At Maccarone Gallery, works by Haim Steinbach, Julian Schnabel and Anselm Reyle.
Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer, even when the water is tepid and unsightly matter floats to the top, as is the case in “Pretty Ugly,” a jolie-laide ensemble of 75 artists split between Gavin Brown’s [...]

Who knew that the first Louis Vuitton boutique in Brooklyn would touch down smack in the middle of the borough’s most venerable art institution? But there it is, at the Brooklyn Museum, bright and gleaming and blending smoothly into a sleek, stylish survey of the work of Takashi Murakami. Mr. Murakami, who is frequently called [...]

Paul Schimmel, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has in recent weeks been a fixture in Brooklyn as he mounts a major retrospective of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. The show, which he organized, closed on Feb. 11 at the Los Angeles museum’s Geffen Contemporary space and will open on [...]