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May Gallery Flood: Richter, Hockney & the ADAA Gallery Walk
Issue #105
Art Pulse NYC
May 07, 2026
📌 Highlights
🚨 Last call on Domenico Gnoli at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (May 23), Martin Wong at PPOW (May 30), and GaHee Park at Perrotin (May 30) — details below.
🎉 A massive wave of May openings: Gerhard Richter and Jasper Johns at David Zwirner (May 7), David Hockney at Pace (May 15), and more.
🎙️ Next Thursday, May 14, galleries across Chelsea are staying open late for Spring Art Week — a good night to catch multiple openings in one go.
🎨 We just published our latest emerging artist feature on ceramicist Isolina Minjeong — whose large-scale guardian figures draw from Korean funerary sculpture and pre-Columbian carving.
🚨 Last Chance
The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli
📍 Lévy Gorvy Dayan
⏰ closing May 23
❓hyperrealistic close-ups of everyday objects and surfaces rendered at monumental scale
Installation views of The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York, 2026
GaHee Park: Half-Looking, Half-Seen
📍 Perrotin
⏰ closing May 30
❓still lifes and portraits probing the dynamics of coexistence, where figures inhabit a state between perceiving and being perceived
✚ Nick Doyle: Collective Hallucinations (denim collage and AI installation on American mythology) and Jens Fänge: Antechamber (surrealist painting of interior psychological spaces) also closing May 30
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Martin Wong: Popeye
📍 PPOW
⏰ closing May 30
❓eight motorized Popeye painted cutouts, collapsing hierarchy between East and West, high and low, comics and art history
If you’re hungry for more…
 Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show closes at Ortuzar on May 30 | intimate black-and-white photography of downtown NYC |  Juanita McNeely: Holding Back closes at James Fuentes on May 16 | figurative painting in deep blue |
 Sacha Ingber: Two closes at Uffner Liu on May 9 | tactile sculpture exploring duality and domesticity |  Chair Show at Pace closes May 23 | group show, the chair as object and idea |  Bellmer Nauman Pondick: Material Desire closes at Nunu Fine Art May 30 | sculpture trio: body, object, desire | Rona Pondick in Conversation with Albert Godetzky on May 20, 6:30 pm (free) |
🎉 Just In
Gerhard Richter: Landschaften
📍 David Zwirner
⏰ opening May 7, with a reception 6-8pm
❓survey of Richter’s photorealist landscape paintings from the 1960s through the 2000s, alongside a selection of Abstrakte Bilder paintings, curated in close collaboration with the artist
➕ Jasper Johns: Copy/Trace (works on paper exploring imprint and repetition; opening May 7), Lisa Yuskavage (figurative painting, color as psychological force; opening May 14), Set in Stone (sculpture across three millennia of stone carving; opening May 12), Statics of an Egg (selection of multimedia work by a group of Japanese-born artists; opening May 8 ) — all opening with a reception
 Gerhard Richter, Apfelbäume (Apple Trees), 1987. © Gerhard Richter 2026 |  Jasper Johns, Study for Skin I, 1962. Charcoal and oil on paper. © 2026 Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY |  Lisa Yuskavage, Lisa Yuskavage, Endless Studio (Portal), 2025. © Lisa Yuskavage. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner |
David Hockney: The Moon Room
📍 Pace
⏰ opening May 15, with a reception at 6-8pm
❓fifteen iPad paintings of the night sky made between April-December 2020 while Hockney quarantined in Normandy
➕ Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishing (assemblage and painting on mortality and ritual), Julian Schnabel: Italy Through Its Trees (large-scale paintings on landscape and sensation), Emily Kam Kngwarray: Turning Season (Aboriginal Australian painting expressing her ancestral and ecological relationship to country) are also opening
 David Hockney, 31st October 2020, No. 1, 2020 © David Hockney |  Julian Schnabel, Portrait of Italy Through Its Trees V, 2025 © Julian Schnabel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. |  Paul Thek, Untitled (75), 1964 © The Estate of Paul Thek, courtesy Pace Gallery and the Watermill Center |
Ryan Driscoll: Tech Duinn
📍 Anat Ebgi
⏰ opened May 2 (through June 13)
❓new oil paintings and watercolors of idealized figures inhabiting landscapes that feel both ancient and invented
➕ Janet Werner: Landscape with Legs (figurative painting drawing from fashion & art-historical references) is also opening
If you’re hungry for more…
 Anselm Kiefer: Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You Still at Gagosian opens May 15 | monumental painting on myth and memory |  Allison Katz: Outta the Bag opened at Hauser & Wirth on April 30 | playful painting on image and interpretation |  Danielle McKinney: Forest for the Trees at Marianne Boesky opens May 7 with a reception | intimate figurative painting of Black women at leisure |
 Seth Price at Petzel opens May 13 | conceptual work across painting, video, and text |  Eliza Douglas: Ghosts at Gagosian opens May 12 with a reception | painting and performance, the body as sign |  Arghavan Khosravi: What Remains at Uffner & Liu opens May 15 with a reception | hinged panel painting inspired by altarpieces |
 contracorrientes: dr. lakra & miguel covarrubias at kurimanzutto opens May 13 | drawing and illustration across Mexican visual cultures |  Alejandro Cárdenas: Arachne at Almine Rech opens May 8 with a reception | surrealist painting of hybrid figures |  Rae Klein: Second Face at Nicodim opens May 12 | ceramic sculpture exploring the uncanny self |
🚶 ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk — Thursday, May 14, 5–8pm
37 Chelsea galleries staying open late on Thursday, May 14, timed to coincide with the art fairs. Free and open to the public.
Highlights include an opening reception and a conversation on Paul Thek with curator Elisabeth Sussman and Alex Da Corte (4:30–5:30pm at Pace; rsvp), a live Rauschenberg/Serra print demonstration at Gemini G.E.L., and a book sale at Paula Cooper.
RSVP here for a chance to win a curated tote of art books and catalogs.
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
👀 In Case You Missed It
We just shared our May museum updates — including Joan Semmel: In the Flesh closing at the Jewish Museum on May 31, Elizabeth Murray: Painters Progress closing at MoMA on May 25, and new arrivals like Faith Ringgold at the Guggenheim and Iris van Herpen at the Brooklyn Museum. We also covered the full art fair lineup — Future Fair, Frieze, and more — all running May 13–17.
We also published our latest emerging artist feature on Isolina Minjeong — a ceramicist whose large-scale guardian figures draw from Korean funerary sculpture and pre-Columbian carving. Her works will be on view at Future Fair with Court Tree Collective (tickets are 25% off for Art Pulse readers).
📚 Further Reading
A $15M De Kooning Leads Lévy Gorvy Dayan’s New Auction-Style Sales Experiment — Artnet
An American Artist Plops His Sculptures on a World Stage — NYTimes
The Good, the Bad, and the Fugly From the 2026 Met Gala — Cultured Mag
The Trailblazing Artist Who Traded Manhattan Lofts for a Life Upstate — NYTimes
Pussy Riot Storms Russia Pavilion at Venice Biennale — Artnet
Meet the Woman Who Curated the Art on Miranda Priestly’s Walls — Cultured Mag
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