Seth Poppel, a lifelong collector, is the media’s go-to guy for yearbooks of the stars—from Patti Smith (“Class Clown”) to Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“twirler”) to Leonardo DiCaprio (“Most Bizarre”).

This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers two group shows: one devoted to an important gallery from the past, the other focused on language and silence. The self-taught artist Abraham ...