RECOMMENDED Last out of the closet and brimming with liberated confidence, the voguish new atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins need look no further than Nate Larson to illustrate their deadly serious screeds with his bitingly whimsical performance photographs sending up and taking down all things religious. Bad to the funny bone, Larson takes real-world spiritual absurdities and depicts them in visual experiments, as when we see him placing a glass of water meditatively to his lips as he stands next to a TV screen displaying an image of Charlton Heston hyping his movie, “The Bible.” Larson is engaged here in testing faith healer Allan Chumak’s proposition that if his viewers drank water as they watched his broadcasts, the liquid would take on magical curative powers. (Michael Weinstein) Through November 24 at PACKER SCHOPF GALLERY
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