katy grannan
Katy Grannan’s The Happy Ever After, at Salon 94 Bowery and Salon 94 Freemans, “features women whom Grannan has photographed and filmed for several years.” The two-part show will run through May 14.
lou ros
Lou Ros’s show Faces closes April 23. See it at Tache, a gallery that is currently accepting submissions.
manolo valdés
I’m pretty into Manolo Valdés these days.
rachel whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, she of cast negative space, has a show at Luhring Augustine with “sculptures that are revelations of the traces we leave behind.” It will run through April 30.
berlinde de bruyckere
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s show at Hauser & Wirth speaks of “the degradations of modern society and the ways in which mass commercialization of the human body and sexuality can lead to the destruction of both spirituality and eros.” It runs through April 23.
collected. vignettes
Collected. Vignettes, at the Studio Museum, “highlights works from the permanent collection that exhibit an impressionistic quality through formal and conceptual means.” It runs through June 26.
ruud van empel
Wonder, Ruud van Empel’s show at Stux, consists of his patented stitched together fragment photo-collages of archived images. It will run through May 14.
picasso
The new Picasso show at Gagosian focuses on his relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s mistress and muse for some of his most famous work. It opens April 14.
li/si
On Saturday, April 9, there will be a panel discussion about “a group of poets, artists, architects, students and troublemakers known as the Lettrist/Situationist International (LI/SI)” who in the 1960s and 1970s “made a desperate attempt to re-inscribe the European city so that its inhabitants could break free from the bleak urban routine of work and consumption.” The event takes place at the Judson Memorial Church, and is part of the Annual Anarchist Book Fair.
rembrandt
The Frick, which owns Rembrandt’s self-portrait of 1658, arguably the greatest painting in New York City, is “devoting three exhibition spaces to the work of this artist and his school” in a show that runs through May 15.