Art All Over Town: Summer Shows in NYC, Now!
The city is filled with jubilation this month, following the Knicks’ historic victory and uplifting art to see all over town. From outdoor art installations to a slew of gallery shows, keep reading for our top recommendations of art to see across New York’s galleries, museums, and public spaces.
Let’s Escape the Ordinary at Winston Wächter
Curated by Artmuse founder Natasha Schlesinger, Let’s Escape the Ordinaryinvites us to leave our everyday lives and step through an artistic portal into landscapes and realms of dreams, new possibilities, and the extraordinary. Ranging in materials, processes, and concepts, artists Nevil Dwek, Annette Cords, Kelsey Schwetz, Megan Gabrielle Harris, Amanda Case Millis, Ethan Murrow, Eric Uhlir, Heather Hutchison, Margeaux Walter, and Tanya Minhas all create art that in the words of Pablo Picasso .”…washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
July 22-August 28
530 West 25th Street
Please join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, July 22 from 6 to 8pm.
Featured image by Kelsey Schwetz
David Hockney: The Moon Room at Pace
Rest in peace to one of the greatest artists of the last century. Created while quarantining at his 17th-century Normandy farmhouse, David Hockney’s iPad paintings from his Moon Room series are touching, meditative, and beautiful.
The first exhibition of these works in New York features large paintings depicting the moon at various phases and vantage points from throughout Hockney’s 12-acre farm. Hockney appreciated the iPad’s ease of use for quickly creating artworks, and these dreamy compositions display the late artist’s mastery over his subject and mediums. We are so lucky to have an exhibition of works by this legend on view this summer in New York as we pay our respects to one of the most inspiring artists of a generation.
Through August 14
540 West 25th Street
David Hockney, 4th July 2020. Courtesy of Pace.
The Audacity of Scale at Sean Kelly
This summer, Sean Kelly presents a fabulous group show that presents the myriad of ways contemporary artists from around the world engage with scale across mediums.
From microscopic to gargantuan works spanning video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography, The Audacity of Scale features James Casebere, Marcel Duchamp, Frank Thiel, Sun Xun, Sam Moyer, Janaina Tschäpe, Aki Inomata, Zac Langdone-Pole, Diana Fonseca Quiñones, Katharina Fritsch, Rebecca Horn, Callumm Innes, Shahzia Sikander, Kehinde Wiley, Iran do Espírito Santo, Joseph Kosuth, John Baldessari, Julian Charrière, Laurent Grasso, Yornel Martínez, Anthony McCall, and Idris Khan.
On view through August (exact closing date to be confirmed)
475 10th Avenue
Sam Moyer, Magic Hour, 2026. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery.
Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance at Gagosian
Coordinated in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance features twenty of the artist’s largest and most ambitious works created across four decades, from the sixties to nineties. Focused on charting Frankenthaler’s ambitions in each decade, this show highlights Frankenthaler’s ingenuity as a lyrical artist who naturally excels when it comes to expressive gestures, beautiful color, harmonious composition, and vast scale.
Through July 2
522 West 21st Street
Helen Frankenthaler, Ocean Drive West #1, 1974; 2026 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob Mckeever
Firelei Báez: feet squelching on wet grass,
nourished by uncertainty at Hauser & Wirth
The Dominican Republic-born, New York-based artist Firelei Báez creates fantastic worlds that explore the lasting legacies of colonial rule across the Americas, Caribbean, and beyond. Using a rich visual language informed by the artist’s Afro-Carribbean culture, Báez draws on mythology, folklore, science fiction and culture to create imaginatie and layered scenes that fill Hauser’s gallery with beautiful works in a range of mediums.
Through July 31
542 West 22nd Street
Firelei Báez, Yagé (towards a honeyed ablution), 2025; © 2026 Firelei Báez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkPhoto: Sarah Muehlbauer. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.
