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Hanne Darboven, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, Samson Young
@ Petzel

Eva Hesse / Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction
@ Acquavella Galleries

Hanne Darboven: Europa 97
@ Petzel

The Park Avenue Cubists
@ Menconi + Schoelkopf

Salon de Peinture
@ Almine Rech

David Hammons: Basketball and Kool-Aid
@ Nahmad Contemporary

Paulo Monteiro: The Two Sides of An Empty Line
@ Lévy Gorvy

Eleanore Mikus: Voiceless Poems
@ Lévy Gorvy

Works on Paper
@ Petzel

James Lee Byars: The Milky Way
@ Michael Werner, Upper East Side

Chloe Wise: Thank You For The Nice Fire
@ Almine Rech

Lucy McKenzie: No Motive
@ Galerie Buchholz

Charles E. Burchfield: Inexhaustible
@ Menconi + Schoelkopf

Faces and Figures
@ Skarstedt 79th St

Blurring Boundaries: Selected Works from Chamberlain to Soto
@ Mignoni

Alejandro Cardenas: ALEXANDRIA
@ Almine Rech

Fausto Melotti: Ceramics
@ Barbara Mathes Gallery

Joyce Pensato: Batman vs. Spiderman
@ Petzel

Florian Krewer: Eyes on Fire
@ Michael Werner, Upper East Side

Isa Genzken: Nüsschen
@ Galerie Buchholz

Art Exhibitions on the Upper East Side, May 2021

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39 exhibitions to see

Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

Eva Hesse / Hannah Wilke: Erotic Abstraction
5 May - 18 Jun 2021

18 East 79th Street, NY 10075

By Appointment

in the first exhibition to present these two pioneering artists together, Eleanor Nairne of London’s Barbican Art Gallery, curates works made between 1965 and 1977, including foundational works in the history of post-Minimalist and feminist art
Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

Jacob El Hanani: Recent Works on Canvas
5 May - 18 Jun 2021

18 East 79th Street, NY 10075

By Appointment

new works by the American Israeli artist - a tribute to his mastery of abstraction through painstaking pen-and-ink drawings
Almine RechNew York Upper East Side

Salon de Peinture
29 Apr - 5 Jun 2021

39 East 78th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 11am-5pm

an array of living artists - based in France, the United States, Ireland, Britain, Germany, and China - in a dialogue with painting of the past
Barbara Mathes GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Jackson Pollock: The Experimental Works on Paper
29 Apr - 13 Aug 2021

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat by appointment

not open today
an exhibition of Pollock’s little-known engravings and silkscreens, which frame the development of his style, illuminate the shifts in his work of the early 1950s, and attest to his range as an artist
ColnaghiNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Reflection: Impressionist Masters of Plein Air
12 May - 11 Jun 2021

38 E 70th Street, NY 10021

By Appointment

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks by leading artists of the French avant-garde - alongside Graeco-Roman and Pre-Columbian antiquities and a group of Pre-Raphaelite and Modernist works
Craig F. Starr GalleryNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side

Surrealist | Modern | Post-War Art
Franklin Parrasch GalleryNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Mildred Howard: A Sonata in Four Parts
10 May - 11 Jun 2021

19 East 66th Street, NY 10065

Mon-Fri 11am-6pm by appointment

not open today
Howard’s first exhibition with the Gallery, comprising four intimately-scaled, evocative House sculptures
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

In the interest of public health, this gallery is temporarily closed until further notice.
Gagosian 980 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

last week
Rudolf Stingel
20 Apr - 22 May 2021

980 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
galerie gmurzynskaNew York Upper East Side

Arnulf Rainer: Paintings, Drawings, Books
20 Apr -

43 E 78th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 11am-5pm and by appointment

the gallery’s first New York exhibition dedicated to the Austrian artist who is a key figure of Art Informel and one of the most influential living artists of our day
Gladstone 64New York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism
3 Oct 2020 - 19 Sep 2021

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Thu-Mon 11am-6pm with advance booking
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Re/Projections: Video, Film, and Performance for the Rotunda
19 Mar - 6 Sep 2021

