In the four new video works of her second New York solo show, shape-shifting performance artist Tamy Ben-Tor conjures up a cast of characters to portray different herd mentalities. In Normal, Ben-Tor plays a pink-polo-clad man who presents a narcissistic monologue on emails and productivity — a reminder that the American corporate arena has its own tribal behaviors. The End of Art takes on more liberal careers by mimicking art-world personalities who drive practices such as relational aesthetics. In the other two works, the Israel-born artist uses her talents to speak in cultural tongues, employing the directness of YouTube production values to create mini-inquisitions into loaded topics, from the banality of evil to folklore's latent violence.

-Catherine Krudy

Tamy Ben-Tor's work can also be seen at Brown in London through May 31.