The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society is presenting Zoya Cherkassky: The Global Political Crisis, on view from September 25, 2025, through January 9, 2026. This is the first solo presentation by the Soviet-born Israeli artist since relocating from Tel Aviv to Long Island earlier this year. The exhibition is centrally grounded in the glaring contradiction between its title and its content. A suite of five mid-sized acrylic paintings and an assembly of some fifty smaller watercolor drawings are rendered in the artist’s signature diaristic, observational style. They depict scenes of a mostly erotic nature—nudes, couples in varying stages of undress, people having sex. The exhibition also includes an erotic sculpture and a small collection of jokey pornographic tchotchkes. The artist, whose penchant for pithy cartoonish commentary has made her no