Among the "must-see" shows are Jenny Holzer's Dust Paintings at Cheim +Read. These are a series of paintings based on governments documents in 2004, after the invasions into Iraq by the Americans and the Brits - in response to America's War on Terror. Some of the paintings are color field paintings with minimal use of language -- in the style of Ad Reinhardt.
I'd also recommend the beautiful Miracle paintings by Dan Colen at Gagosian on West 24th Street, concurrent with his show that has been up at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut. The paintings at Gagosian are only up through the 18th of October. They are etherial paintings based on Disney stills from Fantasia.
Matthew Ritchie's show Ten Possible Links at Andrea Rosen Gallery is another one not to be missed. The show is a combination of four distinct projects spanning painting, wall drawings, sculpture, sound and moving image.
Lastly, I loved the simple white on linen paintings by Norwegian artist Frederik Vaerslev in the exhibition titled A Shore Thing at Andrew Kreps Gallery. To produce the white lines he uses the same technique used to make boundary lines on football and soccer fields as well as those to mark street lines.
And don't miss the Jeff Koons Retrospective at the Whitney Museum before it closes on October 19th.
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