What's On: New York

We present a real treat of a mixed-bag for our bi-weekly crop of the top shows in New York at this very moment. There’s the outsider artist and visionary Prophet Royal Robertson at White Collumns with the excellently titled No Proud Bastards, Carsten Höller at the New Museum and his fair-ground/social laboratory Experience, and Marilyn Minter at Salon 94 Bowery and a painting of some teeth that looks like the taste of pennies (if that makes sense).

Prophet Royal Robertson: No Proud Bastards White Columns Gallery, New York

Assailing passers-by from Prophet Royal Robertson’s Louisiana home were a plethora of signs, painted with rapturous damnations and warnings against the sinful. Example: “All Crazy Persons Keep Off Lot.” And: “No Divorced Whores Allowed.” A trained sign-maker and an undoubted victim of various psychoses, Robertson built himself a world within a world, with visions of the future and exclamations on the present – cities, new languages, shrines, weaponry, calendars and copulation – all painted and drawn and written with a vision both real and imagined. Curated by Erik Parker and Scott Ogden, it shows until November 19.
www.whitecolumns.org/no-proud-bastards

Carsten Höller: Experience New Museum, New York

Carsten Höller has a number of signature works and all of them involve you or me, and definitely everyone in the queue for the slide (remember the Tate’s Turbine Hall?!) at his new exhibition. Working to “alter the audience’s physical and psychological sensations,” the slide is only one facet of his play-based oeuvre – there is also the spectacular Mirror Carousel, a sensory deprivation pool Giant Psycho Tank and the hallucinatory Double Light Corner. As a scientist-artist, Höller is well-positioned to present us with these installations designed to provoke sensation in such a way – it’s not just play, it’s a new way for living. There is also a brilliant living wiki all set up for visitors’ thoughts and visuals. Showing until January 15.
www.newmuseum.org/experience

Marilyn Minter Salon 94 Bowery, New York

If you’d spent two years working on a new exhibition, you’d probably have the video element playing 24 hours a day just like Marilyn Minter. Vast, glistening enamel close-ups that make blemishes look like jewels – “I like to make pictures of things that exist but that you don’t really see,” she says – there’s a plate of glass between her and the subject that catches the reflections and the splash-back of such excited and abstract imagery, depicted in crazy photo-realistic style (but she hates it when people call her that). “I’m a realist!” or maybe, “a photo-replacer!” Showing until December 4.
www.salon94.com/marilyn-minter