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New York Galleries Open the Season With Quiet Subjects

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Untitled, 2009, by Type A, Chelsea Art Galleries Openings / 20090910.10D.53384.P1.SQ.BW / SML
Untitled, 2009, by Type A, Chelsea Art Galleries Openings / 20090910.10D.53384.P1.SQ.BW / SML · See-ming Lee (SML) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source

A run of new exhibitions across Manhattan galleries has settled on unusually familiar ground: unclothed figures, soft renderings of sky, lit candles, and clock mechanisms. The pairing suggests a season opening on subjects that reward close, patient looking rather than spectacle. It is a modest but telling snapshot of where the city's gallery scene is turning its attention this fall.

With reporting from Artnet News.

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