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Every month our resident art expert, David Behringer, searches for the best of what’s happening in modern art in New York City galleries. He seeks the best exhibitions and shows that most of us wouldn’t even know existed, and shares an up close and personal view of the artists and their work.

The Shadow Photographs of Wang Ningde

The Shadow Photographs of Wang Ningde

A look at Wang Ningle's latest show that is a hybrid of mediums - it's simultaneously photography, sculpture, and perhaps even film.

2017 Year in Review: Unframed

2017 Year in Review: Unframed

We take a visual gander back at the incredible art exhibitions we featured in our Unframed column in 2017.

Lasers in a Gallery: Rita McBride’s Particulates

Lasers in a Gallery: Rita McBride’s Particulates

16 high-intensity lasers cut through the misty air of a dark garage in West Chelsea in the latest work, Particulates, by Rita McBride.

Warping Reality: The Sculpture of Wim Delvoye

Warping Reality: The Sculpture of Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye's latest exhibition turns up the volume, featuring must-see sculptures from the last five years.

Flexible Screens: The Sculpture of Daniel Canogar

Flexible Screens: The Sculpture of Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar's latest high-tech artworks are mesmerizing digital paintings and seductive sculptural forms.

Art Destination: Erik Sommer's Concrete Car

Art Destination: Erik Sommer's Concrete Car

A not-to-miss art installation in a shipping container in Brooklyn.

Broken Chairs and Floating Trash: 4 Mysterious Summer Artworks

Broken Chairs and Floating Trash: 4 Mysterious Summer Artworks

Hiding in the Lower East Side are 4 magical artworks in two different group shows that are even more surprising with closer inspection.

Henrique Oliveira's Devir: An Invasive Sculpture

Henrique Oliveira's Devir: An Invasive Sculpture

One of artist Henrique Oliveira's massive organic sculptures has FINALLY sprouted in New York City.

Breaking Technology: Walead Beshty's New Sculpture

Breaking Technology: Walead Beshty's New Sculpture

LA artist Walead Beshty's destructively perfect show "Open Source" includes a full range of misused technology.

Matt Hoyt's Chrysalis: Evidence of Time

Matt Hoyt's Chrysalis: Evidence of Time

Matt Hoyt is famous for tiny sculptures and his newest works take a risky turn for an artist famous for small: they’re slightly bigger.

Tara Donovan: Vertical Poetry

Tara Donovan: Vertical Poetry

Wall sculptures composed of THOUSANDS of white styrene cards that are individually stacked, glued, and rotated 90 degrees.

On Pins: Elliott Hundley’s Epic Collages

On Pins: Elliott Hundley’s Epic Collages

A look at Elliott Hundley’s manically overwhelming collages, which extend so far off the canvas that they’re rightfully called “sculptures”.

This is Wood: The Sculpture of Matt Johnson

This is Wood: The Sculpture of Matt Johnson

Everyday mundane objects that are all 100% carved and painted wood.

2016 Year in Review: Unframed

2016 Year in Review: Unframed

We take a look back at the 12 incredible exhibitions we featured in our Unframed column.

Crushed Harmony: The Sculpture of Carol Bove

Crushed Harmony: The Sculpture of Carol Bove

Carol Bove debuts equally magical, but significantly heavier sculpture than years past, with that same unbelievable sense of balance.