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Postcard from New York I Sept 15 -Sept 19, 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



Person in festive costume with painted face smiles in a lively crowd. Text: "Postcard from New York," event details below. Vibrant scene.

In Museums

NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2025 - LINES OF BELONGING

@MOMA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 14 SEP, 2025 - 17 JAN, 2026 “Love is the key that takes cultures from oppression to joy. As a political unifier, the contract—love—takes on a liberating force,” artist Sabelo Mlangeni has said. Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists weave personal stories within broader political histories to explore intergenerational memory. Others reimagine the idea of the archive to disrupt narratives of the past and imagine future communities. Lines of Belonging highlights artists working in four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states in which they are presently situated. From Kathmandu to New Orleans, Johannesburg to Mexico City, these creative practitioners offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral, profit-driven speed of contemporary image consumption, metadata technologies, and artificial intelligence. Discover more



Geometric shapes on white background with text "Postcard from New York." Includes exhibit details for "A Joyful Geometry Macaparana."

In Galleries

A JOYFUL GEOMETRY MACAPARANA @SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY 13 SEP, 2025 - 19 DEC, 2025

Sous les Etoiles Gallery is thrilled to present “A Playful Geometry”, a selection of works from the Brazilian artist Macaparana (Brazil, b. in 1952) in its gallery space. It is the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery and his first solo show in New York. In “A Playful Geometry”, Brazilian artist Macaparana invites us into a realm where geometry sings. His work is rooted in the Brazilian concrete and neo-concrete art, movements that challenged traditional boundaries between form, perception, and emotion. His compositions unfold like visual scores—each line, plane, and interval charged with quiet tension and lyrical grace. Enchantment arises not from illusion, but from the precision of balance and the poetics of restraint. Discover more



Silhouettes of people behind frosted glass, text "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK." Exhibition info: "IN BROOKLYN, Claudia Hilda, 13 Sep - 25 Oct 2025."

In Brooklyn

NEITHER HERE, NOR THERE : THE MIGRANT BODY - CLAUDIA HILDA

@CARVALHO PARK 13 SEP 2025 - 25 OCT 2025 CARVALHO announces its first solo collaboration with Cuban choreographer and multidisciplinary artist, Claudia Hilda, with the opening of her latest performance work, Neither Here, Nor There – The Migrant Body. Translated into the digital realm, and projected across a 24-foot installation, Hilda’s choreography summons stories of migration and separation, suspended between the untenability of here and the impossibility of there. Hilda’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery opens the evening of September 12, 6 – 8, with the artist in attendance. Neither Here, Nor There – The Migrant Body is an immersive installation in which spectators traverse the length of an illuminated wall, their movement shadowed by the gradual emergence of silhouetted figures behind its surface. At times a single body materializes; at others, multiple forms drift together in disquieting concert. Their gestures — at once delicate and insistent — reach outward as if to breach the partition, to press a palm against its resistance, or to signal across its opaque divide. These elusive interactions evoke recognition sought yet deferred. These apparitional figures, dissolving almost as they appear, speak to the precariousness of memory. The bodies move as memory moves: sometimes searingly vivid, other times receding, never wholly still. They carry the psychic weight of dislocation and exile, and the inward strain of holding fast to what cannot — or should not — be surrendered. Neither Here, Nor There – The Migrant Body becomes a purgatorial chamber in which memory, time, and presence converge.



Bust of Roosevelt at FDR Park, NYC, under canopy. Text reads: "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK, OUTSIDE, CAMOUFLAGE – AI WEIWEI, 10 SEP – 10 NOV, 2025."

Outside

CAMOUFLAGE - AI WEIWEI @FDR FOUR FREEDOMS PARK 10 SEP - 10 NOV, 2025

This project is based on and inspired by New York City’s Four Freedoms State Park, designed as a posthumous memorial by architect Louis Kahn to honor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Four Freedoms. Situated on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Park offers a striking view of Manhattan’s skyline and stands almost directly opposite the United Nations headquarters. The memorial spans a narrow passage approximately 200–300 meters long, centered around a statue of Roosevelt and his iconic speech on the Four Freedoms. The concept of this project is rooted in the English term camouflage, defined in the Oxford Dictionary as both a means of disguise and concealment and as a tool for creating illusions to protect or to mislead. These dual meanings provide a compelling starting point. The installation employs camouflage as a central motif, covering the sides of the narrow passageway. Camouflage, ubiquitous in depictions of war—conflicts ignite and spread across various regions at the moment—has become a pervasive pattern across media and social platforms.



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