Urban attitude at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. Wayne Lawrence at the FLAG Art Foundation.
A wall of Lee Friedlander little screens, in the Harald Falckenberg collection show at Paris Photo.
The elegant smear of an elongated Matisse fragment. Louise Lawler at Casey Kaplan Gallery.
Clothes pins across a blue sky (on a rainy day). Thomas Demand on the High Line billboard.
An array of fashion/celebrity Polaroids. Patrick Demarchelier at Staley-Wise Gallery.
Every frame of Eddie Adams’ iconic Vietnam street execution. At Steven Kasher Gallery.
Criss-crossed steel girders. Paul Woolf in the New York show at Keith De Lellis Gallery.
Sex as a fragmented, geometric cloud. Sarah Anne Johnson at Julie Saul.
Faceless portraits, all wearing the same suit coat. Gulu Real Art Studio at the Walther Collection.
The formality of a farm landscape. An early George Tice at Scott Nichols (San Francisco).
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.
