"Malevich and the American Legacy"

No one does museum-quality gallery shows bigger or better than Larry Gagosian, and for this exhibition at his uptown venue, the focus turns to Kasimir Malevich (1879–1935), the Russian pioneer of pure abstraction. Decades before anyone had heard of Minimalism, Malevich famously reduced his formal vocabulary to just a few basic geometric shapes with a limited palette of two or three colors. Long after his death, his impact on America's avant-garde of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s became enormous. This show brings together six rare Malevich canvases with works by some of the well-known names he influenced, including Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, to name just a few.