at MoMA through January 18

Steve Locke discusses Gober’s use of formal and conceptual metaphor to visualize bodily suffering.

Norman addresses the contradictions and occlusions of Gober’s representations of sex and race.

Dennis Kardon unpacks the cultural contexts of Gober and his personal history.

Williams’s recent retrospective was praised for its critical and visual ingenuity, but was that adoration misplaced?

Heatwaves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield is at the Whitney until October 17

RECRUCIFYING THE STARR REPORT Until April 23 523 W. 24th Street, between Tenth Avenue and West Street, 212-243-0200   At the ecclesiastical-sounding Matthew Marks Gallery, everything is set up like a church. A nave of sepulchral objects leads the eye directly to a high altar, dominated by a crucifix. This is flanked by a pair … Continued

Shahzia Sikander at Brent Sikkema, Robert Gober at Matthew Marks, Harriet Shorr at Pelavin, Magnus von Plessen at Barbara Gladstone