MUSEUMS
Studio Museum Harlem
- Until 6 September ’26
- 144 W 125th St
- studiomuseum.org
Fade brings together a powerful new generation of Black and Afro-Latinx artists whose works move between spirituality, grief, surrealism, and dreams of escape, creating a show that feels both intimate and quietly urgent.
Carol Bove | Guggenheim Museum
- Until 2 Aug ‘26
- 1071 5th Ave, New York
- guggenheim.org
Carol Bove’s first major museum survey fills the iconic Rotunda with her bold, inventive sculptures and spatial interventions that play with material, scale and form.
Raphael: Sublime Poetry | Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Until 28 June ’26
- 1000 5th Avenue
- metmuseum.org
This spring, Raphael: Sublime Poetry weaves together 200+ masterworks in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the Renaissance genius.
Marcel Duchamp | Museum of Modern Art
- Until 22 Aug ’26
- 11 W 53rd St
- moma.org
A focused presentation revisiting Duchamp’s radical conceptual legacy and its continuing influence on contemporary practice.
Whitney Biennial | Whitney Museum
- Until 23 Aug ’26
- 99 Gansevoort Street
- whitney.org
The eighty-second Whitney Biennial – the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States – brings together 56 artists, duos, and collectives whose work reflects the present moment through themes of connection—from family and geopolitics to technology, ecology, and shared mythologies.
New Humans | New Museum
- Ongoing
- 235 Bowery
- newmuseum.org
Spread across the New Museum’s newly expanded building, New Humans: Memories of the Future plunges you into a dizzying world of cyborgs, surreal bodies, AI anxieties, and sci-fi fantasies, tracing how artists have imagined — and feared — the future of humanity for over a century.
Iris Van Herpen | Brooklyn Museum
- Until 6 Dec ’26
- 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
- brooklynmuseum.org
After Paris and Rotterdam, Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen’s show travels to the USA. Explore the fluidity of water, the physics of motion, the perception of sound and light, and nature’s profound interconnectedness. One not to miss!
UPTOWN GALLERIES
Tom Sachs | Salon 94
- Until 20 June ‘26
- 3 E 89th St
- salon94.com
Functional sculpture and furniture systems merging craft, design, and conceptual process. This place is definitely worth a visit.
David Hammons + Jannis Kounellis | White Cube
- Until 13 June ’26
- 1002 Madison Avenue
- whitecube.com
A rare dialogue between two major postwar figures exploring material, ritual, and artistic resistance.
Marcel Duchamp | Gagosian
- Until 14 Mar ’26
- 980 Madison Avenue
- gagosian.com
Still can’t get enough Duchamp after the MoMA exhibition? Here, you’ll find all of his iconic ready-mades gathered together in a single room.
Set in Stone | David Zwirner
- Until 26 June ‘26
- 34 E 69th St
- davidzwirner.com
At Zwirner’s uptown townhouse, Set in Stone stages an unexpectedly elegant dialogue between contemporary paintings and sculpture and centuries-old hardstone objects.
ART FIX TIP:
Adam Cvijanovic | St Patrick’s Cathedral
- 5th Avenue between 50th & 51st St
- saintpatrickscathedral.org
Cvijanovic’s monumental new mural What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding, transforms the cathedral entrance into a deeply human tableau of past and present immigrant arriving to New York — remarkably, the first major permanent art commission there in almost 150 years.
UPTOWN RESTAURANTS
Maman
- 1424 3rd Ave, between 80th and 81st St
- mamannyc.com
Maman is a café, bakery, restaurant, and has the best coffee in the Upper East Side.
E.A.T. | Upper East Side
- 1064 Madison Avenue, between 80th and 81st St
- e-a-t.nyc
Pick up a sandwich or grab a quick salad.
Art Fix tip: there is a great gift store right next door.
Sant Ambroeus
- 1000 Madison Ave, between 78th and 77th St
- santambroeus.com
In the mood for pasta? Sant Ambroeus is a chic uptown Italian spot, just steps away from White Cube Gallery.
Marcel
- 945 Madison Ave, between 74th and 75th St
- sothebys.com
Inside Sotheby’s iconic Breuer building, you’ll find Marcel — currently one of the hottest spots Uptown — on the lower level, where candlelit French dining unfolds among museum-worthy artworks, brutalist architecture, and tables filled with uptown New Yorkers.
