There’s nothing like springtime in New York City, blooming with coloration, folks, and issues to do. Museums, galleries, and public artwork come alive as locals and vacationers mingle in plazas, on subways, and within the halls of the venerable establishments that make this place really nice.
As the town’s main publication for visible artwork, we’re proud to compile this information for these trying to discover and see issues in new and other ways. Contemporary artwork shouldn’t be for the timid; it jostles you into motion, provokes you into reconsidering long-held beliefs, and pushes you to look exterior your bubble towards different worlds — good artwork does, anyway.
Please learn by way of these previews and problem your self. Explore a brand new venue you’ve by no means visited earlier than, or benefit from the work of an artist whose title is unfamiliar to you. The great thing about New York that’s there are too many museums, galleries, and nonprofit artwork areas for anyone individual to see — however you’ll be able to definitely attempt.
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The Ceremony Must be Found: Ritual as Artistic Practice
Drawing on feminist thinkers, this group present takes the intersection of formality and art-making as its conceit. Curated by Anna Cahn, the present options work by manuel arturo abreu, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Dana Davenport, Caroline Garcia, Catalina Ouyang, Vivek Shraya, and Qualeasha Wood.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space
323 West 39th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Through March 2
Judy Chicago: Herstory
This survey provides a complete take a look at the feminist artist’s profession, increasing far past her most well-known work, “The Dinner Party” (1974–79). The present additionally options the mini exhibition The City of Ladies, a collection of artworks chosen by Chicago by the likes of Artemisia Gentileschi, Hilma af Klint, and others.
New Museum
235 Bowery, Bowery, Manhattan
Through March 3
Through Our Eyes: Youth Photography on the Bronx Documentary Center, 2013-2023
For the previous decade, the Bronx Documentary Center’s Youth Photography program has provided free documentary images and multimedia lessons to South Bronx college students. This exhibition highlights work from this system, which has mentored greater than 400 center and highschool college students.
Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Avenue, Melrose, The Bronx
Through March 3
Alissa Eberle: Electric Caverns
Neon is an unmistakable image of 20th-century city life. With Electric Caverns, Alissa Eberle takes a cue from artists like Dan Flavin, who turned to neon as a medium, and the panorama custom in artwork. Eberle’s colourful neon set up combines the human-made and pure worlds to create a surprisingly charming panorama.
UrbanGlass
647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Through March 8
The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion
New York has lengthy been a locus for the mainstream trend business, dedicating a whole week to it every spring and internet hosting the glitzy Met Gala. But this exhibition takes a more in-depth take a look at various undercurrents which have subverted commercialization and challenged the sector over the previous decade, together with Bernadette Corporation, CFGNY, and Eckhaus Latta.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, West Village, Manhattan
Through March 16
Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre
The inaugural present of Jack Shainman Gallery’s new house in Tribeca options Richard Mosse’s “Broken Spectre,” an experimental video piece on a 60-foot display screen accompanied by a roaring multichannel soundtrack composed by Ben Frost. Set within the Amazon and shot between 2018 and 2022, it engages three several types of movie to visualise the size of destruction precipitated by extractive processes within the area.
Jack Shainman Gallery
46 Lafayette Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
Through March 16
Godzilla: Echoes From the 1990s Asian American Arts Network
Not since a canceled 2021 present on the Museum of Chinese in America, boycotted by its members over its endorsement of the development of a brand new jail in Chinatown, has there been a chance to view such a strong assortment of works by members of Godzilla Asian American Arts Network. While a few of these artists are actually family names — Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pacita Abad, and Martin Wong amongst them — this exhibition may also showcase works by lesser-known artists equally deserving of recognition, equivalent to Charles Yuen and Nina Kuo.
Eric Firestone Gallery
40 Great Jones Street, Noho, Manhattan
Through March 16
Cauleen Smith: The Wanda Coleman Songbook
This present follows Cauleen Smith’s earlier homages to Black artists equivalent to Noah Purifoy and Alice Coltrane, this time specializing in Wanda Coleman, usually known as Los Angeles’s unofficial poet laureate. An immersive video set up, it merges Coleman’s written poetry with Smith’s visible poetry.
