{"id":620,"date":"2010-10-27T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-10-27T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:02:40","slug":"toms-picks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2010\/10\/two-men1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-621\" title=\"two men\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2010\/10\/two-men1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Ivan Karp, Portrait of Allan Kaprow, 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lots of great shows in NYC now, including a chance to get a great dose of one of the masters of Pop, Roy Lichtenstein, who currently is featured in three choice exhibitions.\u00a0 If you only can only see one of them, pick <em>The Black and White Drawings<\/em> at the Morgan Library (225 Madison Ave. at 36<sup>th<\/sup> St.), which also has the virtue of being on view until January 2.\u00a0 But <em>Mostly Men<\/em> at Leo Castelli (18 East 77<sup>th<\/sup>) and <em>Reflected<\/em> at Mitchell Innes &amp; Nash (534 West 26<sup>th<\/sup>) both through October 30, are well worth seeing.\u00a0 Both include rare early works, as well as stunning recent pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Also on view are two exhibitions of works by masters of abstract art:\u00a0 Gerhard Richter:\u00a0 \u201c<em>Lines which do not exist<\/em>,\u201d at the Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street) through November 18.\u00a0\u00a0 The 50 drawings in the show reveal a lesser-known side of Richter, most famous for his paintings.\u00a0 They are mostly abstract, mostly small, mostly black and white, with a wide range of marking techniques, from thin lines to broad tones, from erased strokes to flurries of graphite spots.\u00a0 They amount to grisaille versions of his abstract paintings, which are supplemented by a few representational images, a wall of large-scale drawings, and several watercolors where the paper is flooded with blazing color, sometimes played against barely visible passages of line.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the Pace Gallery flexed its considerable muscles with a four-gallery show honoring its fiftieth anniversary, featuring great works by artists such as Calder, Pollock, Johns and on. \u00a0This month it opens a new space, 510 West 25<sup>th<\/sup>, with a show of abstract paintings by Thomas Nozkowski, who fills the big spaces with dozens of drawings and paintings that show a range of wit and inventiveness that make Richter\u2019s drawings look austere\u2014through December 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of great shows in NYC now, including a chance to get a great dose of one of the masters of Pop, Roy Lichtenstein, who currently is featured in three choice exhibitions.\u00a0 If you only can only see one of them, pick The Black and White Drawings at the Morgan Library (225 Madison Ave. at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-man-about-town"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}