Referring to a painting of a silhouetted Giacometti sculpture on a white canvas, Dutch artist Daan van Golden told Modern Painters in 2005, “It took me a long time to think about that painting, then two hours to paint it and then a year and a half to think about whether it was good.”

The only shock of this annual barometer of British contemporary art was that there was no shock.

In this, his first New York solo in a decade, Neil Jenney presented 17 major oil-on-wood paintings from the past 12 years.

You don’t have to know much about birds to see that Jean-Luc Mylayne’s big, quietly glorious color photographs take an avian view of things.

For the first U.S. screening of his short films, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli transformed the New Museum's Media Lounge into an old-fashioned movie theater, draped with red velvet curtains and dimly illuminated along the baseboards by tiny yellow lights. The space took on a hermetic, empowered feeling, which seemed appropriate to the spirit of campy idolatry that suffuses Vezzoli's art.