NYC Art Gallery Openings, Exhibitions and Events

Art Calendar 2025

January - December 2025

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FRIDAY - MAY 16, 2025

- Lena Henke: The City Transformed
Bortolami
55 Walker St, NYC
On View: May 16 - Jun 25, 2025
Opening: Fri May 16, 6-8pm

- Artist Talk: Ayanna Dozier, in conversation with Jesse Bandler Firestone
Microscope
525 W 29th St, NYC
Event: Fri May 16th at 7pm

- Danica Barboza: Void Beside a Desire Machine
Lomex Gallery
86 Walker St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 14, 2025

- Cate White: Men
George Adams Gallery
38 Walker St, NYC
On View: thru May 23, 2025

- Jessica Alazraki: The Shape of Home
McBride / Dillman
195 Henry St, NYC 10002
On View: thru Jun 21, 2025

THURSDAY - MAY 15, 2025

- City and Country: Selections from the Dept of Drawings & Prints
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave at 83rd St, NYC
On View: May 15 - Sep 2, 2025

- Isaac Wright: Coming Home
Robert Mann Gallery
508 W 26th St, NYC
On View: May 15 - Jun 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Thur May 15, 5-8pm

- Heryun Kim: The Great Tomb of Hwangnam and Other Paintings, 164 Works on Paper
Bienvenu Steinberg & C
35 Walker St, NYC
On View: May 15 - Jun 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Thur May 15, 6-8pm

- PX Miranda, Rasim Babayev, Johan Wahlstrom, Christopher Volpe, Todd Williamson, Harley Cortez, Ann Strassman.
Georges Berges Gallery
462 W Broadway, NYC
Opening: Thur May 15, 6-8pm

- Daniel Bilmes: Mythos
Arcadia Contemporary
421 W Broadway, NYC
On View: May 15 - 30, 2025

- MFA Thesis Exhibition
NY Studio School
8 W 8th St, NYC
On View: May 15 - 28, 2025

- Lonnie Holley, Alison Knowles, John McAllister, Carole Bove, Pat Lipsky, Geoffrey Holder, Jessica Dickinson, Diamond Stingily, John McAllister, Kikuo Saito, Ian Swordy, Richard Nonas, Jonathan Allmaier, among others.
James Fuentes
52 White St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 14, 2025

- Irwin Kremen & Glen Baldridge
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery
87 Franklin St, NYC
On View: thru May 23, 2025

- Anthony Falcetta: Inverse Certainties
The Pocket Gallery / Markel Fine Arts
179 10th Ave, NYC
On View: May 15 - Jun 21, 2025

WEDNESDAY - MAY 14, 2025

- Franz Kline
Mnuchin Gallery
45 E 78th St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 21, 2025

- John McDevitt King: Outskirts
Anita Rogers Gallery
494 Greenwich St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 7, 2025

- Open Group, Ukrainian Collective: Yurly Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga
601 Artspace
88 Eldridge St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 22, 2025

- At Storm King, Kevin Beasley's Acoustic Mirror Reflects Sounds of the Seasons
Art News
On Line: News

- Rarely Seen Art From King Charles's Royal Tours Set for Buckingham Palace Show
Artnet
On Line: Article

TUESDAY - MAY 13, 2025

- Phyllis Chillingworth: The Experience of Seeing
Atlantic Gallery
547 W 27th St, NYC
On View: May 13 - 31, 2025
Opening Reception: Thur May 15, 5-8pm

- Brad Kahlhamer: Bowery Nation, Birds Are Talking
Venus Over Manhattan
39 Great Jones St, NYC
Opening: Tues May 13, 2025

- Losing Control: John Cage, Ilona Golovina
Jim Kempner Fine Art
501 W 23rd St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 8, 2025

- Why JMW Turner is still Britain's best artist, 250 years on.
The Guardian
On Line: Article

- New York's Natural History Museum Goes Galactic in a Dazzling Jewelry Show
Artnet
On Line: News

MONDAY - MAY 12, 2025

- The American Art Fair, Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St, NYC
.. Hirschl & Adler .. Adelson .. Bernard Goldberg .. Debra Force .. Forum .. Graham Shay .. Hawthorne .. Hollis Taggart .. Questroyal .. Robert Simon .. Schwartz .. Vose .. ACA .. Avery .. D Wigmore .. Thomas Colville .. Schorsch & Smiles ..
Event: Sat May 10 thru Tue May 13, 2025, 12Noon thru (Mon) 7pm (Tues) 5pm. (Admission: Complimentary)

- Luka Yuanyuan Yang: Tales of Chinatown
The High Line at 14th St, NYC
Event: May 9 - Jul 9, 2025, Screens daily starting at 5pm

- Radu Oreian: That Magic Light
1969 Gallery
39 White St, NYC
On View: thru Jun 21, 2025

- How Art Deco Shaped 100 Years of Forward-Thinking Design
Artnet
On Line: News

- Rare Pablo Picasso Masterpieces Curated by His Daughter, Paloma
Smithsonian Magazine
On Line: News

- Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala's Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th Century Painting
Art News
On Line: Article

