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Your Ultimate Guide to NYC’s May Art Fairs
Spring is here and it’s time to look ahead to the art fair endurance test that is May in New York.
This year, May 5–12 will mark the inaugural “New York Art Week,” a citywide initiative involving a consortium of museums, nonprofit art organizations, auction houses, and four art fairs: Future Fair, NADA New York, Independent Art Fair, and TEFAF New York.
Next up, from May 18–22, is Frieze Week, a battery of art fairs including, of course, Frieze New York (later in the month than usual), along with VOLTA New York, 1-54 New York, and The Photography Show. There is so much to see in these weeks; enjoy it.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2022
This month, Hélio Oiticica’s radical plans for an immersive outdoor sculptural installation conceived in 1971 are finally realized; intertwined corporeal shapeshifters Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge are honored with their first major posthumous solo exhibition; and six decades of Cecilia Vicuña’s work across media will be on view in — bafflingly — her inaugural New York museum solo show.
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K2 Friday Nights Are Back at the Rubin Museum
The after-hours program makes a comeback with free admission to all galleries, exhibition tours, special cocktails, DJ sets, and more. Learn more.
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CLOSING SOON
Justin Sterling, “The End’s Beginning” (2019) (photo by Tere Garcia, courtesy the Latinx Project)
Building Radical Soil
Latinx Project through May 5
Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts and Photography MFA 2022 Thesis Exhibition
Pfizer Building through May 6
Dana Lok: Part and Parse
Miguel Abreu Gallery through May 7
Kia LaBeija: prepare my heart
Fotografiska New York through May 8
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection
Asia Society Museum through May 8
ON VIEW
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
Americas Society through May 14
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 15
Nadia Haji Omar: Secret Garden
Kristen Lorello gallery through May 27
Lucy Mullican: Sensed As Well As Seen
Olympia through May 21
