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Current events
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Lily Wong “Own Vortex”
Lyles & King presents Own Vortex, a solo exhibition by Lily Wong. This exhibition of new paintings is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Wong has always been interested in investigating...More »
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Paris Reid “The Field”
This absurdist task is one of the head-scratching, circular-logic thoughts that comes to mind when describing the young painter Paris Reid, who has already had enough colorful experience for a Netflix...More »
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Austin Martin White “Lost in the Sauce”
Derek Eller Gallery presents Lost in the Sauce, an exhibition of new paintings by artist Austin Martin White. In collaboration with Derek Eller Gallery, Petzel will simultaneously show an exhibition...More »
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Austin Thomas “City Scape”
Morgan Lehman presents “City Scape”, the first New York solo show by Austin Thomas in over five years. This exhibition showcases Thomas’s distinct abstract works — vivid works on paper and paintings brought...More »
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Dahlia Elsayed “Real Feel”
Morgan Lehman presents “Real Feel,” an exhibition of new paintings by Dahlia Elsayed. This marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. At the heart of Elsayed’s practice is the examination...More »
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Davide Balliano “Event Horizon”
An event horizon is the edge of a mystery. It cuts a boundary between what can and cannot be known. And here in the interstice Davide Balliano opens novel territory in his paintings and sculptures for...More »
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Will Watson “Golden Time of Day”
Freight + Volume presents Golden Time of Day, an exhibition of new paintings by Will Watson. Golden Time of Day. Color cuts into the substance of Will Watson’s works like an emanation. Across the paintings...More »
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“Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio” Exhibition
British artist Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most celebrated abstract painters of her generation. This exhibition—the first dedicated exclusively to her drawings in over fifty years—provides an...More »
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Ashley Bickerton “Susie’s Mother Tongue”
I’m not interested in creating one single guillotine-edge of meaning. I’m interested in creating a system of swirling rapids and eddies of meaning that overlap to catch the spectator in between. —Ashley...More »
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Brandi Twilley “Crest Foods”
Sargent’s Daughters presents Crest Foods, an exhibition of new work by Oklahoma City-based painter Brandi Twilley. For Twilley’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery, she created a series of over...More »
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Chase Hall “The Bathers”
David Kordansky Gallery presents The Bathers, an exhibition of new paintings by Chase Hall. The Bathers continues Hall’s ongoing investigation into the complex histories of coastal regions and the...More »
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Henry Curchod “Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog”
I stuff my suitcase with a laundry bag and the bare essentials then trot over to the gallery where I find Henry standing outside, box vape in hand. It’s Saturday afternoon and the city is buzzing with...More »
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Irène Zurkinden “The Paris Years”
11 East 78th Street Meredith Rosen Gallery presents The Paris Years, the first United States survey of Swiss painter Irène Zurkinden (1909-1987). The Paris Years brings together paintings, works...More »
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Joe Reihsen “Microclimates”
The Hole presents its third solo exhibition of paintings by Joe Reihsen (b. 1979). The following essay by critic Janelle Zara exposes the energy and logic behind this bold and nuanced new series. Imagine...More »
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Math Bass “Roses are Red”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents its first solo exhibition with Math Bass: Roses are Red. Math Bass’s dynamic practice includes sculpture, painting and architectural interventions, often setting the...More »
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Nat Meade “Hank Stamper’s Bones”
HESSE FLATOW presents Hank Stamper’s Bones, an exhibition of paintings by Nat Meade, marking his second solo-presentation with the gallery. A cross between sage philosopher, woodsy outdoorsman, hopeless...More »
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Zoë Buckman “Tended”
Lyles & King presents TENDED, a solo exhibition by Zoë Buckman. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Zoë Buckman effortlessly merges multiple mediums—embroidery, textiles,...More »
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Adam Hayes “Given til Sundown”
“If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings...More »
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Ed Clark “The Big Sweep”
‘I began to believe, from my conversations with other artists, that the real truth is in the stroke. For me, it is large, bold strokes that do not refer distinctly to seen nature. The paint is the subject....More »
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Elliott Hundley “Everyday, Every Day”
Kasmin presents Elliott Hundley: Everyday, Every Day, an exhibition exploring the artist’s quotidian rituals through paintings, works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, and objects drawn from his Los Angeles...More »
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George Rouy “Endless Song”
“George Rouy’s figurative practice is an exercise in introspection—an attempt at mapping the turmoil of the human experience. With densely-textured paint, dynamic abstraction, and vibrant color, his artworks...More »
