Frieze Week is back, and with it comes a tidal wave of exhibitions across New York that demand your attention (and your walking shoes). While the fair buzzes at The Shed, there’s also real magic scattered throughout the city—from a freshly minted gallery in a carriage house to monumental surveys of Magritte and Rauschenberg. Whether you’re after blue-chip legends or boundary-pushing newcomers, there’s no shortage of work worth the detour. Here are our top 10 shows to see during Frieze Week.
1 New gallery Slip House to open in 1,000sqft, three-story former carriage house during Frieze Week.
Slip House is a new gallery in the East Village, located in a 1,000-square-foot, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street. The gallery is co-founded by Ingrid Lundgren, formerly Co-Founder and Director of Winter Street Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard; and Marissa Dembkoski, whose experience spans the Harvard Art Museums, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Monira Foundation.
Opening on May 9th, 2025, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition will present a multigenerational roster of artists. Former Sprüth Magers Director Jessica Draper will co-curate the debut presentation, which will include historic works by Jack Whitten and Claude Viallat, shown alongside recent works by Anne Hayden Stevens, Lizzy Gabay, Max Guy, Nour Malas Katharina Schilling, Oda Iselin Sønderland, Jill Tate, Noelia Towers, and others. MORE
2 Cajsa Von Zeipel, DASH, May 6th – June 21st, 2025 Company
Company to present DASH, a solo exhibition by Swedish born artist Cajsa von Zeipel. Known for her uncanny silicone-based sculptures that blur boundaries between the corporeal and the artificial, von Zeipel now returns to plaster, a medium steeped in classical tradition, to consider the cyclical nature of collapse and recovery. Appropriately titled DASH, the exhibition draws on the word’s multiple meanings—to strike violently, to run in urgency, to break apart—as well as its role as a grammatical connector, a mark of interruption or continuation. This layered symbolism mirrors the works themselves, simultaneously suspended in atrophy and reconstruction. DASH is a charged meditation on power and the systems in
flux, navigating the unstable frameworks that shape contemporary life. MORE
3 Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Magazine Actions – May 1st – June 28th, 2025 Maxwell Graham
Maxwell Graham to present Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Magazine Actions. This is Cosey Fanni Tutti’s first one person exhibition in America. Magazine Actions are a body of work made between 1972 – 1980, for which Cosey Fanni Tutti worked as a pornographic model. These Magazine Actions infiltrated both the sex and art industries. Cosey Fanni Tutti conceived of the project as a progression from her use of existing pornography in collages and mail art: MORE
4 René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape, 7th May – 12th July 2025, Luxembourg + Co.
Luxembourg + Co., New York, to present René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape, an exhibition that explores Magritte’s unconventional engagement with the genre of landscape painting in his work. The show will bring together a group of important paintings by the Belgian master, including loans from major institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and others.. In addition, the display will include a site-specific response to Magritte’s work by contemporary artist Laure Prouvost.
Typically associated with romantic or naturalist tendencies, the notion of landscape painting is rarely discussed within the scholarship of Magritte’s oeuvre despite the genre’s significance to his practice. This is largely due to the manner in which Magritte depicted landscape in his paintings – with technical “dryness of handling” for one, but also by conjunction (or substitution) of landscape motifs with textual elements. MORE
5 Carmen Herrera, The Paris Years, 1948 –1953, 1st May – 1st August 2025 Lisson 508 West 24th Street
From 1948 to 1953, Carmen Herrera lived in Paris, immersing herself in the city’s dynamic postwar artistic community while frequently traveling to New York and Havana. This period marked a decisive shift in her practice, as she moved from biomorphic forms and fevered, gestural compositions to the rigorous geometric abstraction that would define her career for the next seven decades. A new exhibition at Lisson New York, Carmen Herrera: The Paris Years, 1948 – 1953—the most comprehensive presentation of her work from this period to-date— examines a young artist deep in experimentation, subsuming the seismic influences of many colliding midcentury art movements, in order to develop her own breakthrough language of painting. MORE
6 Curated by: FALCON Art Collective Produced by: RRASP 520 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018, 15th Floor
FALCON Art Collective, a group of New York-based artists and curators dedicated to reactivating urban spaces through independent cultural initiatives, is pleased to present their inaugural exhibition, R U STILL PAINTING???, an arbitrary, non-national, non-rational, unofficial, and incomplete painting survey.
