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Cecily Brown’s “The Demon Menagerie” (2019-2020), oil on linen. Cecily Brown and Paula Cooper Gallery
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Cecily Brown’s new paintings,
Sam Gilliam’s sculptures and monochromes,
Gideon Appah’s otherworldly vistas,
Tishan Hsu’s first museum survey and works from the Purvis Young trove.I’m only a middling fan of Cecily Brown’s paintings, but she has stuck to her stylistic guns and respect is due. Her
current show at Paula Cooper is one of her best — although my favorite remains an exhibition of small oil studies at Maccarone in 2015. Those works felt complete, but completeness is not necessarily a priority for Ms. Brown. Many of the painted scenes in “
Blue Boys Blues,” the Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah’s first solo show here, are inspired by his life in Accra, the country’s capital. [
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Gideon Appah’s “Another Place,” from 2020, in the show “Blue Boys Blues.” Gideon Appah and Mitchell-Innes & Nash
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