Anyone who’s turned on a television or seen a movie should be familiar with the good cop/bad cop paradigm, which we might describe as the tactic of someone grabbing your prejudices and outrage and lifting it to new levels you hadn’t quite prescribed for them, while the other coos in your ear and softly leads you to a place you hadn’t intended to go. If that’s the case, then the title Good Cop / Bad…

>>Tomorrow is First Friday, so head over to Dupont for an evening of receptions with slightly buzzed gallery-goers. Stop by the Marsha Mateyka Gallery to wonder at Jae Ko’s gorgeously twisted paper sculptures. Studio Gallery opens a new show this week with Susan Cohen’s Frozen by Fire 2 that features her painted clay sculptures enriched with metals and other natural elements. Check out the map for other First Friday participating galleries. >>Kendall Buster will be…