Postcard from New York I Feb 17 - 21, 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!
In Museums
DRAW THEM IN, PAINT THEM OUT - PHILIP GUSTON, TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
@THE JEWISH MUSEUM 08 NOV, 2024 - 30 MAR, 2025
Draw Them In, Paint Them Out presents the work of painter Philip Guston (American, b. Canada 1913–1980), the child of Jewish immigrants from Odessa (present-day Ukraine), and Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, b. 1974), a leading Black contemporary artist based in Houston, Texas, in dialogue for the first time. It explores resonant connections between their work and the role that artists play in the pursuit of social justice. The exhibition features key works by Guston including his now iconic, late satirical Ku Klux Klan paintings in dialogue with major works Hancock created in response to his inspirational mentor, highlighting their parallel thematic explorations of the nature of evil, self-representation, otherness, and art activism.
In Galleries
MANY LIVES - TATSUO MIYAJIMA
@LISSON GALLERY 13 FEB - 19 APR, 2025 Lisson Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition in over five years by Tatsuo Miyajima, one of Japan’s most celebrated sculptors and installation artists. Known for his innovative use of LED technology to explore Buddhist philosophy, Miyajima’s work investigates themes of time, existence, and the cycles of life and death. The exhibition introduces three new series – Many Lives, Changing Life with Changing Circumstance, MUL.APIN, and Hundred Changes in Life – which build on explorations of ‘Seimei’, a Japanese concept encompassing life, being and consciousness.
In Brooklyn
LA BANDA 2025
@TAPPETO VOLANTE GALLERY 22 JAN - 2 MAR, 2025
Tappeto Volante is pleased to announce the fourth edition of La Banda, 2025, a group exhibition featuring works on paper, paintings, and sculptures by 33 artists. This annual event embodies Tappeto Volante's commitment to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and cross-disciplinary art community that bridges generations, cultures, and artistic practices. Rooted in the foundational ethos of collaborative engagement, La Banda serves as a platform to explore the intersections of artistic expression, collective resilience, and ongoing dialogue.
Outside
SBNO - SYDNEY SHEN
@RIVERSIDE PARK SOUTH, MANHATTAN
28 SEPT, 2024 - 03 SEPT, 2025
This sculpture takes the form of something unsettlingly in between a metronome, carnival ride, and anatomical model. Metronomes measure time through beats akin to the human heartbeat, beats per minute rapidly increase in response to arousal. As an artist, Shen is interested in ambivalent emotional states such as fear and wonder, pleasure and pain. Shen’s sculptures destabilize motifs of the macabre. As a roller coaster enthusiast, Shen is fascinated by how theme parks sublimate the thrill of near-death into a form of amusement. This speaks to an innate human desire to be moved–physically and metaphorically–beyond our limits. Discover more
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