Another hint lies in the artists who interest him. A prodigious curator — he did the programming for Andrew Kreps Gallery for several months in 2005 — and a sharp writer, two years ago Keegan penned an article for Modern Painters magazine about artists whose works “insist on memory in a space designed for forgetting, treat time in ways that extend beyond a 30-day exhibition cycle, and require the venue of viewing... to be activated over and over.” Something similar could be said of Keegan’s own exhibition, where his collages remix time and space, as the gallery itself is subtly transmogrified into a domestic setting.

Keegan is now teaching at the College of the Arts in California, but he was back in town long enough to install his work, attend his opening, and see some exhibitions. Here are his picks for the weekend in New York:

1. Xylor Jane: N.D.E. at Canada, through March 29 

“Xylor Jane’s paintings are something to experience in person — a jpeg will never suffice, and even the best reproduction will be unable to record the visual complexity of her math-informed and meticulously plotted works. She spent a year making the paintings for this show, and each work and each room of the gallery is clearly considered. Luke Murphy’s statement made available by Canada addresses the ‘painting structures’ that generate the work on view and how these various decisions are directly connected to Jane’s life. Murphy’s straightforward and readable text illuminates the layers of Jane’s rich and ongoing practice. The paintings in ‘N.D.E.’ have an optical vibration that emanates from numbers and math, but also contain a pulse deeply anchored in everyday life. 

2. House Call at Three’s Company, through March 23

“Your place or mine? Three’s Company is a by-appointment-only project based in Alex Gartenfeld and Piper Marshall’s Chinatown apartment (13 Allen St., #4, NY, NY, 10002, gallery@threescompany.tv). Currently, there is a group show titled ‘House Call’ featuring work by Richard Aldrich, Leigh Ledare, and Lisa Tan. Performances will be an important part of all exhibitions in the space; Aldrich, along with Amy Granat, inaugurated this practice on February 22. According to Alex, ‘Three’s Company will be open 12 months a year, by appointment only, but all plans are tentative. We have no budget.’”

3. Regift, curated by John Miller, at the Swiss Institute, through April 4 

“Jamie Isenstein’s Eggresses (prop) and Unbird (prop) are described as ‘props from an undisclosed television show about LGBT friends (both 2007).’ These props were made as likenesses of artworks that Jamie originally created and exhibited for a solo show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She was allowed to keep the prop versions of her artworks after (contractually) agreeing not to mention the show or network. I won’t mention them either. I will merely say that it rhymes with a show called The Hell Nerd, on a cable network that sounds like Go Time.”

4. The launch of Shannon Ebner’s The Sun as Error, The * as Error, The * as E//OR at White Columns, March 6

“It is always worth going by White Columns. Each and every room, vitrine, and surface is put to good use. If you missed the amazing 40th Anniversary show, stop by tonight for Shannon Ebner’s book launch, and go back for the next round of shows that start on March 10 and run until April 18.”

5. Manzoni: A Retrospective at Gagosian Gallery, through Mar 21

“William Pym said it best on Artforum.com: ‘The Piero Manzoni retrospective at this gallery surpasses a ‘definitive’ designation in such emphatic fashion that the casual qualifications for ‘museum-quality’ exhibitions in commercial spaces must now be rewritten.’” 

And watch out for…
6. Apartment Shows

“These events are co-organized by Denise Kupferschmidt and Joshua Smith in mainly Brooklyn-based apartments. Denise says she and Joshua ‘aren’t treating this as a curatorial project, but more of an one-night event that will stay current and in-the-now.’ They ‘will do it every month or so until we’re tired of doing it, which hopefully is a long time from now.’ Their next (yet-to-be-titled) show will take place on Sunday, March 15, at S. 3rd and Roebling, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and will include work by Ann Craven, Mariah Robertson, and Peter Coffin, among others.”