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February 23, 2022 • View in browser

Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium

Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread. | Seph Rodney

Famakan Magassa’s Virtuous Vice

The Malian painter’s first solo exhibition in New York muses on the desires and compulsions that guide us toward enlightenment — and occasionally get us into trouble. | Billy Anania

Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs

Soth’s art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility. | Zach Ritter

Toni Morrison’s The Black Book Was a Groundbreaking Archive, Anthology, and Scrapbook

Hilton Als’s collection of materials, art, and ephemera isn’t meant to elucidate Morrison’s work but ponder the novelist’s impact on American culture. | Taylor Michael

Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination

Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here. | John Yau

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CLOSING SOON

Mary Lum, “Rue Charlot” (2021), acrylic, found paper, and photo collage on paper, 30 x 22 inches

On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa
International Studio & Curatorial Program through February 25

Mary Lum: When the Sky Is a Shape
Yancey Richardson through February 26

Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation through February 26