{"id":229310,"date":"2026-05-13T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:05:17","slug":"nine-shows-to-see-during-frieze-new-york-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229310\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine shows to see during Frieze New York – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raphael: Sublime Poetry<\/a>
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Until 28 June<\/p>\n

Raphael is one of the most important artists of the Western canon, casting his harmonious spell everywhere from the frescoed walls of the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Palace to centuries of seminars in provincial art academies. Eight years in the making, Sublime Poetry is his first\u00a0comprehensive exhibition in the US, gathering 237 works spanning the whole of his career\u2014a surprising number of them major\u00a0loans from the Louvre, Uffizi, Rijksmuseum and other institutions.<\/p>\n

For centuries, Raphael was best known for his idealised depictions of the Madonna and Christ Child, leading to countless imitations. The show\u2019s curator, Carmen C. Bambach, calls the phenomenon \u201can oversaturation\u201d that \u201cseverely tarnished\u201d the motif. Her solution? Present a much wider \u201csocial and historical context\u201d of motherhood and childhood mortality. Before viewers experience the full flowering of Raphael\u2019s sublime Madonnas, they encounter objects and images that attest to the agony and sheer danger of childbirth. J.S.M.<\/p>\n

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John Kim\u2019s multimedia installation Red Canary Song. Touch the Heart (2026) is one of\u00a0more than 150\u00a0works to feature in Greater New York 2026, the sixth edition of MoMA PS1\u2019s quinquennial Photo: John Kim; courtesy MoMA PS1<\/p>\n

Greater New York 2026<\/a>
MoMA PS1
Until 17 August<\/p>\n

Once every five years, MoMA PS1 celebrates the artists of the five boroughs in its museum-spanning show Greater New York. The sixth quinquennial coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Queens institution\u2019s founding and features works by 53 local artists and collectives. Unlike other major -ennials, Greater New York does not try to tack on a theme, instead letting its more than 150 photographs, paintings, drawings, animations, sculptures, installations and performances speak for themselves. <\/p>\n

Some highlights in this year\u2019s iteration include Chang Yuchen\u2019s ongoing creation of a new language using found fragments of coral; Kameron Neal\u2019s two-channel video using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 1970s; and Dean Majd\u2019s intimate photographs of Palestinian communities and his own family. E.G.<\/p>\n

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Untitled (around 1976-77); Sophia Rivera\u2019s work was centred on New York\u2019s Latinx community; the show at El Museo del Barrio\u2014her first retrospective\u2014highlights the artist\u2019s political activism as well as her technical skill Courtesy estate of Martin Hurwitz<\/p>\n

Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures<\/a>
El Museo del Barrio
Until 2 August<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican American photographer Sophie Rivera (1938-2021) is best known for her 1978 Nuyorican Portraits. For the black-and-white series, she photographed Puerto Rican sitters in Morningside Heights to uplift the Latinx diaspora in New York City. Although she engaged with and celebrated Latinx communities, Rivera never wanted her work to be confined to identity politics. In fact, much of her output was highly experimental. Her first retrospective, curated by Susanna V. Temkin, aims to rewrite past reductive readings of her work, situating the artist within the broader discourse of post-war photography while foregrounding both her political activism and technical skill.<\/p>\n

The genesis of the show, Temkin says, is Alternators (1975, printed 1986), a colour photograph the artist donated to the museum. Other highlights include recently restored photographs shown at the Yankee Stadium-161st Street subway stop in 1989. \u201cI hope this show becomes an opening for further studies of Rivera\u2019s work,\u201d Temkin says. G.A.<\/p>\n

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Fountain (1950) was first created in 1917 Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art<\/p>\n

Marcel Duchamp<\/a>
Museum of Modern Art
Until 22 August<\/p>\n

This 300-work show\u2014the first Duchamp survey in the US in more than 50 years\u2014reflects the loops and reiterations of a singular career through an apparently simple idea: chronology. As the curator Michelle Kuo explains, Duchamp \u201cnot only made works, but remade them in a kind of maniacal way\u201d, with replicas made by him and others. \u201cSome of the earliest works no longer exist, including readymades that literally were mistaken for just an ordinary household object.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where other exhibitions show the replicas as if they were the originals, here we see \u201cthe physical thing until it was literally made,\u201d Kuo says, \u201cand so the strangeness of that linear chronology becomes very apparent.\u201d B.L.<\/p>\n

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Charles Yuen\u2019s Touring Xanadu (2025) is influenced by Persian miniatures; the artist, who moved away from abstraction, views identity as \u201ca continual state of semi-belonging\u201d Courtesy the artist<\/p>\n

How Asian Is It?<\/a>
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Until 11 July<\/p>\n

This exhibition features 12 pioneering East Asian American abstractionists born between 1928 and 1955\u2014including Barbara Takenaga, Emily Cheng, Charles Yuen and David Diao. Some immigrated to the US. Others were born here. All began their careers at a time when identity could feel like a liability. As the show\u2019s curator, Lilly Wei, tells The Art Newspaper: \u201cPerhaps America itself needs to be redefined.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is most striking about these works is not what was painted but what was withheld. There is no shared style or manifesto. What emerges instead is a disciplined negotiation with space. It is difficult not to think of liubai
()\u2014the principle in Chinese ink painting that treats white space as active, where what remains unpainted suggests sky, mist or breath. The void holds the composition rather than receding from it. The question is not how \u201cAsian\u201d the art looks but how its artists inhabited abstraction when difference was easier to mute than to name. X.T.W.<\/p>\n

