Georg Baselitz

LONDON Serpentine With their alarming height and imperfect, seemingly unfinished surfaces, which lend a strangely animated quality, Baselitz’s figures present a perplexing dichotomy. They are clumsy and anatomically skew-whiff, yet winningly vulnerable.

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Cynthia Lahti

NEW YORK James Fuentes Lahti uses a range of clays, from dark red to porcelain, and she also varies her sculpting, glazing, and firing methods (which include raku and salt firing). Her approach to building heads and figures seem to reference a wide swath of art history.

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Michael Richards

NEW YORK Bronx Museum of the Arts As “Art You Down?” makes clear, Michael Richards, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was an artist ahead of his time. He focused his practice on Black identity and social injustice, often using casts of his own body to invest the work with personal and political meaning.

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Jeanne Silverthorne

NEW YORK Marc Straus This small, intimate show, featuring 11 cast, monochromatic rubber objects ranging in height from 10 to 75 inches, is conceptually divided between works that are simultaneously realistic and abstract and those that are completely figurative and, in a wizardly way, uncannily lifelike.

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Francesca DiMattio

LONDON Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Aside from the obvious Greek reference, the caryatids, despite their detail and ornament, also gesture, in some respects, to Eduardo Paolozzi’s collaged sculptures, especially from the 1950s, and Huma Bhabha’s much darker creations.

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