Barbara Bloom’s early 1980s fake travel posters are still wonderfully slippery and arch. At Tracy Williams.
David LaChapelle’s vandalized wax museum heads in cardboard boxes. At Paul Kasmin Gallery.
This aerial image from Edward Burtynsky’s recent pivot irrigation series reminds me of a circuit board. At Howard Greenberg.
Barb Choit’s faded shop window hairstyle charts at Rachel Uffner.
Ken Fandell’s slashing, abstract, laser light photographs at Tomlinson Kong.
Dark, wispy 1990s smoke ring abstractions by Donald Sultan. In the back room at Janet Borden.
A nostalgically bright and kitchy world in super wide Kodak colorama prints at the NY Transit Museum in Grand Central Terminal.
Wish there was more photography (just this one set) at Hank Willis Thomas’ vibrantly shrewd show at Jack Shainman.
A Crewdson-esque young boy outside an eerie backlit garden gate. Joseph Cultice at Baang + Burne.
Marco Anelli’s headshot portraits of the people who sat across from Marina Abramovic. At Danziger Gallery.
Hundreds of photographs of blank/empty/abandoned American billboards in O Zhang’s installation at the Vilcek Foundation.
Pixelated Thomas Ruff JPEG diptych in the lobby of 980 Madison.
Lots of cut paper raw material in the front window of the Thomas Allen show at Foley Gallery.
Photos, film stills, and diagrams in Barry Le Va’s high contrast installation at Sonnabend.
The perils of gallery hopping: a car smashed straight into a bodega on Orchard during my LES swing this afternoon.
Walid Raad’s 31 appendix prints in a colorful cluster at Paula Cooper.
For a rainy NY day, Fischli & Weiss’ rain soaked airport terminals and tarmacs at Andrew Kreps.
Washington DC interlude – Jeffrey Milstein’s aircraft typologies at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Maine interlude – A wall of Pictorialist photographs, part of the Winslow Homer legacy show at the Portland Museum of Art.
Zanele Muholi’s tender, steely eyed portraits of black lesbians in South Africa. At Yancey Richardson.
