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A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden’s Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time. | John Yau
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The Shape of Things & Land of Broken Dreams at Park Avenue Armory
Carrie Mae Weems, an artist who consistently and poignantly addresses the conditions of race, creates a multi-work installation: on view through Friday, December 31. The New York Times describes this installation as “Compelling…insightful, sometimes funny, and occasionally quite direct.”
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Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades. | Louis Bury
Assemblage Art for the Age of the Online Shopper
Bader brings a conceptual playfulness to found-object assemblage, updating Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the assisted readymade for the age of the online shopper. | Nolan Kelly
The Mysteries of the Universe in John Willenbecher’s Early Work
Between 1962 and ’75, Willenbecher made a substantial body of work reflecting his interest in games and the night sky, in the ancient human desire to make order out of the inexplicable. | John Yau
An Artist Honors Iceland’s Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power. | Gregory Volk
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CLOSING SOON
Stephen Westfall, "Concorde" (2020), gouache on paper, 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (all images © Stephen Westfall, courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York)
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
Alexandre Gallery through December 22
Sonia Gechtoff: The 1960s in New York: A Series of Transitions
David Richard Gallery through December 23
Roots/Anchors
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art through December 31
Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality
MoMA through January 1, 2022
