JULY 2026

With each monthly newsletter, we take pleasure in sharing current exhibitions which present extraordinary visual conversations. We hope you might be fortunate enough to pay a visit to one or more during your summer travels. Happy Summer!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Many A Moonlit Caveat

Jack Shainman Gallery

513 West 20th Street and 46 Lafayette Street

Closing July 31, 2026

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Many A Moonlit Caveat, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye spanning both New York City locations.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born and based in London) is an artist and writer of Ghanaian descent. She attended Falmouth School of Art, and the Royal Academy Schools. Her work has been shown internationally, with her most recent solo exhibitions being No Twilight Too Mighty at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2023) and Fly in League with the Night, organized by the Tate Britain in 2021, which toured Europe. In 2025, Yiadom-Boakye curated the group show To Improvise A Mountain, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition. The final iteration will open at the De La Warr Pavilion on June 27, 2026. 

Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur

The Met Fifth Avenue

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10028

Closing September 8, 2026

In co-organization with the Fondation Giacometti, this presentation brings together for the first time at The Met the work of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) in one of New York's most iconic spaces. The installation of 14 works in bronze and plaster, emblematic pieces from the collection of the Fondation Giacometti in Paris together with three from The Met collection, places the work of one of the great sculptors of the 20th century in dialogue with the ancient civilization that strongly influenced his art and his practice.

Throughout his career, Giacometti showed a particular fascination for the art of ancient Egypt. The Egyptian statues he saw in Italy as a young artist made a lasting impression on his visual repertoire, and after he moved to Paris, he regularly visited the Egyptian galleries of the Louvre. His formal dialogue with Egypt can be seen in sketches of walking figures in profile, which were later realized in such works as Walking Woman (I) (1932). At The Met, this elegant figure will be installed in the entrance hall of the Temple of Dendur.

The Temple of Dendur was completed in 10 BCE as a commission by Caesar Augustus shortly after he became emperor of Rome. Gifted from Egypt to the United States in 1965, it has been one of the most beloved works of art at The Met since it opened to the public in 1978. In ancient Egypt, the terrace before the temple functioned as an open meeting place between the deity and larger crowds. At The Met, Giacometti's figures will stand alone or in groups on the temple platform—a presentation that echoes the artist's own compositions of figures as well as the life around the temple.

Rothko in Florence

Palazzo Strozzi, Museo di San Marco, and

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Florence, Italy

Closing August 23, 2026

From March 14 to August 23, 2026, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents one of the most important exhibitions ever dedicated to Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the undisputed master of American modern art. Curated by Christopher Rothko and Elena Geuna, Rothko in Florence is a unique project conceived specifically for Palazzo Strozzi to celebrate the artist’s special bond with Florence. The palace’s architecture and the city itself provide the ideal backdrop to explore how Rothko translated the tension between classical measure and expressive freedom into painting, creating through color a new perception of space that transcends the two-dimensionality of the canvas.​

The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi traces Rothko’s entire career with over 70 works from prestigious private collections and leading international museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Tate, Paris’s Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, and Washington’s National Gallery of Art.​​

From Palazzo Strozzi, the project extends into the city of Florence, through two special satellite interventions at locations particularly significant to the artist: the Museo di San Marco, where a selection of works will be presented in dialogue with the frescoes of Fra Angelico, and the Vestibule of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana designed by Michelangelo.

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Tate Modern

London, England

Closing August 31, 2026

This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain, and healing.

Dame Tracey Emin is one of the most important contemporary artists of her generation. She was catapulted into the public eye in the 1990s with iconic works like her Turner Prize nominated My Bed, which sparked fierce critical and public debate, challenging what art could be. Emin’s disregard for any separation of the personal and the public, along with her commitment to unapologetic self-expression, came to define a historic moment in British culture and global art history.

Broadening Emin’s story, this exhibition celebrates her raw and confessional approach as she poses profound questions on love, trauma, and autobiography. It also demonstrates her lifelong commitment to painting, showing her recent work as the culmination of the ways she has channelled her life into her art.

Calder. Rêver en Equilibre

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Paris, France

Closing August 16, 2026

On the occasion of the centenary of Alexander Calder’s arrival in France and the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the Fondation presents the exhibition “Calder. Rêver en Equilibre.”

