Art
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A STARK GARDEN Howard Greenberg Gallery presents an exhibit of flowers and vegetable still-lifes by the recently discovered British photographer Charles Jones, who frequently draped a dark cloth behind his specimens as if shooting studio portraits. Through Saturday, January 6, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Howard Greenberg Gallery 41 E. 57th St. at Madison Avenue, 212-334-0010, free.
FROM PAPER TO CANVAS “First in Line: Preparatory Drawings for Paintings in the Collection” is an exhibit of seven paintings from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that displays line studies next to complete paintings. Selections include Daniel Ridgway Knight’s “At the Well” (1880), left, and Knight’s “Peasant With Water Jug: Study for ‘The Well'” (c. 1880), above. Through Sunday, January 28, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, $8 general, $4 students and seniors, free for children and members.
