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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 ...

Jane Benson, Faux Faux (Iris Yellow), 2015. Hand cut artificial flower and glass 30 x 15 x 13 inches. Courtesy of the artist and The Parlour Bushwick
Friday, October 28th, 2016

Faux Faux and Hooker Shoes: Parlor Games in Bushwick

What a World, What a World at The Parlour Bushwick through November 6

Installation view, "Calvin Marcus: Were Good Men," 2016, at CLEARING Gallery. Courtesy of the gallery.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Spilled Blood: Calvin Marcus at Clearing

A show of new paintings puts questions to cultural assumptions about war.

Friday, October 21st, 2016

True Stripes: Sean Scully at Mnuchin

A survey of Sean Scully’s formative work of the 1980s.

Robert Overby, DCT, 1973. Oil on canvas, 38½ x 51¼ inches. Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser
Thursday, October 20th, 2016

Esquire Showcard: Another layer excavated from the legacy of Robert Overby

at at Fredericks & Freiser through October 22

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

A Passionate Visual Idiom: Carmen Herrera at the Whitney

A segment of her long career leaves a critic hungry for more

Rebecca Morgan, Pajama Jug, 2015. Raku ware, 6.75 x 4.5 x 5 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Sunday, October 16th, 2016

Hillbillies in Chelsea: Rebecca Morgan at Asya Geisberg

Morgan’s new work develops in the direction of lovingly perverse caricature.

House of Worth, tea gown, blue cut velvet on a green satin ground, Valenciennes lace, circa 1897. © Stéphane Piera/Galliera/Roger-Viollet.
Friday, October 7th, 2016

How To Dress The Guermantes Way: “Proust’s Muse” at FIT

Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe is on view through January 7

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

So Slow It Stopped: Teiji Furuhashi at MoMA

MoMA re-stages a 1995 installation by one of Japan’s late, great performance, tech, and collaboration innovators.

Installation view: Victor Burgin: Midwest, 2016, with still from Prairie. Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Photo by John Muggenborg.
Saturday, October 1st, 2016

Destructive Modernism: Two exhibitions of Victor Burgin

Recent projections at Cristin Tierney, work from 1976 at Bridget Donahue

Installation view, "Joel Perlman: New Sculpture," 2016, at Loretta Howard Gallery. Courtesy of the gallery.
Thursday, September 29th, 2016

Man of Steel: Joel Perlman at Loretta Howard

An exhibition of new sculpture makes an argument for virtuosity.