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Gerald Ferguson “Last Landscapes”
In the late 1960s, Cincinnati-born Gerald Ferguson traded in New York’s conceptual art scene for the chance to transform a provincial art college in Nova Scotia. For Ferguson, who was running in the same...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson “Ancestral Superbloom”
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents ANCESTRAL SUPERBLOOM, a solo exhibition of new work by Jeffrey Gibson. This exhibition features a series of recent multimedia paintings, including large-scale painted...More »
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Joe Fig “Contemplating Compositions”
Cristin Tierney Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Joe Fig entitled Contemplating Compositions, a continuation of his 2020 exhibition Contemplation. The paintings in Contemplating...More »
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Sahana Ramakrishnan “An Ocean of Time”
Fridman Gallery presents An Ocean of Time, Sahana Ramakrishnan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which explores the concepts of time and interconnectedness of living beings. Ancient myths...More »
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Tetsuya Ishida “My Anxious Self”
Curated by Cecilia Alemani At first, it was a self-portrait. I tried to make myself—my weak self, my pitiful self, my anxious self—into a joke or something funny that could be laughed at. It was sometimes...More »
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Toba Khedoori Exhibition
David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Toba Khedoori at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Following the artist’s extensive survey at the Fridericianum, Kassel,...More »
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Tobias Spichtig “Poetry”
The flowers are dying, softly, filling the space with a stench of floral decay. And the contours of different bodies are spiralling in the hollows. Decadent and symmetrical. Crushed from the shoulders. Heads...More »
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Tomoo Gokita Exhibition
Tokyo-based artist Tomoo Gokita presents his first solo exhibition with Petzel, opening September 14th at the gallery’s Chelsea location. Internationally renowned for pushing the boundaries of figuration,...More »
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Tracy Thomason “The Pollinator”
Marinaro presents The Pollinator, Tracy Thomason’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, inhabiting both spaces. This exhibition continues Thomason’s ongoing investigation into painting as a layered object—...More »
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Jules de Balincourt “Midnight Movers”
Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Jules de Balincourt at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from September 15 to October 27, this exhibition, titled Midnight...More »
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Charline von Heyl Exhibition
Petzel Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Charline von Heyl, in her first solo exhibition since her presentation at the 2022 Venice Biennale. This will be von Heyl’s tenth solo exhibition...More »
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Dewey Crumpler “Post Atlantic”
Andrew Kreps Gallery presents Post Atlantic, the gallery’s first exhibition with the Oakland-based artist Dewey Crumpler (b. 1949, Magnolia, AK). In his work, Crumpler employs a lexicon of motifs through...More »
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Emma McIntyre “An echo, a stain”
David Zwirner presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by New Zealand–born, Los Angeles–based artist Emma McIntyre at the gallery’s East 69th Street location. This will be her first exhibition in New...More »
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Julian Schnabel “Bouquet of Mistakes”
Pace presents Bouquet of Mistakes, an exhibition of new velvet paintings by Julian Schnabe. The works on display in Schnabel’s upcoming show were made in concert with the preparation of his seventh feature...More »
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Martha Diamond, Jorge Pardo, Ugo Rondinone “Lunch Poems”
New York City is home to the world’s largest LGBTQ populations. LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, “The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every...More »
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Nevena Prijic “Feral Currents”
Mrs. presents Feral Currents, Serbian painter Nevena Prijic’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Across nine canvases, Prijic describes bold, swirling anti-forms which burst with the energy of the...More »
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby “Coming Back to See Through, Again”
David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street location in September 2023. The presentation, which debuted at David Zwirner...More »
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Paulina Peavy “Astrocultural Messenger”
Curated by Laura Whitcomb While Paulina Peavy’s (1901-1999) life spanned the twentieth century, her art and belief system represent a crucible for our current moment. She challenged gender norms and...More »
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Paulo Monteiro “Undefined Inclusions”
Pace presents Undefined Inclusions, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Paulo Monteiro. Born in São Paulo in 1961, Monteiro began painting in 1981, and he cultivated his sculptural practice—which...More »
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Sam Gilliam “The Last Five Years”
Pace Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles present Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years, a two-part exhibition of paintings created by Gilliam between 2018 and 2022. Pace’s presentation...More »
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Zio Ziegler “The Essential Figures”
