New York Art Exhibition Insights Autumn 2025 – Ilka Scobie
New York Art Round-Up Autumn 2025: The magnificent and newly renovated Frick Collection debuted Flora Yukhnovich’s site-specific mural…
28 September 2025
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The Frick And Other Delights New York Spring Exhibitions Round Up – Ilka Scobie
In 2020, the beloved Frick temporarily relocated to the former Whitney Museum’s Brutalist Breuer building. Five years later, the museum has re-opened with a glorious 220 million dollar renovation of the original Gilded Age mansion…
7 April 2025
New York Gallery Notes Winter 2025 – Ilka Scobie
Chris Martin’s expansive vision encompasses astrophysical orbs, aluminium, and constellations choreographed with bursts of glitter…
3 February 2025
New York’s Independent Art Fair 2024 by Ilka Scobie
Independent, one of New York’s favourite annual art fairs, featured over 172 artists. The invitation-only fair included 15 X 15, curated by founders Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs.
16 May 2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Is This The Real Thing – Ilka Scobie
Curated by Chrissie Illes and Meg Onli, the 81st incarnation of America’s longest-running survey show…
18 March 2024
Six New York Gallery Shows December 2023 – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie picks six New York Art exhibitions on in December 2023 including Nicola Vassell Gallery, Venus Over Manhattan and Derek Eller Gallery
4 December 2023
New York Gallery Art Notes Autumn 2023 – Ilka Scobie
Returning to NYC after a prolonged absence, I was dazzled by the vitality of current museum and gallery shows. Here are a few of the treasures autumn has unveiled.
22 October 2023
Milano And Beyond Ilka Scobie Explores Summer Exhibitions In Italy
Lombardia’s rich cultural heritage is much more than the famous Milanese Duomo, museums, galleries and the Prada Foundation.
26 June 2023
Five New York Exhibitions Not To Miss – February 2023 – Ilka Scobie
I first saw Portia Munson’s transformative Pink Room at the New Museum’s legendary: Bad Girls Show” way back in 1994.
13 February 2023
New York In November: Alex Katz – Edward Hopper And More – Ilka Scobie
Decades ago, when I lived in Soho, a familiar sight was the sweatshirt-hooded Alex Katz on his daily early morning jog.
13 November 2022
Tribeca And Noho’s Best Exhibitions An Equinox Excursion October 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid).
25 September 2022
Summer Art Shows In NYC Three Exhibitions Not To Miss – Ilka Scobie
Marina Adams What Are You Listening to? LGDR I first saw Marina Adams’ bold, beautiful abstractions in a 1998 show at the wonderful “Art in General. The group show,” Crossing Lines”, curated by Denyse Thomasos and
19 June 2022
New York In Focus Whitney Biennial Plus Gallery Round-Up – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial is big, sprawling across the entire museum, featuring 59 artists and bravura curation.
4 May 2022
Maggi Hambling And Faith Ringgold The Matriarchs of March – Ilka Scobie
Women’s history month in New York City heralds two amazing women artists whose long inspirational careers are celebrations of feminism and creativity. Maggi Hambling Real-Time Marlborough Gallery Maggi Hambling suffered a heart attack last week on the eve of her first solo exhibition in New York.
19 March 2022
NYC Gallery Scene Round-Up February 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art.
3 February 2022
New York Exhibitions November/December 2021 From Jasper Johns To Alex Katz – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie trawls through the best art exhibitions New York currently has to offer.
22 November 2021
Rebound Ramblings: New York City Art Week 2021 RoundUp – Ilka Scobie
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny storefronts selling transgressive signage
19 September 2021
Ugo Rondinone Talks To Ilka Scobie About His Latest NY And London Exhibitions
“Every religion has Nuns and Monks,” Ugo Rondinone remarks as we finish up bowls of miso soup. We are in my Noho loft, enjoying an early Sunday supper.
26 April 2021
Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert P.P.O.W. Review Ilka Scobie
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. P.P.O.W presents two artists.
20 April 2021
A New York Gallery Field Trip February 2021 – Ilka Scobie
A wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided…
14 February 2021
Navigating Downtown NYC Galleries During A Pandemic Autumn 2020 – Ilka Scobie
As museums and galleries open to eager viewers, I took the easy way out and have only ventured to walking distance galleries. Luckily, this limited geography includes four stellar downtown shows.
26 October 2020
Peter Saul And Jordan Casteel New Museum NYC – Ilka Scobie
A weird and interesting dichotomy of two painters who share neither age, gender, race or subject matter are united by passionate painting and masterful brushwork. Peter Saul, at 85 is having his first-ever NYC retrospective show
12 March 2020
New York Gallery Walkabout Winter 2020 – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie takes a look at the first New York exhibitions for 2020 and discovers a few surprises along the way.
19 January 2020
Do The Undone: John Giorno at Sperone Westwater – Ilka Scobie
“I had an idea in the late sixties, like putting my poems on matchboxes. I wanted to do poems on marble. I was a poet, but not in the art world. Five years ago, Jean de Loisy asked twelve artists to do things at Chateau de Versailles, outside of Paris.
28 September 2019
Amy Sherald: The Heart of the Matter – Hauser & Wirth NY – Ilka Scobie
“I want to be my own connection to America,” Amy Sherald tells the rapt audience, at her spectacular inaugural show at Hauser and Wirth.
28 September 2019
Whitney Biennial 2019 Open-Ended and Hopeful – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial 2019 is America’s oldest survey of contemporary art. Now in its 79th edition, this year’s event opened as the stock market began to sink.
20 May 2019
Piero Manzoni The grid And Everyday Materials – Ilka Scobie
Self-taught artist and avant-garde predecessor to the Arte Povera movement, Piero Manzoni was born to an aristocratic family in Soncino, Italy in 1933.
18 May 2019
Raqib Shaw Landscapes Of Kashmir – Pace NY – Ilka Scobie
Kashmiri born, London based Raqib Shaw has created his first dazzlingly immersive and multicultural landscape series.
14 April 2019
Lynette Yiadom Boakye In Lieu Of A Louder Love – Ilka Scobie
A couple of years after Lynette Yiadom Boakye dazzled New York with her solo show at the New Museum, she returns to the city with 35 new paintings.
16 January 2019
Hilma af Klint: Paintings For The Future – Guggenheim Museum NY – Ilka Scobie
Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings first dazzled me when I encountered her work in the 2013 Venice Bienalle.
18 November 2018
Sarah Lucas: A Walk On NY’s Wild Side – Ilka Scobie
“We need her work now more than ever,” Lisa Philips, the New Museum director stated, she continued, “We hope jaws will drop with this exhibition.’
14 October 2018
Ugo Rondinone: Sublime Spiritual Images Of Prodigious Silence – Ilka Scobie
Ugo Rondinone explains as the last minute details of his current show are being attended to.
2 October 2018