Maureen Dougherty’s Collectors: Pride without Greed
Maureen Dougherty’s solo show “The Completionists” opens at Mendes Wood DM in Germantown, NY, featuring nine large‑scale oil portraits of solitary collectors surrounded by their curated objects. The works, ranging from a mustard‑jar enthusiast to a skull‑laden crypt collector, employ muted palettes and precise brushwork that echo Luc Tuymans while retaining a narrative edge. Each painting isolates a single figure against horizontal shelving, turning personal hoarding into a quiet commentary on pride and identity. The exhibition runs through June 14, 2026.
The Christophers: NFS
Steven Soderbergh returns to the art‑heist sub‑genre with the 2026 Neon release "The Christophers." The film stars Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar, an embittered veteran artist, and Michaela Coel as Lori Butler, a disaffected painter hired to finish a fraudulent masterpiece. Their...
Kari Cholnoky: Stalking Dullness
Kari Cholnoky’s third solo show, “Leech,” opens at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, pairing the alabaster sculpture Conservation of Mass with a life‑size bust‑like Leech and the towering installation Center of Gravity. The works fuse sculpture, collage, medical imagery and industrial materials to dramatize...
Paul Klee, Degenerate for the Ages
The Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “Other Possible Worlds,” spotlights Paul Klee’s final decade, a period marked by exile, illness, and a prolific outpouring of over 1,250 works in 1939 alone. Klee, once condemned as a “degenerate” artist by the Nazis,...
Elisa Jensen’s Expansive Interiors
Elisa Jensen’s solo show at Astor Weeks in New York spotlights a series of large oil‑on‑wood interiors that echo the luminous color palettes of Pierre Bonnard while asserting a distinctly contemporary voice. The exhibition features works such as “Candle on...
At the Whitney Biennial: Ali Ayal’s Mirthless Amusement Park
The 2026 Whitney Biennial showcases Ali Eyal’s oil painting *Look Where I Took You*, a haunting reinterpretation of a Baghdad amusement park he visited as a child before the 2003 U.S. invasion. The work centers on a Ferris wheel whose...
Opal Mae Ong: Worlds Weighing In
Plato Gallery presents Opal Mae Ong’s solo exhibition “Always Were,” running through April 19, 2026 in New York. The show intertwines ancestral Filipino folklore with contemporary visual language, using acrylic and gouache to create luminous, staged scenes that explore grief, ritual, and transformation. Signature works...
Sharon’s Substack / April 1, 2026
Artist Sharon Butler announces that her painting *Green Wall 3* will be featured in the American Abstract Artists’ 90th‑anniversary show “Abstract by Definition: An Index” at Art Cake in Brooklyn. Curated by critic Saul Ostrow, the exhibition juxtaposes 90 artists to...
Two Coats Resident Artist Dale Emmart, April 12–17, 2026
Two Coats of Paint welcomed Dale Emmart as its resident artist from April 12‑17, 2026, showcasing a series of rope‑centric paintings and works on paper. Emmart’s practice uses rope as a neutral visual device to evoke labor, control, and the...
“Sonorous” In Hackney: Stairway to Heaven?
St. Augustine’s Tower in Hackney hosted the three‑day "Sonorous" exhibition, turning the medieval stone structure into an immersive sound‑art venue. Curated by Taehyun Jung, the show featured a roster of emerging artists who used vibration, voice, and visual media to...
2025’s Intrepid Cinema
The 2025 film slate is dominated by politically charged works that confront the Trump era and its cultural fallout. High‑profile directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kathryn Bigelow and Óliver Laxe use genre conventions—from satire to dystopian neo‑realism—to...
Tappeto Volante’s Rich Conversations
The fifth annual “La Banda” exhibition at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus brings together over three dozen local artists across painting, sculpture, and mixed‑media formats. Curated without a single theme, the show reflects the pandemic‑era spirit of community and creative...
Araujo, Greenberg, and Simon at Ptolemy
Two Coats of Paint organized an artist panel at Ptolemy featuring Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon. Each artist presented a single work, prompting in‑depth dialogue about their distinct approaches to abstraction, from Araujo’s mixed‑media collage on aluminum to...
Reaching Back at Ruthann
The Ruthann gallery in Catskills, NY is presenting “Souvenir,” a group exhibition featuring fifteen contemporary artists whose work probes memory, intimacy, humor, and loss. Curated by Jeff Bailey, the show runs through April 11, 2026 and includes photography, mixed‑media, sculpture, and hand‑woven collages....