Staircase as sumptuous geometry exercise. Tina Modotti in the second floor hallway at the Met.

Interrupted by strawberry shortcake. Takashi Yasumura in the front room at Yossi Milo.

Spraying the Windex right at us. Marina Pinsky in the Displayed group show at Anton Kern.

Chanel bracelets and shiny mackerel. Roe Ethridge in the Displayed group show at Anton Kern.

A monumental wall of boldly colorful mushrooms. Fischli & Weiss at Matthew Marks.

Rustling grasses and sliced color. Chloe Sells in the LandMark group show at Julie Saul.

Then and now in the Meatpacking district. Brian Rose at Dillon Gallery.

A typology of hair styles, with a nod to Ojeikere. Awol Erizku at Hasted Kraeutler.

Linear abstraction up close. A detail from Niko Luoma, in the summer group show at Bryce Wolkowitz.

A brash still life of 99 cent store plastic flowers. Melissa Eder in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

Landscape split into reflected/refracted geometries. Anastasia Samoylova in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

The all over visual assault of Chinese fast food. Anja Hitzenberger in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

A graveside array of artificial flowers. David Allee at Morgan Lehman.

Overlapped echoes of water droplet rings. Adam Fuss in the Splash! sale at Artnet Auctions.

The flat rectangles of foundation construction. Lewis Baltz in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Sequential rotation of spherical models. Sharon Lockhart in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Compositional complexity in sumptuous platinum. Jan Groover in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Mid-1960s experimental photocopying. Barbara T. Smith in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Mixing interior glow and soft streetlight glare. Henry Wessel in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

A lightbox waterfall with a bright, streaming color overlay. Matthew Brandt in The Fifth Season at James Cohan.