August 10th is a black Friday for New York art exhibitions: it’s “Last Chance” for three dozen shows in Week at a Glance. A dashing show of ambitious new works by veteran “New Generation” British sculptor Phillip King has been featured at Luhring Augustine this summer. King’s career has shadowed that of Sir Anthony Caro in several respects, as each sculptor broke with expressive figuration, opted for radical abstraction or funky color, and reverted to symbolism at similar moments. But King is no poor man’s Caro: his voice is uniquely and distinctly his own. This is most apparent in his use of unusual materials that nonetheless work supremely well for sculpture, such as the polyurethane foam of this year’s “Swirl” with painted supporting walls. If he were a double act with Caro, he’d be the one on Prozac. DAVID COHEN
531 West 24th Street , through August 10
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