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Literary Beauties by Maria Browning That dual identity of books—as both media for ideas and fetish objects—makes any exhibit such as Cheekwood’s Artists’ Books From Postwar to Present both intriguing and problematic for book lovers.

Colliding Planes
by David Maddox
In the case of Aaron Morgan Brown’s paintings at the Arts Company, clear technique is used to create dense images which become rich with ambiguity.

Medium Well
by David Maddox
The Zeitgeist gallery is assembling a series of group shows surveying work in different media, laying claim to a curatorial voice that weighs in on what each medium is and means.

Icons in Translation
by Maria Browning
For his current show at Estel Gallery, Daniel Lai has chosen 10 famous figures to whom he was not exposed in his Asian childhood, and presented them in a way that is superficially familiar, yet subtly different from the typical Western treatment.

Anything but Firm
by David Maddox
One of the pieces in Terra Firma, Sam Dunson’s new show at TAG, consists of a bunch of small cartoons of a black man’s head adorned with symbols of various obsessions and concerns—art, money, religion, different people’s initials.

So Much Art, So Much Time
by MiChelle Jones
Arranged chronologically on walls of white or dove gray, Monet to Dali is an accessible and entertaining meander through almost a century of European art.