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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Leo Rabkin, Untitled, ca. 1958. Canvas, rope, 30 x 35 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Saturday, June 9th, 2012

Rhinestones, Goggle Eyes and Flocking: Leo Rabkin’s Visual Poems

On view with examples from his folk art collection at Luise Ross through June 22

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

An Air of Intellectual Mystery: Noam Rappaport at James Fuentes

His show of destabilizing shaped canvases, on the Lower East Side, closed June 10

André Masson, Corrida au soleil, 1936. Oil on canvas, 29-3/8 x 50-3/4 inches. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Blain Di Donna
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

“Desire Causes the Current to Flow”: André Masson’s Innovations in Taste

A twenty year survey of the Surrealist master at Blain/Di Donna through June 15

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The External Feminine: Chantal Joffe at Cheim & Read

The British painter’s portraits of women are on view through June 22

Domenico Gnoli, What is a Monster? Snail on Sofa, 1967. Tempera, acrylic, and ink on carton, 17-1/3 x 24 inches. Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober Collection, Mallorca, Spain
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Sly Sexuality and Rigorous Tailoring: Late Paintings of Domenico Gnoli

Antidote to Arte Povera: His work from the 1960s at Luxemboug & Dayan

Katherine Bradford, Liner Collage, 2013. Mixed media on paper, 11 x 11-3/8 inches. Courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
Saturday, May 26th, 2012

A New Hero: Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp

Katherine Bradford: Small Ships is at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects through October 13.

Dan Flavin, proposals for (in memory of “Sandy” Calder), 1977. Graphite pencil and colored pencil on graph paper, 17 x 21 7/8 inches Collection of Stephen Flavin (c) 2012 Stephen Flavin/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Graham S. Haber, 2011
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

A Radical’s Romantic Side: Dan Flavin’s Drawings at the Morgan

A different, private side of the minimalist artist

Carol Szymanski, Ceci n'est pas un Kosuth, 2012. Blue fluorescent light, approx. 34 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Guided By Invoices
Monday, May 21st, 2012

How Capitalism Functions: Carol Syzmanski at Guided by Invoices

“this marvelously suggestive mini-retrospective” is up through May 26

Marc Ganzglass, Shear Pin, 2010. ?Steel shear pin, nickel plated, magnet, 4-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Of Scientific Pinterest: “Science on the Back End” at Hauser & Wirth

A group show curated by Matthew Day Jackson, until June 16

Brice Marden, Joined, 2011. Oil and graphite on marble, 26 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Eastern Promise: Brice Marden at Matthew Marks

Renewing his engagement with Chinese art, his own is richly rewarded