Mezzaluna
- 1295 3rd Ave, between 74th and 75th St
- mezzalunanyc.com
Mezzaluna is the kind of classic neighborhood Italian where longtime locals gather for comforting pasta, strong martinis, and the feeling that little has changed in the best possible way.
Up Thai
- 1411 2nd Ave, between 73rd and 74th St
- upthainyc.com
Bold Thai flavors, generous portions, and a buzzing energy make it the perfect casual spot after a long day of gallery hopping.
Photo: Celina Prentiss
Marlow
- 1022 Lexington Av, between 72nd and 73rd St
- marloweast.com
The chic Upper East Side restaurant where everyone suddenly wants a reservation at after its appearance in The Devil Wears Prada 2, where Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reunite over martinis and the now-famous $14 potato wedges.
CHELSEA GALLERIES
Tuan Andrew Nguyen | The High Line
- Until Fall ’27
- 30th St. and 10th Ave
- thehighline.org
This towering, 27-foot sandstone sculpture pays homage to the Bamiyan Buddhas, two 6th-century colossal statues in central Afghanistan that were tragically destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 in an act of iconoclasm.
Julian Schnabel | Pace
- Until 14 Aug ’26
- 540 W 25th Street
- pacegallery.com
Schnabel fills the gallery with monumental map drawings and textured plate paintings inspired by Italy’s umbrella pines.
David Hockney | Pace
- Until 14 Aug ’26
- 540 W 25th Street
- pacegallery.com
A dialogue between two distinct painterly approaches to perception and image-making.
Giuseppe Penone | Gagosian
- Until 2 July ’26
- 555 W 24th Street
- gagosian.com
This was one of our favorite shows of this season. Penone transforms bronze into something strangely alive, filling the gallery with sculptures out of trees, that feel suspended between mythology, skin, and the slow passage of time.
Danielle Mckinney | Marianne Boesky
- Until 13 June ’26
- 509 W 24th St
- marianneboeskygallery.com
So happy to see new work by one of Art Fix’s favorites, Danielle Mckinney: dreamlike paintings and watercolors of solitary women drifting through lush, intimate interiors.
Erwin Wurm | Lehmann Maupin
- Until 6 June ’26
- 501 West 24th Street
- lehmannmaupin.com
Erwin Wurm once again balances absurdity and existential unease, turning everyday objects and distorted bodies into sculptures that are both hilarious and strangely unsettling.
Katharina Fritsch | Matthew Marks
- Until 27 June ’26
- 522 West 22nd Street
- matthewmarks.com
Monumental sculptures and hyper-precise objects transform the familiar into something strangely unsettling, balancing playfulness with an almost psychological intensity.
Firelei Báez | Hauser & Wirth
- Until 31 July ’26
- 542 W 22nd
- hauserwirth.com
This is the show everyone in New York seems to be talking about right now: lush, layered paintings and sculptural interventions in which Caribbean histories, mythology, and diasporic identities collide. Our favorite was the eight-panel painting that stretches across the entire back wall of the gallery.
Sam Falls | 303 Gallery
- Until 30 May ’26
- 555 W 21st Street
- 303gallery.com
We love the new direction Fall’s work is taking: beautiful ceramic tile tableaux from which flowers seem to emerge. He also returns to traditional photography, weaving it into his signature plein-air process in which sunlight, rain, and time itself merge into poetic works.
Mark Manders | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
- Until 31 July ‘26
- 521 West 21st Street
- tanyabonakdargallery.com
Amid a strangely suspended world of fragmented bronze heads and quiet sculptural landscapes, we were especially moved to see Monument again — a tribute to Manders’ mother and to the invisible grief people quietly carry with them.
Helen Frankenthaler | Gagosian
- Until 2 July ‘26
- 522 West 21st Street
- gagosian.com
An impressive survey of monumental canvases tracing Helen Frankenthaler’s lasting influence on postwar abstraction — from her luminous soak-stain paintings to vast, atmospheric fields of color that still feel radically fresh today.
Pacita Abad | Tina Kim
- Until 20 June ’26
- 525 West 21st Street
- tinakimgallery.com
Abad transforms memories of Yemen into vibrant, highly textured paintings with padded surfaces that almost burst off the wall, drawing inspiration from painted doors and stained-glass windows to turn the gallery into a riot of color, texture, and architectural rhythm.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Jack Shainman
- Until 31 July ’26
- 513 West 20th St
- jackshainman.com
Walking through Jack Shainman Gallery feels like stepping into Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s quiet, introspective world, where her new paintings and works on paper are filled with beautiful, psychologically charged portraits.
