Art
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Dana Schutz, "Piano in the Rain"
Dana Schutz is back at the top of her game, painting with prodigious facility.
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David Benjamin Sherry, "Astral Desert"
Sherry’s new photographs take the American desert as a starting point for images saturated with unexpected color.
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Carol Szymanski: Pissin’ Against the...
Former investment banker Szymanski uses her experience among the 1 percent as fodder for her work.
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Top five shows: May 17-23
The best of the week in art.
Critics’ picks
Tom Sachs, Space Program: Mars
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Rejoice, manned-spaceflight nerds: Tom Sachs is stepping into the void left by the cancellation of the Space Shuttle with a cosmic spectacle.
- Until Sun Jun 17
- Park Avenue Armory
“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations”
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
This exhibit brings together two iconic names of cutting-edge Italian fashion.
- Until Sun Aug 19
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Phyllida Barlow: siege"
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Materials found on the street make up this British sculptor's particular spin on postminimalist aesthetics.
- Until Sun Jun 24
- New Museum of Contemporary Art
Sturtevant, "Rock & Rap/C Simulacra"
- Critics choice
- Free
At age 82, Elaine Sturtevant has reached the pinnacle of a career five decades in the making.
- Until Sat Jun 23
- Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Recent reviews
Ernesto Neto
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Ernesto Neto’s work is meant to be experienced from within.
- Until Sat May 26
- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Hunter Reynolds, “Butur”
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Embodying destruction and renewal, Reynolds's objects are monuments to his own transformative journey.
- Until Sat May 19
- P.P.O.W. Gallery
Juan Downey, “The Invisible Architect”
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Juan Downey made his mark as a pioneering video, installation and performance artist in 1970s New York.
- Until Sun Jun 10
- Bronx Museum of the Arts
“Stories the City Tells Itself: The Video Art and Photography of Neil Goldberg”
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Gotham itself is the backdrop of Neil Goldberg’s work.
- Until Mon May 28
- Museum of the City of New York
Best gallery shows
Kehinde Wiley, "An Economy of Grace"
- Free
Historical portraits of society women inspire the artist's first forays into depicting female subjects.
- Until Sat Jun 16
- Sean Kelly Gallery 528 W 29th St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
Tauba Auerbach, "Float"
- Free
Auerbach toys with the notion of surface, and the ways in which it catches light.
- Until Sat Jun 23
- Paula Cooper Gallery 521 W 21st St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
- Until Sat Jun 30
- Venus Over Manhattan 980 Madison Ave, between 76th and 77th Sts, third floor
- Until Sat Jun 16
- Hauser & Wirth 32 E 69th St, between Madison and Park Aves, 10021
Art in pictures
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TONY recaps the fair for those of you who didn't make it there.
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The Hole icon makes her art world debut with her drawings about emotional torment.
Top 50 New York photographs
From daguerreotypes to digital, we round up iconic depictions of NYC moments high and low.
New York's best
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum is impressive in terms both of quality and scale.
- 1000 Fifth Ave, (at 82nd St)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA is home to the most important artworks, spanning the 19th to 21st centuries.
- 11 W 53rd St, (between Fifth and Sixth Aves)
- 945 Madison Ave, (at 75th St)
- 200 Eastern Pkwy, (at Washington Ave)
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