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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 11, 2025 visibility 30 link 26 artists, 11 galleries

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The article highlights four must-see fall gallery shows in New York City for September-October 2025. It features Mercedes Matter's first solo show at Berry Campbell, reviving the overlooked Abstract Expressionist; Julio Torres's theatrical debut "Color Stories" at Performance Space New York; Gabrielle Garland's first New York solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, showcasing surreal suburban paintings; and Omar Ba's exhibition "Promises and Glory" at Templon, presenting fantastical mixed-media works.

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article culture schedule Apr 6, 2026 visibility 71 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

How Josh Kline Wrote the Essay That the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About

Artist Josh Kline has sparked intense debate across the New York art world with his viral essay, "New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art," published in the journal October. The text serves as a scathing critique of the current state of the American art industry, diagnosing it as "sick" due to skyrocketing real estate costs, systemic power imbalances, and a market that has become an unsustainable "conveyor belt" of commercial painting. Kline argues that the economic pressures of post-pandemic New York have made the city a hostile environment for experimental and conceptual practices.

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article news schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 34 link 14 artists, 3 galleries

Kamrooz Aram Is Everywhere

Iranian artist Kamrooz Aram is currently experiencing a significant institutional and commercial moment, with his work appearing in three major exhibitions across two continents simultaneously. Critic Aruna D’Souza highlights Aram’s ability to synthesize Islamic visual idioms with Western abstraction, creating a painterly language that transcends cultural hierarchies and treats historical narratives with a unique lightness.

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article news schedule Jul 2, 2025 visibility 12 link 7 artists

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Performance Space New York is auctioning naming rights to the stalls in its fourth-floor unisex restroom as a fundraising campaign. Artist Bailey Hikawa will create custom resin toilet seats and commemorative plaques for each stall, collaborating with donors to reflect their personal aesthetics. One stall remains available and will be auctioned online this summer. The campaign coincides with a sound installation by Kevin Beasley that transforms the restroom into an immersive acoustic environment. Senior director Pati Hertling produced a promotional video using AI tools, featuring a synthetic newscaster announcing the fundraiser.

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person people schedule Dec 19, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

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The Ruth Foundation for the Arts has named five artists as recipients of its 2026 Ruth Awards: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. Each winner receives an unrestricted $100,000 grant disbursed over two years. The artists work across diverse media—from Agematsu's miniature street-detritus sculptures and Rawls's multidisciplinary choreography to Mukherjee's painting and film installations, Sebastian Chang's decades-spanning theater and film work, and Whitehead's performance art. The awards are open to artists across North America and are now in their third year.

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article culture schedule Aug 14, 2025 visibility 11 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

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Pati Hertling, a former restitution lawyer turned art-world fixture, has spent over two decades blending cooking with collaboration in her artistic practice. Since 2023, she has co-led Performance Space in New York's East Village alongside Taja Cheek and Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda, where she serves meals like steaks or grilled salmon to accompany gatherings. Hertling first gained prominence through her "Evas Arche und der Feminist" art salons in Berlin and New York, which offered soup and bread alongside visual art and live performances, creating a communal atmosphere that transformed attendees from bystanders into participants.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 visibility 13 link 1 artist

Fashion figure Jordan Roth wows in collage at the Venice Biennale

Multi-disciplinary artist Jordan Roth staged a performance on May 7 at Palazzo dei Fiori in Venice during the Biennale preview week, where he tore apart vinyl prints of Renaissance painter Irene di Spilimbergo and reassembled them into collages within a gilt frame. The event, presented with Performance Space New York’s Visionaries Circle, was attended by Whitney Museum director Scott Rothkopf and dealer Kristin Hjellegjerde, following Roth's earlier appearance as a "living sculpture" at the Met Gala.

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article news schedule Aug 12, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

INFANT: BANNED SKILLS

Sidony O’Neal and Bogosi Sekhukhuni, two interdisciplinary artists with backgrounds in conceptual art, design, and technology, are co-founders of the design firm INFANT. O’Neal’s work draws on mathematics, architectural systems, and object histories, with exhibitions at venues such as Sculpture Center, ICA at Maine College of Art and Design, and MASS MoCA residencies. Sekhukhuni explores cultures and histories of technology through sculpture, video, and performance, with exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, New Museum, and Sharjah Art Foundation, and is a founding member of the artist group NTU.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 3, 2026 visibility 29 link 23 artists, 2 galleries

Dozens of Artists Bring Their Studios to Hauser & Wirth New York

Hauser & Wirth New York has launched "Studio Visit," a sprawling group exhibition co-curated by artists Anicka Yi and Josh Kline in collaboration with Performance Space New York. Featuring works by 27 international artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Huma Bhabha, and Wolfgang Tillmans, the show pairs physical artworks with AI-generated "machine-generated memories" based on the artists' written recollections of their early workspaces. The project revives the spirit of Circular File, an experimental collective formed by Yi and Kline in the late 2000s.

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