The artifice of Las Vegas embodied in the glance of a lifelike showgirl mannequin. Jeff Burton at Casey Kaplan Gallery.
Hybrid female faces, with a nod to the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls album cover. Eva Lake in the Paper Power group show at Frosch & Co.
Taking flight amid a swarm of toy fighter planes. Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart in the Out of Joint group show at New Collectors.
Tossed gloves like ghostly floating hands. Guy Bolongaro in the Out of Joint group show at New Collectors.
Constructing a new cowboy myth from snakeskin boots, an African mask, and scattered dice. Awol Erizku in the Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent: YOBWOC show at Hannah Traore Gallery.
Iteratively breaking down the structure of a tree, from photograph, to drawing, to charted grid. Charles Gaines at Hauser & Wirth.
Echoing the curve of a male nude with expressive overpainting. Ariane Lopez-Huici at Slag Gallery.
A bag of condoms, seen in the tactile lushness of platinum. Ayanna Dozier at Microscope Gallery.
Abandoned torii gates at the once far edges of the imperial Japanese empire. Motoyuki Shitamichi at Alison Bradley Projects.
Trees covered in garbage near a California squatters’ camp, with stars and fire punctuating the post-apocalyptic night. Jean-François Bouchard at Arsenal Contemporary Art.
The expansive flatness of the mouth of the Wisconsin River. Henry P. Bosse (from 1885) in the Water Memories group exhibit at the Met.
Two Pueblo corn dancers floating in the water, recalling the flooding of Indigenous homelands. Cara Romero in the Water Memories group exhibit at the Met.
Leaving Lena Horne just out of the frame, alluding to racist film editing from the 1940s. Lorna Simpson, from 1998, in the drawings area on the second floor at the Met.
A structured view from a Parisian hotel window. Calvert Jones (or William Henry Fox Talbot), from 1843-1844, at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Photographs.
A paired echo of look and gesture. Cindy Sherman (with Richard Prince, from 1980) in the Faces & Figures group show at Skarstedt Gallery.
Magar villagers from northwestern Nepal using a fishing net as protection against evil spirits. Michael Oppitz (from 1978) at Galerie Buchholz.
The helmeted stare of Cara Delevigne. Mariano Vivanco (from 2017) in the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime show at the Brooklyn Museum.
Sculptural twists of hat and hair. Enrique Badulescu (from 1995) in the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime show at the Brooklyn Museum.
Mixing Soviet symbols and fashion models. Thierry Mugler (from 1986) in the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime show at the Brooklyn Museum.
Stephanie Seymour and the glamorously windy chop of a nearby helicopter. Herb Ritts (from 1990) in the Thierry Mugler: Couturissime show at the Brooklyn Museum.