52 Walker
52 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
Through March 16
Marvels of My Own Inventiveness
Featuring 5 up to date Black artists within the museum’s assortment, Marvels of My Own Inventiveness seems to be on the artists’ practices by way of the lens of particular person expertise and creativity. Works by Leonard Daley, Claude Lawrence, J.B. Murray, Mary T. Smith, and Purvis Young illuminate the distinctive perspective and artistic processes of every artist by way of aesthetic dialogues. While you’re on the museum, don’t miss the memorable concurrent exhibition Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence within the Early American North.
American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Through March 24
Taylor Swift: Storyteller
From her excursions to movies and private relationships, Taylor Swift has infiltrated almost each pocket of American tradition. This present on the Museum of Arts and Design explores her trend decisions, from informal flannel to head-to-toe crystals. Weekend excursions are additionally out there with the museum’s resident Swiftie.
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Through March 24
Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas
One of Brazil’s most celebrated artists, Hélio Oiticica’s affect goes far past his nationwide borders. This exhibition presents two non-public Cosmococas — immersive environments, made in collaboration with Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida — exhibited for the primary time within the United States. Accompanied by archival materials, the present sheds gentle on the work of a pioneer of the Tropicália motion and Conceptual artwork.
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College
132 East 68th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through March 30
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
For anybody who grew up within the 1980s or ’90s, particularly within the cultural wastelands of American suburbia, zines had been an indispensable technique of accessing countercultures. They’re additionally a medium with a storied historical past. The Brooklyn Museum highlights that historical past with the primary museum survey devoted to the shape, that includes over 1,000 zines and artworks, from little-known gems to cultural touchstones like Bikini Kill.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Through March 31
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Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
A seminal determine in Argentina’s up to date artwork historical past, Marta Minujín’s colourful and playful artwork is difficult to not love. This survey follows the artist’s journey from her early mattress-based sculptures to later extra explicitly political interventions. A dynamic persona with a worldwide artwork presence, her life and work verify her perception that “everything is art.”
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through March 31
Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection
Something appears off in Aki Sasamoto’s world. The Japan-born, New York-based artist examines the strangeness within the on a regular basis in performances and installations that carry sudden parts into banal situations. By placing strain on routine life, Sasamoto prompts viewers to rethink the road between mundane and weird.
Queens Museum
Grand Central Parkway and Van Wyck Expressway, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens
Through April 7
And Ever An Edge
For the Studio Museum’s fifth annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1, artists hone in on the politics of house. Working in quite a lot of mediums, artists Jeffrey Meris, Devin N. Morris, and Charisse Pearlina Weston look at how we transfer by way of house in addition to the query of who claims it.
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Through April 8
Kay StrollingStick/Hudson River School
Paintings reframing the American panorama by way of the eyes of up to date Cherokee artist Kay StrollingStick are displayed in dialogue with 19th-century works by the Hudson River School inventive fraternity on this joint showcase, highlighting the commonalities and variations between previous and current artwork types.
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Through April 14
Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View From a Bird’s Beak
Diné artist Raven Chacon presents works spanning sound, video, efficiency, and sculpture from the previous 25 years of his profession on this main solo exhibition. Comprising previous initiatives and newly commissioned installations, the present calls consideration to Indigenous resilience and environmental points within the context of colonial violence, and can run alongside public programming all through its length.
Swiss Institute
38 St. Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan
Through April 14
Ahmad Fuad Osman: Archipelagic Alchemy
Trade of territories by colonial powers and the making of empires are the themes of Ahmad Fuad Osman’s ISCP exhibition. Through archival supplies and a newly commissioned video, the artist addresses a 17th-century alternate of islands between the Dutch and English that resulted in England’s acquisition of Manhattan. Together, Osman’s speculative video and set up think about a unique future, one in every of world connection fairly than fragmentation.
International Studio and Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Through April 26
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Seneca artist Marie Watt attracts from Native traditions, Greek mythology, and popular culture in her work, most notably her Blanket Stories sequence. Her prints, nevertheless, are the star of this touring
retrospective. She labored with grasp printers at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Mullowney Printing Company, and Tamarind Institute to create these summary, quilt-like works.
