Yellow bike, yellow sweater, yellow hair, and yellow balloon. Roger Steffens/The Family Acid at Benrubi Gallery.
The delicate melancholy of snowfall on persimmons. Hiroshi Watanabe at Benrubi Gallery.
Readymade still lifes of Man and Woman. Man Ray in the Dadaglobe Reconstructed show at MoMA.
Seeing the Virgin Mary in a New Jersey window. Rachel Harrison at MoMA.
Horizontal layers of trailers, surf, and water. Joe Deal in the Back at the Water’s Edge group show at Robert Mann.
Bikini ease and shooting arrows. Henry Wessel in the Back at the Water’s Edge group show at Robert Mann.
A taxonomy of colored plastic shards. Gabriel Orozco in the Summer Selections group show at Marian Goodman.
A tumble of ancient megalithic stones. Tacita Dean in the Summer Selections group show at Marian Goodman.
Channeling Carleton Watkins with spicy hot chips. Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman in the Lost in Space group show at Rick Wester Fine Art.
Replacing wildflower shadows with flat color. Aaron Rothman in the Lost in Space group show at Rick Wester Fine Art.
The unsettling all-over hairiness of a doll man. Cindy Sherman in The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men group show at Cheim & Read.
The inconsistency of an interrupted wooden tabletop. Lucas Blalock in the See sun, and think shadow group show at Gladstone Gallery.
Rethinking the curves of doll bodies. Lauren Kelley in The Woman Destroyed group show at PPOW.
The connection/distance between two dark silhouettes. Carrie Mae Weems in the For Freedoms group show at Jack Shainman.
An honest roadside confession. Alec Soth in the For Freedoms group show at Jack Shainman.
Letters from the girl’s alphabet. Wendy Ewald in the For Freedoms group show at Jack Shainman.
The empowerment of natural pubic hair. Marilyn Minter in the For Freedoms group show at Jack Shainman.
The incomprehensible scale of a towering spruce. Eija-Liisa Ahtila in the Another North group show at Scandinavia House.
The giddy happiness of fake flowers, rainbows, and ceramic horses. Éva Szombat in the Echoes: City, Society, Conflict & Self in Hungarian Photography group show at Alma Gallery.
Seeing Sugimoto in a skyward view. Ákos Czigány in the Echoes: City, Society, Conflict & Self in Hungarian Photography group show at Alma Gallery.
