There’s a lot to stimulate the attention and thoughts in museums and galleries this week that it’s a pleasure to behold. I spent means an excessive amount of time marveling at Nineteen Seventies pocket book sketches by graffiti artists at White Columns, whereas our writers sought out awe-inspiring artists, previous and current, corresponding to Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Claudia Alarcón. In fact there’s loads to see proper right here within the metropolis, but it surely’s effectively price following the lead of Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief, Hrag Vartanian, to Montclair, New Jersey, to absorb the brilliance of Nanette Carter. And when you’re headed downtown to see artwork, cease into Andrew Kreps Gallery to take a look at Michael E. Smith’s solo exhibition. It ends this weekend. —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
Claudia Alarcón & Silät
James Cohan Gallery, 52 Walker Avenue, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough Could 10
Shut-up view of Claudia Alarcón & Silät, “Anochecer (Nay’I’j ta honatsi)” (Nightfall) (2024), hand-spun chaguar fibre, woven in yica sew (picture Gregory Volk/Hyperallergic)
“A profound connection with the environment that the Wichís have inhabited for millennia is palpable in these ambitious, deeply moving textiles.” —Gregory Volk
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The Unruly Dance of Kind
Fragment Gallery, 39 West 14th Avenue #308, West Village, ManhattanThrough Could 10
Element of Andrius Alvarez-Backus, “Warming Into My Entry Wounds” (2025) (picture Ho Gained Kim/Hyperallergic)
“Amid pervasive uncertainty, queerness emerges as a deliberate unraveling of solidity across the diverse works of eight artists.” —Ho Gained Kim
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Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3
White Columns, 91 Horatio Avenue, West Village, ManhattanThrough Could 17
Shasta 62/Earl – Earle Augustus, work from 1973, marker on canvas (picture Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
“[W]hat comes across most in the exhibition is the dynamic energy and creativity of the graffiti art.” —NH
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Nanette Carter: A Query of Stability
Montclair Artwork Museum, 3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New JerseyThrough July 6
A view of Nanette Carter’s massive “Afro Sentinels III” (2024) hung within the Montclair Artwork Museum (picture Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
“From the outset, Carter saw how art could bring together parts that may otherwise seem disparate to make things whole, and it’s obvious from this exhibition […].” —Hrag Vartanian
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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Jap Parkway, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThrough July 13
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, “Silence” (1926), marble; Museum of Artwork, Rhode Island Faculty of Design (picture Erik Gould)
“One accolade she coveted but didn’t receive in her lifetime was a solo exhibition. Nearly a century after she graduated from RISD, her dream has been fulfilled.” —Alexandra M. Thomas
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Natalie Haddad is Critiques Editor at Hyperallergic and an artwork author and historian. Natalie holds a PhD in Artwork Historical past, Concept and Criticism from the College of California San Diego and focuses on World…
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Alexandra M. Thomas is an assistant professor of artwork historical past at Fordham College. She writes and teaches black and queer feminist artwork histories of Africa and the African diaspora.
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Gregory Volk is a New York-based artwork critic, freelance curator, and former affiliate professor within the Division of Sculpture + Prolonged Media and the Division of Portray + Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth…
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