More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
The camera is trained on a paper scrim shot in negative. For a moment, a white field fills the frame, its expanse perfectly monochrome save a tremor of scratch and grain. Then the space is…
Now in its fifth year, Master Drawings New York [through Jan. 28] has evolved from a showcase primarily for drawings made between the Renaissance and the First World War into an event that includes…