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This Week: 4 Exhibitions Opening and 3 Exhibitions Closing

Monday 22nd - Monday 29th, April 2019

Opening This Week

Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Surrealism in Mexico
26 Apr - 28 Jun 2019

an exhibition that explores the robust creative moment that emerged between 1940 and 1955 as an international community of artists fled World War II in Europe and settled in Mexico
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Soto: Vibrations, 1950 - 1960
29 Apr - 26 Jul 2019

not open today
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Warhol Women
25 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
an exhibition that focuses on Andy Warhol’s consistent artistic engagement with womanhood and femininity
Galeria Nara Roesler New YorkNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Berna Reale: While you laugh/Enquanto você ri
25 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
recent photographs and videos by Berna Reale, centered on Bi, a non-binary character she created

Closing This Week

Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

last week
Richard Wright
5 Mar - 26 Apr 2019

Wright’s site-specific, transient works unite painting with graphic and architectural elements, charging the spaces on which they are made with a fourth dimension
Jason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
30 for 30
25 Jan - 27 Apr 2019
Simon Lee New YorkNew York Upper East Side

last week
Keiji Uematsu: Invisible Force
7 Mar - 27 Apr 2019

new and historical work by the Japanese conceptual artist in his first ever solo presentation in the United States

All Exhibitions

Exhibiting Artists

Artists

A · Siah Armajani · B · Jean-Michel Basquiat · Irma Blank · D · Willem de Kooning · F · Lucian Freud · G · Anton Ginzburg · I · Alex Israel · K · Alicja Kwade · L · Markus Lüpertz · M · Robert Mangold · O · Chris Ofili · Henrik Olesen · P · Pablo Picasso · Girault de Prangey · R · Berna Reale · S · Joel Shapiro · Jesús Rafael Soto · U · Keiji Uematsu · V · Dewain Valentine · W · Andy Warhol · Richard Wright

Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

Lucian Freud: Monumental
5 Apr - 24 May 2019

a major loan exhibition focusing on the artist’s naked portraits, a subject that has long enjoyed special significance in his oeuvre
Almine Rech New YorkNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
De Wain Valentine: Works from 1967 to present.
30 Apr - 8 Jun 2019

not open today
Valentine incarnates a key moment in the development of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and 1970s (in parallel, and somewhat in opposition to New York-based Minimalism)
Craig F. Starr GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Joel Shapiro: Plaster Sculptures 1971-2014. Part II
8 Apr - 18 May 2019
David Zwirner East 69th StNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Chris Ofili: Dangerous Liaisons
1 May - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Surrealism in Mexico
26 Apr - 28 Jun 2019

an exhibition that explores the robust creative moment that emerged between 1940 and 1955 as an international community of artists fled World War II in Europe and settled in Mexico
The FLAG Art FoundationNew York Upper East Side, Public

Drawn Together Again
23 Feb - 18 May 2019

not open today
The FLAG Art FoundationNew York Upper East Side, Public

ON BOARD THE SHIPS AT SEA ARE WE
23 Feb - 18 May 2019

not open today
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Desert Painters of Australia: Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia and the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
3 May - 3 Jul 2019

spanning three generations, the exhibition includes works by leading contemporary Indigenous Australian painters from the Central and Western Desert regions
Gagosian Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline. A tribute to John Richardson
3 May - 22 Jun 2019

an exhibition of paintings and sculptures that attests to the central role and influence of the many women in Picasso’s life
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

last week
Richard Wright
5 Mar - 26 Apr 2019

Wright’s site-specific, transient works unite painting with graphic and architectural elements, charging the spaces on which they are made with a fourth dimension
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Henrik Olesen
2 May - 22 Jun 2019

not open today
Gladstone 64New York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Greene NaftaliNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Alex Israel: As It Lays 2
30 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Soto: Vibrations, 1950 - 1960
29 Apr - 26 Jul 2019

not open today
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Anton Ginzburg: VIEWs
28 Mar - 23 May 2019

not open today
Ginzburg’s first solo exhibition inaugurates the gallery’s new location - paintings executed on wooden panels of two distinct sizes, with each work referencing diagrammatic representations of the binocular field of human vision
Henrique Faria Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side

Eduardo Kac: Inner Telescope
28 Mar - 11 May 2019

not open today
Jason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
30 for 30
25 Jan - 27 Apr 2019
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Warhol Women
25 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
an exhibition that focuses on Andy Warhol’s consistent artistic engagement with womanhood and femininity
Luxembourg & Dayan New YorkNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Irma Blank: Painting Between the Lines
2 May - 3 Jul 2019

not open today
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public

Siah Armajani: Follow This Line
20 Feb - 2 Jun 2019

not open today
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public

Home Is a Foreign Place
9 Apr 2019 - 21 Jun 2020

not open today
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
4 Oct 2018 - 6 Oct 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
16 Oct 2018 - 4 Oct 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

just opened
The Roof Garden Commission: Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot
16 Apr - 27 Oct 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
30 Jan - 12 May 2019
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Markus Lüpertz: Dans l’Atelier
18 Apr - 22 Jun 2019

over two dozen plaster and wax sculptures completed between 2016 and 2018, together with paintings and works on paper, presenting viewers with an intimate look at Lüpertz’s conceptual process
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

Robert Mangold and Joel Shapiro: Angles in Color
26 Feb - 18 May 2019

not open today
enquiries into color, form, line, shape, scale and space, representing the duality of doubt and conviction that drives the two artists and forming a convincing argument for the continued vitality of abstract art
Mnuchin GalleryNew York Upper East Side

just opened
De Kooning: Five Decades
19 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
the gallery’s most ambitious de Kooning exhibition highlights key moments from every decade of the artist’s mature career, underscoring the tireless experimentation and stylistic reinvention that defined his oeuvre
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

Jean-Michel Basquiat | Xerox
12 Mar - 31 May 2019

curated by Dieter Buchhart, the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that Basquiat created using Xerox photocopies as his principal medium and compositional focal point
Galeria Nara Roesler New YorkNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Berna Reale: While you laugh/Enquanto você ri
25 Apr - 15 Jun 2019

not open today
recent photographs and videos by Berna Reale, centered on Bi, a non-binary character she created
Simon Lee New YorkNew York Upper East Side

last week
Keiji Uematsu: Invisible Force
7 Mar - 27 Apr 2019

new and historical work by the Japanese conceptual artist in his first ever solo presentation in the United States
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

Contemporary European and American Art
Skarstedt 64th StNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Inaugural Exhibition
15 Apr - 4 May 2019

not open today
marking the opening of Skarstedt’s second Upper East Side gallery, founder Per Skarstedt has selected works by more than twenty artists, spanning some three generations, to create his first exhibition
Sotheby‘s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Pacific Art from the Collection of Harry A. Franklin, Beverly Hills Auction: 13 May 2019
Exhibition: 4 May - 12 May 2019

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Auction: 15 May 2019
Exhibition: 3 May - 14 May 2019

Contemporary Art Day Auction Auction: 17 May 2019
Exhibition: 3 May - 16 May 2019

Master Paintings Auction: 22 May 2019
Exhibition: 18 May - 22 May 2019

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