John Armleder | David Kordansky Gallery
- Until 13 June ’26
- 520 West 20th St.
- davidkordanskygallery.com
Iconic “Furniture Sculptures,” where abstract paintings, disco-ball surfaces, vintage furniture, and everyday objects collide.
Gerhard Richter | David Zwirner
- Until 10 July ’26
- 537 West 20th St
- davidzwirner.com
An impressive Richter exhibition pairing his misty photorealist landscapes with abstract paintings, revealing the full range of his ability.
Lisa Yuskavage | David Zwirner
- Until 26 June ’26
- 533 West 19th St
- davidzwirner.com
Expect seductive paintings in which exaggerated figures, glowing color fields, and surreal studio scenes blur the line between fantasy, intimacy, and discomfort.
CHELSEA RESTAURANTS
Bottino
- 246 10th Av, between 24th and 25th St
- bottinonyc.com
The best Italian in Chelsea, with a great garden.
Cookshop
- 156 10th Av, between 19th and 20th St
- cookshopny.com
This remains one of our favorite Chelsea classics, especially on a sunny day when its buzzing terrace on 10th Avenue turns into the perfect spot for long lunches, people-watching, and seasonal comfort food.
Jack’s Wife Freda
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116 8th Ave, between 15th and 16th St
- jackswifefreda.com
Jack’s Wife Freda in Chelsea is the perfect blend of cozy and chic. The vibe is always buzzing, making it a great spot for brunch with friends or a casual date night. Don’t miss the peri-peri chicken or the iconic green shakshuka!
SOHO GALLERIES
Alison Katz | Hauser & Wirth
- Until 24 July ’26
- 134 Wooster St
- hauserwirth.com
Katz’s turns painting into a slippery game of memory, wordplay and self-portraiture, where mouths, museum interiors and everyday fragments collide in richly layered, psychologically charged canvases.
Rae Klein | Nicodim Gallery
- Until 13 June ’26
- 15 Greene St
- nicodimgallery.com
Moving through this show feels like drifting through a dreamscape of fractured identities and uncanny encounters, where every painting seems to reveal a different emotional mask beneath the surface.
Jess Allen | Nino Mier
- Until 13 June ’26
- 62 Broome St
- miergallery.com
Bathed in dusky light and elongated shadows, the exhibition turns ordinary interiors into emotionally charged spaces where memory, absence and quiet intimacy seem to hang suspended in time.
SOHO RESTAURANTS
Carbone
- 181 Thompson Street , between Bleecker & Houston
- carbonenewyork.com
Tuxedoed waiters, spicy rigatoni vodka, old-school Italian glamour, and a candlelit dining room where it feels like half the city’s fashion, art, and celebrity world is trying to get a table.
Or’esh
- 323 West Broadway, between Houston and Prince St
- oresh.com
Michelin-starred chef Nadav Greenberg brings Levantine cooking into a glamorous New York setting, where everything revolves around live fire, in a dining room glowing with warm ember-like tones.
Manuela | SoHo
- 130 Prince St
- manuela-nyc.com
The latest branch of Hauser & Wirth’s growing empire, Manuela serves up artfully crafted dishes that feel as vibrant and inventive as the gallery’s exhibitions—a delicious masterpiece in every bite!
Café Mulberry
- 73 Mulberry St, between Prince and Spring St
- cafemulberrynyc.com
A tiny slice of Paris hidden in Soho, where long candlelit lunches slowly turn into late-night dinners beneath black-and-white photographs and the hum of downtown New York.
Rintintin
- 14 Spring St, between Prince and Spring St
- rintintinnyc
Tucked away on a Nolita corner, Rintintin has the effortless energy of a sun-drenched Mediterranean café, where natural wine, crowded sidewalk tables, and late dinners make you forget you’re still in downtown Manhattan.
Antique Garage
- 41 Mercer St, between Broome and Grand St
- antiquegaragesoho.com
Hidden inside a converted mechanic’s garage, Antique Garage feels like stepping into an old New York movie set, with candlelight, vintage chandeliers, live jazz, and Mediterranean dishes made for outdoor lunches and long lingering dinners.