Print Center New York
535 West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Through May 18
El Dorado: Myths of Gold
You might inform the historical past of the Americas by way of gold, from its sacred standing in pre-colonization Colombia to the trimmings of up to date wealth. The legendary “El Dorado” — a rumored Indigenous kingdom whose abundance captivated the creativeness of European colonizers — is the curatorial crux of this two-part group exhibition, which incorporates greater than 60 artists spanning millennia.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through May 18
Harold Cohen: AARON
The Whitney takes us again to the foundations of AI picture era by way of late multidisciplinary artist Harold Cohen’s 40-year endeavor AARON (c. 1973), a sequence of laptop applications that might draw and coloration primarily based on variable directions and limitations Cohen inputted. The museum presents a long time’ price of this system’s graphic, boldly coloured picture outputs, a dwell “drawing” course of, and two variations of Cohen’s software program.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Through May
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial
Split into two elements, this biennial showcases over 50 individuals from the museum’s Artist within the Marketplace (AIM) fellowship for artist improvement between 2020 and 2023. Featured works sort out themes of capitalism and colonialism, and suggest speculative futures.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse, The Bronx
Through June 16
Byzantine Bembé (New York by Manny Vega)
The work of Bronx-born artist Manny Vega is a standard sight in East Harlem, also referred to as El Barrio. His murals adorn constructing facades, and his vibrant mosaics line the partitions of the 110th Street subway station. This present contains tales from the locations he is aware of properly: the Bronx, Spanish Harlem, and the Brazilian state of Bahia.
Museum of the City of New York
1120 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem, Manhattan
Through June 30
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo
Pulling from ancestral Andean and Amazonian cultural beliefs, two multisensory installations discover the revitalizing qualities of mud along with month-to-month public programming that additional expands on the exhibition’s core ideas. The present is accompanied by a bilingual monograph specializing in Morelos’s earth-based artwork apply.
Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Through July 20
An Atlas of Es Devlin
Beyoncé followers would possibly acknowledge Es Devlin’s memorable centerpiece for the musician’s 2016 Formation World Tour: a 60-foot-tall revolving LED dice whose screens performed music video snippets and dwell footage. Now, the British artist and stage designer herself will get the highlight in a monographic survey of sculptures, sketches, architectural fashions, and extra spanning 30 years of her apply, lots of them not seen publicly till this exhibition.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
Design Museum 2 East 91st Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through Aug. 11
The Buried Brook
This interactive sonic exhibition by Kamala Sankaram takes audiences on a self-guided strolling tour by way of Van Cortlandt Park and the encompassing neighborhood to hint the historic path of Tibbetts Brook — a pure stream that ran from Yonkers to East Harlem till the early 20th century when it was rerouted beneath Broadway by way of sewer tunnels. The present is a part of the Rescuing Tibbetts Brook initiative, which goals to revive the buried water channel. To obtain the app, go to cityaslivinglab.org.
Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx
Through Sept. 27
Taking Care: The Black Angels of Sea View Hospital
In 1951, Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital made historical past by discovering a remedy for tuberculosis. The “Black Angels” had been the hospital’s nurses who broke racial and scientific boundaries as they cared for sufferers. Taking Care facilities the lives and work of those pioneering ladies, accompanied by “Back and Song,” an immersive set up by Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young.
Staten Island Museum
1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, New Brighton, Staten Island
Through Dec. 31
The Making of a Museum: 50 Years
The Neuberger Museum is launching an intensive investigation of its historical past by way of 4 bold initiatives with staggered openings all through the spring. The almost year-long present explores museum namesake Roy R. Neuberger’s assortment practices and founding reward, delves into artist Cleve Gray’s inaugural site-specific portray, and closes with a recap of how the museum has modified within the 50 years because it formally opened to the general public.
Neuberger Museum of Art
735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York
Through Dec. 31
Opens in February
Angela Su: Melencolia
A nod to Albrecht Dürer’s “Melencolia I” (1514), the Hong Kong artist’s exhibition illustrates fantastical cyber realities that traverse each otherworldly dimensions and inside universes, encouraging reflection on the that means of self-autonomy in communal quests for liberation.
Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University,
Lenfest Center for the Arts, 615 West 129th Street, Sixth Floor, Harlem, Manhattan
Feb. 2–March 10
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
Interactive net-based works, video video games, and computer-generated sculptures are amongst 40 works offered on this first main survey of the artist’s work. Chronicling almost 4 a long time, the exhibition assesses Harvey’s profession within the context of the late-20th-century digital revolution, highlighting her pioneering apply on the intersection of the computerized and the corporeal.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens
Through July 7
The Faraway Nearby
Goddesses + Emaciation
ACRYLICS: Hidden Sculptural Art
The trailblazing feminist gallery AIR will current three concurrent reveals: ACRYLICS: Hidden Sculptural Art, a surrealist present by multidisciplinary creator Icecold; Sylvia Netzer’s wall-mounted ceramics, paying homage to early goddess figures; and The Faraway Nearby, rotating work by eight Asian ladies artists in pairs in a collective experiment exploring themes equivalent to vulnerability, id, and belonging.
AIR Gallery
155 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn
Feb. 10–March 10
Journey Illustrated
In this group comics exhibition, works by seven artists together with June Kim, Jesse Lambert, and Ronald Wimberly elevate the bizarre to the heroic.
The Art Gallery at Pace University
41 Park Row, First Floor, Financial District, Manhattan
Feb. 13–March 16
COAL + ICE
From diminishing glaciers to rising sea ranges, COAL + ICE explores the worldwide environmental and human prices of local weather change by way of an immersive video and images show spanning the work of greater than 50 artists.
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Feb. 13–Aug. 11
Textures of Feminist Perseverance
Referencing the inequalities confronted by ladies regardless of perennial cycles of feminist activism, an exhibition textual content for this present asks: “How many waves will it take?” Taking city house as a degree of departure for reflections on bettering ladies’s lives, labor, and security, James Gallery brings collectively 17 artists pondering these prospects by way of various media together with zines, archival analysis, and needlepoint.
James Gallery on the Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, First Floor, Midtown, Manhattan
Feb. 15–May 10
Reality Reframed: Recent Works by Todd Gray
Todd Gray’s distinctive assemblages of framed photographs disrupt the centrality of images, daring us to extract that means from a number of seemingly unconnected scenes fairly than a single image. This solo present presents new works by the artist primarily based on his four-decade images archive, exploring themes of coloniality and the hegemony of Western beliefs.
The eighth Floor
17 West 17th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Feb. 22–April 13
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
Dive into blueprint manuscripts, art work, and different objects documenting the creation of beloved characters like Peter Rabbit and Mr. Jeremy Fisher at this retrospective on English youngsters’s e-book writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter. Featuring the writer’s unique image letters, Drawn to Nature highlights how Potter drew inspiration from pure sciences to create her celebrated storybooks.
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
Feb. 23–June 9
Sonia Delaunay: Living Art Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Nearly 200 objects and works by the intrepid 20th-century artist Sonia Delaunay are on view at Bard Graduate Center, starting from the 1910s to 1970s. They embrace work and collages, in addition to a pale orange silk-chiffon costume she designed and a painted toy field.
18 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Feb. 23–July 7
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
The Met is exhibiting the primary New York City museum survey targeted on the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration since 1987. Featuring round 160 works starting from work to sculptures to ephemera, the present delves into Black artists’ depictions of recent life, whereas additionally contrasting the work of creators together with Charles Alston and Aaron Douglas with that of contemporaneous European artists equivalent to Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Feb. 25–July 28
Opens in March
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
This worldwide mortgage exhibition chronicles the post-World War II expatriate artist neighborhood that emerged in Paris on account of the GI Bill of 1944. Spanning a 17-year interval, this expansive present is split into two sections that showcase greater than 130 works by roughly 70 artists, together with Ellsworth Kelly, Norman Bluhm, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and Shinkichi Tajiri.
Grey Art Museum
100 Washington Square East, West Village, Manhattan
March 2–July 20
Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art
Comprised of over 50 works, this exhibition juxtaposes woven artwork spanning the primary millennium BCE with 16th-century Andean textiles, marrying the traditional with the fashionable by way of varied weavings by Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, and Olga de Amaral.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
March 5–June 16
Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Joan Jonas takes over the Drawing Center in its entirety together with her first main drawing survey, which incorporates over 300 particular person works courting from the 1960s to the current day. A multidisciplinary survey of Jonas’s work, titled Good Night Good Morning, additionally runs from March 17 to July 6 on the Museum of Modern Art.
Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
March 6–June 2
Shan Shui Reboot: Re-envisioning Landscape for a Changing World
Shan shui, or Chinese panorama portray, has a millennia-long historical past. At China Institute, nevertheless, it’s seven up to date artists who tackle the custom. Works starting from immersive digital experiences and paper installations tackle nature, actually and metaphorically, within the 21st century.
