the big picture
The Big Picture, at Sikkema Jenkins, features “paintings by eight contemporary artists who predominately work in small or modest scale.”
alighiero boetti
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, at the MoMA, spans “Boetti’s entire career, beginning with his sculptural works, or objects as he preferred to call them, comprised of everyday materials including wood, cardboard, and aluminum.”
summertime salon 2012
SUMMERTIME Salon 2012, at Robin Rice, “immerses the viewer in the mood of the season with its breezy and joyful tone fused with a contemporary edge.”
ellsworth kelly
Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings, at the Met, is the first “major museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to his plant drawings.”
spy
Spy: The Secret World of Espionage, at Discovery Times Square, is an “interactive new family friendly exhibit that takes you beyond the Hollywood fiction and puts you face to face with the secret truth that goes on behind the scenes.”
pothole
Pothole, at Salon 94, is an all-star show featuring the work of Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, Sarah Lucas and Julie Mehretu, among others.
brendan smith
Brendan Smith’s work, currently on view at Louis B. James with David Mramor, “reveals the physical engagement inherent in their making as embodied in a unifying formal system of coils.”
edouard vuillard
A Painter and His Muses, Edouard Vuillard’s show at the Jewish Museum, “offers a fresh view of the French artist’s career, from the vanguard 1890s to the urbane domesticity of the lesser-known late portraits.”
jaro 1
Rooster Gallery, in association with Residency Unlimited, presents Jaro 1, two simultaneous solo shows with work by RU resident artists Guy Goldstein and Erin Dunn.
joni sternbach
The photographs in Surfland, Revisited, Joni Sternbach’s show at Rick Wester Fine Art, are “ghostly and vibrant, ancient and modern, sturdy yet precious.”