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Castelli Gallery is pleased to present Richard Pettibone: Recent Works. The exhibition features new paintings by the artist, which revisit subjects that have been pivotal to Pettibone’s work throughout his career. The largest series of paintings on view engage with Marcel Duchamp’s famous cover design for the 1936 issue of the avant-garde art magazine, "Cahiers D’Art." The design consists of three concentric hearts in red and blue, which produce an optical illusion of depth and movement. Owing to this illusion, Duchamp called the image "Coeurs Volants," or "Fluttering …