🚨 Last Chance

Joan Semmel: In the Flesh

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ closing May 31

❓paintings across 50+ years of Semmel’s career — from her vivid Erotic Series of the ‘70s to her monumental recent works — alongside works personally selected by the artist from the Museum’s collection like Alice Neel and Nan Goldin

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Elizabeth Murray: Painters Progress

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing May 25

❓a selection of works drawn from over 20 years of fracturing, splicing, and layering canvases

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🎉 Just In

Collection in Focus: The Reach of Faith Ringgold

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ opening May 9

❓spotlighting Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach (1988) — the monumental story quilt about a young girl dreaming of flying from her Harlem rooftop

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ A Year with Children 2026 also opens on May 8 — an annual exhibition featuring artworks by NYC public school students

Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opening May 16

❓140+ haute couture creations alongside works by Tara Donovan, James Turrell, and others — plus natural history specimens, a Salvador Breed soundscape, and pieces from the museum's own collections

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Curator-Led Member Tour: Iris van Herpen on June 17

Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi’s 1986 Biennale

📍 Noguchi Museum

⏰ opening May 6

❓revisiting Noguchi’s landmark presentation at the 1986 Venice Biennale where he represented the United States and controversially filled the pavilion with sculptures among his Akari light sculptures

🔗 see exhibit details.  

🎟️ Art Fair Season

Beyond Future Fair, here are 6 additional art fairs to consider attending:

• Frieze New York — May 13-17 at The Shed

• Esther III — May 12-16 at Estonian House

• TEFAF New York — May 15-19 at Park Avenue Armory

• Independent — May 14-17 at Pier 36

• NADA New York — May 13-17 in the Starrett-Lehigh Building

• 1-54 New York — May 15-17 also at the Starrett-Lehigh Building

👀 In Case You Missed It

In addition to the above, there's no shortage of major shows currently on view, including the Marcel Duchamp retrospective which opened last month at MoMA, Carol Bove who fills the Guggenheim rotunda with her twisted steel sculptures, and more. Check out past issues for more details.

A number of exciting gallery exhibitions just opened including Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian and Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth. More in our April Gallery Update.

We also featured our interview with Jeong Hur, where Jeong shared the creative journey that led him to creating the luminous sculptures he makes today.

📚 Further Reading

• The Artnet of the Deal — Puck News / Marion Maneker

  • On the major news of the Artsy & Artnet merger

• The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp — The New Yorker / Hilton Als

• Leonora Carrington’s Enigmatic Sculptures Get a Rare Outing in New York — Artnet

• 14 Must-See Museum Shows in New York This Spring — Artnet

• How a Museum Doubled Its Attendance in Just One Year [The Museum of Moving Images]  — NYTimes / Melena Ryzik

• Sculptor Carol Bove Explains What Stanley Kubrick Taught Her About Living Authentically — Cultured Mag

• Philadelphia’s New Art Fair Is Betting Big on Community — Artnet / Vittoria Benzine

• Row Over Russia’s Return to the Venice Biennale Deepens — Artnet / Vittoria Benzine

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