The delicate lines of a spiderweb. Ilse Bing in Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada—A Raft at MoMA.
Creating an expansively linked family tree of food brand characters/faces. Nina Katchadourian at Pace Gallery.
Shadows of a leafy branch twisted into a swirling collage of geometric layers. Sandi Haber Fifield at Yancey Richardson Gallery.
Using ducks in Central Park as the subject of a 1969 minute-by-minute duration study. Douglas Huebler in the No More Than Three Other Times group show at Paula Cooper Gallery.
Bird collages documenting a fictitious invasive bird program in Lebanon. Walid Raad in the No More Than Three Other Times group show at Paula Cooper Gallery.
Emptying out and anonymizing the posed romance. Hans-Peter Feldmann at 303 Gallery.
Stepping out of an intricately crafted cut paper carriage. Jasper de Beijer at Asya Geisberg Gallery.
Using the story of Abraham and Isaac as a response to the 1970 Kent State shootings. George Segal in Scenes from the Collection at the Jewish Museum.
Adding a handheld camera to a back-of-the-print copyright notice. Jimmy DeSana in Ray Johnson: WHAT A DUMP at David Zwirner.
Arthur Rimbaud climbing through the rotting piers. David Wojnarowicz in Ray Johnson: WHAT A DUMP at David Zwirner.
Peeling back the wispy angles of prickly interior pressure. Jimmy DeSana in Ray Johnson: WHAT A DUMP at David Zwirner.
The textural abstraction of scanned textiles mounted to IKEA tables. Cory Arcangel at Greene Naftali Gallery.
The ghostly presence of memory jug X-rays. Terry Adkins in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
Dramatically restaging the assassinations of the Civil Rights movement. Carrie Mae Weems in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
Pairing a blurred, anonymous face in a hoodie with Michael Brown’s police report. Carrie Mae Weems in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
The destroyed doctors’ offices of Braddock hospital. LaToya Ruby Frazier in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
The muted mood of stained wallpaper. Deana Lawson in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
Isolating the tropical backgrounds of prison Polaroids. Sable Elyse Smith in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
Paired portraits thoughtfully marking time from the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. Dawoud Bey in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
Revealing an image of a police dog attack from the 1965 Watts Rebellion underneath the crinkled opening of a dark foil wound. Mark Bradford in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum.