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Thu-Mon 11am-6pm with advance booking
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural
3 Oct 2020 - 19 Sep 2021

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Thu-Mon 11am-6pm with advance booking
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Off the Record
2 Apr - 27 Sep 2021

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Thu-Mon 11am-6pm with advance booking
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

David Smith: Follow My Path
27 Apr - 30 Jul 2021

32 East 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

organized around specific sculptures from each decade of Smith’s career, each highlighted by drawings, paintings, studies and photographs by Smith, this exhibition invites viewers to explore the artist’s daring artistic processes
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Henrique Faria Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Leila Heller GalleryNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Ran Hwang: Hope Springs Eternal
12 May - 24 Jun 2021

17 East 76th Street, NY 10021

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

not open today
created during quarantine and fueled by a compulsion to seek inner peace and mental stability, small, bright and joyful cherry blossom works following the religious practices of Buddhism to bring light to people’s hearts and heal their inner wounds
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

A Perfect Day
3 May - 29 May 2021

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

Eleanore Mikus: Voiceless Poems
18 Mar - 5 Jun 2021

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

the late artist’s seminal Tablet and Paperfold series, along with her 1960’s neo-expressionist paintings, illuminate her talent for fusing meticulously developed structures together to create artworks that hover between painting and sculpted relief
Menconi + SchoelkopfNew York Upper East Side

The Park Avenue Cubists
26 Apr - 4 Jun 2021

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm & by appointment

not open today
works by Albert E. Gallatin, George L. K. Morris, and Charles Green Shaw – artists on the vanguard of American modernism in the 1930s
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Alice Neel: People Come First
22 Mar - 1 Aug 2021

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side

Peter Saul: New Paintings
6 May - 26 Jun 2021

4 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a two-part exhibition, with Venus Over Manhattan, of new paintings and works on paper by the iconic American painter “Work that doesn’t provoke me, I don’t remember for thirty seconds. I like to think of paintings and art as some kind of news” - Saul
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

last week
Blurring Boundaries: Selected Works from Chamberlain to Soto
20 Jan -

960 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 11am-5pm

work by some of the most prominent North and South American artists of the Post-War period, including John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Robert Mangold
Mnuchin GalleryNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition listed
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

David Hammons: Basketball and Kool-Aid
1 May - 25 Jun 2021

980 Madison Avenue, Third Floor, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

an exhibition dedicated to two radical series of works that the seminal American artist created between 1995 and 2012
PetzelNew York Upper East Side

Hanne Darboven: Europa 97
4 May - 19 Jun 2021

35 E 67th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

the gallery's first solo exhibition of Darboven, one of the most important figures in postwar German art - in collaboration with Sprüth Magers
PetzelNew York Upper East Side

Hanne Darboven, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina, Samson Young
4 May - 19 Jun 2021

35 E 67th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

a 1990 work by Hanne Darboven, alongside a unique grouping of artists in the Petzel program who have been influenced by her career and impact
Robilant + Voena, New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Old Masters, nineteenth century painting, classic modern, Italian post-war and contemporary art
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

last week
Faces and Figures
18 Feb - 15 May 2021

20 East 79th St, NY 10075

Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm

featuring Auerbach, Bacon, Baselitz, Calder, Condo, de Kooning, Fischl, Giacometti, Mapplethorpe, Picasso, Prince, Schütte, Sherman, and Warhol
Sotheby’s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Auction: 11 May - 18 May, 2021

19th Century European Art Auction: 13 May - 20 May, 2021

American Art Auction: 19 May 2021

Master Paintings Auction: 20 May 2021
Exhibition: 15 May - 19 May 2021

The Artist’s Eye: The Collection of Tom Levine Auction: 20 May - 27 May, 2021
Exhibition: 22 May - 26 May 2021

Important Design Auction: 25 May 2021
Exhibition: 21 May - 24 May 2021

Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale Auction: 03 Jun - 10 Jun, 2021

Exhibiting Artists

Jacob El Hanani

Jackson Pollock

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