Here’s another MoMA show, another sculpture retrospective, and another artist who found his identity in the fallout of Minimalism, but it was the differences between this and the Serra exhibition that made me realize the enormous vitality of sculpture in the early 21st century. Puryear proves himself here a magician of forms that sit happily at the intersection of abstraction and representation and a poet of implied and suggested appearances and meanings. Each piece in this show (which I originally discussed here) reflects aspects of its maker’s character as well as its own rounded personality. Of all my choices, this is the only one still on view, through January 14. If you haven’t seen it, go now.

Click on the photo gallery above for images from each of these five shows.