"In case the weather didn't clue you in, it's that time again - the season of year-end lists! From Amy Sherald and Caspar David Friedrich's very different takes on the sublime to the art historical interventions of Deborah Kass and Alexis Rockman to the imagined worlds of Kelly Sinnapah Mary and Madalena Santos Reinbolt, we've rounded up more than 30 of our favorite shows of 2025. (I'm partial, I have to admit, to that giant pigeon on the High Line.)"
"Clara Maria Apostolatos Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream at the Museum of Modern Art "The show reads as a corrective - an institutional acknowledgement that Lam's work cannot be understood outside the contexts of diaspora, colonial history, and cultural negotiation that the museum itself once avoided." Read the full review Hakim Bishara"
"Katherine Bradford: Communal Table at Canada Gallery "Moons cycle, suns go up and down, waves rise and crash. Fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, and friends and foes swim, fly, float, deliberate, commune, and cope." Read the full review Natalie Haddad Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena at the Drawing Center "By combining concepts that are overlapping but distinct - extraterrestrial life and paranormal phenomena - it dilutes both, and it doesn't commit enough to the captivating weirdness of either." Read the full review"
The season of year-end lists coincides with a roundup of more than thirty notable New York City exhibitions from 2025. Exhibitions range from Amy Sherald and Caspar David Friedrich's differing takes on the sublime to Deborah Kass and Alexis Rockman's art historical interventions and to the imagined worlds of Kelly Sinnapah Mary and Madalena Santos Reinbolt. Critics offer concise appraisals, noting Wifredo Lam's work in the contexts of diaspora and colonial history, Katherine Bradford's communal cycles of figures and emotion, and a Drawing Center show that conflates UFO and paranormal topics with mixed results. A Judy Pfaff exhibition is described as bricolage combining precision and Surrealist chance.
Read at Hyperallergic
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