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Friday, April 5th, 2013

Dimensions of Blackness: Alberto Burri’s “Cellotex Nero” at Luxembourg & Dayan

These late, sensuous and subtle works are on view through April 20

Gregory Corso, his attic room 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur…., 1957 Gelatin silver print, printed 1984-97. National Gallery of Art, Gift of Gary S. Davis. © 2012 Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.
Sunday, March 31st, 2013

Point Counterpoint: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery through April 6

Jackie Gendel, Archers I, 2013. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of Jeff Bailey Gallery
Friday, March 29th, 2013

Before and After the Flood: Two Shows of Jackie Gendel at Jeff Bailey Gallery

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, a show bifurcates

Al Held, The Yellow X, 1965. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 144 inches. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Visually Self-Evident: Al Held’s Alphabet Paintings at Cheim & Read

Paintings of astonishing variety, through April 20

Marina Adams, Spin, 2010. Acrylic on Linen, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery
Monday, March 11th, 2013

Post Hard: Marina Adams at Hionas Gallery

Quietly audacious abstract paintings on the Lower East Side

Margaret Grimes, Baldwin Hill Road, February, 2010. Oil on linen, 72 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Thursday, March 7th, 2013

The Connective Sublime: A Retrospective for Margaret Grimes

at Western Connecticut State University through March 14

Cora Cohen, Small Dropcloth Drawing, 2013. Acrylic mediums, graphite, pigment on dropcloth, 20 x 25 inches. Courtesy of Guided by Invoices
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Dirty/Clean Painting: Cora Cohen at Guided by Invoices

Her first show at this gallery, through March 30

Jorge Queiroz, H for Heads, 2012. Oil stick and vinyl ink on canvas, 63 x 71 inches. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

At War With Nature? Jorge Queiroz at Sikkema Jenkins

The Portuguese painter was on view earlier this Spring

Sandy Walker, Human Nature III, 2010. Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 inches. Courtesy of Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

A Pantheist Finds His Place: Sandy Walker at Elizabeth Harris Gallery

Expressionist landscapes of lyrical intelligence, through March 9,

installation shot of the exhibition under review, courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

In Search of the Mutable: Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg

“To deconstruct painting is also simultaneously to reconstruct this medium”