This Week: Must-See Arts in the City Slideshow

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City : Slideshow

WNYC's Arts Datebook: April 25 - May 1, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

At Tibor de Nagy in Midtown, the late work of painter Larry Rivers will go on view. Seen here: 'Art and the Artist: Jean Hélion and the Dummies,' from 1992.

Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Rivers spent his final years exploring a variety of subjects, from Impressionism to the Holocaust. The latter is depicted in the ironically titled 'Four Seasons: Fall in the Forest of Birkenau.'

Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

He also spent a lot of time studying the work of early 20th-century figures like Matisse -- such as in this 1993 oil painting 'Art and the Artist: Matisse’s La Danse ‘Energy.''

Courtesy of the artist and Winkleman Gallery

At Winkleman Gallery, a trip back in time to the '80s, when the East Village was the cutting edge of the gallery scene. An installation view at Loughelton, from 1987, is seen above.

Courtesy of the artist and Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York.

Also part of the show at Winkleman: one of Barbara Bloom's 'Fake Travel Posters,' from 1981.

Courtesy of the artist and Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Newer pieces are integrated with works from the '80s in the Loughelton show at Winkleman, such as Annette Lemieux's 'Platforms,' from 2004.

Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery

Jack Shainman Gallery will be showing the latest by Spain-born artist Carlos Vega, whose 2012 work 'Not Loud Enough,' is seen here.

Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery

Vega's works are crafted from lead panels, often laced with cuts and dotted with collages and stamps. Seen here: 'I Thought of That,' also from this year.

Courtesy of the artist

'America Through a Chinese Lens' bring together photography by Chinese and Chinese-American artists living and working in the U.S. Chien-An Yuan's 'Untitled Film Still #12' is a nod to Cindy Sherman.