The show will transform 40,000 square feet of corporate, under-construction space in Midtown into a sprawling exhibition. The curators’ choice of a gutted, raw space expresses the will of an artist community to reclaim agency in a landscape where independent creative space is vanishing at speed. With R U STILL PAINTING???, FALCON carries onward the spirit and playfulness of New York’s early 2000’s art scene.
Participating artists: Justin Adian, Uri Aran, assume vivid astro focus, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Sam Barsky, Marco Boggio Sella, Bryson Brodie, Edgar Bryan, Merlin Carpenter, You Ni Chae, Patrick Concklin, Rob Davis, Maia De Estal, Andre Ethier, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Justin John Greene, Heather Guertin, Johanna Hickey, Chris Hood, Marcus Jahmal, Robert Janitz, Kosuke Kawahara, Bill Komoski, Sadie Laska, William Latta, Austin Lee, Justin Lowe, Alastair Mackinven, Servane Mary, Alissa McKendrick, Elizabeth Neel, Valerio Nicolai, Alessandro Pessoli, Blake Rayne, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Hollis Robison, Hanneline Røgeberg, Sally Ross, Adrianne Rubenstein, Gibb Slife, Robert Storr, Su Su, Spencer Sweeney, Cheyney Thompson, Josh Tonsfeldt, Kon Trubkovich, Marianne Vitale, Michael Wetzel, Viola Yeiltaç.
VIP Opening: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, 5PM–9PM
*Due to limited capacity, please visit falconnyc.com to reserve your attendance
7 Robert Rauschenberg, Sympathy for Abandoned Objects, May 1st – June 14th, 2025, Gladstone 530 West 21st Street
Presented in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on the occasion of the artist’s Centennial, Gladstone presents the first survey of Rauschenberg’s sculptural practice in thirty years, spanning his production from the 1950s through the late 1990s.
Examining Rauschenberg’s sculptures through the lens of scale, the exhibition showcases over 30 sculptures that relate in size to the human body, whether floor-, pedestal-, or wall-based. Drawing from myriad media and disrupting the distinction between abstraction and empirical representation, Rauschenberg’s sculptures are rooted in his career-long dedication to artistic experimentation. MORE
8 Circa 1995: New Figuration in New York, May 7th—July 17th, 2025 David Zwirner New York: 20th Street
David Zwirner will open Circa 1995: New Figuration in New York at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. The exhibition features eight generation-defining artists who played a central role in the resurgence and expansion of figurative painting during the 1990s: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans, and Lisa Yuskavage.
By the early 1990s, as photography, film, video, and installation art were taking center stage, painting (and figurative painting in particular) was prematurely dismissed by some as having exhausted its possibilities and contemporary relevance. The artists in this exhibition challenged this notion. Looking to some of the medium’s classic tropes, genres, and techniques while also introducing new subjects, themes, and ideas, these artists redefined what painting could be: their incisive approaches to figuration not only spoke to the moment but also laid the groundwork for subsequent generations of painters. These influential artists have moreover continued to remain uniquely relevant in their ongoing work. MORE
9 Renk, The Night, May 8th – August 15th, 2025, 60 White
Lio Malca and Doriano Navarra will present The Night, a solo exhibition featuring the works of contemporary artist Renk. Marking his first solo show in New York City, the exhibition opens on Thursday, May 8th at 60 White in Tribeca.
This exhibition will unveil a collection of new and recent works that unfold as a poetic meditation on the transition from day to night. Born in Rennes, France, Renk (b. 1987) began his artistic journey in graffiti before transitioning to canvas in 2011. Renk’s atmospheric colorscapes, built up through successive layers of spray-painted tag, draw parallels to the bold color field paintings of mid-20th century abstract painting, creating a striking fusion of street art and fine art traditions. MORE
10 Rob Wynne «I Remembered to Forget» May 7th – October 10th, 2025, Liaigre showroom NYC
Liaigre topresent «I Remembered to Forget», a new solo exhibition by American artist Rob Wynne at the Liaigre showroom in New York City at 102 Madison Avenue. In collaboration with Galerie Mitterrand (Paris), Liaigre will showcase original works by Rob Wynne – whose mixed-media artworks, installations, drawings and canvases are part of the permanent collections at Centre Pompidou, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others – from his oeuvre spanning more than 50 years. Internationally recognized for his work at the intersection of sculpture and installation, Rob Wynne continually questions our relationship with language. Since the beginning of his career in New York in the 1970s, he has continuously explored the guiding thread of his work: textual material. MORE
