🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

📍 The Met

⏰ closing May 11

❓ first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the German Romantic partner with ~75 works

🔗 see exhibit details.

➕ Met Expert Talks — Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature on May 8, 3pm

In the Galleries

• Abstraction, emotion, and experimentation: Side Lined closes at PPOW on May 10

• Exploring Queer subjectivity: Deviations closes at James Fuentes on May 7

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening May 11, Member Previews 8-10

❓ highlighting af Klint’s radiant flower drawings from 1919-1920 which explore the spiritual forces behind nature

🔗 see exhibit details.

➕ Open Art Space: Hilma af Klint, Digital Printmaking, and Collage — event for teens, May 15, 4:30pm

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

📍 The Met

⏰ opening May 10

❓ exploring 300 years of Black dandyism, tracing how style served as a form of self-expression and resistance across the Atlantic diaspora

🔗 see exhibit details.

Collection in Focus: The Reach of Faith Ringgold

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ opening May 9

❓ see how Ringgold’s imaginative work, notably story quilts, influenced generations of artists from Picasso to Tschabalala Self

🔗 see exhibit details.

In the Galleries

Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales

📍 Pace Gallery

⏰ opening May 7

❓ poetic, concept-driven sculptures and installations that challenge perception and reality

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Robert Indiana: The American Dream (mixed media on the duality of the American Dream) and Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space (geometric abstraction) are both opening May 9

Takashi Murakami: JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshide

📍 Gagosian

⏰ opening May 8

❓Murakami reimagines Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo blending traditional ukiyo-e imagery with his own characters and motifs

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama

📍 Paula Cooper

⏰ opening May 8, with a reception 6-8pm

❓ works of two of Japan’s most innovative and influential post-war artists

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Preorder the publication here

In addition:

• Paintings on migration and human vulnerability: Michael Armitage: Crucible opens at David Zwirner on May 8 with a reception 6-8pm

• Figurative painting: Circa 1995: New Figuration in New York opens at David Zwirner on May 7 with a reception 6-8pm

• Mixed media on binary tensions: Rosemarie Trockel: The Kiss opens at Gladstone on May 7 with a reception 6-8pm

• Mystical Landscapes: Theodora Allen: Oak opens at Kasmin on May 7

• Channeling grief into monumental abstraction: Half Way Home opens at Lévy Gorvy Dayan on May 8

Last Week’s Openings:

• Reinvention of still life: Pablo Picasso: Still Life at Almine Rech

• Feminist reclamation of art history through embroidery, ceramics: Ghada Amer: Disobedient Thoughts at Marianne Boesky

• Mixed media on body, identity, and spatial perception: Sheree Hovsepian: Figure Ground at Uffner & Liu

• Self-examination of the artist’s studio: William Kentridge: A Natural History of the Studio at Hauser & Wirth

• Psychedelic botanical abstraction drawings: Anna Zemánková at Gladstone

• Experimental assemblage: Robert Rauschenberg: Sympathy for Abandoned Objects at Gladstone

🗓️ Events of the week

Fairs

It’s the season of Art Fairs in NYC. Check out the following:

• Frieze New York, May 7-11

• TEFAF New York, May 9-13

• The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, May 8-11

• Independent, May 8-11

• NADA New York, May 7- 11

• Future Fair, May 7-10

Events

• Reception at the Tappan Collective’s Pop-up Exhibition (May 13)

• TRIBECA Gallery Night (May 9, 6-8pm) — PPOW & 70 local galleries will have extended hours and special programming

• Free Friday Night at The Whitney (May 9) & Free Admissions on Sunday (May 11)

• 40th Anniversary of The Noguchi Museum (May 11, 11 am - 6 pm)

• Noguchi At Night (Noguchi Museum, May 9, 6-9pm, $350+) — dance and culinary experience with solo performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company

• Our Times Together: A Conversation Among Friends Celebrating David Hammons (H&W, May 7, 6-7pm)

• Artist Walk-Through and Book Signing with Yuri Yuan (Alexander Berggruen, May 10, 2pm)

📚 Further Reading

• New York’s Rachel Uffner Gallery brings on new partner and rebrands — The Art Newspaper

• Frieze New York Is a Special Opportunity for First-Time Artists and Galleries — The NYTimes

• Sargent and ‘Madame X’ Return, Notorious as Ever — The NYTimes

• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May — The NYTimes

• Meet the Artist Behind the Met’s Striking Mannequins for ‘Black Dandyism’ — Artnet

• 18 Essential Spring Exhibitions to See in New York — Artnet

• Have the Prices for Art Gotten Too Damn High? — Cultured Mag

• Salman Toor Just Opened the Biggest Show of His Career. Here’s How He Feels. — Cultured Mag

• Thursday Night Lights — Puck News | Subscribe here

• The Last Surrealist — The NYTimes

• Color, Form and Geometry Are the Through Lines in Robert Mangold’s Career — The NYTimes

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