New York City Shows We Love Right Now

The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman. It could also mean reimagining something familiar, like a rose at the FLAG Foundation, or “exposure” in the Ulterior exhibition. Or considering what makes something natural versus artificial, in the fascinating conceptual art of Luis Fernando Benedit. The last two shows end this weekend. Also ending this weekend is Etel Adnan: On Paper, 1960-2021 at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Chelsea. Make a day of it this weekend and see all three! —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor

Exposure

Ulterior Gallery, 424 Broadway #601, Soho, Manhattan
Through April 5

“Exposure is an exploration of ideas surrounding photographic exposure, ‘our exposure to each other,’ and the ways in which art itself is exposed to the world.” —Alexis Clements

Read the full review here.

Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths

Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, 142 Franklin Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through April 5

“[Benedit’s habitats] tread a philosophical line between art and science by raising issues — then prescient, now pressing — about surveillance and control, but prioritizing questions over answers.” —NH

Read the full review here.

Deborah-Joyce Holman: Close Up

Swiss Institute, 38 St. Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan
Through April 20

“Given the opportunity to pay such close attention to the minutiae of the everyday, a subtle, easily overlooked beauty in each visual element begins to emerge.” —Alexandra M. Thomas

Read the full review here.

Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets

American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Through May 25

“Her dense, free-form landscapes, often embedded with childhood memories, seemed to help her hold on to a sense of place, identity, and individuality.” —Debra Brehmer

Read the full review here.

A Rose Is

FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan
Through June 21

“The rose might be the most densely described flower in history: It’s pure and chaste, like the Virgin Mary; stained by the blood of Aphrodite and the bloodshed of the Wars of the Roses.” —Lisa Yin Zhang

Read the full review here.