In his first New York solo, the Belgian artist Peter Rogiers (b. 1967) presented five large-scale sculptures, strange creatures that skitter between the animal and vegetal, abstract and representational.

Among the many small painted works appearing in Francis Alÿs's recent solo show was an untitled piece composed of six 5-by-7-inch oil paintings.

"If you are famous you can get away with anything!" So declared Allen Ginsberg in a 1991 interview while discussing the artworks of William S. Burroughs.

Abstraction usually describes a process of lessening, but for Apollinaire, a poet and critic who was one of abstraction's key supporters, the term implied plenitude: a nothing that was nonetheless something.

This traveling midcareer retrospective, "From Here to There," suggested that Alec Soth is one of the best photographers working today.