Across two Chelsea galleries, the Japanese artist brings together new paintings, drawings, monumental sculptures, and early works for his first exhibition with David Zwirner—and his first major New York solo …
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- New York
Lee Bul: The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun at Hauser & Wirth — The Beautiful Ruins of Tomorrow
In West Chelsea, Lee Bul turns technological ambition into floating monuments, fractured architectures, and luminous surfaces where utopian dreams collide with fragility. A futuristic airship hovers above the gallery floor. …
A newly acquired cycle of 63 drawings transforms wartime memory into a silent visual narrative—moving from military pageantry to devastation, mourning, and the recurring machinery of violence. There are stories …
- Event-Exhibition
Mildred Thompson: Cosmos Calling at Galerie Lelong & Co. — Painting the Invisible Universe
Mildred Thompson’s cosmic abstractions turn physics, astronomy, color, and electronic sound into a visual language for forces that cannot be seen. What does a magnetic field look like? What does …
- New York
Lee Bul: The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun at Hauser & Wirth — When Utopia Begins to Look Like a Ruin
In her first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Lee Bul brings monumental sculptures, mother-of-pearl paintings, and hybrid architectural forms to West Chelsea, confronting the beauty and instability of humanity’s technological …
- New York
Jutta Koether: Songs of New York at Galerie Buchholz — Painting, Music, Writing, and the City
Jutta Koether: Songs of New York at Galerie Buchholz — Painting, Music, Writing, and the City Returning to a formative chapter in her transatlantic practice, Jutta Koether turns New York …
As screens flatten experience, a new generation of artists is pushing painting and sculpture back into physical space—through relief, texture, folds, knots, and radically material surfaces. For years, contemporary art …
- New York
Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING at Pace Gallery — The Sculpture of Gesture, Gravity, and Material
Subheadline:At Pace Gallery in Chelsea, Lynda Benglis turns knots, folds, pleats, ceramics, glass, bronze, paper, and surface into a five-decade investigation of movement—where sculpture behaves like painting and gesture becomes …
- New York
Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies at MoMA — Painting as Witness to Memory, Displacement, and Loss
Subheadline:At MoMA, Indian artist Nilima Sheikh transforms painting into an expansive form of historical witness, bringing Kashmir, displacement, memory, violence, and human resilience into an immersive visual language of scrolls, …
Subheadline:At Lisson Gallery Chelsea, Hiroshi Sugimoto revisits the American Museum of Natural History’s dioramas, transforming constructed habitats into meditations on photography, illusion, memory, and the unstable boundary between nature and …
