch, Alice Neel, Matthew Barney, Pablo Picasso, and Lady Pink, the exhibition is far more lofty in its presentation than its otherwise alluring title suggests, but presents a fairly well-rounded and genuinely fascinating survey nonetheless. In fact, Dalí’s rarely seen 1950 watercolor is worth the trip uptown alone. We couldn’t help but notice a curious lack of work by KAWS and Pushead, though (surely an innocent curatorial oversight). PEEP THE HIGHLIGHTS:

JAN FABRE, “Skull with Budgerigar,” 2000

TONY MATELLI, “Sad Skulls,” 2003

DONALD BAECHLER, “Crowd (Skulls) #1,” 2006

ADAM FUSS, “Untitled,” 2002

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, “Untitled (Skull),” 1982

DAMIEN HIRST, “Male and Female Pharmacy Skeletons,” 1998

MARCEL BROODTHAERS, “Femur D’une Femme Francaise,” 1965

ALICE NEEL, “Self-Portrait, Skull,” 1958

JENNY HOLZER & LADY PINK, “Tear Ducts Seem to be a Grief Provision,” 1983-84

EDVARD MUNCH, “Death and Love,” 1894

ANDY WARHOL, “Self-Portrait with Skull,” 1978

PAUL DELVAUX, “Squelettes (Skeleton),” 1949

SALVADOR DALI, “The Toady,” 1950

MATTHEW BARNEY, “Untitled (Study for Dear General Macarthur), 2006

PABLO PICASSO, “Le Pichet Noir et la Tete de Mort,” 1946

KRIS MARTIN, “I Am Still Alive,” 2006

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