This exhibition spans half a century of creation, from the late 1920s and the first staging of the artist’s Cirque Calder performances that captivated the Parisian avant-garde, to the monumental sculptures that redefined public art in the 1960s and 1970s. At the Fondation, Calder’s mobiles – floating within Frank Gehry’s architecture – transform the exhibition into a choreographed dance.

One of the most important exhibitions ever dedicated to Alexander Calder, “Calder. Rêver en Equilibre” has been conceived in close collaboration with the Calder Foundation, its principal lender. The display also features loans from international institutions and leading private collectors, bringing together nearly 300 works: stabiles and mobiles – to use the Calderian terminology for static and kinetic abstractions – as well as wire portraits, carved wooden figures, paintings, drawings, and even jewelry, designed as unique sculptures. Throughout the chronological journey spanning more than 3,000 m2, the exhibition will highlight Calder’s fundamental artistic concerns: movement above all, but also light, reflection, humble materials, sound, the ephemeral, gravity, performance, and the interplay of positive and negative space.

JUNE 2026

“We are all part of the same rainbow. We are all reflections of each other. As unique and diverse as we are in character and skills, the source of all creation is as multidimensional as we are.” — Suzy Kassem

We hope you enjoy this selection of exhibitions!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Willie Cole: Mind, Body, and Soul

Sargent’s Daughters

370 Broadway

Closing July 10, 2026

"The objects that I use I see as them finding me, more so than me finding them... So in that sense there is an energy or spirit connection to the object.” — Willie Cole

Cole’s practice is at once highly conceptual and materially grounded, exploring the possibilities for everyday objects to reveal greater truths about the world we inhabit. In his first exhibition with the gallery, Cole will present works spanning three decades, including his signature found-object sculptures, large-scale prints, and scorched wooden panels.

As the exhibition’s title suggests, Cole’s multidimensional work resonates simultaneously across mediums, disciplines, and themes. For the artist, the Mind refers to knowledge of the self and of World, American, and African Diasporic histories; the Body to materiality; and the Soul to the spirit and meaning of things.

Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze

Curated by Adam D. Weinberg

Gagosian

555 West 24th Street

Closing July 17, 2026

“Year after year life’s experiences envelop us, the memories accumulate and form their own substance which holds no shape but carries weight. Each memory is knowledge.” — Giuseppe Penone

This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York and marks the debut of two major bodies of work. Curated by Adam D. Weinberg, director emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, it is rooted in Penone’s late-1960s exploration of trees, which led to his celebrated carved tree works and now culminates in sculptures that render the same subject permanent in metal.

Throughout his career, Penone, a protagonist of radical Italian movement Arte Povera, has used a range of materials and forms to explore connections between human life and the natural world at large. In The Reflection of Bronze, he employs the titular alloy to trace the passage of time and the perpetuity of change. As noted by Weinberg in his essay on the exhibition, “Bronze for [Penone] is not a more permanent, more marketable substitute. . . . Rather, his use of bronze involves a profound, rich, varied, and lifelong response to enduring artistic questions.”

Mark di Suvero: Avanti!

Paula Cooper Gallery

534 West 21st Street

Closing July 17, 2026

“I'm always conscious of balance and gravity's center point. Like a dancer or an acrobat — I'm feeling for that invisible point. Space has been the most important element in sculpture for me. a voyage to the imagination in your mind's eye.” — Mark di Suvero

An exhibition of large-scale sculptures and drawings by Mark di Suvero will be on display at Paula Cooper Gallery from May 2nd through July 17th.

Exhibited for the first time, Avanti! (c. late 1990s) is a human-intervention sculpture that incorporates a twenty-three-foot-long horizontal beam suspended within a vertical steel circle. An intersecting beam connected to the base holds a small platform that, when activated, allows a viewer to use their shifting body weight to rock the work back and forth. Assembled in the late 1990s and incorporating elements di Suvero began working on much earlier, Avanti! was produced in the artist’s outdoor studio in Long Island City. Avanti! will be accompanied in the main gallery by the artist’s 1986 sculpture Nelly, comprised of intersecting steel I-beams connected by a curved, hand-cut steel plate. Nelly was previously on public display in the Jardins des Tuileries, Paris (2019) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England (2004–2019).

