James Kalm had been requested, no demanded, to provide his worldwide viewership with a glance at this, Brice Marden's first New York showing since his retrospective at MoMA in 2006. Slipping into the Matthew Marks Gallery just before closing time, painting fans will see major pieces from "Letters" the artists recent series of work. Using a subtle yet nuanced palette, and working his paintings with solvents and scrapping, Marden creates seductive surface qualities that charm observers. The addition of horizontal boarders, a new development, implies a return to previously used formalistic compositional devices. We also see a group of works on paper started during the artist's recent trip to China.