NEW YORK, NY.- The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life highlights the enduring relevance and resonance of the still life, the often undervalued genre of academic painting. Artists today are using still life to investigate contemporary issues such as consumerism and sustainability, while continuing in the genre’s traditional themes of perception, reality, and mortality. In the exhibition, the artists convey the persisting power of the still life to portray the changing using the unchanging, the intangible using the tangible. The Fifth Genre opens to the public on Friday, June 25, from 5 to 7 pm at Galerie Lelong. The Fifth Genre takes its name from the five genres of academic painting: history, portraiture, genre painting, landscape, and still life. During a time of continued upheaval