
Sweeney Guards the Horned Gates: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim
A recent show celebrated collecting tastes of the 1950s

Sex With Strangers: Sandi Slone at Allegra LaViola
by Piri Halasz
Her aggressively voluptuous paintings are on view through October 6

Digital Space: Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel
The veteran of “conceptual abstraction” embraces a new metaphor.

“The Greens are Envious of Each Other”: Josef Albers at the Morgan
Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library & Museum

Box Cutter Sensuality: The Peeled-Off Paintings of Kris Scheifele
Fade is at Janet Kurnatowski through October 7

Nuances That Carry Weight: Jesper Just at James Cohan
The quiver of a lip, a glance, the color of a dress…
Up through October 27

Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomas’s Tête-à-Tête
Provocative show was at Yancey Richardson this summer

Abstraction Goes Underground: The Painting Factory at LA MoCA
“Abstraction After Warhol” featured 11 painters, most not using brushes

Carpentry at the Service of Art: Christopher Kurtz at Tomlinson Kong
by Karen Gover
Four-piece sculpture show runs on Bowery through September 8

Life with a Dolphin: A Memoir from Mrs. Clement Greenberg
by David Cohen
“A Complicated Marriage: My Life With Clement Greenberg” by Janice Van Horne




