🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing Jan 11

❓ Frank’s first solo exhibition at MoMA, exploring six vibrant decades of Frank’s photography career following the 1958 publication of his landmark photobook, The Americans 

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono featuring a large-scale installation is also closing Jan 12 at MoMA

Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes

📍 Neue Galerie

⏰ closing Jan 13

❓ exploring the significance of landscape in Schiele’s work, where nature symbolically connects to the human condition

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Mary Sully: Native Modern also closes on Jan 12 at The Met, featuring distinctive works informed by Native American ancestry.

In the Galleries

Lorna Simpson: Earth & Sky

📍 Hauser & Wirth | 22nd St

⏰ closing Jan 11

❓ large-scale monochromatic works exploring humanity’s connection to unseen forces, inspired by a 1929 textbook on minerals

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✚ Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness, featuring landscape, still life, and portrait photographs; Thornton Dial: The Visible and The Invisible also closes on Jan 11 at the same location

✚✚ Gary Simmons: Thin Ice, debuting sculpture, paintings, and drawings exploring race, representation, and collective identity, closes on Jan 11 at the Wooster St location

Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance

📍 Luhring Augustine | Tribeca

⏰ closing Jan 11

❓ highlighting how Haitian artists of the past and present explore themes of survival, spirituality, and resistance through painting, sculpture, and textiles

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Shida Kuo: Selected Works 1993-2023

📍 Nunu Fine Art | Broome St

⏰ closing Jan 9

❓ 20 abstract ceramic sculptures resembling biomorphic shapes and a selection of print editions

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In addition to the above, on Jan 11, Park Seo-Bo: The Newspaper Ecritures, 2022-23 closes at White Cube (UES), displaying the final body of work of the artist, namely artistic innovations on paper. James Little: Affirmed/Actions also closes at Petzel (Chelsea), exhibiting new abstract works. Nearby, Henni Alftan: Stop Making Sense, featuring recursive oil paintings commenting on the conditions of their existence, is also ending.

🎉 Just In

No new museum exhibitions to report.

In the Galleries

An-My Lê: Dark Star/Grey Wolf

📍 Marian Goodman | 10th Ave

⏰ opening Jan 10

❓ two series of photographs exploring the geopolitical tensions of contemporary landscapes

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception: Jan 10, 6-8pm

✚ ✚ Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times, featuring the Ukrainian photographer’s groundbreaking work, opens the same day

Emil Sands: Salt in the throat

📍 Kasmin | 10th Ave

⏰ opening Jan 9

❓ series of impressionistic paintings exploring the interplay between individuals and their environments

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ On opening night you can attend Emil Sands in conversation with Eleanor Nairne at 5 pm, followed by a reception

✚ ✚ Judith Bernstein: Public Fears opened on Jan 6 at Kasmin’s 27th St location, featuring charcoal drawings

Carl Andre

📍 Paula Cooper | 21st St

⏰ opening Jan 9

❓ marking on year since the artist’s death, this expansive exhibition showcases Andre’s 70-year career exploring sculpture and poetry

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Check out this Carl Andre Talk with Artforum on his life and work

In addition to the above, Rajkamal Kahlon: Are My Hands Clean? opens at PPOW Gallery on Jan 10 with political drawings and paintings (opening reception Jan 10, 6-8pm). Maurie Laurencin: Works from 1905-1952 opens on Jan 9 (with an opening reception at 6-8pm) with paintings, watercolors, and drawings focused on elegant young women.

🗓️ Events of the week

• Ursula Conversations: Annie Leibovitz, Amy Sherald & Darren Walker (Cooper Union, Jan 11, 3pm) — on occasion of the final day of Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition

• Second Sundays at The Whitney (The Whitney, Jan 12, 10:30 am - 6 pm Free) — free admission and all-ages artmaking activities including collage making, music performance, figure drawing and more

• Art for Families: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Noguchi Museum, Jan 12, 10:30-12:30pm) — families with children ages 5-11 will explore Noguchi’s sculptures and create art inspired by cultural traditions

• Flight into Egypt: Steffani Jemison (The Met, Jan 10, 3 pm & 7pm) — Steffi Jemison presents Recitatif: Perfect Mind, a multimedia interpretation of a divine Coptic poem that expresses the mystery of the singular self, in conjunction with the Flight into Egypt exhibition

• Temple Grandin on Mary Sully and Visual Thinking (The Met, Jan 10, 6-7pm) — best-selling author and Met curator will discuss Grandin’s book and make connections to the works of Dakota artist Mary Sully

📚 Further Reading

• 17 Art-World Tastemakers on the Artist They're Most Excited About in 2025 — Cultured

• At Lorna Simpson’s Show, a Constellation of Galactic and Human History — The NYTimes

• Step Into the Afro-Fractalist World of Cult Artist Char Jeré — Cultured

• 8 Art Shows to See Before They Close in January— The NYTimes

• The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025 — The Art Newspaper

• Iconic Works by Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, and More Join the Public Domain in 2025 — Artnet

• The 2025 Art Market Prediction Roundup — Puck News

• From a Ruth Asawa Survey to a Van Gogh Spotlight—13 U.S. Museum Shows You Can’t Miss in 2025 — Artnet

• Mexico City to the Met: Frida Escobedo’s Supercharged Path to Fame — The NYTimes

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