"Did you know that an exhibition opens every 17 seconds in New York City? Just kidding, but it certainly does seem that way here, as though art shows were sprouting from the pavement or falling from the sky. They are, in reality, the result of the labor and love of artists, curators, administrators, interns, scholars, and the countless others we celebrate in our list of the city's best exhibitions of 2025."
"Read: The Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025 Shows this year spotlighted hometown heroes, like Coco Fusco at El Museo and Joyce McDonald at the Bronx Museum. They reinvented the sublime - think Amy Sherald at the Whitney - and explored the body as battleground, like Nayland Blake at Matthew Marks. And thanks to Iván Argote at the High Line, one divisive NYC icon - the pigeon - finally got its due."
New York City presented a dense season of 2025 exhibitions spotlighting hometown artists such as Coco Fusco and Joyce McDonald while rethinking the sublime through figures like Amy Sherald. Several exhibitions probed the body as battleground, with shows by Nayland Blake and others foregrounding embodied politics. Public and site-specific work, including Iván Argote's pigeon intervention on the High Line, addressed urban iconography. Institutional strain surfaced around museum projects and leadership, and media-arts infrastructure showed fragility as actions affecting the Video Data Bank signaled unstable funding. Reports also documented the deliberate use of sound as a weapon against Palestinians in Gaza.
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