The earth and its onions?

Now through January 28, you can see a small but worthwhile show of late paintings by Roberto Matta at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street, a stone’s throw from the High Line.

When we went there recently, there were also interesting shows at other nearby galleries: an assortment of minotaurs with a earthy golem-like surface—one of them reading a tiny book—and drawings of dogs enlarged to the point where the ripples of their lips resembled the edges of orchid petals in a Georgia O’Keeffe.

This was my favorite of the Matta canvases (a bigger version is here), but my favorite title was La terre et ses oignons, which my high school French informs me is “the earth and its onions.”