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Postcard from New York I Sept 22 -Sept 26, 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



Charcoal sketch of a person with raised fists. Text: "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK. Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson." Dates and venue listed.

In Museums

WITNESSING HUMANITY - THE ART OF JOHN WILSON

@THE MET FIFTH AVENUE 20 SEP, 2025 - 8 FEB, 2026 For over six decades, the American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial, social, and economic justice. Wilson's art reflected on and responded to the turbulent times in which he lived. His subjects included racial violence, labor, the writings of Richard Wright, the Civil Rights Movement, street scenes, and intimate images of family life, with a particular focus on fatherhood. Despite the power of his art and the continuing relevance of the themes he explored, Wilson’s work has not received the recognition it deserves. Discover more



Art exhibit poster with a sculpture in a room. Text: "Postcard from New York," "In Galleries," "Possessive - P. Staff @David Zwirner, 18 Sep-25 Oct, 2025."

In Galleries

POSSESSIVE - P. STAFF @DAVID ZWIRNER 18 SEP - 25 OCT, 2025

David Zwirner is pleased to present Possessive, the first New York solo exhibition by the London- and Los Angeles–based artist P. Staff, on view at the gallery’s East 69th Street location. Responding subtly to the space’s architectural cues, Staff’s installation—which includes a central video work projected across the gallery’s three stories, and a new series of sculptures—simulates the sensation of a body as it is infiltrated and surveilled. The exhibition title Possessive alludes to the embodied sense of possession and control. By harnessing the grammatical essence of the term as well as its pejorative tang, Staff contrasts the multiple connotations of “possessive” to think about the ambivalent ways in which we conceive of ownership and the body. As in the artist’s other recent presentations, Possessive revisits ideas that merge the body with architecture, somatically and psychically perverting our integration with the built environment. Discover more



Underwater scene with sea creatures, a shipwreck, and text: "POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK." Exhibition details at Brooklyn Museum.

In Brooklyn

LIFE AT SEA: OLIVER JEFFERS

@BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART 19 SEP 2025 - 26 APR 2026 Dive into an underwater realm where sea creatures are your creation. In Life at Sea, award-winning artist, bestselling author, and climate advocate Oliver Jeffers invites visitors of all ages to a world below the waves. Animate this deep-blue scene by populating the waters with paper fish and other aquatic life. While transforming a lonely expanse into a bustling biome, you’ll trace the ripple effects of climate change—and imagine a future where balance is restored. Anchored in Brooklyn and Northern Ireland, Jeffers drew on his beloved children’s book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth to design this immersive installation. Head to our Education Center, where everyone’s an artist, and climb aboard a sunken boat to craft your own marine animal. Then settle into a cozy reading nook to enjoy Jeffers’s titles and other stories that spark wonder and care for the natural world. Open from fall through spring, the installation is an all-seasons opportunity to spend a day in the ocean. Mark your calendars for creative workshops, offered throughout the exhibition’s run, where families can fully submerge themselves in Life at Sea.



Colorful mural with abstract plants and shapes under blue sky. Text: "Postcard from New York" and event details for Kevin Beasley.

Outside

PROSCENIUM - KEVIN BEASLEY @STORM KING ART CENTER 07 MAY - 10 NOV, 2025

Kevin Beasley (b. Lynchburg, VA, 1985) explores the environmental, cultural, and political dimensions of the American landscape. With PROSCENIUM| Rebirth / Growth: The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection (2024–25), Beasley inaugurates Storm King’s new Tippet’s Field with his largest work to date, measuring one hundred feet long by eleven feet tall. For this site-specific installation, four triptychs, each formed from three cast-resin slabs, represent the four seasons. Beasley renders each scene with gestural marks in resin, Sharpie, and various casting techniques. Densely layered clothing, plants, farm tools, and seeds form the earth and sky, which meet along a shifting horizon line. On the reverse, a varied topography reveals the artist’s unique method of layering resin and an assortment of collected materials inside the frame to create a three-dimensional composition. The resulting work contains layers of material memory, evoking strata of land. The installation’s curved form recalls that of a proscenium, the space in front of a theater curtain where performance and audience meet. Throughout his practice, Beasley engages sound and performance as a means of channeling the histories and lived experiences embedded in the American landscape. Set within Tippet’s Field, his multisensory work frames and reflects the surrounding landscape, engaging the viewer in a fully embodied experience of place.



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