Generally there’s nothing extra satisfying than encountering the work of a inventive pressure. Our favourite exhibits this week are every centered on a single determine. Some are visible artists, starting from historic innovators (Volodymyr Tatlin) to under-appreciated names (Judy Linn) to maybe unknown names (Abraham Lincoln Walker). Others, each on the Morgan Library & Museum, take a peek into the literary lives of Franz Kafka and Bella da Costa Greene, the librarian who based the Morgan’s assortment. These exhibits are all nice alternatives to soak up some particular person brilliance. —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
Abraham Lincoln Walker
Andrew Edlin Gallery, 212 Bowery, Decrease East Aspect, ManhattanThrough April 12
Abraham Lincoln Walker, “Blue Man’s Form” (1978), oil on canvas (courtesy Andrew Edlin gallery)
“Perhaps Walker invented these people and the stories that brought them together because he desired the play of recognition between human beings” —Seph Rodney
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Franz Kafka
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, ManhattanThrough April 13
Postcard to Ottla Kafka from Versailles (September 13, 1911). Collectively owned by the Bodleian Library and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (© The Bodleian Library, College of Oxford)
“What could be more Kafkaesque than circling the show, trying to enter his world but never quite managing, just as K, the protagonist in The Castle, never reaches his destination?” —NH
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Tatlin: Kyiv
Ukrainian Museum, ManhattanThrough April 27
Volodymyr Tatlin, “Collage for the ‘The Diplomatic Pouch’ movie by Oleksandr Dovzhenko” (1927) (picture courtesy the Ukrainian Museum New York)
“Tatlin: Kyiv is haunted by what could have been, if history had shaken out differently — and by extension, by the urgency of what could be, depending on how we conduct ourselves right now.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, ManhattanThrough Might 4
Clarence H. White, “Belle da Costa Greene” (1911), platinum print, Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti, The Harvard College Middle for Italian Renaissance Research (picture courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum)
“While the exhibition is comprehensive, it simultaneously respects that which we can never know about Greene’s interiority.” —Alexandra M. Thomas
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Judy Linn: Black & White
Kerry Schuss Gallery, 73 Leonard Avenue, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough Might 10
Judy Linn, “happy car” (1995) (courtesy the artist)
“With all that I had now learned about Linn’s work, it became clear that I had only glimpsed the tip of an iceberg.” —John Yau
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