Instructoart in Chelsea

With some time to kill before seeing There Will Be Blood in Chelsea yesterday, we popped over to the galleries on West 24th Street, where we were treated to Matthew Vescovo's "Master of the Obvious" show. Called "instructoart," Vescovo's works depict wry instructions for navigating daily life, from secretly ogling an attractive fellow straphanger (above) to telling when people are lying (the eyes in the images avert as you pass by). Ironic, but not unhelpful. By the way, the pictures are much bigger in person.