Go see something 💫
It’s Saturday morning, and we’re sharing a few neighborhood guides for what’s on view in the city, plus a quick summary of what we’re reading. If you’d like to take our reviews and recommendations with you, use our gallery guide for iOS users. Thanks for being here, and follow us on Instagram for more updates. -Sarah + Alexandra
what we’re reading
It’s fair week in New York! A few reviews caught our eye this week, but we particularly liked this piece from Hyperallergic on the cost of attending fair week across NYC. It’s worth understanding the price of admission, and thinking through how cost factors into what’s on view.
One of Alexandra’s favorite past shows at Neue Galerie was this 2024 retrospective of German Expressionist Paula Modersohn-Becker. Modersohn-Becker died at only thirty-one, just after childbirth, but the portraits she made of herself during pregnancy would become some of the most striking 20th-century representations of the female nude. This week’s news that Neue would be merging with the Met prompted her to revisit some old writing on her bookshelf about the artist.
what’s on view
Chelsea:
Frieze New York. Last minute tickets here.
1-54. Last minute tickets here.
Lisa Yuskavage, at David Zwirner. Through June 26.
Mark di Suvero, Avanti!, at Paula Cooper. Through July 17.
Philip Guston, Life with P., at Hauser & Wirth. Through July 10.
Mao Ishikawa, ROGUE, at Alison Bradley Projects. Extended through June 13. Read our contributor review here.
Vik Muniz, Brushstrokes, at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins. Through June 20.
Midtown:
Paul Thek, at Galerie Buchholz. Through July 25.
Mohammad Omer Khalil, Common Ground, at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program. Through May 31.
Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art. Through August 22. Read Sarah’s review here.
Brooklyn & Queens:
Iris van Herpen, Sculpting the Senses, at The Brooklyn Museum. ⏰ Opens today⏰
Greater New York 2026 at MoMA PS1. Through August 17.
Noguchi’s New York at The Noguchi Museum. Through September 13.
Uptown:
Enrico David, Works on Paper: 1995-2026, at VeneKlasen. Through August 28.
Gustav Klimt, Women, at Gladstone. Through June 17.
Set in Stone, at David Zwirner. Through June 26.
George Morrison, The Magical City, at the Met. Through May 31. ⏰ Closing soon ⏰. Read Alexandra’s review here.
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, at the American Folk Art Museum. Through September 13.
Downtown:
Independent Art Fair. Last minute tickets here.
Lucia Hierro, Moving Day, at Marc Straus. Through June 28.
Peter Cain, The Los Angeles Photographs, at American Art Catalogues.
Aineki Traverso, de profundis, at Half Gallery (Annex). Through June 10.
New Humans: Memories of the Future, at the New Museum. Ongoing.
about us
We’re making a new home for art writing. You can find Sarah’s writing here and Alexandra’s writing here. If you’d like to join us and help support independent art media, become a paid subscriber to this newsletter. We’ll send you an invite to start tracking and reviewing exhibits in the city and invitations to our events. More about us and how we got started here.
a note on summer 🎓
Longtime subscribers of this newsletter might remember that it originally started as an app waitlist to keep a journal of what you’re seeing in the city. We’ve kept that experience mostly private, but with spring fairs behind us, we wanted to share that we plan on spending the summer opening the app up to the art students of New York. More on this to come but if you’re an art student or recent grad (congrats!), you’ll be able to get in soon—no paywall or bespoke invite necessary. Be sure to subscribe to this newsletter so you’re notified when we launch.
Thank you for the great lineup! For those of you north of NYC please consider visiting Those Who Can at Garner Arts Center, an exhibition of 29 artist-educators from across the US and Canada.