Purity or Pollution: Protection, Plastics and Religion in the Work of Sara Mejia Kriendler
A young artist uses monochromatic sculptures to examine vulnerability and danger.
An Outsider’s Tale: Ana Mendieta at Galerie Lelong
A survey of the influential feminist artist’s early films and photographs.
Law as Symbol: Taryn Simon at Gagosian
The beautification of legal and economic power is pinned down and studied.
America is Hard to See: David Hammons at Mnuchin
A retrospective of 50 years’ work by the cantankerous, teasing, cutting, and loving sculptor.
Momentous: Shows by Catherine Murphy and Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Two painters delicately depict mundane instants, beautifully.
Smoke, Clouds, Breath: Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman
An exhibition of new photographic and video work by the YBA.
Erogenous Zone: Aida Ruilova’s Erotic “Palace”
The artist’s iconic, sensuous new work borrows from charged 1970s film imagery.
Built Differently: Mernet Larsen’s Strange Constructions
The artist makes strange use of perspective, planes, and other building blocks of composition and narrative.
BMPT at Hunter College: All There Is To It
A retrospective of the influential abstract painting group.
Really Killer: Anna Ostoya’s Judith
A fractured re-examination of an infamous Renaissance execution image.
