NYC Art Scene Modern Contemporary Artists in 7 Chelsea Galleries
A packed summer day in NYC — 7 Chelsea art galleries (abstract painting, figuration, prints, group shows and an iconic bass player). From postwar abstraction to noise music on film, this is one of the most varied routes in the New York City art scene right now.
00:19 ▸ BERRY CAMPBELL, 524 W 26th St | Ann Purcell: The Seventies (through July 10)
A focused look at Purcell's work from 1975–79, a formative period in her abstract practice. Her paintings bring movement and emotional energy rooted in dance — works that feel both urgent and joyful.
02:47 ▸ PETZEL, 520 W 25th St | LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the Apocalypse (through July 17)
A major group show (incl. Yael Bartana, Sean Landers, Simon Denny, Amy Sillman) responding to a decade of political rupture, ecological collapse, and democratic erosion — not with outrage, but with exhausted, darkly comic lucidity.
06:14 ▸ PACE PRINTS, 536 W 22nd St | Jean Dubuffet: Prints from the 1970s (through July 18)
Rare screenprints and large-format editions from Dubuffet's L'Hourloupe cycle and Théâtres de Mémoire series — including the extraordinary Site de Mémoire editions printed directly onto canvas.
07:26 ▸ HIGH LINE BILLBOARDS | Sasha Gordon: My Love of Upholstery & Untitled
07:45 ▸ HARPER'S, 512 W 22nd St | Hyegyeong Choi: Tethered, Untethered (through June 20)
Choi's third solo with Harper's: lush figurative paintings of women navigating surreal landscapes, reckoning with mental health, perception, and the politics of beauty through a distinctly Korean lens.
09:18 ▸ GEMINI G.E.L. AT JONI MOISANT WEYL, 535 W 24th St | Group Show. The New York outpost of the legendary LA print workshop shows its roster of blue-chip artists — Richard Serra, Ed Ruscha, Ellsworth Kelly, Dorothea Rockburne, and others — in landmark editions spanning five decades.
10:30 ▸ Mercado Little Spain, 10 Hudson Yards
José Andrés' Spanish market hall is the perfect mid-walk pit stop — jamón, pintxos, paella, and more under one roof.
10:55 ▸ MILES McENERY, 515 W 22nd St | Pia Fries: pontes & arbores (through June 20)
Swiss-born Fries layers oil paint and silkscreened photography directly onto wood panels in a self-referential feedback loop — her palette and her painting becoming the same image. Accompanied by an essay by the Albertina Modern's Angela Stief.
12:28 ▸ HIGH LINE PLINTH, 10th Ave & 30th St | Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Light That Shines Through the Universe (through Fall 2027 — free)
A 27-foot sandstone Buddha honoring the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, destroyed in 2001. Nguyen (MacArthur Fellow, 2025) recast the missing hands from melted artillery shells — a profound public monument to cultural loss and resilience.
12:59 ▸ 303 GALLERY, 555 W 21st St | Kim Gordon: 12341 Branford St. Sun Valley (opens June 10)
A performance film co-directed by Sonic Youth bassist and art icon Kim Gordon with Manuela Dalle, shot at a Sun Valley junkyard where Gordon wields her guitar against wrecked cars. Noise as sculpture. Art as reclamation.
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