Your guide to all things art in New York City
Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue (Gallery 521) from June 16, 2025, to January 4, 2026, Making It Modern celebrates Dr. Martin Eidelberg’s generous gift of approximately 80 European ceramic works dating from the 1880s to the 1910s. The exhibition highlights a transformative era in ceramic history, marked by a surge of artistic innovation and a push for individual expression that helped define modern European design.
Pablo Picasso: Still Life
Over forty works from Pablo Picasso’s personal collection—some never before shown publicly—are brought together for the first time in a focused survey of his still life practice from 1908 to 1962. Featuring both paintings and drawings, the exhibition highlights the pivotal role still life played in the emergence and development of Cubism. As biographer John Richardson noted, “still life is the genre that Picasso would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history.” On view at Almine Rech, New York, from May 1 to July 18, 2025.
Takashi Murakami: Japonism, Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige
On view are 121 paintings by Takashi Murakami, created in response to Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (1856–58), a series of prints showing life in a changing city. Murakami adds his own characters and elements from other ukiyo-e works to these vibrant interpretations. The exhibition also includes his recent works that reimagine European Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, highlighting the influence of Japanese art on Western artists during the Japonisme movement, which began after Japan reopened to global trade in 1853. On View at Gagosian West 21st St New York, May 8, 2025 to July 12, 2025.
Heinz Mack: From ZERO until Today
Since the late 1950s, Heinz Mack has explored how light and movement can create visual effects in art. For him, brightness is more than a natural element, it also reflects deeper themes of life and death, shaped by the impact of two world wars and the threat of nuclear conflict. These ideas were central to the ZERO movement, which Mack co-founded. The group saw “zero” as a symbol of new beginnings, like the final moment before a rocket launch, and used their work to imagine fresh possibilities for art and life. On view at Almine Rech, Tribeca, New York, from May 9, 2025 till June 14, 2025.
Atsuko Tanaka & Yayoi Kusama: Parallel Visions
Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama brings together two of Japan’s most important and groundbreaking artists. The exhibition includes works on canvas and paper from across Tanaka’s career, along with early mixed-media pieces by Kusama. It offers a chance to explore how both artists developed their own unique styles while working in postwar abstract art. On view from May 8, 2025 till June 14, 2025, MoMA.
Featuring Image Courtesy: Almine Rech
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