NYC art map and recs, 5/27/25 - 6/1/25
Hi folks! I hope everyone had a nice and restful holiday weekend. For me, it was the first time I took a few days off from art in quite a few weeks, and got to relax and spend time with friends.
We’re heading into the point of the year where there will be a lot of group exhibitions — I kind of love gallery group shows because they’re a chance to make discoveries of artists outside of a gallery’s program, and because sometimes they can really be ambitious and offer some sort of insight through a particular lens or curatorial idea. Maybe I’m a little nostalgic for summers past, where we got actually excellent sculpture and painting survey exhibitions — but I’m cautiously optimistic!
Speaking of group exhibitions, two new spaces which I highlighted in the geography brief section of last week’s newsletter are opening later this week: On Thursday, Frisson opens at 141 Attorney Street on the Lower East Side with the group exhibition NANNYCAM and on Friday, HIERRO presents A Short Lived Torture of Cacophony organized by Jorge Rios at 30-43 31 St. Street in Astoria.
Also a reminder that it’s the final week of the current exhibition Mitch Patrick & Ernesto Renda: Wayfinding that I curated at CHART. The exhibition is on view through May 31st — please do reach out if you haven’t seen it yet and you’d like a walkthrough or more info!
Finally, just a note that a lot of galleries shift to summer hours — usually Monday - Friday — at some point between after Memorial Day and after July 4th, so please check websites for hours before venturing out.
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Openings
Thursday, May 29th
Jo Shane: Lilies Into the Void at Blade Study
6pm - 8pm
Nannycam group exhibition at Frisson
6pm - 9pm
Imogen Brent & Max Popov: Slush at Parent Company
6pm - 8pm
Report From Nori Mountain group exhibition at Smilers
7pm
Bodysnatchers group exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend
Friday, May 30th
Superbloom group exhibition at Arsenal
6pm - 8pm
Events
Tuesday, May 27th
The Arts at Risk: A Convening panel discussion with Vincent Brown, Kim Lane Scheppele, and Paul Chan at Miguel Abreu Gallery
6pm - 8pm
Screening of Miguel Littín's Jackal of Nahueltoro at Light Industry
$10 admission
7pm
Wednesday, May 28th
MaryKate Maher artist talk at KALINER
RSVP via link
6pm - 8pm
Performative talk by artist Robin Waart at Miriam
6pm - 8pm
Artists at Work: Akeema-Zane in conversation with Ladi'Sasha Jones at ISCP
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Musical performance by Toolik at High Noon
7pm
An Evening of Poems and Stories at FiveMyles
7pm - 8:30pm
Thursday, May 29th
Miguel Calderón and Magali Arriola – FUTURE DIALOGUES at kurimanzutto
RSVP via Eventbrite
4pm - 6pm
Closing reception for Maria Yolanda Liebana: The Venus Crusades at Kravets Wehby
4:30pm
Book Launch & Artist Talk: Sheree Hovsepian and Cecilia Alemani at Uffner & Liu
RSVP via link
6pm
Jacqueline Gourevitch & Philip Gourevitch in conversation at Storage Gallery
6:30pm
Dona Nelson and Andrew Ross in conversation at Thomas Erben Gallery
6:30pm
The Future of Black Feminist Archives: Performance Reading by Nydia A. Swaby and Conversation with Zakiya Collier at CARA
7pm, doors at 6:30pm
Feed: Diverse Tactics in Video screening and conversation presented by the Whitney Museum ISP at Electronic Arts Intermix
RSVP via Eventbrite
7pm - 9pm
Economies of Love. Part 3: Sensing Body film screening at eflux screening room
$10 admission
7pm
Friday, May 30th
In conversation: Frances Morris & Yasufumi Nakamori on Tanaka & Kusama at Paula Cooper Gallery
RSVP via link
6:30pm
Saturday, May 31st
Sam Moyer in conversation with Cathleen Chaffee at Sean Kelly Gallery
RSVP to RSVP@skny.com
10:30am
Sneha Shrestha in conversation with Elena Pakhoutova at Aicon
RSVP to query@aicongallery.com
2pm
The Beginning Of The End artist talk hosted by Immaterial Projects at The Active Space
3pm
Basie Allen: Palm-Lined with Potience (2nd Edition) publication launch at Artists Space
5pm - 8pm
Essential Shore / Permeable Future Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology Biennial day of conversation and song at Stand4
1pm - 5pm, check website for full event schedule
June 1st
Closing reception for Palimpsests of the Palm at Transmitter
3pm - 6pm
Saturday, May 31st & Sunday, June 1st
Greenpoint Open Studios
12pm - 6pm
Disclaimer: I try to be as accurate as possible with dates and times that things are happening, but things are subject to change and I am subject to human error so please always check links before venturing out