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Focuses on Robert Ryman: Works on Paper, 1957-1964, a painting exhibition of Ryman at the Peter Blum Gallery in New York City. Emergence of abstraction and Conceptual Art during the twentieth century; His practice of using white paint almost exclusively to all kinds of surfaces.

Focuses on an unknown Raphael red-chalk sketch on a scrap of paper, believed to date from 1505, which will be sold at Sotheby's in June 2004.

This article presents information on various art exhibitions being organized in galleries in New York. Paper cups, opaque bottles and plain boxes: solidly painted in muted colors, these humble objects appear singly, in pairs or in small groups in Victor Pesce's mostly small paintings. Mr. Pesce's objects look slightly anthropomorphic. Simom Starling has devised a new suite of obscurely related objects and photographs whose theoretical interest is higher than its visual appeal. A massive sheet of steel, imported from Romania, rests on three air cushions.

The article presents information on the painting exhibition by Thomas Demand in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York. Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever. "Clearing," is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight steaming into the middle. That things so clearly fake can seem so vividly real propels the mind into deeper waters of thought, not only about how and what one can truly know about the world.