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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The American artist Kara Walker poses questions about slavery’s history and legacy with a major UK commission. ...
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
The work of earlier artists can be found in scenes from this expat Russian painter’s adolescence. ...
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
A derangement of the senses is arrived at via multifarious stimuli ...

Greg Lindquist, Smoke and Water: Dispatches, 2017. detail showing coal ash in plexiglass vitrines. Courtesy of the Artist
Saturday, May 20th, 2017

An Immiscible Swirl: Greg Lindquist at Central Booking

Fine art and social action, on the Lower East Side through May 28

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

The Opposite of Sex: Betty Tompkins Paints Porn

Shows at PPOW and Marlborough through this weekend

Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

City as Museum: Mimmo Rotella at Gladstone

selected early works were on view uptown

Friday, May 5th, 2017

Mentors, Muses and Mystery: Alfonse Borysewicz at First Things Gallery

A Catholic artist and his paintings of ideas

Harvey Quaytman, Jacob’s Coat, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80 inches. Courtesy of Van Doren Waxter
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

Hard-Edge Happiness: The Paintings of Harvey Quaytman

On view at Van Doren Waxter through April 28

Agnès Varda, La terrasse du Corbusier, Marseille (1956) / Les gens de la terrasse (2008), 2012. Black and white digital c-print, color/sound video projection with English subtitles., 2 minutes 33 seconds, looped. Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Photo: Genevieve Hanson
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017

An Impulse Towards Narrative: Agnès Varda at Blum & Poe

A survey in different mediums of the legendary New Wave director

Installation shot, works by Lee Boroson, including Ruderal Object, 2017 Steel, maple branches, collages, fabric, mirror, hardware. Courtesy of Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center Installation shot, works by Lee Boroson, including Ruderal Object, 2017 Steel, maple branches, collages, fabric, mirror, hardware. Courtesy of Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center Installation shot, works by Lee Boroson, including Ruderal Object, 2017 Steel, maple branches, collages, fabric, mirror, hardware. Courtesy of Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

Site Specific: Diana Cooper and Lee Boroson at Fordham

Prismatic Shifts, a two person show curated by Carleen Sheehan

Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Clarity of Facture: David Reed, 1975 at Gagosian

Historical exhibition, curated by Katy Siegel and Christopher Wool, seen earlier this season

Terry Adkins, Darkwater Record, 2002. Estate of Terry Adkins, Courtesy Salon 94
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

“Material Potentialities”: Terry Adkins and His Influence

An important exhibition, last year, at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery

Installation shot of the exhibition under review, including, far right, , #14-1959, 1959. Oil on canvas, 60 x 46 inches. Photo: Joan Boykoff Baron
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017

The Marvelous Void: Exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York of John McLaughlin

a major retrospective at LACMA of the Asia inspired abstractionist, through April 16