The flair of 1970s Wall Street. Charles Gatewood at Robert Tat (San Francisco).
Pattern contrasts in a recent work by Mickalene Thomas. At Jenkins Johnson (San Francisco).
The elusive blurred form of Josephine Baker. Carrie Mae Weems at Jenkins Johnson (San Francisco).
A grid of early (late 1920s) Walker Evans geometries in the American Modern show at MoMA.
Pared down Modernist elegance. Paul Strand in the American Modern show at MoMA.
A sublime array of O’Keeffe hands by Alfred Stieglitz in the American Modern show at MoMA.
Male paper dolls and a nurse costume. Eleanor Antin at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia.
An impossibly dense crowd of black clad women. Abbas in the Iran Modern show at the Asia Society.
The razor thin scanned edge of a Slits album. Meredyth Sparks in the Test Pattern group show at the Whitney.
Abstraction as shifting planes of ephemeral color. David Mitchell at Jim Kempner Fine Art.
The enveloping orange of a Burkina Faso brick quarry. David Pace at Corden Potts Gallery.
Still life time disrupted by a painted proxy. John Chervinsky at Corden Potts Gallery.
The black void of a runoff pool. David Maisel mining aerials at Haines Gallery.
New images from Richard Learoyd in black and white. At Fraenkel Gallery.
Blurred, ephemeral voyeurism. Miroslav Tichý at Half Gallery.
Man in a top hat. A Charles Nègre paper negative/salt print combination at Hans P. Kraus Jr Photographs.
A jumbled, multicolored teen sleepover. Martine Fougeron at the Gallery at Hermès.
Cascading red hair and diner stools. Bryan Schutmaat at Aperture Gallery.
Covered in pi. Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin at Flomenhaft Gallery.
Artist shoots box; hole creates self portrait shooting. Rudolf Steiner at Apexart.