Amant fosters slowed-down experimentation and dialogue through temporary exhibitions, public programs, and artist residencies.

Late Evening at Amant, Friday May 6, 5-8pm
Exhibition Tour by director Ruth Estévez at 6:30pm

Carla Zaccagnini: Cuentos de cuentas/ Accounts of Accounting


The first US solo show of Argentinian-Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini, comprising drawings, film and video installations and newly commissioned site-specific sculptures. Main themes in the exhibition are migration, storytelling, memory, economic instability.



This video work by UK-artist Olivia Plender about a 1913 play by suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst revisits and broadens questions around the struggle for voting access, and against racism and imperialism.


Amant

 examines themes such as life and death, power and desire, the role and representation of women, Renaissance imagery, family and immigrant traditions and rituals, depictions and duplications of Christ, and the Catholic body and queer desire. Among the more than one hundred objects on view are rare source materials and newly discovered items that provide a fresh and intimate look at Warhol's creative process, as well as major paintings from his epic Last Supper series (1986), the experimental film The Chelsea Girls (1966), an unfinished film depicting the setting sun, commissioned by the de Menil family and funded by the Roman Catholic Church, and drawings created by Warhol’s mother, Julia Warhola, when she lived with her son in New York City.


Brooklyn Museum

Christie’s

Creative Time is a public arts organization that works with artists to contribute to the dialogues, debates, and dreams of our times.

May 6-8
At the onset of the pandemic, artist Jill Magid introduced into the US economy 120,000 pennies engraved with the phrase “The Body Was Already So Fragile.” The modified coins, amounting to a single stimulus check, are expected to circulate for roughly 40 years: an enduring and dispersed monument to the year 2020. For 

, Magid materializes this ephemeral gesture—making connections between the circulation of wealth, disease, care, and labor—in an immersive, site specific installation with live score and sound installation created by T. Griffin and Eric Sluyter, in Brooklyn’s historic Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh, at the Dime.


Creative Time

From the start of her career in the mid-1990s, Fernanda Laguna (b. 1972, Buenos Aires) has charted her own artistic path, making artworks with a unique visual style through a feminist lens. Featuring almost sixty works that span three decades, 

 is the first major survey to focus on Laguna’s expansive drawing practice. The exhibition highlights Laguna’s understanding of art as a language that communicates emotions and foregrounds the role of drawing in an oeuvre that includes Laguna’s work as a visual artist, and also as a writer, curator, activist, and cultural agitator. Fundamental to Laguna’s multifaceted practice is the cultivation of community. In her words, “Art manifests in people; if there are no people, there is no art.”

Comprising nearly a hundred works on paper by thirteen artists from ten different countries, 

 explores how a new generation of artists is placing drawing at the center of contemporary art discourse. The exhibition brings together works on paper by some of today’s most significant artistic voices, including Michael Armitage, Javier Barrios, Jesse Darling, Maren Karlson, Christine Sun Kim, Helen Marten, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Julien Nguyen, Sanou Oumar, Walter Price, Florencia Rodríguez Giles, Johanna Unzueta, and He Xiangyu.

The Drawing Center

The New Exhibition for a Collaborative Art Market

May 5-7
Future Fair grew out of the desire to build a capsule sized exhibition for galleries who participate in a global art market. Focused on transparency and equitability, we believe that through innovative, direct collaboration with and between exhibitors we can build a stronger community that moves artists and galleries forward.


Future Fair

Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaborations. With its constellation of architecturally and culturally distinct museums, exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, the foundation engages both local and global audiences.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

May 6-8
Independent returns to Spring Studios in Tribeca for its 13th edition featuring 67 international presentations by over 200 leading contemporary artists.

Independent

 tells the story of the Ephrussi family—celebrated in the 2010 memoir and The New York Times bestseller of the same name by Edmund de Waal—and showcases the breadth and depth of their illustrious collection. The exhibition, on view at The Jewish Museum from November 19, 2021 through May 15, 2022, explores the family’s rise to prominence and splendor in the first half of the nineteenth century, followed by a focus on the prolific collector and historian of art, Charles Ephrussi, to the inter-war years, and finally World War II, when the family lost its fortune and collection to Nazi looting.

