Paula Cooper Gallery presents Liz Glynn: American Progress (after John Gast)—a copper dress after Gast’s 1872 allegory of Manifest Destiny, on view in the Chelsea street vitrine. Hollow and hyper-reflective, the shell empties the myth of industrial exceptionalism; copper nods to wires, rails, and Liberty herself. Timed to the nation’s 250th, Glynn’s Shape of Progress series asks what stories still hold.
