How do you feel about pretty pictures? The question is unavoidable when one enters Virtual Paradigms, Peter Zimmermann’s show of abstract epoxy resin paintings on view through November 4 at Nunu Fine Art on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Sparsely and dramatically spaced on the walls hang sixteen large- and medium-sized canvases that feature slick surfaces, broad gooey shapes, and candy-sweet colors. At the entrance, adjoining a composition of wavey green, orange, and blue stripes, a wall text offers the artist’s claim that these works reflect the mind-conditioning effects of today’s ubiquitous digital media.

An art-world murder mystery, SoHo Sins is the first novel from Richard Vine, Art in America’s Managing Editor and an expert in the field of contemporary Chinese art. SoHo Sins is a noir-style crime-story set in the New York art world of the late 1980s and early ’90s.