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Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun Installation view, 540 West 26th Street, May 2 to June 22, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
The English enfant terrible scales new heights ...
 
Gedi Sibony, First There Was This, 2013, light box, 51 x 54 x 10 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
Rugged minimalism, nursery rhymes, and painterly expression ...
 
Ken Price, Hawaiian, 1980, glazed ceramic, 5 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Betty Lee and Aaron Stern Collection. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen.
His retrospective, seen in LA, comes to the Met in June ...
 


Leo Rabkin, Untitled, ca. 1958. Canvas, rope, 30 x 35 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Luise Ross Gallery, New York

Rhinestones, Goggle Eyes and Flocking: Leo Rabkin’s Visual Poems


On view with examples from his folk art collection at Luise Ross through June 22


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An Air of Intellectual Mystery: Noam Rappaport at James Fuentes


His show of destabilizing shaped canvases, on the Lower East Side, closed June 10


André Masson, Corrida au soleil, 1936. Oil on canvas, 29-3/8 x 50-3/4 inches. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Blain Di Donna

“Desire Causes the Current to Flow”: André Masson’s Innovations in Taste


A twenty year survey of the Surrealist master at Blain/Di Donna through June 15


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The External Feminine: Chantal Joffe at Cheim & Read


The British painter’s portraits of women are on view through June 22


Domenico Gnoli, What is a Monster? Snail on Sofa, 1967. Tempera, acrylic, and ink on carton, 17-1/3 x 24 inches. Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober Collection, Mallorca, Spain

Sly Sexuality and Rigorous Tailoring: Late Paintings of Domenico Gnoli


Antidote to Arte Povera: His work from the 1960s at Luxemboug & Dayan


Katherine Bradford, Superman Responds, 2011. Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches. Courtesy of Edward Thorp Gallery

A New Hero: Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp


Superman and ocean liners are the stars of this show, extended through June 9


Dan Flavin, proposals for (in memory of “Sandy” Calder), 1977. Graphite pencil and colored pencil on graph paper, 17 x 21 7/8 inches Collection of Stephen Flavin (c) 2012 Stephen Flavin/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Graham S. Haber, 2011

A Radical’s Romantic Side: Dan Flavin’s Drawings at the Morgan


A different, private side of the minimalist artist


Carol Szymanski, Ceci n'est pas un Kosuth, 2012. Blue fluorescent light, approx. 34 x 34 inches. Courtesy of Guided By Invoices

How Capitalism Functions: Carol Syzmanski at Guided by Invoices


“this marvelously suggestive mini-retrospective” is up through May 26


Marc Ganzglass, Shear Pin, 2010. ?Steel shear pin, nickel plated, magnet, 4-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 2 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth

Of Scientific Pinterest: “Science on the Back End” at Hauser & Wirth


A group show curated by Matthew Day Jackson, until June 16


Brice Marden, Joined, 2011. Oil and graphite on marble, 26 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery

Eastern Promise: Brice Marden at Matthew Marks


Renewing his engagement with Chinese art, his own is richly rewarded