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running


This exhibition explores the breadth and import of Mekas’s life, art, and legacy in the field of the moving image. Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, the exhibition surveys Mekas’s 70-year career and includes 11 films presented in an immersive environment, photography, and previously unseen archival materials.


The Jewish Museum 

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

 presents the work of one of the most important artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This exhibition unites sculptures from every period of Ray’s career with key photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, exploring central aspects of his challenging and sometimes provocative oeuvre. It also brings together for the first time all the works that Ray loosely patterned on Mark Twain’s 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Located at The Met, whose collection the artist has studied closely for many years, 

 features a suite of judiciously placed works whose arrangement in space forges subtle connections between objects and viewers. Similar to a scholar’s stone, which is meant to facilitate and prolong thoughtful contemplation, Ray’s sculpture poses many trenchant questions but answers none directly.


 is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in the late 1940s. While Bourgeois is best known today as a sculptor, it is in this early body of work—created in the decade spanning World War II—that her artistic voice emerged, establishing a core group of visual motifs that she would continue to explore and develop over the course of her celebrated, decades-long career. Informed by new archival research, the exhibition sheds light on a little-known chapter in the artist’s practice.


Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room


This project has roots in the homes of Seneca Village, of which only a fragmented history remains. Like other period rooms throughout the Museum, this installation is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings to create an illusion of authenticity. Unlike these other spaces, this room rejects the notion of one historical period and embraces the African and African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected and that informed speculation may uncover many possibilities. Powered by Afrofuturism—a transdisciplinary creative mode that centers Black imagination, excellence, and self-determination—this construction is only one proposition for what might have been, had Seneca Village been allowed to thrive into the present and beyond.


 (2007) is an installation of eight synchronized video projections that play on a thirty-two-minute loop. The work is a constellation of accounts of women who have experienced sexual violence. Beginning with the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, it spans several regions and communities and ends with the historic anti-rape protests in Manipur in 2004.


The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY), this exhibition presents the work of a singular voice in photography today. For more than 15 years, Lawson has been exploring and challenging conventional representations of Black life through photography, drawing on a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, documentary pictures, and appropriated images.

MoMA P.S.1

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.

May 5-8
The New Art Dealers Alliance is pleased to present the 8th edition of NADA New York, returning to the Lower East Side May 5-8, 2022 at Pier 36. The non-profit membership association's flagship art fair features over 120 galleries and art spaces from its international community.

NADA New York 2022 will also feature NADA Presents, the organization’s signature programming series of conversations, performances, and events. Participants and schedule to be announced.

NADA New York

The New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. Founded in 1977, it is Manhattan's only dedicated contemporary art museum and is respected internationally for the adventurousness and global scope of its curatorial program.

Artist, author, educator, and activist, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential figures of her generation, with a career linking the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. This comprehensive retrospective includes nearly sixty years of Ringgold’s work, including the first full presentation of her historic French Collection in over twenty years. Experience the art of an American icon.

Daniel Lie uses organic materials to create largescale installations that simultaneously grow and decay. 

 (2022), a commission created for the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery, incorporates materials like jute hemp fabric, straw hay bales, mud with spores and seeds, and thousands of cut flowers that will evolve in unpredictable ways. Lie understands their works to be living entities endowed with awareness and agency, and considers the process of rotting as a way to complicate the binary opposition between life and death.

New Museum

Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum


Spanning more than 100 years of photography, the works in 

Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum

 range from Frances Benjamin Johnston’s early documentary photographs of racially segregated education in turn-of-the-century United States, to a contemporary portrait by Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero that celebrates the specificity of Indigenous art forms. A tribute to the generosity of collector Helen Kornblum, Our Selves features women’s contributions to a diversity of practices, including portraiture, photojournalism, social documentary, avant-garde experimentation, advertising, and performance.


