The B. List
This week I dare you to take your cameras to some art shows with NO photography involved
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-879-5500)
Max Ernst: A Retrospective. Through July 10
Some hundred and eighty paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, and illustrated books by the restlessly creative artist (1891-1976).
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 W. 53rd St. (212-708-9400)
The High Line , Through July 18
Ambitious urban rails-to-trails scheme for the abandoned elevated tracks that run along the West Side from Gansevoort to Thirty-fourth Street.
KREPS, 516A W. 20th St. 212-741-8849
Daniel Bozhkov, Through May 14
A very funny, and perhaps even profound, collection of works that incorporate practical and lascivious sources
Bozhkov is the artist who previously built a crop circle in the shape of Larry King’s head and took flying lessons over it; his grand sense of the absurd is still a complete delight.
BELLWEATHER, 134 Tenth Ave. 212-929-5959
Amy Wilson, Through May 21
Call it the revenge of the blondes. Mixing diverse visual traditions—Surrealism, comic books, and folk painting—the works look demure and pastoral from afar; up close, they pack a heavy political punch.