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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 ...

Suzan Frecon, yellow-orange on more conventional format with 3 holes, 2012. Watercolor on found old Indian paper, 13-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Holding Their Own: Suzan Frecon’s Works on Paper

On view at David Zwirner through March 23

Lawrence Beck, Marlia I, 2010. Archival pigment print mounted dibond, 60 x 73 inches. Courtesy of Sonnabend Gallery
Monday, February 18th, 2013

Wish We Were Here: Lawrence Beck and the Grand Tour

“Italian Pictures” was a Sonnabend

David Salle's Tapestries/Battles/Allegories at Lever House, installation shot, courtesy Lever House Art Collection
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

David Salle 24/7: A Show at Lever House

Tapestries/Battles/Allegories was on view until January 25th

Leo Steinberg, Untitled, 1940. Graphite on paper. Private Collection, courtesy of the New York Studio School
Monday, February 11th, 2013

The Craft of Looking: Drawings by Leo Steinberg

Storied scholar’s posthumous debut at the New York Studio School, through March 9

Mario Naves, Louder than God, 2011. Acrylic and oil on canvas on wood, 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Saturday, January 26th, 2013

Surface Rhythms: Mario Naves’s Rewarding New Direction

His show of paintings is at Elizabeth Harris through February 2nd.

Richard Walker, Fireplace and Shadow, 2011. Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

“What Do We See?” Richard Walker and Our Place in the World

House Paintings on view at Alexandre Gallery through January 5

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

A Rich Transition: Al Loving Wall Hangings of the 1970s

on view at Gary Snyder and extended through December 29

Eugène Leroy, Nu blanc couché au grand visage, 1991 [detail]. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 57 1/2 inches. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

An Extreme Painter: Eugène Leroy at Michael Werner

Nudes on view through January 5

David Humphrey, Scratcher, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser
Friday, December 21st, 2012

A Future in Plastics: David Humphrey’s New Paintings

on view at Chelsea’s Fredericks & Freiser through January 19

Installation shot of The Event of a Thread by Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory, December 2012. Photo: James Ewing
Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gentling The Savage Enormity Of Gargantuan Space: Ann Hamilton at the Armory

The Event of a Thread is on view through January 6