In the front room is Tables Turn’d (2004), a rare medium-scaled sculpture by di Suvero executed completely in stainless steel. A majestic arc supports a protruding beam and creates an environment for a hanging element suspended with a metal cable. Consisting of two enormous discs finished with radiating lines, the hanging element resembles an antique scale and evokes the harmonic ideal of balance, masterfully achieved with these materials at such scale. Like Avanti!, Tables Turn’d is a kinetic work that relates to both di Suvero’s small-scale “spinner” sculptures and his early play pieces that transgressed the border between viewer and object by inviting bodily engagement.

Though best known for his constructions of industrial materials installed in public spaces, di Suvero has also created, from the outset, a prolific number of works on paper. A group of works executed in ink, acrylic, marker, and pencil encompass drawings related to specific sculptures and independent works. The selection includes two of di Suvero’s “sliding drawings” that allow the viewer to adjust the image by sliding two interesting drawings over and through each other, extending play and human interaction into two-dimensions. Also on view is North Star: Mark di Suvero, a 1977 documentary about the artist produced by Barbara Rose.

LATE MAY 2026

"Observation can be more informative than conversation." — Unknown

This month we have selected exhibitions in which artists have chosen unique sources of “observation.” Alyson Shotz observed the layered and moving forms of the cosmos as seen through the eyes of the Hubble Telescope; for Martha Jackson Jarvis, she turned to the opposing energy forces found in nature, and Lisa Yuskavage flips through discarded memories to retell her own history. Powerful statements - each setting their own tempo.

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Alyson Shotz: Deep Field

Derek Eller Gallery

38 Walker Street

Closing May 30, 2026

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.”

Martha Jackson Jarvis: Elsewhere

Susan Inglett Gallery

522 West 24th Street

Closing June 6, 2026

A continuation of Jarvis’ ongoing Fire and Ice series, Elsewhere explores polarity and the tension between opposing natural forces - extremes of energy, transformation, and elemental power. Jarvis seeks to understand how these forces exist in balance and nature’s ability to shape both material and experience.

Lisa Yuskavage

David Zwirner

533 West 19th Street

Closing June 26, 2026

“I keep on thinking about the way in which your memories – and the way you flip through remembering things – are forms of discarded masterpieces. There are these rectangular forms in the picture, some of which have things rendered on them ... and then there’s this tumbling bunch of color-field-flat-things – paintings, we assume. And I was just thinking that it’s almost like going through your own history, and there’s some things that you discarded, and that you want to bring back.” —Lisa Yuskavage in conversation with Ariel Levy

This exhibition marks a significant development in Yuskavage’s practice while synthesizing the themes that have shaped her oeuvre since the beginning. Although many of the paintings and drawings appear to unfold within a studio setting, they are more accurately located in the mind of the artist, becoming imaginative gatherings where time warps and folds back on itself, collapsing spatial and temporal boundaries.

EARLY MAY 2026

See These by May 9th!

As you know, we’re always looking at art. Below are some additional exhibitions that we urge you find the time to see. They are really special!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Byron Kim: A Little Deepness

James Cohan Gallery

48 Walker Street

Closing May 9, 2026

A Little Deepness brings together early large-scale skyscapes with an entire year of Kim’s landmark ongoing Sunday Paintings series. Together, these works celebrate a lifelong dedication to the close observation of the natural world, offering an intimate and expansive portrait of an artist for whom abstraction has long expressed the interconnectivity of the universe.

A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray

James Cohan Gallery

52 Walker Street

Closing May 9, 2026

Conceived as a companion to Byron Kim’s solo exhibition at 48 Walker Street, A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray traces the enduring influence of the sky, clouds, and atmosphere on artists’ practices from the early twentieth century to the present day. Moving across generations and mediums, the exhibition considers how artists have looked upward to grapple with perception, time, emotion, and the sublime—treating the sky not merely as subject matter but as a site of observation, abstraction, and reflection.

In dialogue with Kim’s sustained engagement with color, light, and daily variation, A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray situates contemporary approaches within a longer history of artists responding to the ever-shifting conditions of the atmosphere. Works range from intimate plein air paintings, in which the scale of the canvas heightens the personal, immediate quality of the encounter, to expansive explorations of the sky as a field for abstraction and formal inquiry.