China Institute
40 Rector Street, Financial District, Manhattan
March 7–July 7
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History
The New York Public Library seems to be again at 500 years of archival imagery from the Arctic Circle to make sense of the visuals that influenced and knowledgeable societal perceptions of the North Pole. Visitors can discover the distant icy terrain up shut on this exhibition by way of an assortment of woodcuts, lithographs, photographic prints, and engravings spanning the 16th century to up to date occasions.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
March 15–July 13
The Plural of He
Five artists come collectively to commemorate the life, textual content, and work of Colin Robinson, the Trinidadian-American author and main advocate for HIV/AIDS consciousness and the sexual liberation motion throughout New York, the Caribbean, and past. The commissioned works reply to Robinson’s private historical past and are displayed alongside associated archival objects, celebrating an underrecognized however critically necessary activist.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan
March 15–July 21
Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
More than 30 artists from the Himalayas and its diaspora, in addition to these influenced by its tradition, come collectively in a present throughout a variety of media in celebration of the Rubin’s 20th anniversary. Sitespecific commissions are in dialog with the museum house, whereas up to date works draw their themes from the establishment’s intensive assortment of Himalayan artwork.
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
March 15–October 6
By Way Of: Material and Motion within the Guggenheim Collection
Delving into its everlasting collections, the Guggenheim presents main gamers from Italy’s Arte Povera motion, equivalent to Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz, along with present artists. The present examines the act of pushing materials boundaries past the studio amid social and historic contexts following World War II.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
March 15–Jan. 12, 2025
The Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
The Whitney Biennial, a significant survey of up to date American artwork, is again for its 81st version, organized by lead curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli. This time, the exhibition may also embrace movie and efficiency applications, chosen by 5 curators. At its greatest, the biennial is a mirrored image of the most important conversations in American society, as seen by a various group of artists from throughout the nation.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Opens March 20
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
A tribute to the centennial of Toshiko Takaezu’s start, Worlds Within gathers roughly 200 objects from private and non-private collections to map the Hawai’i-born American artist’s 70-year apply. Featuring ceramic sculptures with hidden sound parts, acrylic work, weavings, and choose items from the artist’s celebrated Star Series, the exhibition may also embrace a live performance program and video set up by co-curator and composer Leilehua Lanzilotti.
Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road, Astoria, Queens
March 20–July 28
Opens in April
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Rose B. Simpson: Seed
Rose B. Simpson imprints her reminiscences, ancestry, and connection to the land in clay, metallic, and different media that she engages in a deeply private materials apply. In Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, the artist debuts a bunch of large-scale sculptures modeled after the towering determine of the sentinel. Two life-size bronzes will grace Inwood Hill Park, a website inhabited by the Lenape by way of the 17th century earlier than Dutch colonial governor Peter Minuit negotiated the acquisition of Manhattan Island in what’s well known at this time as an act of displacement.
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Madison Square Park, Flatiron, Manhattan
Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Manhattan
April 11–Sept. 22
Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio
Detailed naturalist illustrations, compositional sketches, and small-scale watercolors are just some chosen works on this retrospective of Walton Ford’s animal work. Provoking conversations referring to the opposed results of human conduct like local weather change and colonialism, this exhibition additionally options drawings by earlier artists from the Morgan’s assortment, equivalent to Peter Paul Rubens, Maria Sibylla Merian, John James Audubon, and Eugène Delacroix.
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
April 12–Oct. 6
Perfect Trouble: Queering Natureculture
The shifting, kaleidoscopic nature of gender id is on the coronary heart of this group exhibition exploring the wonder and complexity of queerness and sexuality. Works equivalent to Seba Calfuqueo’s video efficiency piece “Kowkülen (Liquid Being)” (2020), which facilities our bodies of water as poetic allegories of the physique and its fluidity, problem the constraints of binaries and inflexible definitions, recognizing the yielding and elastic actuality of human connection.
Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center
4900 Independence Avenue, Riverdale, The Bronx
April 20–Aug. 11
No Escape: The Legacy of Attica Lives
Poster House delves into the legacy of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising in New York, throughout which 39 folks had been killed. The present explores the visible means employed by artists and activists to attract consideration to the bloodbath. The Chelsea museum may also fittingly exhibit a concurrent present of worldwide solidarity posters from world wide.