Almine Rech presents the first New York solo exhibition of Bay Area artist Zio Ziegler (American, b. 1988 in Mill Valley, CA). Titled “The Essential Figures,” the exhibition features 12 paintings recently...More »
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Andrew Ross “Bucket of Truth”
Varied states of aliveness permeate the collaged layers of Andrew Ross’s first solo exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts Gallery, Bucket of Truth. His newest paintings focus on depicting singular objects...More »
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Austin Martin White “Familiar Dysphoria”
Philadelphia-based artist Austin Martin White presents his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Familiar Dysphoria, opening September 13th at Petzel’s Upper East Side location. Using casta paintings...More »
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John Zurier “On the Back of a Mirror”
Over the last four decades, John Zurier has reflected on transient themes of nature and landscape in his ethereal atmospheric paintings. Through dedicated exploration of the intimate dialogue between color...More »
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Lari Pittman “Sparkling Cities With Egg Monuments”
Lehmann Maupin presents Sparkling Cities With Egg Monuments, a series of eight new paintings and a monumentally scaled eponymous work by Lari Pittman. The exhibition marks his third solo presentation at...More »
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Rebecca Morris “#31”
“If there is one takeaway from the past twenty-one years of Morris’s paintings […] it is that the frame and the surface can hardly contain the marks and strategies devised by the artist and her skillful...More »
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Vivian Suter “Tintin, Nina & Disco”
Gladstone Gallery presents Vivian Suter: Tintin, Nina & Disco, an exhibition of exclusively mixed media paintings from the artist’s decades-long career. This presentation is emblematic of Suter’s singular...More »
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Ilana Savdie “Radical Contractions”
Floor 1, Lobby Gallery Ilana Savdie (b. 1986, raised in Barranquilla, Colombia and Miami, Florida; based in Brooklyn, New York) explores themes of performance, transgression, identity, and power in her...More »
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Lisa Alvarado “Spinning Echo”
In Spinning Echo, organic symmetries relate to the cycles we live within, where opposites coexist and complement each other in a motion that spins life into material. The exhibition consists of an alignment...More »
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“Sketching among the Ruins” Exhibition
Sketching among the Ruins By the mid-eighteenth century, the practice of sketching outdoors with oil paint had become popular among landscape artists. Furthermore, a study trip through Europe, often centered...More »
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“Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE” Exhibition
at The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 999 This is the story of the origins of Buddhist art. The religious landscape of ancient India was transformed by the teachings of the Buddha, which in turn inspired...More »
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John Hultberg “The Painter of The In-Between”
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery & AS Art Foundation present John Hultberg - Painter of the In-Between. A show continuing a nearly four-decade relationship with the art of John Hultberg. Also, on display...More »
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Cecily Brown “Death and the Maid”
Gallery 913 For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s...More »
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“Collections Spotlight, Fall 2023 / Winter 2024” Exhibition
Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance...More »
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“Learning to Paint in Premodern China” Exhibition
Galleries 210-216 This exhibition will consider the underexplored question of how painters learned their craft in premodern China. Some painters learned at home, from fathers, mothers, or other relatives...More »
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Ed Ruscha “Now Then”
MoMA, Floor 6 The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions “I don’t have any Seine River like Monet,” Ed Ruscha once said. “I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles.”...More »
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“Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art” Exhibition
Galleries 223-232 Drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art...More »
Permanent events
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"Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn"
An innovative installation, featuring some of the most important objects in the Brooklyn Museum collection, has been developed to create new ways of looking at art and exploring the Museum by making connections...More »
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"Early Gothic Hall" Exhibition
The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled...More »
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"European Paintings" Exhibition
Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by...More »
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"Gallery Selections"
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and...More »
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"It Happened In Brooklyn" Exhibition
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks,...More »
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"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates...More »
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"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
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"Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father...More »
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"The Campin Room" Exhibition
The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery...More »