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Late-April Gallery Wave: Guston, Frankenthaler & More 🌦️
Issue #101
Art Pulse NYC
April 13, 2026
📌 Highlights
🚨 Last call on Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth, Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian, and Chuck Close at Pace — all closing by month's end.
🎉 A stacked round of late-April openings: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth, Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian, Martin Wong at PPOW, and more.
🎙️ Emma Webster in conversation with Josephine Halvorson on May 16, 1pm at Petzel. Plus, the Artist Party: Marcel Duchamp at MoMA on April 30, 7–10pm.
🚨 Last Chance
Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool
📍 Hauser & Wirth
⏰ closing April 18
❓examining how psychologically charged themes like the mother-child relationship and fear of separation underpin her figurative and abstraction works
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (With Hand), 1989
Also closing at H&W:
 Felix Gonzalez-Torres: “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) closes April 18 | installation engaging with themes of participation, intimacy, visibility, & more |  Qiu Xiaofei: The Theater of Wither and Thrive closes Apr 18 | paintings exploring memory & nostalgia inspired by family photos found after the death of the artist’s father |
Roy Lichtenstein: Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes
📍 Gagosian
⏰ closing April 25
❓selection of significant paintings, a sculpture, watercolors, and works on papers from the Collection of the Lichtenstein Family
✚ Jasper Johns: Between the Clock and the Bed closes on April 24 at 980 Madison | cross-hatch paintings
 Roy Lichtenstein, Forest Scene with Temple, 1986, Acrylic, oil, and graphite pencil on canvas © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein Photo: Maris Hutchinson Courtesy Gagosian |  Jasper Johns, Corpse and Mirror, 1974 Oil, encaustic, and collage on canvas, in 2 parts (joined) © 2026 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Jeff McLane Courtesy Gagosian |
Chuck Close: On Paper
📍 Pace
⏰ closing April 25
❓showcasing Close’s innovative, grid-based portraiture practice which redefines large-scale representation
 Maysha Mohamedi: Maysha the Fool closing Apr 25 | abstract paintings |  Emmet Gowin: Bladwin Street: Photographs 1966-1994 closing Apr 25 | intimate family portraits |  Sam Gilliam: STITCHED closing Apr 25 | geometric stitched, painted canvases |
If you’re hungry for more…
 Peter Saul: Peter Saul’s Art History closes April 18 at Gladstone | satirical paintings |  Robert Mapplethorpe closes April 18 at Gladstone | large-scale photographs |  Ileana García Magoda: In the Body of Light closes April 25 at Anat Ebgi | layered paintings with themes of nature and healing |
 Cinga Samson: Ukuphuthelwa closes April 18 at White Cube | spiritual dark-toned oil paintings |  Katharina Wulff: Day and Night Before My Eyes closes April 25 at Greene Naftali | paintings on childhood and memory |  Maria Lassnig closes April 25 at Petzel | figurative paintings on body awareness |
🎉 Just In
Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance
📍 Gagosian
⏰ opening April 30 (through Jul 2), with a reception 6-8pm
❓over twenty monumental canvases spanning 1960-1992, focusing on Frankenthaler’s use of scale across four decades of Color Field painting
➕ Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze opens on April 22 with a reception, featuring new bronze sculptures
 Helen Frankenthaler, Gamut, 1968, Acrylic on canvas © 2026 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Rob McKeever Courtesy Gagosian |  Giuseppe Penone with "Clepsydra [1]" (2012) at the foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy, 2025 Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano Courtesy the artist and Gagosian |
Life with P. | Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964 - 1978
📍 Hauser & Wirth
⏰ opening April 21, with a reception at 6-8pm
❓intimate, rarely explored side of Guston — paintings and works on paper meditating on his marriage to poet Musa McKim, including never before exhibited large-scale figurative paintings
Martin Wong: Popeye
📍 PPOW
⏰ opening April 18 (through May 30)
❓bringing together disparate bodies of work created over three decades, examining Wong’s lifelong fascination with artistic subcultures — namely comic book illustration and early tattoo imagery
If you’re hungry for more…
 Emma Webster opens on April 30 through June 6 at Petzel | paintings side by side with a video game | talk with Emma Webster on May 16 |  Celia Paul: Innervisions opens on April 28 (to June 13) with a reception at Gladstone | portraits of family and self |  Jens Fänge opens on April 24 through May 30 at Perrotin, along with 2 other solo shows |
 Julie Mehretu: Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology) opens April 14 through June 6, with a reception | exploring the fleeting nature of life |  Leon Kossoff opens April 17 (with a reception) through June 20 | Emily Kraus: In Relation opened on April 11 |  Sanford Biggers opens April 30 (with a reception) through June 13 | examining tensions in history, culture, myth, and narrative |
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
👀 In Case You Missed It
Recently, we shared the museum openings for April, notably including the major retrospective of Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, which will be open through August 22. Relatedly, check out the Artist Party: Marcel Duchamp on April 30, 7-10pm.
We also featured our interview with Anaïs De Los Santos, including some striking anthropomorphic sculptures available for purchase. We shared another segment of our interview with Anaïs here:
Re-read March’s gallery updates here.
📚 Further Reading
[Duchamp Review] And the Most Influential Modern Artist Is …
Her Museum Was Surviving in Russia. Then the Threats Became Too Much. — NYTimes
Painter Elizabeth Peyton on How Setting Up a Studio in the Louvre Changed Her Art—and Life — Cultured Mag
Marian Goodman’s Prized $65 Million Collection Lands at Christie’s — Artnet
How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer — New Yorker
For Artist Cecilia Vicuña, Being Busy Is Not a Sign of Success — Cultured Mag
Guggenheim Taps Hirshhorn Museum’s Melissa Chiu to Be Director — Artnet
Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations
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