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An exhibit titled " Nothing and Everything" suggests a combo platter of minimalism and the Emperor's kitchen sink: Robert Gober's "Drains" is a veritable part of a real-life one (a real drain, new, installed on the clean white wall). Adam Fuss shows a daguerreotype photogram: the concentric circles created by water momentarily disturbed. It gleams in its transmittance. There's a transcendant Sugimoto. The more you peer, the more you see. Yves Klein's fire painting is fierce by its inception, it stares back in warm tones. This show aims to "navigate the intersections between nothing and everything in several ways." Depending on your blood sugar/blood alcohol level, that could be almost anything (or inherently contradictory?). And since each artist is represented by only one piece, we don't know how the work fits into the artist's oevre. A roomful of inviting enigmas.

Nothing and Everything, at Peter Freeman Gallery
560 Broadway # 602/603
212-966-5154
through Oct. 28