La Mercerie
- 53 Howard St, between Mercer St and Broadway
- lamercerie-homepage
It feels like dining inside a beautifully curated Parisian design dream.
TRIBECA AND LOWER EAST SIDE GALLERIES
Statics of an Egg | David Zwirner
- Until 27 June ’26
- 52 Walker St
- davidzwirner.com
Bringing together multimedia works by contemporary Japanese-born artists alongside influential pioneers from earlier generations, the exhibition explores gravity as both a physical force and an emotional weight tied to memory, history and Japan’s shifting social realities.
Fred Tomaselli | James Cohan
- Until 27 June ’26
- 48 Walker St
- jamescohan.com
The exhibition bursts with hallucinatory flowers, spiraling patterns and collaged fragments of newspaper headlines.
Julie Mehretu | Marian Goodman
- Until 6 June ’26
- 385 Broadway
- mariangoodman.com
Dark, layered and almost cinematic, the exhibition surrounds you with shimmering black paintings and suspended translucent works.
Quarters
- 383 Broadway, Floor 2
- shopquarters.com
Quarters is a concept store – styled as a residence – tucked away in a historic Tribeca loft.
Marin Majem | Nino Mier
- Until 13 June ’26
- 380 Broadway
- miergallery.com
Expect dreamlike paintings with blurred figures, cinematic nightscapes and layered textures.
Keith Haring | 60 White
- Until
- 60 White St
- sixtywhite.com
Bringing together works made in New York and abroad, this exhibition traces how Keith Haring transformed the energy of downtown New York — from the subway to the legendary DV8 nightclub recreated in the show — into a universal visual language rooted in art, music, nightlife and accessibility.
Francesca Mollett | Grimm
- Until 18 June ’26
- 54 White Street
- grimmgallery.com
An exhibition of atmospheric paintings where shifting planes of light, shadow and abstraction evoke fleeting moods, memories and sensations almost like changing weather.
Janet Werner | Anat Ebgi
- Until 13 June ’26
- 372 Broadway
- anatebgi.com
The exhibition focuses on Werner’s longstanding investigations in female portraiture that draw from both fashion imagery and art historical references.
Debbie Lawson | Sargent’s daughters
- Until 30 May ’26
- 370 Broadway
- sargentsdaughters.com
A surreal exhibition where life-sized animals appear to emerge from richly patterned carpets, blurring the line between decoration, wilderness and domestic fantasy.
Alejandro Cardenas | Almine Rech
- Until 13 June
- 361 Broadway
- alminerech.com
Cardenas otherworldly paintings are inhibited by hybrid figures and tangled dreamscapes where mythology, science fiction and psychological tension collide.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Jack Shainman
- Until 31 July ’26
- 46 Lafayette Street
- jackshainman.com
Our favorite gallery in Tribeca: housed in a former bank with breathtaking floor-to-ceiling marble interiors, it is now showing a beautiful exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Philip Akkerman | Long Story Short
- Until 21 June ’26
- 52 Henry St
- lss.gallery
Philip Akkerman’s new show, features the latest chapter in his remarkable four-decade-long exploration of the self-portrait — endlessly shifting in style, mood and technique, yet always returning to the same face.
TRIBECA & LOWER EAST SIDE RESTAURANTS
Locanda Verde
- 377 Greenwich Street
- locandaverdenyc.com
TriBeCa soul-satisfying hot spot showcasing rustic Italian cuisine.
Bubby’s
- 120 Hudson St
- bubbys.com
For the ultimate New York comfort-food experience, head to Bubby’s — where fluffy pancakes, homemade pies and old-school diner nostalgia attract everyone from downtown creatives to the ghosts of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
The Odeon
- 145 West Broadway
- theodeonrestaurant.com
A true New York classic where artists, actors and downtown regulars have been gathering for late-night steak frites, martinis and people-watching since the 1980s.
Nine Orchard
- 9 Orchard Street
- nineorchard.com
In the heart of Downtown New York we highly recommend this new elegant but relaxed hotel housed in a landmark restored building.
Corner Bar & Swan Room: in the mood for some bistro dishes? Head over to the Corner Bar at Nine Orchard, make sure you have a drink at the very swanky Swan Room before dinner.
Casino
- 377 Greenwich Street
- locandaverdenyc.com
TriBeCa soul-satisfying hot spot showcasing rustic Italian cuisine.