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Joan Semmel\u2019s paintings celebrating women\u2019s empowerment are shown alongside works the artist has selected from the Jewish Museum\u2019s collection that explore beauty, agency and self-perception Courtesy of the Jewish Museum<\/p>\n

Joan Semmel: In the Flesh<\/a>
The Jewish Museum
Until 31 May<\/p>\n

The 93-year-old artist Joan Semmel has selected almost 50 works from the Jewish Museum\u2019s collection to feature alongside 16 of her own paintings. With a common theme of beauty, agency and self-perception, Semmel has chosen paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by artists including Marc Chagall, Nan Goldin, Alice Neel, Nancy Spero and Man Ray to accompany the bold (and giant) nude paintings and self-portraits for which she is best known. <\/p>\n

Although trained as an Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s, Semmel later pivoted to figuration and even hyperrealism. Throughout her decades-long career, she has foregrounded the female perspective in forceful reaction to the dominating male gaze. To this day, she continues to make work celebrating the empowerment and sexual agency of women both young and old. Seen in progression, her works act as a timeline of the feminist movement\u2014a microcosm of the history of feminism itself. E.G.<\/p>\n

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Iris van Herpen\u2019s Loie dress from the Sympoiesis collection Photo: Gio Staiano<\/p>\n

Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses<\/a>
Brooklyn Museum
16 May-6 December<\/p>\n

Sculpting the Senses brings together more than 140 haute couture looks by Iris van Herpen, who founded her fashion house in 2007 and quickly carved out a distinct place in the field through her wholehearted embrace of technology. One of the first designers to adopt 3D printing as a construction technique, she has also developed unconventional materials ranging from upcycled marine debris to fermented fibres. The resulting garments take their cues from fractals and tessellations to transform not only the wearer\u2019s body but also the space around it.<\/p>\n

In many of Van Herpen\u2019s designs, nature becomes an active collaborator. The Sympoiesis collection, for instance, was made in concert with the biodesigner Chris Bellamy and the University of Amsterdam using 125 million living bioluminescent algae. Van Herpen describes the piece as both \u201cvery challenging\u201d and one of her \u201cmost personal\u201d collaborations. J.C.A.<\/p>\n

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The Guardians (2024) by Raven Halfmoon, a member of the Caddo Nation in Oklahoma; the biennial considers what it means to be American, as well as exploring the US\u2019s global impact Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein; image courtesy the artist and Salon 94; \u00a9 Raven Halfmoon<\/p>\n

Whitney Biennial 2026<\/a>
Whitney Museum of American Art
Until 23 August<\/p>\n

While the biennial\u2019s 82nd edition lacks an official theme, the red threads of what \u201cAmerican\u201d means and the lasting effects of US power abroad are so palpable that they succeed in uniting the works of the 56 disparate artists, duos and collectives featured in the exhibition. The curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer have invited artists from Afghanistan, Chile, Iraq, Japan, Palestine, the Philippines and Vietnam to display their works alongside those of their peers from the US. <\/p>\n

Even among the artists featured who live in the US, many were born abroad. Several have Indigenous heritage or hail from Hawaii or Puerto Rico. And just as the US has\u2014at least historically\u2014sought to hide its own imperial ambitions, the artists in this year\u2019s biennial often subtly hint at politics rather than displaying them overtly. They provide more questions than answers, giving audiences a lot to think about long after they have left the museum grounds. E.G.<\/p>\n

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New Humans: Memories of the Future features more than 200 artists across the entire museum; director Massimiliano Gioni says it aims to \u201cestablish a symmetry between today and the 1920s\u201d Photo: Dario Lasagni<\/p>\n

New Humans: Memories of the Future<\/a>
New Museum
Ongoing<\/p>\n

After four years of construction, the New Museum has unveiled its $82m expansion with an exhibition that occupies the museum\u2019s entire space (old and new) as it explores how shifts in technology and society have redefined the concept of humanity. The massive show contains works by more than 200 artists\u2014among them the contemporary artists Tau Lewis, Wangechi Mutu and Precious Okoyomon alongside 20th-century greats like Francis Bacon, Salvador Dal\u00ed and Hannah H\u00f6ch.<\/p>\n

Massimiliano Gioni, the museum\u2019s director, says the exhibition aims to \u201cestablish a symmetry between today and the 1920s, as looking to the past can also reassure us that we have survived challenging times over and over again\u201d. He adds that it endeavours to consider how new technologies \u201cfound an ideal ally in the rise of totalitarian regimes and the birth of fascism in ways that are not too dissimilar to what we are experiencing today\u201d. G.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raphael: Sublime PoetryMetropolitan Museum of ArtUntil 28 June Raphael is one of the most important artists of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[642,31943,10341,83442,42818,548,21944,90041,45791,9,24,55,54,56,42819,90040,73523,65576,14097],"class_list":["post-229310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn-museum","tag-el-museo-del-barrio","tag-exhibitions","tag-frieze-new-york-2026","tag-marcel-duchamp","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","tag-moma-ps1","tag-museum-of-modern-art-new-york","tag-new-museum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-raphael","tag-sophie-rivera","tag-the-jewish-museum","tag-whitney-biennial","tag-whitney-museum-of-american-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}