- The Everyday Lives of Women's Clothing
Hyperallergic
On Line: Article

SUNDAY - MAY 11, 2025

- TEFAF, The European Fine Art Foundation, Park Ave Armory, 643 Park Ave, NYC
.. Venus Over Manhattan .. Salon 94 .. Benrimon .. Skarstedt .. David Zwirner .. .. ..
On View: May 8 - 13, 2025

- Mothers Day Celebration
NYBG New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx NY
Event: Sun May 11, 12Noon-5pm (Tickets)

- Mary Heilmann: Long Line
Whitney Museum of American Art
On View: thru Jan 19, 2026

- Chamberlain Goes Outdoors
Rockefeller Center, NYC
On View: thru May 29, 2025

- The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
Hyperallergic
On Line: Review

- Here's What Makes Caspar David Friedrich's Edgy Landscapes So Special
Artnet
On Line: News

- A Revisioning of Van Gogh's Portraiture at MFA Boston
Art & Object
On Line: News

SATURDAY - MAY 10, 2025

- Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave at 83rd St, NYC
On View: May 10 - Oct 26, 2025

- In Quartet: Joy Guidry, Scraaatch, Maysun
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, NYC
Event: Sat May 10th at 7pm

- Fritz Horstman: Raking Light - Free Concert, Horstman and Andrews will perform "Spacelover", 45 min. set of new and old original music and covers.
Planthouse
55 W 28th St, NYC
On View: thru May 17, 2025
Event: Sat May 10th at 4pm

FRIDAY - MAY 9, 2025

- Cassandra: A dramatic poem by Lesia Ukrainka, Staged Reading. A fusion of feminist perspectives, spiritual dilmmas, adn political angst, written in 1907. A light Reception follows.
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 E 79th St, NYC
Event: Sat May 9th at 7pm (Tickets)

- Renee Stout: Truth-telling
Marc Straus
57 Walker St, NYC
On View: May 9 - Jul 12, 2025
Opening Reception: Fri May 9, 5-8pm

- Matthew Monahan: As Above, So Below
Anton Kern Gallery - at Window
91 Walker St, NYC
Opening Fri May 9, 6-8pm

THURSDAY - MAY 8, 2025

- Austyn Weiner: Half Way Home
Levy Gorvy Dayan
19 E 64th St, NYC
Opening: May 8, 5-8pm

- Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama
Paula Cooper Gallery
521 W 21st St, NYC
On View: May 8 - Jun 14, 2025
Opening Reception: Thur May 8, 6-8pm

- Michael Armitage Crucible
David Zwirner
533 W 19th St, NYC
On View: May 8 - Jun 27, 2025
Opening Reception: Thur May 8, 6-8pm

WEDNESDAY - MAY 7, 2025

- Upper East Side Art Walk, 23 E 73rd St, NYC - Les Enluminures - Download Map
.. Jill Newhouse .. Barbara Mathes .. Robert Simon .. Almine Rech .. Van Doren Waxter .. Skarstedt .. Michael Werner .. Fleiss-Vallois .. Acquavella .. Nicholas Hall .. Victoria Munroe .. Mireille Mosler ..
Event: Wed May 7, 5-8pm

- Frieze New York, The Shed at Hudson Yards, 545 W 30th St, NYC
.. 303 Gallery .. Tanya Bonakdar .. Casey Kaplan .. Kravets Wehby .. Parrasch Heijnen .. Anton Kern ..
Event: May 7 - 11, 2025

- NADA New York, Starrett-Lehigh Bldg, 601 W 26th St, NYC
.. Spencer Brownstone .. JDJ .. Harpers .. Chozick .. Asya Geisberg .. IRL .. Kates-Ferri .. Fragment .. Dimin ..
Event: May 7 - 11, 2025

- Martin Kippenberger: The Late Paintings
Skarstedt, Upper East Side
20 E 79th St, NYC
On View: May 7 - Jun 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Wed May 7, 6-8pm

- People of Steel: Film at the Institute, Reception following.
Ukrainian Institute of America
2 E 79th St, NYC
Event: Wed May 7th at 7pm (Tickets)

- Anaya Kantarovsky: Scarecrow
Michael Werner Gallery
4 E 77th St, NYC
On View: May 7 - Jul 3, 2025 (Mon-Sat, 10-6pm)
Opening Reception: Wed May 7, 6-8pm

- Anne Collier: Portraits | Jochen Lempert
Anton Kern Gallery
16 E 55th St, NYC
Opening: Tue May 6, 6-8pm

- Circa 1995 - New Figuration in New York: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Chris Ofli, Laura Owens, Elizabeth Peyton, among others.
David Zwirner
537 W 20th St, NYC
On View: May 7 - Jul 17, 2025
Opening Reception: Wed May 7, 6-8pm

- Leanne Shapton: Swimming Studies - A conversation between Leanne Shapton and Cecily Brown.
192 Books
192 10th Ave, NYC
Event: Wed May 7th at 7pm

- Avital Burg: Cracks in the Pavement, Debra Cartwright: Somatic Domain, Azuki Furuya: Immortality
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, NYC
On View: May 7 - Jun 7, 2025

- Pilvi Takala: The Pin, a new performance about playing with social codes.
The Shed & The High Line
Event: Wed May 7, 12-1:30pm at The Shed.

- Greg Lindquist: Slow Burn
Art-in-Buildings
55 5th Ave, NYC
On View: May 7 - 30, 2025

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