One of the greatest gifts an artist can give the viewer is a sense of the artist as a person — their lives, loves, losses, and the mundane details that amount to their worlds. This is a great moment for getting to know your artist, with shows featuring the always impressive Sylvia Sleigh, whose friends and lovers literally bared all, as well as the beautifully personal mixed media works of Paul Gardère, the celebrated visual and textual world of Christine Sun Kim, and more. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
Kenneth Tam: The Medallion
Bridget Donahue, 99 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through March 8
“The message is clear — tides of technology wielded for personal enrichment rather than societal improvement will obliterate us with cold ease.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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Rudy Burckhardt: A Painting Exhibition
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 11 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through March 8
“Through his directness, modesty, and scrupulous attention to detail, Burckhardt’s representation of the oddness of the ordinary is unrivaled.” —John Yau
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Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is precious
Ortuzar gallery, 5 White Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
Through April 5
“There’s something wonderful about Sleigh’s paintings that feels like showing up to a nudist colony where people are fine letting it all hang out.” —Hrag Vartanian
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Paul Gardère: Vantage Points
Stuyvesant-Fish House, 21 Stuyvesant Street, East Village, Manhattan
Through June 6
“Gardère’s techniques and materials merge with his subject matter to sketch out a portrait of his life” —NH
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Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, West Village, Manhattan
Through July 6
“Kim revels in translation not just between languages or systems of notation, but between concepts and feelings or experiences.” —LYZ
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