“I used to be obsessed with the idea that the paintings only show you their backside, as if the real painting’s on the other side”

From Judy Linn’s quirky, painting-like photographs to the finely drawn erotic humor of Tom of Finland, Hudson’s eye was a keen one.

A review of his autobiography

The richly contentious art world in lavishly loving detail

Elana Herzog: Plumb Pulp
LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge Street, 212 255 9707

Julia Rommel: The Little Match Stick
Bureau, 178 Norfolk Street,212 227 2783

David Row: There and Back
Loretta Howard Gallery, 525-531 West 26th Street, 212 695 0164

Leslie Wayne: Rags
Jack Shainman Gallery, 524 West 24th Street, 212 337 3372

John Zinsser: Paintings and File Studies
James Graham & Sons, 32 East 67th Street, 212 535 5767

And other modernists who kept creative after modernism’s big moment

His debut US show opened at White Columns this week

His Smack Mellon installation inspires a “rave” review – and a proposition