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Postcard from New York I Aug 18 -Aug 22, 2025

Here is our weekly Postcard from New York, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!


In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.


Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!New York 2025



Graffiti art of New York subway with bright colors. Text: Postcard from New York, Martin Wong exhibit at Museum of Arts and Design.

In Museums

ABOVE GROUND: MARTIN WONG

@MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN 22 NOV 2024 - 05 OCT 2025 New York’s age of graffiti began on the city streets in the early 1970s. This new movement, often consciously artistic despite its unsanctioned origins, came of age over the next 20 years. Above Ground centers on the many artists who transitioned from illegally writing on subway cars to creating paintings on canvas and exhibiting in galleries and museums. Their works embody an important transitional moment for the movement’s evolution, as it permeated into broader consciousness and significantly influenced global culture. Discover more



Art exhibit poster with abstract figures and a face. Text: Postcard from New York, Life Afterlife: Marian Spore Bush, @Karma, 09 Jul–06 Sept 2025.

In Galleries

LIFE AFTERLIFE: MARIAN SPORE BUSH

@KARMA 09 JUL - 06 SEPT 2025

Though Marian Spore Bush painted the flowers, animals, prophets, and architectures on view in Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945, she insisted that she was but the conduit for spirits telepathically controlling her hand from another realm. In communion with, as she recounted, “the souls of those who have lived here on earth from far-distant times down to the present moment,” Spore Bush worked automatically around the same time that the European Surrealists were popularizing automatic drawing and the New Mexican Transcendental Painting Group was representing spiritual concerns through abstraction. However, she did so without any knowledge of then-current avant-garde movements. Life Afterlife is the first exhibition of her work in nearly eighty years.



Wall art with a branch, text: "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK," exhibition details for Álvaro Urbano at Marian Goodman Gallery, 11 Jul-22 Aug 2025.

In Brooklyn

PRELUDE : ÁLVARO URBANO

@MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY 11 JUL - 22 AUG, 2025 Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to announce our first solo exhibition with Álvaro Urbano titled Prelude, which will be on view 11 July - 22 August 2025. Working in the intersection of theater, architecture and film, Álvaro Urbano transforms spaces into immersive environments emulating an oneiric dimension.  Through atmospheric installations Urbano researches the ruin as a space where reality and fiction commingle. Staged gestures and reconstituted narratives are used to conjure these lost and heterotopic spaces; disrupting archetypes and objects from their original function render them open to interpretation.



Man in red seated on a mint green structure, urban setting, large text reads "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK." Event info overlayed.

Outside

DON'T ASK: ALLISON KATZ @THE HIGH LINE

JULY - AUGUST, 2025

Allison Katz’s work incorporates elements of personal biography, art history, cultural symbols, and humor. Her varied paintings expand beyond the flat plane of the canvas and become windows into another world, often playfully employing trompe l’oeil and texture as a way to spark curiosity and surprise in the viewer. Katz sees painting as a process where the surface and subject remain open to continuous exploration and reinterpretation. She explains that her ideas evolve and shift as she works, often leading to unforeseen meanings and connections between seemingly disparate images. To underpin this ambiguity, however, Katz relies on a recognizable lexicon of visual motifs and metaphors that recur throughout her work—such as roosters, roads, walking figures, cabbages, elevators, and even her own name.



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