Poster House
119 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
April 25–Nov. 3
Huma Bhabha
Pakistani-American artist Huma Bhabha unveils 4 new sculptures in Brooklyn Bridge Park for Public Art Fund’s 2024 exhibition program. Her monumental figures, born on the intersections of sci-fi, horror, and abstraction, ponder warfare, the pure world, and civilization throughout time by way of themes of humor and the grotesque.
Public Art Fund
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Opens April 30
Opens in May
Arlene Shechet: Girl Group
For this exhibition, Arlene Shechet created six large-scale summary sculptures paired with indoor works made from wooden, metal, and ceramic. The vibrantly coloured buildings mark a brand new chapter within the artist’s apply as she strikes from ceramics to extra industrial supplies.
Storm King Art Center
1 Museum Road, New Windsor, New York
May 4–Nov. 10
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
The Met explores themes of ephemerality and renewal with a deep dive into greater than 250 clothes and trend from its assortment. Spanning 4 centuries, the works share motifs associated to the pure world. Interactive shows carry viewers nearer to the smells and textures of those particular objects.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
May 10–Sept. 2
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity
This survey of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s apply options her “monuments for workers’ thoughts,” tackling points together with dangerous industrialization, healthcare inequity, and water air pollution. The present is a tribute to Ruby Frazier and a celebration of social solidarity and mutual help.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
May 12–Sept. 27
Jenny Holzer
Anchored by an up to date enlargement of Jenny Holzer’s site-specific 1989 set up on the museum, the Guggenheim presents the artist’s work on a steady digital textual content scroll that comes with a few of Holzer’s early lesser-known truisms, alongside together with her current explorations into AI generative outputs.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
May 17–Sept. 29
Outside the City
Charlotte Schulz: A Constellation of Small Events
Charlotte Schulz makes use of her fingertips to mix charcoal vignettes on torn paper, piecing them collectively to create compositions of surreal areas grounded by the inclusion of recognizable objects and solitary animals. Schulz’s dreamscapes expose the interconnections of the thoughts’s eye with one’s environment
ArtYard
13 Front Street, Frenchtown, New Jersey
Feb. 17–June 2
Jeff Barnett-Winsby: Nothing Ever Happens
Artist and neighborhood organizer Jeff Barnett-Winsby, co-founder of the Wassaic Project, presents what he dubs a “visual diary” of his household. Time strikes like reminiscence throughout these images. One captures his daughters face-down on a sandy dune, the solar blaring fiercely and seemingly eternally, although, on reflection, it was simply the briefest snapshot in a life.
Wassaic Project
37 Furnace Bank Road, Amenia, New York
Through July 7
Siona Benjamin: Lilith within the New World
Raised in a traditionally Jewish neighborhood in Mumbai and primarily based in New Jersey, Siona Benjamin’s graphic works mix all three influences. At Montclair Art Museum, the artist created a 30-foot banner that highlights the tales of censured ladies in Hebrew literature, positioning Lilith, the oft-demonized spouse of Adam, as a feminist icon.
Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
Through Aug. 4
Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years
Loie Hollowell’s first museum survey tracks a decade of the artist’s life, transmuted into her artwork. With her physique as a catalyst, Hollowell noticed, documented, and abstracted her personal kind and emotions by way of intervals of conception, start, and post-partum, rendered in media starting from pastel to forged resin and CNC-milled high-density foam.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Through Aug. 11
Hockney/Origins: Early Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection
This exhibition highlights themes and strategies from David Hockney’s early work, lots of which might prevail all through his decades-long profession. The 16 works on view on the Bruce Museum embrace swimming swimming pools on pressed paper pulp, work of buildings, and portraits of colleagues and mates.
The Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut
Ongoing
Arte Povera
1960s Italy was rocked by industrialization, scholar protests, and financial decline. Artists of the period gave visible voice to this mounting dissatisfaction by way of Arte Povera, or “impoverished art,” made largely of on a regular basis supplies. Maggazzino’s smooth campus, designed particularly to accommodate its core assortment of postwar Italian artwork, options 76 artworks by 12 artists throughout manifold media, together with Giovanni Anselmo’s industrial sculpture and Alighiero Boetti’s conceptual works.
Magazzino Italian Art
2700 US-9, Cold Spring, New York
Ongoing