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The exhibitions at Lisson, Garth Greenan, Silverlens, Montague Contemporary, and Alison Bradley Projects are worth checking out.

Carmen Herrera: Paintings on Paper features fifteen acrylic-on-paper compositions from 2018–2022, all untitled, and most never-before shown. Making their public debut are some of the last works she produced.

What is it like to be “of one’s time” and not? Leon Polk Smith was a prime progenitor of American hard-edged abstraction whose non-objective pedigree as a protégé of the painter and philanthropist Hilla Rebay, and subsequent track record of showing in the Betty Parsons and Egan Gallery early on, puts him squarely in the pocket of post-war American art ascendancy yet his legacy has subsequently remained a relatively independent part of that particular epic.

Too elegant, too tactical, too perfect: such were the characteristics of Anish Kapoor’s hyperreflective sculptures of the unforgettable and exuberant exhibition held at Lisson Gallery in New York some four years ago. With immaculately polished surfaces, those optical devices, whether immense or human in scale, appeared as matchless catalysts for arresting phenomenological inquiries into the parameters of vision and the paradoxes of visual representation.

Artists like Ai Weiwei and Grayson Perry are gifting artwork to a benefit auction for Freedom from Torture, a UK-based nonprofit.