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A Breakout Artist Opening + December’s Museum Lineup
Issue #89
Art Pulse NYC
December 03, 2025
📌 Highlights
📢 Tomorrow, we’ll be heading to title of work (57 orchard st) to see the new exhibition of Rory Thomas, a Brooklyn-based emerging artist known for his introspective, melancholy figurations.
🎉 Joan Semmel opens at The Jewish Museum on Dec 12, along with a talk with the artist the day prior.
📖 Check out Marion Maneker’s Drain the Swamp for further reading.
Emerging artist alert: Rory Thomas
Rory Thomas: ‘this skin is not mine, sometimes’ opens tomorrow, Dec 4th @ title of work (57 orchard st), 6-8:30 pm, and will be running for 2 weeks.
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Painted in Brooklyn bedrooms and lounge rooms across a four-year period, the work offers a peek into Rory’s journal told through oil and charcoal. Melancholy blues, delicate pinks, and nauseous greens occur throughout—a polychrome landscape that captures the never-ending battle of living in New York.
Contact @cc.rory for more details.
🚨 Last Chance
Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints closes at The Met on Dec 9.
Image: Morris Dancers
Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise, the first in-depth survey focusing on the artist’s long engagement with music and performance, closes at MoMA on Dec 13.
🎉 Just In
Joan Semmel: In the Flesh
📍 The Jewish Museum
⏰ opening Dec 12
❓exploring themes of body, intimacy, and autonomy in Semmel’s groundbreaking nude self-representations
🗓️ Related Events: Dialogue and Discourse: Joan Semmel In Conversation on Dec 11 at 6:30pm [$24 tickets]
JOAN SEMMEL Sunlight, 1978, Oil on canvas, The Jewish Museum, New York, Purchase: Fine Arts Acquisition Fund
Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
📍 The Met
⏰ opening Dec 5
❓nearly 60 works, drawn largely from Finnish collections, tracing the artist’s evolution from academic realism to abstracted portraiture
🗓️ Related Events: Met Expert Talks on Dec 16 at 3 pm & Studio Workshop — Self-Portrait Painting on Jan 17, 1-5pm
If you’re hungry for more…
 Fanmania is opening at The Met on Dec 11, featuring painted and printed fans. |  Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination opens at MoMA on Dec 14, exploring how photographic portraits fuel ideas about Pan-African subjectivity and solidarity. Related Artist Talk. |
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
📚 Further Reading
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