Arts+ Selects
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PRIVATE TREASURES: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
The Morgan Library & Museum
“Private Treasures,” comprising some 93 works on paper from an anonymous collection of roughly 110 drawings, many of which have not been exhibited publicly, is organized by Rhonda Eitel-Porter and Jennifer Tonkovich at the Morgan, and Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., where it will travel from New York. Arranged chronologically, the exhibit spans the early 16th through the early 20th centuries. Accompanied by a wonderful catalog, the show includes works by Italian, French, Netherlandish, British, and German artists, and amounts to one of those glorious exhibitions that — no offense to its organizers — basically curates itself.
Lance Esplund (January 18)
Until April 8 (225 Madison Ave., between 36th and 37th streets, 212-685-0008).
ROBERT RYMAN: No Title Required
PaceWildenstein
Mr. Ryman’s show at PaceWildenstein’s uptown premises ostensibly comprises four works — in fact, one of the works consists of 10 paintings hung into the corner of adjacent walls. The remaining three canvases, similarly sized to one another and installed on three walls of a darkened alcove gallery, could lay equal claim to consideration as a single piece. In other words, the exhibit entails a hermetic tease about structure and definition: What is “a” painting?
David Cohen (March 15)
Until April 7 (32 E. 57th St. at Madison Avenue, 212-421-3292).