Ficre Ghebreyesus: Color is Supreme

Galerie Lelong

528 West 26th Street


Closing May 9, 2026

Titled after an homage to the John Coltrane album A Love Supreme written by Ghebreyesus in his personal papers, the exhibition highlights Ghebreyesus’s deft handling of vibrant color in his often-abstract compositions. Drawing from recent discoveries in the artist’s archive by his son Solomon Ghebreyesus, the exhibition presents a selection of photographs and ephemera to the public for the first time, revealing common subjects and compositions found across media. A polymath in the truest sense of the word, Ghebreyesus operated his family’s well-loved Eritrean restaurant in New Haven, excelled in painting at the Yale School of Art, and maintained a connection to the fight for Eritrean independence as an activist in New York, all the while cultivating a rich inner life across art history, the mastery of seven languages, and the development of new poetry, music, and recipes.

APRIL 2026

“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse

As spring fights to come into bloom, we too are stretching our bodies to shed winter’s layers. We invite you to enjoy these exhibitions that capture the figure in moments of movement and repose. Please enjoy!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony

Acquavella Galleries, New York

April 9 - May 22, 2026

Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony, an exhibition featuring fifty paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Henri Matisse on loan from museums, foundations, and private collections.

You can follow the Matisse path to Paris to the major retrospective Matisse: 1941 - 1954 at the Grand Palais from March 24 - July 26, 2026.

If You Go Into the Woods Today...

Spoof.Project, New York

April 12 - May 24, 2026

Spoof.Project is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition: If You Go Into the Woods Today..., a group exhibition of figurative painting and sculpture that draws from folklore, fantasies and fairytales. Borrowing its title from the familiar refrain of Henry Hall’s “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” the exhibition transforms a nostalgic phrase into a reference point for narrative painting.

Joan Semmel: Continuities

Alexander Gray Associates, New York

April 17 - May 30, 2026

“I never thought about being representational as being important, but I thought about the figure as an object—as an icon rather than as representation of any reality.” - Joan Semmel

Alexander Gray Associates and Xavier Hufkens present Continuities, an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Semmel (b. 1932). Conceived with the artist as a single presentation across New York and Brussels, the exhibition’s structure mirrors the paintings’ own logic, playing with doubling and immediacy to extend the act of seeing across continents.

Semmel paints her own body as an authored image—internalized rather than observed. In her nineties, that act carries weight. While the aging female form is routinely edited from view, these canvases place it squarely at the center, without apology or disguise. Her compositions do not treat the body as symbol, memory, or ideal. Works reject any impulse to memorialize or prettify.

MARCH 2026

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard

As the veil of winter is finally lifting, we wanted to share exhibitions that wrap up winter with beauty and power as we look at the work of Helene Schjerfbeck and Wifredo Lam, and open the doors to the emerging colors of spring with a studio visit to the colors and forms of artist Almond Zigmund and the contagious joy of the works by Pat Oleszko. We hope you get to see the shows before they close. Enjoy!

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through April 5

Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles and working in a remote location for decades, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art.

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

MoMA

Through April 11

Wilfredo Lam’s paintings expanded the horizons of modernism by creating a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture. Born in Cuba at the start of the 20th century, Lam forged his political convictions and commitment to modern painting in war-torn Europe in the 1930s. His exile and return to the Caribbean after 18 years abroad drove him to radically reimagine his artistic project through Afro-Caribbean histories. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream is the first retrospective in the United States to feature the full trajectory of Lam’s remarkable vision, inviting us to see the world anew.

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Almond Zigmund

East Hampton, NY

We have known Almond and her wonderful work for many years and it was a pleasure to finally visit her in her East Hampton studio.

You will see the source of her ideas that manifest in colorful energetic forms. As she discussed her work, she talked about the way her forms are influenced by classical sculptures - legs, torso and head - reading and activating the real and illusioned space she creates.

Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure

SculptureCenter

Through April 27

SculptureCenter presents the first solo exhibition in a New York City institution in over 35 years of Pat Oleszko. Rooted in humor, sharp social commentary, and the defiance of all forms of authority, Oleszko's sculptures lend themselves to raucous performances that use linguistic wit to address concerns about the state of the world. As her work developed, Oleszko devised some defining strategies: using her body, which led to costumes, and using air, which produced large inflatable works. In both cases, her art “walked out the door,” in her words, “using all the world as a stooge.”

UPCOMING

Marcel Duchamp

MoMA

Apr 12–Aug 22, 2026

Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibition marks the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1973. Scholarship mining the artist’s famously enigmatic work has flourished in the intervening half-century—as have myths and misconceptions. This exhibition offers a sweeping account of Duchamp’s multifaceted career across all mediums from 1900 to 1968, offering today’s audience the first opportunity to view the full breadth of his creative output.

FEBRUARY 2026

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” - Wassily Kandinsky

As the weather is fighting hard to bring warmth to our days, we wanted to share several current one-person exhibitions in Chelsea, in which each artist delights us with the vibrancy, radiance, illumination and the warmth of their powerful use of color to convey their unique message. You can bathe in the auras created by Dan Flavin and Rob Pruitt, feel the tension between the colorful forms in the works of Odili Donald Odita or get lost in the elegant layers of color and textures in the works of William T. Williams. The shows are within a few short blocks from each other and together offer one of the most satisfying, brief and spectacular viewing experiences we have had in a while. Enjoy.

DAN FLAVIN, Grids

David Zwirner, NYC

January 15 – February 21, 2026

An exhibition of works by Dan Flavin featuring the artist’s grids, a key body of work that he began in 1976. The first focused examination of this form, this presentation will include several re-creations of the way Flavin installed the grids in significant exhibitions during his lifetime, and will feature loans from important public collections as well as the Estate of Dan Flavin.

ODILI DONALD ODITA, Shadowland

David Kordansky Gallery, NYC

January 15 – February 28, 2026

Shadowland is an exhibition of paintings, photo collages, and a mural by Odili Donald Odita as well as two works from the 1970s by the artist’s father, Dr. Okechukwu Emmanuel Odita (b. 1936, d. 2025). This exhibition considers three distinct bodies of work—current, past, and inherited—as integral parts of a creative whole, one that not only reveals the evolution of Odita’s formal interests, but also connects his practice as a Nigerian American artist to familial and geopolitical legacies.

ROB PRUITT

303 Gallery, NYC

January 15 – March 7, 2026

The third solo exhibition at 303 Gallery of new work by Rob Pruitt. The exhibition is comprised of time-based works from the artist's ongoing investigations of the spectral gradient. Paintings and works on paper, scaled from intimate to grand, capture moments, hours, days, months, and years. Each day of the show will have a different title. It will open as “Skyscapes,” and on each subsequent day, Pruitt will improvise and announce the next title.

WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, Word of Eye

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC

February 7–April 4, 2026

This exhibition includes eleven paintings created between 2024 and 2025 whose luminous surfaces shift according to the positioning of the viewer, demanding sustained looking and insisting on a phenomenological viewing experience. Simultaneously a continuation of the artist’s decades-long engagement with surface and a deliberate broadening of his palette, these new works show Williams pushing the boundaries of abstraction, furthering a dialogue with the entirety of his oeuvre, and enacting an endless exploration of the possibilities of his medium.

JANUARY 2026 

"There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions."

- Korean Proverb

For SRFA, art always has the magic of warming our hearts and stirring our souls. As we each seek to find warmth during this unusually harsh winter, SRFA wanted to share several current exhibitions which capture the beauty of the winter landscape and virtually invite you into the warmth of the studios of two artists we visited late last year.

We hope the unique visions of these and of all artists will serve as a reminder of the value of creative expression and of our unique voices as well.

DC MOORE

New York, NY

NIGHT Group Exhibition

January 15 – February 7, 2026

BOOKSTEIN PROJECTS

New York, NY

Dave Walsh: Viewshed

January 15 – February 27, 2026

BOOKSTEIN PROJECTS

New York, NY

Ron Milewicz: Beside Still Waters

January 15 – February 27, 2026

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Ellen Harvey

Brooklyn, NY

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Molly Herman

Brooklyn, NY