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Last Days to Visit Galleries Before They Close for the Year ☃️

Issue #91: Gallery Happenings Between Dec 17 - Jan 2

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Art Pulse NYC
December 17, 2025

📌 Highlights

🚨 >20 gallery exhibits are closing Saturday, Dec 20, including Richard Serra at Gagosian, Agnes Martin at Pace, and many more.

📣 Many galleries are about to close for the last final weeks of the year, while most museums remain open outside of major holidays. Be sure to check holiday hours before visiting.

📖 Check out NYTimes’s Best Art of 2025.

🚨 Last Chance

Luc Tuymans: The Fruit Basket

📍 David Zwirner

⏰ closing Dec 20

❓paintings considering the pervasive atmosphere of fracture specific to the US, at present; this is Tuymans’ 18th solo show with the gallery

➕ Sosa Joseph: Rain over the river (quasi-autobiographical paintings of life off an island in Kerala) also closes Dec 20, at the UES location.

Luc Tuymans | Self-Captured

Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992

📍 Gagosian

⏰ closing Dec 20

❓a large scale sculpture composed of three identical conical steel segments, last exhibited 30 years ago

➕ Richard Prince: Folk Songs (recent paintings/collages), Lauren Halsey (installation), and Richard Diebenkorn (abstract paintings; UES) are also closing.

Richard Serra | Self-Captured

Agnes Martin: Innocent Love

📍 Pace

⏰ closing Dec 20

❓large scale artworks created in the later years of the artist’s life, when she explored the phenomenological possibilities of color to express childhood imagination

➕ Antoni Tàpies: On paper (abstract and surrealist compositions), Li Songsong: History Painting (expressionistic paintings), and Friedrich Kunath: Aimless Love (landscape paintings) are also closing.

Agnes Martin | Self-Captured

Otani Workshop: Anima

📍 Perrotin

⏰ closing Dec 13

❓whimsical figures presented in custom-made installation, new paintings, ceramics, and more

➕ Chang Ya Chin: Finding Ewha (detailed oil paintings), Katherina Olschbaur: I Spend All Day Waiting for the Night (paintings between representation and abstraction), and A Strange Familiar (group show on changing perspective) are also closing.

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If you’re hungry for more…

Catherine Goodman: Island (abstract monotypes) is closing at H&W on Dec 20

Jorge Pardo (abstract paintings & lamps) closes at Petzel on Dec 20, as well as Rezi van Lankveld: Premonitions.

Alex Katz closes at Gladstone on Dec 20.

Martyn Cross: Gods Shaped of Mud (archaeological paintings) is closing at Marianne Boesky on Dec 20. Claudia Wieser: A Personal Unit is also closing.

Sylvia Snowden: On the Verge (dark structural abstract expressionism) closes at White Cube on Dec 19.

Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Paintings Made for Aliens Above (futuristic paintings) closes on Dec 20.

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🎉 Just In

No major openings this week, as the year closes out.

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