The exhibition includes commanding figurative works by Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw, Jack Zajac, and William Brice that provide a fascinating heritage for the darker side of the Ferus Gallery scene, exemplified with work by Edward Kienholz, Wallace Berman, Llyn Foulkes, and John Altoon.
Through May 3, "A New President Takes Command," an exhibition on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days in office, with documents, photographs and newsreels, also featuring materials from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y.
Big exhibitions command the spotlight in the fall, but there are lots of interesting small ones, too.
But it's an ideal space when the exhibition consists of work that is of commanding scale itself.
The rangy, temporary exhibition "Sol LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cubes" makes Mr. LeWitt into as commanding a presence as Gauguin.
The exhibition presents a number of large-scale watercolors, with the focus on the same person, Carmine Messina --sometimes dressed, often undressed, but always commanding your full attention.
The painter who commands this facet of the exhibition is William Wendt whom Mr. Becker describes as very religious.
Sitting in the corner of an exhibition space, it commands serious attention, even without the accompanying video that shows it in action.
Not only does Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art present world-class exhibitions, it also commands a prime perch in the Rocks, a historic area near Circular Quay.
