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KALUP LINZY: IF IT DON’T FIT,’ through June 28. Kalup Linzy’s video work, in which the artist appears in drag and lends his overdubbed voice to almost all the characters, has a complex ancestry. A family tree would have to include the Wayans brothers, RuPaul, John Waters and Eddie Murphy on one branch, and the highbrow canon of dress-up artists, from Cindy Sherman to Yasumasa Morimura, on another. Mr. Linzy’s first museum solo includes 22 videos made since 2002, with a total running time of about three hours. It includes his series “Da Churen,” his antic reimagining of the popular soap opera “All My Children”; more recent episodes focus on the art world and feature Mr. Linzy’s newest persona, Katonya the emerging artist. Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500, studiomuseum.org. (Rosenberg)

Read more about Linzy here [The Root]