Saturday, October 3: Art of Manga at Brooklyn Museum When an art form born of mass circulation is suddenly stripped from its newsprint and pinned to a gallery wall, something almost personal happens. In Art of Manga at the Brooklyn Museum, a dizzying shift from the pocket-sized, disposable book to the physical, hand-drawn original becomes a study in visual momentum. To look closely … Read the full Story >>
Friday, January 26, 6-8:30pm: Jared Deery | A Liminal Light Depicting still lifes, often with potted plants acting as a sort of cynosure, Deery maps out how the freestyle nature of flowers can reshape an environment around them. The paintings not only attract viewers, but reframe the meaning of space as they find themselves situated closer to or father away from the branching … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, January 14: Timothy Cummings at Hoffman These dream-like fantasy figures filled with myriad detail and discovery often address the issue of youthful turmoil, of that awkward moment between childhood and adulthood, of identity, and of gender. The artist often paints portraits as a child might conjure them in his/her mind, giving an almost hallucinatory quality to a grown-up persona. Mostly intimate in scale … Read the full Story >>
Closing June 4: Wangetchi Mutu | Intertwined at New Museum Celebrate the closing weekend of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with the artist, who will join exhibition co-curators Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton in conversation at the New Museum. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Mutu discuss her multimedia practice that layers mythical narratives and sociohistorical references to confront contemporary realities. Tickets … Read the full Story >>
Crafting the Ballets Russes at The Morgan Library & Museum The exhibition opens with the dramatic arrival of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe in Paris in 1909 and goes on to trace its impact across the arts, highlighting the rise of women in leading creative roles. They include Bronislava Nijinska, who in 1921 became the Ballets Russes’ only female choreographer and whose groundbreaking … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, July 9, 6-8pm: Linda Coletta | Scratch and Sniff at Untitled Linda Colletta explores the dynamic and tactile essence of painting in a manner that dances between poetry and punk rock. This new collection is a sensory adventure designed to immerse viewers in the interplay of chaos and order, silence and noise, action and contemplation. Colletta invites viewers to engage actively with … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 22: Jasper Johns | Between the Clock and the Bed at Gagosian Between the Clock and the Bed—an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns at Gagosian in partnership with Castelli Gallery—surveys the crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated his practice from 1973 to 1983 and have reverberated across his subsequent production. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this body of … Read the full Story >>
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival, through photographs, memorabilia, creator highlights, comic book reading stations, and clips from past festival programs. Drawn from the Schomburg Center’s archival collections, this exhibition illuminates the long history of Black comics and sequential art creators and … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 4 | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Woman in LandscapeGarth Greenan Gallery presents recent works in mixed media and in 3D. Smith paints an America portrayed as maps in saturated color—in one work making each state a different shade of red. Maps have historically been instruments in the exercise of power and territorial expansion. Across the series, Smith hints at the map’s … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, May 8, 6-8 pm: Stanley Whitney | By the Love of Those Unloved at Gagosian By the Love of Those Unloved, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Stanley Whitney in New York, features new paintings and works on paper. A master colorist, Whitney takes an exploratory and lyrical approach to painting in his canvases, which are structured as loose grids of rectilinear … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 11–Sunday, September 14 | New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 This year’s fair makes its long-awaited return to MoMA PS1, with over 250 local and international artists’ book publishers, alongside a full weekend of programs and performances. Hyperallergic says, “This venue partnership exemplifies a shared commitment to creating spaces where audiences can engage with new ideas and perspectives, while reaffirming … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 27, 5-8pm: Edel Rodriguez | Reading and talk at Baruch Visit Baruch College's Newman Library for an evening of readings and conversation with Spring '25 writer-in-residence Edel Rodriguez, author of the graphic memoir Worm, and this year’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, CUNY. The evening will be hosted by the Harman Program and "Latinx Visions", a podcast that … Read the full Story >>
Thursday June 26 5-6 pm: Karen Finley | Performance / Let Me Bitch A Little at Freight + Volume As part of her current exhibition, Karen Finley will perform her spoken word piece, Let Me Bitch A Little followed by a walk-through of the show, More Desperate Than Ever, which closes in two weeks. The centerpiece of this show is a large ongoing … Read the full Story >>
June 17: Branching Out: Tree as Community Hosts Anchored by an exhibition of six site-specific sculptures by emerging New York artists, Power of Trees will be experienced by visitors across the Garden through visual art, performances, and special events as well as simply by walking the grounds. The central art exhibition of this program, Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts, features six site-specific sculptural … Read the full Story >>
December 25 and January 1: The Jewish Museum is open: New York | 1962-1964 This exhibition explores explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, the exhibition presents more than 150 works of art—all made or seen in … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 5, 6-8pm: Paul Sevigny | Recent Work at Freight&Volume The recent paintings of reknown nightlife impresario Paul Sevigny have a sophistication about them that accords well with the artist’s dealings in music and finance, as well as nightlife. The works on view present a colorful motley of textures and patterns, which, however pleasing to the eye, pull no punches when it … Read the full Story >>
Maurizio Cattelan | Sunday at Gagosian In this new installation, Cattelan doubles down on his response to economic inequality in America, using precious metal to deconstruct the country’s relationship to the accessibility of weapons (a condition against which privilege affords no defense). Panels of stainless steel, plated in 24-karat gold, have been “modified” by gunfire. The components’ formerly smooth surfaces are left riddled … Read the full Story >>
Downtime is the perfect title for an exhibition of photographs by Julie Blackmon currently on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. It implies carefree, lazy summer afternoons with plenty of lemonade and ice cream and nothing but happy days. On the seamless surface of these large-scale images, composed in sunny colors, maybe, but carefree and lazy are the opposite in fact. Blackmon creates … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Billy Childish | keep the mojave weird at at Lehmann Maupin In his newest series based on a road trip in 2025, British painter, writer, and musician Billy Childish depicts the western United States in scenes from California. Seen together, the works occupy a space that is both contemporary and eternal, where each landscape feels familiar yet remote. From soaring mountain ranges, to arid … Read the full Story >>
Sunday March 8: Whitney Biennial 2026 The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. Above: kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and … Read the full Story >>
