This Week: Must-See Arts in the City Slideshow

A group of artists get together at Postmasters in Chelsea to explore art (Gerhard Richter's) and the market. Rafael Rozendaal's 'net art piece 'Color Flip' is seen here.

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Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters

I <3 a Supply Chain: Writer, artist and filmmaker Greg Allen had Richter's private documentation photographs reproduced -- in a fuzzy Richter style -- at a factory in China.

Courtesy of the artist and Postmasters

In a massive piece that combines textile and painted elements, Fabian Marcaccio nods the political content in some of Richter's work. The piece above depicts a Michigan militia.

Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Chelsea

The photographs of Ari Marcopoulos go on view at Marlborough in Chelsea.

Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Chelsea

The artists manipulates pictures shot on a simple point-and-shoot by photocopying them and then blowing them to large sizes -- resulting in grainy, sometimes ghostly images.

Courtesy of the artist and Lesley Heller Workspace

The Queens Museum of Art is kicking off an art walk at the Dutch colonial Vander Ende-Onderdonk House in Queens this Saturday. Above, 'A Piano Has the Same Mass,' by Sarah Bednarek.

Courtesy of the artist and Lesley Heller Workspace

Curator Deborah Brown and Lower East Side Gallery Lesley Heller Workspace have turned the colonial site into a sculpture garden. Above, 'Reducer (Part One),' a sculpture by Bryan Reade.

Courtesy of the artist and Lesley Heller Workspace

After visiting the sculpture gardens -- which includes the work by Kai Vierstra seen here -- the Museum's gallery crawl will continue to galleries such as Regina Rex and Valentine.

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Man Ray

At the Met: the Schiaparelli/Prada extravaganza explores some of the common themes that bind the two designers. Seen here: Elsa Schiaparelli wearing one of her own designs in 1931.

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Toby McFarlan Pond

Schiaparelli employed pattern to great effect as has Prada -- as seen in this trompe l'oeile dress that looks pleated but isn't.

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The show also explored the ways in which the two fashion designers differed: Schiaparelli was more about decorating the upper body; Prada has historically focused on a woman's hips and legs.

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The gallery devoted to the designers' surreal creations was a hot mess of overinstalled everything: lights, lucite, video. This is a highly idealized press image.

Carolina A. Miranda

And here's what it looked like in real life. Sadly, the clothes lost the battle against all the shiny gewgaws.

Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

Storm King, the sculpture center in the Hudson Valley opens this weekend, with a series of new installations. Seen here: a video stil of Anthony McCall's 'Landscape for a Fire,' from 1972.

Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The new Storm King installs explore aspects of light and landscape -- as in Roni Horn's 2009/10 piece, 'Untitled ('...it was a mask, but the real face was identical to the false one.')'

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