Tributes by Laurie Schneider Adams, David Carrier and others

Veiled paintings uptown, with a downtown attitude.

Exhibition continues at Museu do Chiado through October 3

Kehinde Wiley, Maya Lin, Chris Ofili, and Janine Antoni

Marcel Proust begins his novel In Search of Lost Time with a famously long passage in which the Narrator describes sleep, or more properly, the antics of his imagination, while semi-conscious. When I read this passage for the first time, the image that most struck me was that of the Narrator sitting in an armchair reading … Continued

Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan, Sarah Moris at Lever House, Cory Arcangel at Team, and Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner and Zwirner and Wirth

Sean Scully by David Carrier Thames & Hudson, 224 pages, $65 Sean Scully does for stripes what Giorgio Morandi did for bottles. He turns an unpreposessing form into the cipher for a fulsome range of painterly emotions. Morandi’s jugs and jars were things in the world, still-life motifs that precariously balanced specificity and generalization. Mr. … Continued