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Exploring a novel idea, this show matches up writer Charles Bukowski’s brooding poem The Bluebird with alluring paintings of female escorts and other objects of desire by Walter Robinson. Bukowski writes about a longing to release his tender side, buried by a lifestyle of alcohol, whores and cigarettes. In contrast, Mr. Robinson paints mediated vices that turn men mad, including images of women who sell their sexual services through ads in the back pages of newspapers and men’s magazines, and plucks cigarettes and booze from the media’s glamorous settings.