Kelly Akashi: Heirloom at Lisson
Motivated by profound, poetic occurrences such as the passage of time, memories and loss, Los Angeles-based artist Kelly Akashi has one of this season’s most anticipated shows. Heirloom builds on Akashi’s critical body of work she first exhibited in Los Angeles in 2025 and is a touching expression of the artist processing the profound losses she experienced in last winter’s Eaton Fire in Los Angeles, a devastation which took her home and studio filled with countless works and materials. These works—across bronze, steel, glass, and stone—beautifully meditate on this experience and must be seen in person.
Through July 25
508 West 24th Street
Touch Grass at Perrotin
Perrotin’s fabulous summer group exhibition features stars of the art world in an exhibition that celebrates art’s relationship with the natural world.
Embracing varied mediums and practices, Touch Grass features big names and rising stars, including Nina Chanel Abney, Jean-Marie Appriou, Genesis Belanger, Ivan Belanger, Eve Biddle, Sara Cwynar, Andie Dinkin, Madeline Donahue, Elizabeth Glaessner, Charles Hascoët, John Henderson, Adam Henry, Leslie Hewitt, Anna K.E., Susumu Kamijo, Klara Kristalova, Sharon Madanes, Nikki Maloof, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Florian Meisenberg, Ryan Mrozowski, Danielle Orchard, Gahee Park, Matthew Ronay, Kyungmi Shin, Emily Mae Smith, Josh Sperling, Kathia St. Hilaire, Julia von Eichel, Robin F. Williams, and Clare Woods.
Through July 31
130 Orchard Street
Image courtesy of Perrotin
A View All Their Own at Hollis Taggart
A View All Their Own explores the distinct visual language adopted by twenty female artists from different generations. Featuring work in a range of media—including painting, photography, video art, installation, sculpture, and mixed media—this exhibition at the gallery’s downtown space will make clear the unique vision of these independent thinkers.
Curated by Angelica Semmelbauer, the exhibition includes Diana Al-Hadid, Grimanesa Amorós, Lynda Benglis, Alina Bliumis, Kate Clark, Dee Clements, Francine Fleischer, Margaret Garrett, Ana Maria Hernando, Patty Horing, Dana James, Karen Margolis, Verdiana Patacchini, Howardena Pindell, Lina Puerta, Kate Rusek, Anastasia Samoylova, Bastienne Schmidt, Rebecca Stern, and Amy Wickersham.
June 25-August 15
109 Norfolk Street
Lina Puerta, Ave del Peritoneo, 2010. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart.
Robert Lugo: Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter) at Madison Square Park
For it’s 2026 art commission that runs when New York is without snow, Madison Square Park features two large-scale works by the Philadelphia-based artist Robert Lugo, who is known largely for his cheerful and layered ceramic sculptures that reference European pottery, hip-hop, graffiti, and Puerto Rican culture. These joyous works will make your spirits soar with a twenty-foot-high urn featuring paintings of the artist’s parents as well as celebrated Puerto Ricans such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a fifteen-foot-high fire hydrant, and domino tables that visitors can use.
Through December 6
11 Madison Avenue
Image courtesy of Madison Square Park
Genesis Belanger: Heads or Tails at City Hall Park
For her public art commission at City Hall Park, Genesis Belanger (b. 1978, Massachusetts) plays with typical park features such as fountains and planted gardens to transform the park into a wonderland featuring a flock of birds, fruit trees waiting to be planted among their counterparts, and large bronze figures that appropriately reference Lady Justice. These joyous works invite viewers to reflect on our moment and raise questions pertaining to humanity’s connection to nature, our ability to discern between real and fake, and civic values in our age.
Through November 15
City Hall Park
Image courtesy of Public Art Fund.
Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding at Museum of Art and Design (MAD)
Enter the vibrantly lush wilderness of artist Jessica Lichtenstein’s imagination, where female figures frolic unencumbered by societal norms and expectations, where secrets of the heart spill out inscribed on golden lockets out of the fissures in geological slabs, and where we too can feel free to look, discover and play.
For the multidisciplinary artist’s first museum exhibition Rewilding, Lichtenstein transforms the Museum of Art And Design into a lush dreamland, reflecting Lichtenstein’s multidisciplinary practice via the exhibition’s large-scale installation, painting, sculpture, and video that together create this imaginative world.
Through April 18, 2027
2 Columbus Circle