Museum of Modern Art

Over the last 42 years, Performance Space New York has been propelling cultural, theoretical, and political discourse forward. Together with our artists and communities, we present interdisciplinary works that dissolve the borders of performance art, dance, theater, music, visual art, poetry and prose, ritual, nightlife, food, film, and technology. We are committed to centering those who have been historically excluded from spaces like ours.

 is the latest multidisciplinary opera by Colin Self. In keeping with the artist’s previous works, it foregrounds its own making as a collaborative group process. Originating from a manuscript, the work mutates through collective authorship by the five collaborators and at points even extends to the public joining XOIR, Self’s experimental methodology for group singing. 

 relies on Polari – an underground, queer language created in the UK at a time in which homosexuality was punishable by law. The encrypted language embraces illegibility and opacity as unique forms of queer creativity, community, and survival. The opera echoes an aesthetic embodied by the story of travesti performer Vera De Vienne, who has performed in Europe for the last 50 years as a gender illusionist. Equal parts cacophony and symphony, call and response, catharsis and rehearsal 

With Geo Wyeth, Bully Fae Collins, Mica Sigourney, and Dia Dear

Performance Space New York

Phillips is a leading global platform for buying and selling 20th and 21st century art and design. With dedicated expertise in the areas of 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Design, Photographs, Editions, Watches, and Jewelry, Phillips offers professional services and advice on all aspects of collecting.

Preview of May 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sales

Phillips is proud to present the auction preview for our 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sales. The exhibition will feature a monumental Basquiat from the collection of Yusaku Maezawa, alongside works by Warhol, Calder, Wong, and more.

Phillips

The Queens Museum is a home for the production and presentation of great art, intimately connected to our community and to the history of our site.

Suzanne Lacy: The Medium is Not the Only Message

The Queens Museum is pleased to announce a major, thematic presentation of Suzanne Lacy. 

 traces nearly 50 years of pioneering work by the artist, whose practice infuses community organizing strategies and interventions to undo stigmas and subvert oppressive norms, particularly in the realms of feminism, violence against women, racism, gender identity, and aging. In leveraging its network of local organizations, this presentation of Lacy’s work will reveal new depths to her socially engaged work.

The Queens Museum is pleased to announce its presentation of 

, the first institutional survey of the transmedia artist, Stephanie Dinkins, on view March 13-August 14, 2022, in partnership with Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan. 

 addresses urgent questions about the current state of technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence. In exposing the hierarchies and biases embedded in these systems, particularly as they pertain to race, class, gender and one’s individual agency, Dinkins invites the public to participate in creating a more equitable and inclusive vision of the technology that governs our lives.

Christine Sun Kim: Time Owes Me Rest Again


The Queens Museum is pleased to announce 

, a mural by Christine Sun Kim presented on the monumental wall encasing the Panorama of the City of New York. Reenacting the physical and psychological articulation of ASL, this site-specific work surfaces the societal and systemic inequity that persists between Deaf communities and the hearing power structures. 

 also reflects upon the unease and fatigue induced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

Queens Museum

SculptureCenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture's specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter provides an international forum that connects artists and audiences by presenting exhibitions, commissioning new work, and generating scholarship.

Lydia Ourahmane’s works often begin as large, open-ended propositions that find the edges of possibility within the political, environmental, and metaphysical conditions in which she works. For her first institutional solo exhibition in New York, Ourahmane and a group of collaborators will produce a new moving image work and a series of scans that draw from a journey on foot in Tassili n’Ajjer, a largely inaccessible plateau near the border between southeastern Algeria and Libya. Tassili N’Ajjer is host to thousands of prehistoric engravings and cave paintings that describe the transformation of life in the region over thousands of years. Scenes of conflict and ritual submit to a drastically altered ecological landscape, now an arid and inhospitable expanse of desert.

This year's edition of SculptureCenter's signature open call program, is an exhibition of new works and artistic meditations that consider an expanded notion of the ruin that includes social tradition as much as physical infrastructure. From built environments and structures of circulation, to protocols and belief systems that shape social and political subjects, infrastructures are in a constant generative friction with decay. Featuring newly commissioned works by eleven artists: Marco Barrera, Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Violet Dennison, Enrique Garcia, Ignacio Gatica, Cherisse Gray, Jessica Kairé, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Alan Martín Segal, Stella Zhong, and Monsieur Zohore.


SculptureCenter

Established in 1744, Sotheby’s is the world’s largest, most trusted and dynamic marketplace for art and luxury. We empower our international community of collectors and connoisseurs to discover, acquire, finance and consign fine art and rare objects.

