Brice Marden: I Am Plane Image

Marden mixed beeswax and turpentine into his oil paint and built it up in layers, so a surface can look powdery from one angle and almost moist from another. Inferno magazine's reviewer says the gallery suits that: high ceilings, even light on white walls, no theatrical spotlights.

This is the first Marden survey in New York in twenty years, with loans from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney. It starts with Nebraska (1966), painted after a cross-country trip, and ends with The Dance and Lingerie (2022 to 23), his last paintings. In between, geometry gives way to calligraphic networks drawn from Asian art. The Inferno review notes that "a gray can contain warmth, dirt, violet, green", which also describes the Hudson on a November afternoon, so walk west afterwards and check.

Vasili Kaliman wrote that "painting does not get much better than this". Admission is free. The Chelsea galleries are open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, and the show runs to 12 December.