- ‘The Gates’ by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Wim Wenders: Written Once
- Richard Learoyd: A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors
- Sandy Williams IV: Life in Ellipsis,
- Elles
- Dieter Roth: Islandscapes
- Tyler Mitchell's 'Ghost Images'
- Nick Cave 'Amalgams and Graphts'
- Shifting Landscapes
- Light by Rafaël Rozendaal
- Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
- ‘Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage’
- 'In the Shadow of the American Dream: David Wojnarowicz'
Even though New York is known as the city that never sleeps, it is nice to welcome in the lighter and longer evenings, and see the liveliness of the city emerge from its winter hibernation. March is a busy month full of global events including the glitz and glam of the Oscars and Brit Awards, to International Women's Day to the lively fun of St Patrick’s day, and in New York, this month is abuzz with an array of intriguing and thought-provoking art. From group shows of moving photography to retrospectives, there is a variety to choose from scattered across the city.
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The best New York art exhibitions: what to see this month
‘The Gates’ by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Central Park, until 23 March 2025
20 years ago, New York’s Central Park turned orange with a now legendary installation titled ‘The Gates’. The site-specific installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude featured 7,503 gates spanning 23 miles throughout the park, and attracted over four million visitors. Now, to mark its 20th anniversary, this saffron-coloured art returns, but this time on your phone. With the help of augmented reality, ‘The Gates’ by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude makes its digital return to Central Park where visitors can view its billowing saffron fabric on their smartphones, located between East 72nd Street and Cherry Hill.
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Wim Wenders: Written Once
Howard Greenburg gallery until March 15
Auteur of picturesque moody cult-favourite films such as Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire. 'When I can feel a place and be comfortable in it, the stories bound to happen there come to me,' he tells Wallpaper*. 'They must be stories that could not happen anywhere else.' The Berliner pursues a similar motivation to find the subjects of his photography, some of which are now on view at New York’s Howard Greenberg Gallery. The show, titled Written Once, in the historic Art Deco Fuller Building focuses on two bodies of work which Wenders captured in 1970s and ‘80s.
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Richard Learoyd: A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors
Pace Gallery from 7 March to 26 April, 2025
British photographer Richard Learoyd’s photographs are on show at Pace Gallery. The exhibition features a selection of imagery produced with his custom-built camera, between 2018 and 2025. He was inspired by Dutch Golden Age painting, and wanted to take viewers on a journey through intimate moments and explore the relationship between subject and light. ‘Light and space have always been central to my work,’ Learoyd explains. ‘I want to capture more than just an image; I want to convey a sense of time, intimacy, and presence—things that transcend the immediate and evoke a more timeless feeling.’
Sandy Williams IV: Life in Ellipsis,
Palo Gallery until 5 April
Unattended Baggage (Modern Warfare) 2024. The timers on this backpack have the potential to count up from 0 to 100 days. Equipped with a motion sensor, the clocks restart when touched and tell you how long the work has occupied a set space for a certain amount of time
Artist Sandy Williams IV will be showcasing six new sculptures which dives into the exploration of how time and self identity intertwine. Also brushing upon socio-carceral systems, and interpersonal relationships, the ‘Time Ruler’ series presents objects ‘that measure the duration of a single second at a speed of one mile per hour’. The work 00:10 (To Remember the Murder of Eric Garner) includes ten bronze ‘Time Rulers’ commemorating Eric Garner following his murder by an NYPD officer that held him in a prohibited chokehold for 10 seconds.
Elles
Fleiss-Vallois until 26 April
With works spanning from 1934 to 2024, the exhibition ‘Elles’ brings together eight radical female artists who have laid the groundwork for future generations of women artists. ‘Elles’ includes 50 of Leonora Carrington’s early drawings, which will be unveiled for the first time, alongside works by Pilar Albarracín, Niki de Saint Phalle, Eulàlia Grau, Zhenya Machneva, Lucie Picandet, Virginie Yassef, and Julia Wachtel. With work spanning a century the artists look at women’s role in society during periods of male dominance, political unrest, social upheaval, or technological advancement.
Dieter Roth: Islandscapes
Hauser & Wirth until 9 April
Featuring a selection of graphic works, monoprints, and unique pieces spanning from the early 1960s to 1975, this exhibition focuses on the late artist Dieter Roth’s printmaking, which accompanied every phase of his life and practice. His adventurous experimentation allowed him to step out of the boundaries between painting, sculpture, design, literature, poetry and music.
Tyler Mitchell's 'Ghost Images'
Gagosian from until 5 April, 2025
Ghost Images is Tyler Mitchell’s debut exhibition at Gagosian. The images of leisurely times at the seaside have a gothic theme, and are rooted in the artist's Southern upbringing. It delves into memory, and how a photograph can actually capture a moment in time and is it able to capture presences that are unseen, but deeply felt.
Nick Cave 'Amalgams and Graphts'
Jack Shainman Gallery until 15 March 2025
Nick Cave makes the most of the epic space at Jack Shainman Gallery with his new exhibition which unites Amalgams, composed of three large bronze sculptures, with Graphts, a series of mixed media works encompassing needlepoint and domestic items such as vintage trays. Questioning what it means to serve, Cave here considers questions of power, class and race.
Writer: Hannah Silver
Shifting Landscapes
Whitney Museum of American Art until January 2026
LaToya Ruby FrazierLandscape of the Body (Epilepsy Test), 2011
‘Shifting Landscapes’ is a group show exploring how evolving political, ecological, and social issues motivate artists as they attempt to represent the world around them. The works are drawn from the gallery’s collection featuring works from the 1960s to present day with a variety of approaches towards the environment from cityscapes to rural landscapes, the works gathered here bring ideas of land and place into focus, all works uniting on how society is shaped by the spaces around us.
Light by Rafaël Rozendaal
MoMA until Spring 2025
Artist Rozendaal chose the internet as his canvas for this graphically hypnotising installation. With each square designed as a story board sketched on paper, it is then translated into code where its final form is a website which powers the animation. The graphically intriguing installation uncovers a new way to harness a multi-dimensional landscape, with the installation presenting a selection of his work across a 25 feet resolution screen in MoMAs Garden Lobby.
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
Guggenheim until 9 March 2025
Dive into the world of Orphism at Guggenheim, showcasing its broad abstract art collection. The art movement which is derived from Cubism, emerged in the early 1910s with artists engaging in idesa in colourful kaleidoscopic compositions. It was spearheaded by Robert Delaunay, whose work features in the exhibition, alongside, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and by the Synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell.
‘Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage’
The Museum of Modern Art until March 2025
Robert Frank, who is best known for capturing post-war America and its following social and political unrest, is celebrated in MoMA’s latest exhibition Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage. After he passed away in 2019, it was in great discovery that tucked away in film canisters and tapes was an archive of unseen footage which spans the years 1970 to 2006. In partnership with the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, Frank’s long-time film editor Laura Israel and the art director Alex Bingham have used these fragments to create a moving-image scrapbook that conveys life through Frank’s lens.
'In the Shadow of the American Dream: David Wojnarowicz'
The Museum of Modern Art, ongoing
Wojnarowicz's work has been recontextualised by MoMA, who have presented it alongside his contemporaries from the eighties New York downtown scene including filmmaker Marion Scemama, Donald Moffett, Agosto Machado and painter Martin Wong. Important works here include Wojnarowicz's's 1987 Fire, while Machado’s Shrine is a moving time capsule of ephemera. It includes a ‘Justice for Marsha’ sign, referring to questions around the suspicious death of trans activist Marsha P Johnson in 1992, as well as club flyers and memorial service cards.
Writer: Lauren Cochrane
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