Exhibitions

The LooKout

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Jim Drain

at Nathalie Karg,
through Jun. 11
291 Grand Street
Jim Drain frequently works with commissions for public art, and his new sculptures at Nathalie Karg have the look of something you might encounter outdoors—not a […]…Read more

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Kevin Beasley

at Casey Kaplan,
through Jun. 17
121 West 27th Street
Kevin Beasley’s second exhibition at Casey Kaplan, “Sport/Utility,” models a psychic landscape of black masculinity that spans domestic life and outdoor athleticism, upward mobility and stagnant […]…Read more

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Daniel Buren

at Bortolami,
through Jun. 24
39 Walker Street
The inaugural exhibition at Bortolami Gallery’s new space begins before you set foot in the door, with black vinyl stripes adhered to the five columns on […]…Read more

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Florine Stettheimer

at the Jewish Museum,
through Sept. 24
1109 5th Avenue
During her lifetime, the New York socialite, painter, and poet Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944) straddled the line between insider and outsider, her aristocratic status dueling with her […]…Read more

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“Body, Self, Society: Chinese Performance Photography of the 1990s”

at the Walther Collection Project Space,
through Aug. 19
526 West 26th Street, Suite 718
Performance is a particularly slippery art form to display in galleries—a gap exists between the performance itself and the resulting documentation. Is the photograph of the […]…Read more

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Roni Horn

at Hauser & Wirth,
through Jul. 29
548 West 22nd Street
Roni Horn presents four new bodies of work: two series of works on paper, photographs of gifts that she has received since 1974, and an arrangement […]…Read more

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

at the Rubin Museum of Art,
through Sept. 4
150 West 17th Street
The “decisive moment” that Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) sought to capture in his work has much to do with skill, of course, but perhaps a twist of […]…Read more

Reviews from the magazine

  • Gianfranco Baruchello

    London

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    Featuring cryptic handwritten text components and multitudes of miniature figures linked to one another by arrows and lines, Italian artist Gianfranco Baruchello’s paintings seem to map the fragmented, chaotic process of thinking.

  • Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

    New York

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    Los Angeles–based painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer frequently mines news stories and her own personal experiences for her work’s content, producing contemporary genre paintings that are politically charged but ambiguous in meaning.

  • “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon”

    New York

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    LIKE MANY, I approached “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” with a dose of anxiety. Its subject, “gender’s place in contemporary art and culture,” […]

  • Moyra Davey

    Berlin

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    Canadian artist Moyra Davey’s exhibition at Buchholz in Berlin “burrow[ed] into a life, termite fashion,” to borrow phrasing she uses in one of the two videos on view, Wedding Loop (2017).