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Postcard from New York I Oct 06 -Oct 10, 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



Orchestra performing in a museum gallery with art on the walls. Text: Postcard from New York, details an exhibit at MoMA in 2025.

In Museums

A LICK AND A PROMISE: STEPHEN PRINA

@THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 12 SEPT - 13 DEC, 2025 Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise will be the first in-depth survey to focus on the artist’s long engagement with music and performance, bringing new perspectives to a central factor in Prina’s wider oeuvre: how cultural artifacts find new lives in different contexts. Unfolding across multiple locations in the Museum, including the Kravis Studio, the exhibition presents the world premiere of A Lick and a Promise (2025), an orchestral commission for 16 instruments, alongside restagings of works such as Sonic Dan (1994–2001). The survey highlights Prina’s wide-ranging collaborations, including a performance of Beat of the Traps (1992), created with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace. The series culminates with A Push Comes to Love Fest, an all-day concert on December 13, 2025, featuring a range of artists including David Grubbs, Ken Okiishi and Emily Sundblad, Ursula Oppens, Marina Rosenfeld, TILT Brass, and White People Killed Them (Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, and Marshall Trammell). This exhibition offers an opportunity to celebrate Prina’s innovative approach to appropriation—one uniquely focused on sound and music—and the rare warmth and intellectualism that mark him as a prescient and still-evolving artist. Discover more



Man in an orange shirt stands looking at mountains. Text: Postcard from New York. Artist Focus: Iain Faulkner. Oct 2025 at Friedricks Pontone.

In Galleries

ARTIST FOCUS: IAIN FAULKNER @FRIEDRICHS PONTONE 3 OCT 2025 - 7 OCT 2025

Iain Faulkner’s contemplative and introspective oil paintings seemingly reduce the painted lone subject’s field of vision to the divine, serene, and inviolable allure of nature. Growing up in Scotland and graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA in Fine Art, Faulkner was exposed to the natural world from a young age. Witnessing Scotland's beautiful rolling hills, evergreen woodlands, and towering mountains, Faulkner was enveloped in the universal visual language of nature. In his earlier works, a nomadic lifestyle was placed upon his subject as the figure existed in different contexts. In these works, the subject, however, is still attached to the mores of human society. Faulkner’s early demonstrations of his figuration reveal that a part of him, such that of his subject, is attached to the so cietal realm, actively looking out into the world as if he desires something greater than himself.  Discover more



Party scene with vibrant lighting and colorful decor. Text: "Postcard from New York, In Brooklyn, A Madeleine Moment, @UrbanGlass, 28 Sep - 8 Nov 2025."

In Brooklyn

A MADELEINE MOMENT

@URBANGLASS 28 SEP - 8 NOV 2025 Curated and produced by Jessica Jane Julius and Erica Rosenfeld, A Madeleine Moment is an immersive exhibition that reimagines the boundaries between the kitchen and the studio, revealing how both function as spaces of labor, intimacy, and transformation. Featuring works by over 40 artists working across glass, ceramics, fiber, painting, drawing, photography, food, and mixed media, the exhibition focuses on the collective narratives that emerge through food- reflecting on tradition, politics, culture, and communal identity. A Madeleine Moment frames shared meals and shared studios as sites of communion and ritual. The exhibition gets activated with a one-night-only community-centric performance in the glass studio, featuring ephemeral hot glass sculptures and flame-based cooking tools, culminating in an edible installation in the gallery where food becomes both material and metaphor. What remains after the deconstruction and communal consumption of the installations is a transformed landscape that serves as an artifact and archive of gathering and exchange.  



Art installation on New York’s High Line with large sculptures amid greenery. Text: "Postcard from New York" and exhibit details.

Outside

NKÂNH CHHRÔÔL (GLUTA USITATA), MELEMBU, AND KHLÔNG (DIPTEROCARPUS TUBERCULATUS) SOPHEAP PICH @HIGH LINE SEPTEMBER 2025 - AUGUST 2026

Sopheap Pich works primarily with natural materials—bamboo, rattan, burlap, beeswax, and earth pigments—and materials of the developing world such as discarded metal gathered from around Cambodia. He uses these to make sculptures and installations inspired by bodily organs, vegetal forms, and abstract geometric structures. Pich’s childhood experiences during the Khmer Rouge genocide of Cambodian people in the late 1970s had a lasting impact on his work, informing its themes of time, memory, nature, and the body. Through his exploration of organic shapes and utilizing a slow, handmade process, the artist considers themes of identity and displacement, reflecting his own journey as a refugee and immigrant.



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