The Macklowe Collection
The New York Sales of Modern & Contemporary Art


The Macklowe Collection is an exemplary vision of connoisseurship: a peerless collection of rare and iconic masterworks from the 20th and 21st centuries. The result of decades of inquiry and pursuit, the Collection is driven by an innate understanding of quality and the patience to pursue the very best from each artist, creating a collection of unparalleled importance.



The New York Sales at Sotheby’s this May present a series of auctions showcasing masterworks spanning over a century of artistic production. The sales showcase the major artistic movements of the 20th and 21st century from the innovations of the Impressionists to the groundbreaking works by young and emerging artists working today.


Sotheby's

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.

 marks the British sculptor’s first US solo institutional presentation. Price’s nine-foot bronze figure, 

 (2021), is sited within Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park and depicts a young Black man looking down at his cell phone. The artist’s large-scale figural sculptures are inspired by real people, often those who live and work in his hometown of South London, where Price was born and raised, and resides today. With 

, Price continues his exploration of blackness and Black masculinity at monumental scales.


The Studio Museum in Harlem

Swiss Institute (SI) is an independent non-profit contemporary art institution dedicated to promoting forward-thinking and experimental art making through innovative exhibitions, education, and programs. Committed to the highest standards of curatorial and educational excellence, SI serves as a platform for emerging artists, catalyzes new perspectives on celebrated work, and fosters appreciation for under-recognized positions. SI is committed to being an organization that is diverse, equitable, and accessible in its work, structure, and programming. Open to the public free-of-charge, Swiss Institute seeks to explore how a Swiss context can be the starting point for international conversations in the fields of visual and performing arts, design, and architecture.


For his first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, SI will present a career-spanning survey of Swiss artist Walter Pfeiffer (b. 1946, Beggingen; lives and works in Zurich). Widely renowned as both a seminal figure of 1970s queer photography and a preeminent fashion photographer, elements of Pfeiffer’s interdisciplinary artistic practice can be traced back to Zurich’s Dada movement and the influential graphic design of Josef Müller-Brockmann. Rarely exhibited, Pfeiffer’s drawings and paintings are, like his photographs, colorful, playful and bold. The survey assumes a holistic approach, including little known photographic series, drawings, paintings and never-before-seen archival material to reassess Pfeiffer’s highly consequential, mirthful and surprising visual lexicon.


ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (

) is a solo exhibition by Shen Xin featuring a newly commissioned installation and prints that center restorative practices concerning Tibetan language through performativity, land and family histories. Shen Xin’s work as a moving image artist often explores potential relations outside of nationalistic belonging. Their recent research focuses on historical, contemporary and future acknowledgment of multitudes in the self and the other, specifically the interrelationship between culture and ecology. Positioned in the center of the Lower Level Gallery, ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (

) is a three-channel video and sound installation consisting of a film with subtitles in Tibetan and English. A projected image is visible on both sides of a floor-to-ceiling screen, dividing the room into two viewing spaces, with text projected on the ground of each side. Using stage lighting, the image depicts a day’s passing in each of the four seasons. The audio presence and subtitles are reflections on the recorded imagery by Shen Xin together with their Tibetan language teacher Ji Ta Zong སྐྱིད་དར་འཛོམས།, who make verbal the movement of light and color through conversation in the process of teaching and learning Tibetan.

For Shen, the learning of Tibetan language is a form of reconciliation with one’s possibility of being a multitude, which resembles acts of looking through time. The words used to describe the four seasons in Tibetan affirm the relational understanding of changing time in sensory forms, and the practice of translation inherits simultaneously a reclaiming and a continuation of the relationship with one’s ancestral language.


Swiss Institute

May 6 - 10
As the world’s most prestigious and vibrant art market, New York City provides the ideal setting for a TEFAF fair outside of Maastricht. We are proud to present the eighth edition of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory. The historic Park Avenue Armory is a prime Manhattan location and setting for the world’s leading art dealers to showcase their work.

TEFAF New York

As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists.

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept

, on view April 6 through September 5. Surveying the landscape of American art and shaping the cultural conversation since 1932, the eightieth edition of the landmark Biennial features an intergenerational and interdisciplinary group of sixty-three artists and collectives whose dynamic works reflect the challenges, complexities, and possibilities of the American experience today.


The Whitney Museum of American Art

Independent HQ is proud to announce their renewed support for New York Art Week.