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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
