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Every month our resident art expert, David Behringer, searches for the best of what’s happening in modern art in New York City galleries. He seeks the best exhibitions and shows that most of us wouldn’t even know existed, and shares an up close and personal view of the artists and their work.

Yayoi Kusama's Current Exhibition Offers a New Infinity

Yayoi Kusama's Current Exhibition Offers a New Infinity

Yayoi Kusama presents a new Infinity Mirror Room, warped pumpkin walls, and psychedelic paintings at David Zwirner Gallery in New York.

Bending Perception: Surprising New Sculptures by Fred Eversley

Bending Perception: Surprising New Sculptures by Fred Eversley

Artist Fred Eversley's newest body of work sparks to life in New York, with incredible surprises when other viewers enter the room.

Gerhard Richter Surprises the Art World Again

Gerhard Richter Surprises the Art World Again

Gerhard Richter presents his "final paintings" at David Zwirner Gallery in New York, but the end is just the beginning. This surprising exhibition continues beyond his retirement.

Kennedy Yanko's Poetic Fusion of Metal and

Kennedy Yanko's Poetic Fusion of Metal and "Paint Skin"

Artist Kennedy Yanko combines huge chunks of crushed metal with fabric-like drapings of "paint skin," playing with gravity, material, and the definition of painting itself.

Charles Gaines' Colorful Pixelation of Southern Trees

Charles Gaines' Colorful Pixelation of Southern Trees

Conceptual artist Charles Gaines presents new colorful pixelated abstractions of 'Southern Trees' in New York. Step back to see how they connect.

Evan Nesbit Pushes Paint in New Directions

Evan Nesbit Pushes Paint in New Directions

Artist Evan Nesbit uses a squeegee to push paint through the back of dyed burlap, creating 3D pixels of paint that emerge and combine on the front, on view at Van Doren Waxter gallery in New York now.

2022 Year in Review: Unframed

2022 Year in Review: Unframed

If you missed any of art expert David Behringer's posts or want a second glance, we revisit NYC’s art scene from our Unframed column in 2022.

The Honesty of Deborah Butterfield’s Bronze Horses

The Honesty of Deborah Butterfield’s Bronze Horses

Deborah Butterfield’s newest sculptures capture the powerful aura of horses, but the material isn't what it appears to be, adding another reason to stand in awe.

Sheree Hovsepian's Poetic Assemblages at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Sheree Hovsepian's Poetic Assemblages at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Artist Sheree Hovsepian captures, crops, and brilliantly echoes the body in her new assemblages of photography, ceramic, wood, and string.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Takes Your Pulse

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Takes Your Pulse

Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer uses 3000 light bulbs + high-tech "pulse sensors" to capture, magnify, and save the heartbeats of visitors in this visually stunning and intimately connecting installation.

The Summer of Water Sculpture: Jeppe Hein and Cristina Iglesias

The Summer of Water Sculpture: Jeppe Hein and Cristina Iglesias

New York City hosts two surprising water sculptures this summer, including Jeppe Hein's "Changing Spaces" that temps visitors to enter his "liquid architecture" at Rockefeller Center, while Cristina Iglesias resurrects an ancient creek at Madison Square Park in her meditatively beautiful "Landscape and Memory."

4 Surprises in New York Galleries This Summer

4 Surprises in New York Galleries This Summer

Climb through a denim tunnel, wade through thousands of plastic cords, and jump into two unbelievable underground exhibitions at New York's Contemporary Art Galleries this summer.

5 Curious Objects From Jean-Luc Moulène’s “Clearly”

5 Curious Objects From Jean-Luc Moulène’s “Clearly”

Artist Jean-Luc Moulène ignites curiosity and freezes time in recent sculptural experiments presented in "Clearly" at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York.

Dive Into the Surprising

Dive Into the Surprising "Daydream" of Artist Josh Sperling

Dive into the surprising "Daydream" of artist Josh Sperling's new exhibition of shaped paintings that span all three floors of Perrotin gallery in New York.

Artist Ghiora Aharoni Remixes the Origin Story of the Universe

Artist Ghiora Aharoni Remixes the Origin Story of the Universe

Israeli-born American artist Ghiora Aharoni re-mixes time, science, and multiple religions in his dazzlingly complex glass assembles at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York this month.