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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 ...

Malcolm Morley, Starry Starry Knight, 2017. Oil on linen, 50 x 50 inches. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater © Malcolm Morley
Thursday, September 27th, 2018

Starry Starry Knight: Malcolm Morley at Sperone Westwater

Works from the painter’s last three years, on view on the Lower East Side

Gauri Gill. Untitled from the series Acts of Appearance. 2015–ongoing. Pigmented inkjet print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Robert B. Menschel. © 2018 Gauri Gill
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018

Mask Life: The Mystical and the Mundane in Gauri Gill

“Projects 108” is at PS1 through September 3

Gertrude Abercrombie, Untitled (Blue Screen, Black Cat, Print of Same), 1945. Oil on board, 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy Karma Gallery.
Monday, August 13th, 2018

The Queen of Chicago: Gertrude Abercrombie at Karma

Surreal paintings from the mid-century Mid West, in the East Village through September 16

Louis Eilshemius, Mother and Child, 1914, oil on masonite, 21 x 28 1/4 inches
Friday, August 3rd, 2018

Libidinal Charge: A Summer Group Show at Greenspon

The Seam, the Fault, the Flaw, through August 3

Thomas Bayrle, Mao, 1966. Oil on wood construction and engine, 145 x 148 x 32 cm. Photo: Axel Schneider.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018

Disrupting the System: Thomas Bayrle at the New Museum

Five-decade survey delving culture, politics, economics, infrastructure

Saturday, July 28th, 2018

Ekphrasis: Helene Appel at James Cohan

Her second show with the gallery was on Grand Street this month

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

Black is Beautiful: Fred Wilson at Pace

“Afro Kismet” is on view in Chelsea through August 17

Hiraki Sawa (left), Dwelling, 2002. Video, 9:20 minutes; Olafur Eliasson (right), Yellow Double Hung Windows, 1999. Two halogen, 60 watt profle spotlights on tripod with gobos, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artists and 601Artspace. Photo: Jason Mandella
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

“Utopian in Nature”: A group show at 601Artspace

Curated by Jesse Penridge and Harriet Salmon, through July 31

Jill Nathanson, Leitmotif, 2018. Acrylic and polymers with oil on panel, 45 x 27-1/2 inches. © Jill Nathanson. Courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Elucidations: Jill Nathanson at Berry Campbell

“Nathanson’s colors feel harvested from sensations of all that is sunlit”

Saturday, June 23rd, 2018

Are You Comfortable, Now? Jordan Wolfson at David Zwirner

Jordan Wolfson: Riverboat song at David Zwirner through June 23