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Anish Kapoor's black radiant mass pushing at the edges of the paper against a crimson background makes me crave a show devoted solely to the drawings of this remarkable sculptor. And speaking of artists known primarily as sculptors, Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse Mylar I with its splatters of paintstick is just hypnotic, a fascinating mixture of markings related to his monumental steel ellipses. Other standouts with an edge are Rosemarie Trockel's head in the midst of some visionary experience, Alexis Rockman's creepy ecology The Evaporated World, and Nayland Blake's charcoal of a bunny head with holes. Miroslaw Balka's imaginatively suggestive portraits of two tongues made from pinholes and pencil makes Raymond Pettibon's array of small drawings look even more puerile than usual. The show is up through August at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street. |