Releasing a spinning top with gestural force. Miguel Angel Rios in the JPMorgan Chase Collection show at Paris Photo.

Bouffant hair and a toy poodle. Diane Arbus in the Rebels sale at Artnet Auctions.

A fantasyland of weather worn futurism. Dionisio González at Galerie Richard.

The elusiveness of painterly transparent films. Sara Greenberger Rafferty at Rachel Uffner.

An endless scroll of surveillance codenames. Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures.

A pixel deconstruction of David’s Oath of the Horatii. Rashid Rana in the Ethereal group show at Leila Heller.

Billowing cyanotype folds. Walead Beshty at Artnet Auctions.

Responding to the new Koch fountains at the Met. Hans Haacke at Paula Cooper.

Rethinking Blossfeldt via artificial flowers. Robert Voit at ClampArt.

The up close textile abstraction of gingham. Michelle Grabner at James Cohan.

A time twisted jumble of stars and moons. Sharon Harper at The Gallery at Hermès.

The dark angles of a tower finial. Margaret Bourke-White in the Experiments in Abstraction group show at Keith De Lellis.

The bright colors of a Kodak test pattern. Lucy Raven in the Infinite Tuning group show at Murray Guy.

The perfect geometric alignment of iron beams. Louis Lafon in the second floor hallway at the Met.

Abstracting the dots of DNA sequences. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle in the Spectrum sale at Artnet Auctions.

A claustrophobic thicket of shimmering silver. Kristine Potter at Daniel Cooney.

Layered reconfigurations of the gallery space. Eileen Neff at Bruce Silverstein.

The tenderness of a baby stroller in an empty subway car. Joni Sternbach at Rick Wester.

Radical, aggressive body-based performance. Günter Brus in the Vienna Actionism show at Hauser & Wirth.

The solitude of Tokyo pod hotels. Matthew Pillsbury at Benrubi.