Josef Hoflehner, “Door Open Wide – Japan,” selenium toned silver print, 2012 (courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery)
Some three dozen galleries along 57th St. between Third & Eighth Aves. will remain open until 8:00 on Thursday night, many holding opening or closing receptions or other special programming as part of the semiannual Gallery Night on 57th St. Among the participants and their current shows, recommended in a westerly direction, are Nailya Alexander (“Evgeny Mokhorev: Photographs 1991-20120”), Bonni Benrubi (“Joseph Hoflehner: Into the Calm”), Edwynn Houk (“August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century”), Frederico Sève (“Fanny Sanín: Drawings and Studies 1960 to Now”), Pace/MacGill (“A Tribute to Robert Delpire”), the Pace Gallery (“Robert Irwin: Dotting the i’s & Crossing the t’s: Part I”), Tibor de Nagy (“Larry Rivers: Later Works”), Nohra Haime (“Natalia Arias: No Permanent, No Perpetual”), Gering & López (“Ryan McGinness: Women: Sketches & Solutions”), Galerie St. Etienne (“‘Mad as Hell!’ New Work [and Some Classics] by Sue Coe”), Marian Goodman (“Giuseppe Penone”), and Francis M. Naumann (“Sophie Matisse: It’s Time”).