Eleanor Conover/Abattoir Gallery by WM
Maine‑based artist Eleanor Conover, known for sculptural, shaped‑canvas paintings that fuse oil, dye, graphite and reclaimed wood, will make her New York solo debut at Independent with Abattoir Gallery from May 14‑17, 2026. The presentation includes a conversation with veteran curator Michelle Grabner on May 16. The show follows a string of fair appearances and precedes her first solo museum exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, opening early 2027. Conover’s process is informed by poetry, landscape and a lineage of material‑focused painters.
Stealing Into the Night On Osmosis by April Liu
The Flohaus Gallery has launched "Osmosis," a multidisciplinary exhibition curated by Jinyi Freya Xu and Luman Jiang. The show features works by Kyung Kim, Bingyi Zhang, Xingze Li, Joy Li, Guo Tongtong and Yu Ruo‑Jie, each exploring invisible forces through poetry, perception and everyday materials. Installations range from dye‑sublimated...
Los Angeles, California Avital Burg's Mercurial Flower Show in Los Angeles by Lyle Zimskind
Brooklyn‑born painter Avital Burg presents "Mercurial Flower Show" at Los Angeles’ Nazarian Curcio, featuring fourteen large‑scale oil and oil‑stick works that capture wildflowers foraged from Crown Heights streets. The paintings explode with thick impasto, revealing underlying sketches and occasional abstract...
Transparency Without Resolution: Zhou Zizheng's Inconceivable at Harvard CAMLab Cave by Luman Jiang
Zhou Zizheng’s two‑part installation *Inconceivable* at Harvard’s CAMLab Cave interrogates transparency by exposing a 3D scanner’s inability to resolve glass, whether a 1,000‑year‑old Tang bottle or a modern Coca‑Cola container. The scanner’s misread data collapses historical and commercial value, while...
New York City Conductor Art Fair Strikes a Confident Note at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
The Conductor Art Fair launched its inaugural edition at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, following the success of the Brooklyn Print Art Fair. Curated from both local and international galleries, the fair emphasizes diversity and a clear artistic vision while remaining...
New York City Beyond the Monument: Jean Shin S Living Memorial at Green-Wood by Soojung Hyun
Jean Shin’s new earthwork "Offering" opened at Green‑Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, burying two mature oaks as "tree elders" within earthen mounds. The project draws on the artist’s Korean diaspora heritage, echoing ancient tumuli and Korean funerary rituals. Visitors participate by...
New York City Staging The In-Between with Sarah Ringrave by Myles Fucci
Sarah Ringrave’s latest exhibition, "Vessels Between," at Fugue Gallery explores transformation through mutable materials like oxidized gold leaf and wax, echoing the artist’s meditative subconscious visions. A near‑death diving experience fuels her fascination with the "in‑between" state, manifested in dissolving...
David Smalling: Elizabethan Collar at Galerie Templon by Emann Odufu
David Smalling’s solo show "Elizabethan Collar" opened at Galerie Templon, running through April 25, 2026. The exhibition presents a series of oil‑on‑panel vignettes that fuse classical European painting techniques with contemporary symbols of Black masculinity, fertility and mortality. Smalling’s process combines...
Pots and Paintings: An Interview with Jake Clark by Sara Cemin
Brooklyn artist Jake Clark is debuting a mixed‑media show at A Hug From the Art World, pairing his signature hand‑crafted ceramic pots with large‑scale paintings. The works reinterpret 1950s‑60s American advertising icons—Brillo soap pads, vintage billboards, and cartoonish brand mascots—using oil‑acrylic layers that echo the...
New York City African Queens: Carol Beckwith &Angela Fisher by David Jager
British photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, who have spent 47 years documenting African tribal rituals, have had their extensive photographic archive acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Their work spans 150 cultures across all 54 African...
South Africa Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees. Artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou and Curator Virginie Puertolas-Syn in Conversation. By Petra...
Mehdi‑Georges Lahlou’s solo show "Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees" opens at Cuturi Gallery Singapore, curated by Virginie Puertolas‑Syn, and runs until May 9, 2026. The exhibition reinterprets Farid ud‑Din Attar’s Sufi poem by replacing birds with palms, using the tree as a...
Saving the Bowery Wall: How Tomokazu Matsuyama Revived New York's Most Iconic Street Art Canvas by Scott Orr
Tomokazu Matsuyama, a Brooklyn‑based artist, spent his own money in September 2023 to repaint New York’s iconic Bowery Wall with his "Color of the City" mural, ending a two‑and‑a‑half‑year period of unchecked tagging. The wall, once curated by Jessica Goldman Srebnick...
New Orleans Robin Levy: American Model April 4th April 26th SMITH Contemporary by Adam Falik
Robin Levy’s "American Model" at Smith Contemporary (April 4‑26) confronts the legacy of Nazi identification symbols by repurposing WWII‑era velvet triangles, prisoner jackets, and a yellow bench. The installation invites visitors to try on the jackets, pose for Polaroids, and view...
Sakura: A Season of Becoming A Transnational Group Exhibition Exploring the Artistic Metaphors of Cherry Blossoming by WM
The Romanian Cultural Institute’s Brâncuși Gallery in New York will host “Sakura: A Season of Becoming,” a transnational group exhibition running April 17‑May 15, 2026. Curated by Kyoko Sato and Luisa Tuntuc, the show features 11 artists from the United States, Japan,...
New York City Louise Bourgeois at Hauser &Wirth by Jonathan Goodman
Louise Bourgeois’s work returns to New York with a major retrospective at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea, opening April 12, 2026. The show assembles signature pieces such as the kinetic sculpture “Twosome” (1991), the marble “Untitled (With Hand)” (1989), and the 2006 watercolor series “Ray...