ARTCRITICAL PICK: Davina Semo’s “EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED,” on Broadway

With the inauguration of winter, Marlborough Chelsea’s public art installation, “Broadway Morey Boogie,” enters its final phase. Opened in mid-September of this year, the program features 10 artists with works on Broadway between Columbus Circle and 166th; it ends in February of the coming year. It’s seen weather warm enough to wear a tank top, through to now — cold, with the first suggestions of snow. Davina Semo’s megalithic concrete-and-steel coffer is cool and imposing. Titled EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED, it employs the formal tropes of power, discipline, and control while negating them with those three words. The phrase is a knife, a warning, a promise. Despite that toughness and anarchism, it’s obvious even in this that Semo is a person who cares and thinks a lot. Everything about her work is deeply affecting, and it’s earnestly on display out in the thoroughfare.  NOAH DILLON