robert mapplethorpe
Who doesn’t like Robert Mapplethorpe? His show, 50 Americans, at Sean Kelly, features “fifty works selected by fifty Americans of diverse occupations, ages, races, and backgrounds.” It runs through June 18.
gillian wearing
Gillian Wearing’s show at Tanya Bonakdar describes “narratives that land strikingly between the public and private, fiction and documentary, the raw improvisation and the carefully staged.”
vahap avsar
NONEISAFE, the first solo exhibition in the US by Turkish born artist Vahap Avsar, strives to “question the strength of the social structures we have created to protect ourselves.” It will be on view at Charles Bank through June 19.
laurel nakadate
For 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Laurel Nakadate “photographed herself before, during and after weeping each day from January 1 through December 31, 2010.” It is at Leslie Tonkonow through June 25.
jim dine
Jim Dine: The Glyptotek Drawings, at the Morgan, “explores Dine’s meditation on the antique world” by “presenting forty drawings, the resulting book of prints based on them, and a number of related works, all promised gifts of the artist to the Morgan.”
vito acconci
With LOBBY-FOR-THE-TIME-BEING, his piece at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Vito Acconci has “radically transformed the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby through a series of interventions built with Corian, a smooth, hard material that is not quite translucent and not quite opaque.”
jim gaylord
Spoilers, Jim Gaylord’s show at Jeff Bailey, “draws upon abstracted imagery found within high-speed action sequences in motion pictures.”
maria antonietta mameli
Long Takes, Maria Antonietta Mameli’s show at Bruce Silverstein, focuses on “anonymous city dwellers captured in minute proportion, unaware of the artist’s observation while engaged in their individual lives.”
art on art
Art on Art, at Adam Baumgold, features “drawings, paintings and sculpture by 28 artists that reference art and other artworks, transforming them within these artists’ own signature styles and motifs.”
richard tuttle
Richard Tuttle’s show at Pace will be on view through July 22.