There’s an interesting new show at Sasha Wolf Gallery: Russian photographer Yola Monakhov—who currently lives in New York, teaching at Columbia University and Mercer College (and contributing to The New Yorker)—used Dante’s Divine Comedy as a framework for shooting in Italy. She engaged with her subjects about the poem, “noting their interpretations of moments in the poem,” explains the accompanying essay, “and linking these with her own reading and photographic vision.” I’m not sure anyone would grasp this concept by looking at the images, but enough of them have their own lyricism that it doesn’t really matter. (As someone who remembers The Inferno fondly but vaguely, I would have liked the relevant excerpts alongside the photographs, but then I was an English major.) From top, my four favorite images—I have a weakness for a certain sort of Italy—were: Bartender, Paola, Piazza, and Young Men, all from 2009. Printed in editions of nine, the photos in the exhibit are 16″ x 20″ and cost $1,400 each. 10 Leonard (bet. West Broadway and Hudson), Tues.–Sat., 11 a.m.–6 p.m. The exhibit is up through March 6.