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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Pierre Soulages, Painting, November 20, 1956 (Peinture, 20 novembre 1956), 1956 Oil on canvas, 195 x 130.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Sweeney Guards the Horned Gates: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim

A recent show celebrated collecting tastes of the 1950s

Sandi Slone, Sex With Strangers, 2012. Oil, acrylic, resin on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Allegra LaViola Gallery
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Sex With Strangers: Sandi Slone at Allegra LaViola

Her  aggressively voluptuous paintings are on view through October 6

Stephen Ellis, Marine, 2012. Oil and alkyd on linen, 26 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, NY
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Digital Space: Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel

The veteran of “conceptual abstraction” embraces a new metaphor.

Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square, not dated. Oil on blotting paper (with gouache, pencil, and varnish), 29.5 x 29.5 cm © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society New York
Monday, September 24th, 2012

“The Greens are Envious of Each Other”: Josef Albers at the Morgan

Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library & Museum

Kris Scheifele, Hate Fade, 2012. Acrylic and acetate, 16 x 12 x 1-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Janet Kurnatowski Gallery and the artist
Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Box Cutter Sensuality: The Peeled-Off Paintings of Kris Scheifele

Fade is at Janet Kurnatowski through October 7

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Nuances That Carry Weight: Jesper Just at James Cohan

The quiver of a lip, a glance, the color of a dress…
Up through October 27

Xaviera Simmons, Untitled (Pink), 2008 © Xaviera Simmons, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomas’s Tête-à-Tête

Provocative  show was at Yancey Richardson this summer

Christopher Kurtz, Litany, 2012. Bent and hand-carved maple, oak, cedar, and paint, 64 x 156 x 60 inches. Courtesy of Tomlinson Kong Contemporary
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Carpentry at the Service of Art: Christopher Kurtz at Tomlinson Kong

Four-piece sculpture show runs on Bowery through September 8

Frank Stella, k.359, 2012. Mixed media, 124 x 111 x 77 inches. Courtesy of Freedman Art. © 2012 Frank Stella/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Monday, August 20th, 2012

Frank Stella Evolves: The Scarlatti Series at Freedman Art

on view on the Upper East Side  through September 27.

Wu Guangzhong, Pines and Rocks of the Lao Mountains," 1987, Ink and color on rice paper, H. 70.9 in x W. 37.4 in (180 x 95 cm), Shanghai Art Museum
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

A Triumphant Survivor: The Ink Paintings of Wu Guanzhong

His show this spring was at the Asia Society