Mamma Andersson, Titus Kaphar, Merlin James

Scotland’s two-week city-wide visual arts festival runs through May 7

An impressive debut show that marks affinities with two of the reviewer’s favorite painters

Saul Steinberg at the Morgan Library, Merlin James at the Studio School

Until January 21 530 West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, 212.929.2262 Merlin James’s painting, “Flower Piece” (2001), is almost a manifesto of a will to evade categorization.  It hangs in a show spanning twenty years of his work at Sikkema Jenkins, his fourth with these dealers.  At first it looks like a dashed-off, … Continued