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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 ...

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

Tamar Ettun’s Embodied Sculptures

Her new solo exhibition at Fridman Gallery uses anatomy as form and as subject.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Slow Spilling Movement: The Paintings of Bobbie Oliver

On view at Valentine in Ridgewood and Hionas on the Lower East Side

Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

The Quiet One: Morgane Tschiember at Tracy Williams Ltd.

Tschiember’s erotic sculptures call attention to the pre-verbal responses of the bodies to one another.

Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

Cosmos of the Quotidian: Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar

Sze’s new exhibition makes astronomical allusions with everyday goods and plays with viewer expectations.

Trevor Paglen. Installation view, 2015. Metro Pictures, New York.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

The Squirrel Accumulator: Trevor Paglen and the NSA

Blending the didactic with the paranoid style of conspiracy theories, at Metro Pictures through October 24

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Creation Anxieties: Dana Schutz at Petzel

Paintings of boldness and fearlessness, on view through October 24

Roland Flexner, Untitled, 2001. Ink on Paper, 12¾ x 11½ inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Sargent’s Daughters
Friday, October 9th, 2015

Drunken Bubbles: The Sumi-e Spray Drawings of Roland Flexner

Roland Flexner and Japanese Bronzes at Sargent’s Daughters through Sunday

Anoka Faruqee, 2013P-83 (Wave), 2013. Acrylic on linen on panel, 45 x 45 inches
Monday, October 5th, 2015

The Ghost in the Machine: Diphthong at the Fiterman

Group show, curated by Stephen Maine and Gelah Penn, at Borough of Manhattan Community College

Susan Jane Walp, Gerbera I, 2014. Oil on gessoed paper, 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Monday, October 5th, 2015

Momentousness: The Still Life Paintings of Susan Jane Walp

Her paintings on paper are at Tibor de Nagy through October 17

Saturday, October 3rd, 2015

Accidentally on Purpose: Bill Beckley at Albertz Benda

The gallery presents a retrospective of the poet-artist’s varied oeuvre.