Art
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IMAGINED LANDS Tula Telfair’s paintings of invented landscapes are on display at Forum Gallery. Maureen Mullarkey wrote in The New York Sun, “Boundaries dissolve under infinite skies and light invites surrender to the spectacle. Paradise Found is her metier.” Ms. Telfair grew up in West Central Africa, and now works from a studio in upstate New York. Through Saturday, April 8, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Forum Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave., between 57th and 58th streets, 212-355-4545, free.
GREAT BRITTON Landscapes and portraits by the American painter James Britton (1878-1936) are on display. Britton lived and worked in Connecticut, New York City, and Sag Harbor, L.I., and was known as an artist and a critic. Britton moved to New York at 17 to apprentice as an illustrator at Scribner’s magazine and to study at the Art Students League. Later, while living in Greenwich Village, he organized a group of painters and sculptors known as the Eclectics. As a critic for American Art News, he reviewed events including the Armory Show of 1913. Through Saturday, April 29, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Nabi Gallery, 137 W. 25th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, free.
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