Art
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Top five shows: May 30–June 6, 2012
The best of the week in art.
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"Surface Affect"
This exhibition meditates on fluctuating relationship between appearance and idea.
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N. Dash
N. Dash makes her solo debut with a satisfying blend of organic ingredients and minimalist form.
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Aaron Curry, "Buzz Kill"
Curry’s sculptures seem eager to take down modernism’s utopian ideals without offering much in their place.
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Top summer art exhibitons
The weather is hot and so are these shows.
Critics’ picks
Kiki Smith, Chorus
- Critics choice
- Free
Smith pays tribute to Broadway's Jazz Age heyday with this outdoor installation.
- Until Tue Sep 4
- The Last Lot
Chiharu Shiota
- Critics choice
- Free
This Japanese artist creates all-encompassing environments that seem to hover between pleasant dream and nightmare.
- Until Sat Jun 16
- Haunch of Venison
"Gustav Klimt: 150th Anniversary Celebration"
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The Neue Galerie is throwing a big party for the artist’s sesquicentennial.
- Until Mon Aug 27
- Neue Galerie New York
Evelyne Axell, "The Great Journey Into Space"
- Critics choice
- Free
One of Belgium's first Pop artists, Axell explored the erotic potential of the Space Age.
- Until Sat Aug 25
- Broadway 1602
Recent reviews
Rachel Harrison, "The Help"
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Objects and Amy Winehouse collide in Harrison's show.
- Until Sat Jun 16
- Greene Naftali
Dana Schutz, "Piano in the Rain"
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Dana Schutz is back at the top of her game, painting with prodigious facility.
- Until Sat Jun 16
- Friedrich Petzel Gallery
David Benjamin Sherry, "Astral Desert"
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
- Free
Sherry takes the primal geometry of American desert as a starting point for images saturated with unexpected color.
- Until Sat Jun 2
- Salon 94 Bowery
Pier Paolo Calzolari, "When the dreamer dies, what happens to the dream?"
- Free
A key figure in Arte Povera, Calzolari pursued an interest in time and transfiguration.
- Until Sat Jun 2
- Marianne Boesky Gallery
Best gallery shows
- Until Sun Jun 10
- James Fuentes LLC 55 Delancey St, between Allen and Eldridge Sts
Alice Neel, "Late Portraits & Still Lifes"
- Free
On view are luminous compositions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- Until Sat Jun 23
- David Zwirner 533 W 19th St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
“Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953”
- Free
This show focuses on Picasso's relationship with painter Gilot, whose canvases hang next to the maestro's.
- Until Sat Jun 30
- Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Ave, between 76th and 77th Sts
Matthew Brandt
- Free
Brandt's landscape photos incorporate materials taken from the subject environments.
- Until Sat Jun 30
- Yossi Milo Gallery 245 Tenth Ave, between 24th and 25th Sts
Art in pictures
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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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