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Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2013. Ink on Plastic27-1/2 x 36 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift from a private collection. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph: Jerry Thompson
Thursday, April 24th, 2014

Rubber Stamped Regrets: Jasper Johns at MoMA

Exhibition as exercise in shoring up reputation

Connie Fox, Sammy's Beach III, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Danese/Corey
Saturday, April 12th, 2014

Sainte Victoire on the South Fork: Connie Fox and Sammy’s Beach

The veteran painter’s first show at Danese/Corey, up through April 19

Germaine Richer, Don Quichotte à la lance, 1949. Polished natural bronze, 18 x 6-1/4 x 7 inches, Edition 12. Courtesy of Dominique Lévy, New York
Saturday, April 12th, 2014

Ready for Revival: Germaine Richier’s Figurative Sculptural Fantasies

a crowded show of her bronzes at Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin

Ali Banisadr, We work in shadows, 2017. Oil on linen, 82 x 120 inches. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater
Friday, April 11th, 2014

Brueghel Meets Mughal: Ali Banisadr at Sperone Westwater

“Motherboard” continues at Sperone Westwater through April 19

Detail of Zheng Shengtian,?Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting,?2000.?Ink on canvas, set of 4, each 31-3/4 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Chambers Fine Art
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Illegible Ghosts: Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling at Chambers Fine Art

Calligraphy, translation and creative misreading

Robert Bechtle, Six Cars on 20th Street, 2007, watercolor on paper, 25 5/8 by 33 3/8 inches. Courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Bob’s Sebring: Robert Bechtle at Gladstone

Jewel-like paintings and drawings by the veteran Photorealist

Sue Williams, Otis, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 inches. Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

As Abstract as Indigestion: Sue Williams at 303 Gallery

Paintings that revisit the trauma of 9/11 without sentimentality or patriotism

Leo Fitzpatrick, Never again (I was in love with you intill you left with him) again, 2013, acrylic on canvas 14”x 33”. Courtesy of the National Exemplar Gallery.
Saturday, February 15th, 2014

“the poems keep getting shorter/the explanations longer”: Leo Fitzpatrick at the National Exemplar

A young artist’s still-life portraits of poetry, now extended to February 22

Ena Swansea, Night and Day Reversible Sofa, 2014. Steel, auto body paint, burlap, fake fur, feathers, and computerized reproductions of paintings, on dye-sublimation casino gaming suede, 35.25 x 157 x 33.5 inches, Edition of 8, 2 APs. Courtesy of Friendman Benda Gallery. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio
Friday, February 14th, 2014

Night and Day: Ena Swansea, Reversible

A show of paintings and a sofa at Friedman Benda, through February 15

Philip Pearlstein, Two Female Models on Cast Iron Bed, 1975. Wash on Paper, 29-1/4 x 40-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

Camp Blanding: The Naked and the Undead in Philip Pearlstein

His show, curated by Robert Storr, is at the New York Studio School