Postcard from New York I May 12 - May 16, 2025
- Art Dealer Street
- May 15
- 3 min read
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
In Museums
COLLECTION IN FOCUS: FAITH RINGGOLD
@SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM 09 MAY-14 SEPT, 2025 Explore Woman on a Bridge #1 of 5: Tar Beach (1988), one of the most important works by Faith Ringgold, a renowned artist, writer, and activist. This monumental quilt, the first in a series of five, tells the story of a young girl who dreams of flying from her Harlem rooftop to celebrate her own freedom and self-possession. This exhibition dives into Ringgold’s artistic influences and the lasting impact she has had on later generations of artists. Alongside Tar Beach, visitors will see works from the Guggenheim New York collection by European modernists such as Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso, who inspired Ringgold, and contemporary American artists such as Tschabalala Self and Sanford Biggers, whose work reflects her legacy. Discover more
In Galleries
FROM ZERO UNTIL TODAY - HEINZ MACK
@ALMINE RECH 09 MAY - 14 JUN, 2025 Heinz Mack has focused on the aesthetic possibilities of vibration and luminosity since the beginning of his career in the late 1950s as co-founder of the global ZERO movement with fellow artist and philosophy student Otto Piene. Light in Mack’s work suggests both the solar light of the sun and the chemical light of the mushroom cloud. In Mack’s work, brightness is not only a natural phenomenon but also, emerging in the wake of two world wars and under the shadow of the threat of nuclear conflict, his work suggests the interrelation of the duality of life and death. These twin poles of human experience are also captured in the ZERO group’s manifesto-like writings, which convey an interest in new possibilities, as suggested by the word “zero" itself, which ZERO’s practitioners dramatically likened to the culmination of a rocket launch countdown..
In Brooklyn
IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES
@TABLA RASA GALLERY
08 MAY - 30 MAY 2025
In celebration of its 20th Anniversary as a cornerstone of Brooklyn's richly diverse cultural community, Tabla Rasa Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition titled Idiosyncratic Identities, curated by Izzy Nova and Giustina Surbone. The exhibition's featured artists, Christina Schlesinger, Giustina Surbone, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Robin Tewes, and Sandra Cavanagh, explore the complexities of individual identity through the framework of contemporary art.
Outside
GROUNDED WITH THE STARS - THOMAS J. PRICE
29 APR - 17 JUN, 2025
Times Square Arts is pleased to present Grounded in the Stars, a 12-foot-tall figurative bronze sculpture by artist Thomas J Price, whose multidisciplinary practice confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation. With Grounded in the Stars, Price reimagines both the monument and monumentality in Times Square, one of the world’s most iconic public spaces. In conjunction, Times Square Arts will also present Price’s stop-motion animations Man Series on the district’s billboards nightly in May as a part of the Midnight Moment program. Price’s multi-channel presentation on the screens and sculptural installation on the plaza below forms a two-part takeover in Times Square that foregrounds the intrinsic value of the individual and amplifies traditionally marginalized bodies on a monumental scale. Discover more
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