Artist George Condo’s twisted looking portraits capture attention of all who see them, including singer Kanye West — who asked Condo to paint an image of him in mid sex with a white woman for his latest CD — getting West’s work banned throughout America.  Such images, along with a cockeyed Queen Elizabeth and others might shock, but Condo’s latest ventures: caricature-like golden busts and huge abstracts that take the viewer to psychedelic realms, lure us in just as strongly.

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(George Condo, “Mental States” at New Museum, 235 Bowery, until May 8th, 2011.)