NEW YORK—Between fairs and the official listings and the soft-launches in someone’s cousin’s Chinatown loft, May represents an upward swing. Skip the overload and go where the real signals are. Upstairs at Management, Anastasia Komar’s LUCA is all heat and hum: bioplastic tentacles, ambergris, and a brain-like being gestating in a glowing chamber. You might think you’re alone with it, but you’re not. Downstairs, over at Greene Naftali, Richard Hawkins...
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NEW YORK—Between fairs and the official listings and the soft-launches in someone’s cousin’s Chinatown loft, May represents an upward swing. Skip the overload and go where the real signals are. Upstairs at Management, Anastasia Komar’s LUCA is all heat and hum: bioplastic tentacles, ambergris, and a brain-like being gestating in a glowing chamber. You might think you’re alone with it, but you’re not. Downstairs, over at Greene Naftali, Richard Hawkins, Mike Faist is muse and Bonnard is pretext. Luhring Augustine holds the counterweight: Salman Toor’s figures lounge and vanish in green-lit interiors, where longing plays like theater and the punchlines come with aftertaste.
If you need to come up for air: Couch Paintings at CANADA lets you sit with it (literally), and Candida Alvarez’s retrospective at El Museo deconstructs memory like it’s muscle. Uptown, Gagosian’s Tête-à-tête folds Picasso back in on himself, this time via Paloma’s hand—less lecture, more psychic inheritance. Over in East Williamsburg, On Education at Amant is all structure and subversion: metallic walls, baby monitors, vinyl lacquered dreams. You’ll need time there, and probably a second visit. And in Bed-Stuy, the Center for Art and Advocacy opens with Collective Gestures—35 artists, all justice-impacted, none interested in permission. Don’t expect polish. Do expect impact.
On the margins (where most of the good stuff lives): Blade Study is back at Beverly’s, Faye Toogood’s sculptural fever dream spans Tiwa Select and The Future Perfect (yes, it includes lamps), and over at Zwirner, Yu Nishimura goes quiet in a way that demands attention. Hiba Schahbaz’s Magical Creatures haunts the upper floors at Adler Beatty like a cut-paper vision. Plus: the Artist Plate Project, Giovanni’s Room redux, a Civil x Stilllife remix at the Ace, and the Rats Party at nublu—if you know, you know. See it all or see nothing. Either way, don’t say we didn’t tell you.
Lady Writing a Letter... by Johannes Vermeer (detail)
As of today, there's ten authenticated Johannes Vermeer paintings on public view in New York, the most of anywhere outside of the Netherlands. All of... Text by Marguerite de Ponty. Read More
Jeannie Four Roses (detail) Oil on linen 45 x 30 in. by Jamie Adams
UPTOWN—The show blends historic Surrealist masters—Carrington, Fini, Tanguy, De Chirico—with seventeen contemporary artists. But it doesn’t attempt the impossible comparison. As Kuspit points out, the... Text by dannik. Read More
TRIBECA—British artist Louise Giovanelli is currently presenting a new body of work at Grimm 54 in New York. The exhibition, titled Still Moving, runs through... Text by Dalia Morgan. Read More
In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Text by dannik. Read More
Slip House, the brand new gallery opened at the base of a 19th-century, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street.
EAST VILLAGE—Every two decades is a response to the previous two. After decades of irony, the purposeful ugliness of the 80s and 90s (“Anything that’s... Text by Cici Thompson. Read More
MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be glimpsed beyond fashion and design. Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands... Text by Cici Thompson. Read More
Pol Taburet, Desire and Stones (detail), 2025. Acrylics, alcohol-based paint, and oil pastel on canvas, 250 × 190 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM. Photo: Romain Darnaud.
MADRID—French-Guadeloupean artist Pol Taburet makes his Spanish debut in Oh, If Only I Could Listen, a site-specific exhibition staged inside Madrid’s historic Pabellón de los... Text by Edward Bellow. Read More
Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.
The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith. Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental... Text by Marguerite de Ponty. Read More
Located in the stunning, spaceship-like expo of Messeplatz, Art Basel faces Design Miami, another expo for the rich and curious, displaying furniture and aesthetic products... Text by Madina Tulakova. Read More
VENICE—The Biennale, Stranieri ovunque, is a mirror this year. "You judge, you gossip, you wash it all down with Prosecco. Have you seen the Uzbekistan... Text by Simona Alberi. Read More
Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Text by Pina Lomb. Read More
Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.
Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past,... Text by fmr. Read More
