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Seen: January 11, 2026 The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Shifting Landscapes - November 1, 2024 - January 25, 2025 Sixties Surreal - September 24, 2025 - January 19, 2026
Both exhibitions had their moments but overall, I wasn't very convinced of curatorial thesis for both.
Artists seen:
Yuji Agematsu Kenji Nakahashi Oscar Howe Lee Friedlander Miyoko Ito Nancy Holt Kay Sekimachi
Seen: April 26, 2025 Museum of Modern Art, New York Jack Whitten: The Messenger March 23 - August 3, 2025 His Xerox works are particularly revealing, demonstrating an early engagement with mechanical reproduction, chance, and fragmentation as generative forces, with the machine functioning as an active collaborator rather than a neutral tool. In dialogue with these works, the large-scale abstract paintings assert a powerful material and emotional presence, built through unconventional methods and custom tools that compress and drag acrylic into dense, architectural surfaces. Together, these bodies of work underscore Whitten’s belief that abstraction could absorb memory, history, and cultural weight without figuration, and that innovation in technique was fundamental to meaning rather than incidental to it.
Seen: April 26, 2025 The Morgan Library and Museum, New York The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World - January 24 - May 25, 2025 Belle de Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy - October 25, 2024 - May 4, 2025
Seen: April 16, 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Casper David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature February 8 - May 11, 2025
I was fortunate to see the exhibition during off-hours, which allowed for a more contemplative experience. I was particularly captivated by his watercolors of ruins and architectural windows—their quiet restraint and observational sensitivity were striking.
Prior to this visit, I was not deeply familiar with his work. His postwar reception was clearly shaped by the fact that he was famously favored by Hitler, a circumstance that contributed to his limited exhibition history after World War II and has long complicated how his work is discussed and displayed.
Seen: July 3 & 18, 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection August 10, 2024 - August 3, 2025
I went to this exhibition twice. I didn't take many photos since I was too immersed into the artwork. I wish this exhibition was a permanent one at the Met.
Seen: May 25, 2025 Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo Reverberation from the Universe April 24 - August 31, 2025
There were strict photography rules at the museum. You were only allowed to take photos in the first and top floors since the artist's work is meant to be immersive of all your senses. It was nice seeing people enjoy the artwork in front of them instead of through their phones.
Seen: June 1, 2025 Benesse House Museum Chichu Museum Art House Project Hiroshi Sugimoto Gallery: Time Corridors Naoshima Island, Japan
Seen: June 6, 2025 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Hilma af Klimt: The Beyond March 4 - June 15, 2025 It felt like there were more pieces in this exhibition than the Guggenheim exhibition. The space catered to the size of the works better and allowed for a more interesting narrative to form.
Seen: May 27, 2025 TOP 30th Anniversary TOP Collection: Continuity and Change - April 5 - June 22, 2025 TOP 30th Anniversary Takano Ryudai: kasubaba (Living through the ordinary) - February 27 - June 8, 2025 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
TOP Collection is my favourite museum. I can hands down say that. Every time I've been, the curation and thought into the display makes me re-interested in photography. The artists I enjoyed from the collection exhibition were:
William Fox Talbot Miyako Ishiuchi Edward Sheriff Curtis Hirai Terushichi Ito Yoshihiko
Seen: July 18, 2025 Theodora Allen: Oak, Kasmin Gallery, New York, May 7 - July 25, 2025 Alicja Kwade: Telos Tales, PACE Gallery, New York, May 7 - August 15, 2025
Spent the day wandering the Chelsea galleries with a friend. Didn't really enjoy many of the exhibitions except for Theodora Allen at Kasmin Gallery and Alicja Kwade at PACE Gallery.
Seen: June 8, 2025 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Amy Sherald: American Sublime April 9 - August 10, 2025
It was truly special to experience this exhibition in person. I have never been in a New York museum where the fellow viewers were so reverent toward the artworks.
Seen: July 23, 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sargent and Paris April 27 - August 3, 2025
It's always wonderful to see so many John Singer Sargents in one exhibition.
Seen: September 13, 2025 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Recuerdo: Latin American Photography at AGO May 2 - September 29, 2025 The photography was more focused on the hardships of living in Latin America rather than on artistic creativity. I especially enjoyed the vernacular fotoescultura from Mexico, which I had never encountered before. I also appreciated the work by Rafael Goldstain.
Seen: November 6, 2025 Christie's, New York New York Sales Exhibition Artists Seen: Artemisia Gentileschi Henri Matisse Giogrio Morandi Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Milton Avery Jean Dunand
Seen: July 24, 2025 Museum of Fine Art, Boston Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits - March 20 - September 7, 2025 Permanent Collection - Ongoing
Seen: July 24, 2025 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Some highlights from the museum. It was my first visit and was surprised by the hanging. It was very overwhelming.
Seen: August 24, 2025 Museum of Modern Art, New York Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography June 28, 2025 - June 21, 2026
This was a very sweet little exhibition that explores the interplay between celebrity and 20th century press photography. I always enjoy seeing the darkroom and editors notes on physical photographs.