kara walker
Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, Kara Walker’s show at Sikkema Jenkins, does not contain her usual silhouettes but is still a powerful comment on the African-American experience.
alexander mcqueen
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, at the Met, “celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion” and features “approximately one hundred ensembles and seventy accessories from Mr. McQueen’s prolific nineteen-year career.”
sol lewitt
Sol LeWitt, who passed in 2007, will be given his first outdoor sculpture retrospective at City Hall Park from May 24-December 2. Featured will be 27 structures, with a few created on-site per LeWitt’s written instructions.
photograph by carl glassman
stephen westfall
Stephen Westfall’s show at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. features work on paper “inspired by 10th and 11th century Cosmatesque floor patterns in churches around Italy.” See it before June 22.
sweet toof
British artist Sweet Toof has his first New York solo exhibition at Factory Fresh in Brooklyn. His work, featuring “letterforms and street styles that have evolved alongside a rigorous academic practice as a realist painter and sculptor,” will be on view through May 22.
oliver vernon
Oliver Vernon’s work at Joshua Liner “depict the artist’s colorful vision of the cosmos, where nature and culture collide (or cooperate) in the creation (or destruction) of the universe.”
keith haring
The Keith Haring show at Gladstone, which consists of never before seen works on paper, “focuses on the evolutionary period of Haring’s early drawings, which traces the development of his formal language and elaborative visual vocabulary.”
first class/ second class
First Class/ Second Class, at Asya Geisberg Gallery, “features work that investigates various aspects of class structure via either a personal narrative or an outsider’s perspective.”
kanye west
Kanye West will be performing at MoMA’s Party in the Garden on May 10.
willem de kooning
Pace tries to pull a Gagosian with their summer exhibition of de Kooning’s figures. The show “focuses on the complex ways that de Kooning suggested movement as he rendered the human figure.”