> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Five New York City Art Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-new-york-city-art-shows-to-see-right-now-april-14-2025/ - Published: 2025-04-14T22:25:58.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:20.000Z - Description: From Aaron Gilbert’s take on capitalism to Weegee’s distortions of celebrity culture, these exhibitions all critique or reflect the world around us. - Author: Hrag Vartanian - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) If art both reflects and critique the world around us, there’s more than enough to say at the moment — and plenty of art that can provide some insight. While artists like Aaron Gilbert and Weegee take on capitalism and celebrity culture decades apart, two shows featuring women artists are reminders that women are still vying for equal visibility and opportunities in and out of the art world. But perhaps the most surreal, exciting, and excessive art experience you can have this week is visiting the renovated Frick Collection. It reopens on April 17 so get ready to wallow in the world of old money and reacquaint yourself with Fragonard. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- #### Aaron Gilbert: World Without End [**Gladstone Gallery**](https://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/14096/world-without-end/installation-views?ref=hyperallergic.com), 515 West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through April 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/dsc03103.jpg) Aaron Gilbert, "The Dream Before (22)," detail (2024), oil on linen (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "\[Gilbert\] creates composite images of city life in the domestic spaces of familiarity, and the scenes themselves act as doorways or portals that focus cosmic or divine energy into the object in front of us." —*Hrag Vartanian* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/aaron-gilbert-world-at-the-edge-of-decay-and-other-artistic-imaginings/). --- #### Giant Women on New York [**James Fuentes**](https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/giant-women-on-new-york?ref=hyperallergic.com), 52 White Street, Tribeca, Manhattan Through April 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/neel.jpg) Alice Neel, "Ruth Nude" (1964), oil on canvas (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "\[The artists'\] renderings of women — here, nude, in moments of intimacy and discomfort — serve as rejoinders to the artists’ invisibility in a male-dominated art world." —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/giant-women-who-stomped-on-art-world-invisibility-james-fuentes-gallery/). --- #### Judith Linhares: The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying [**PPOW Gallery**](https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/judith-linhares3?ref=hyperallergic.com#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshow), 392 Broadway, Tribeca, Manhattan Through April 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/2024_housekeeping_linhares-326.jpg) Judith Linhares, “Housekeeping” (2024), oil on linen (image courtesy Judith Linhares and P·P·O·W, New York, © Judith Linhares. Photo Ian Edquist) "A tight compression of flowers at the center of the still lifes gives way to a riot of patterning that opens the compositions, propelling them forward, landing directly on the nervous system." —*Faye Hirsch* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/judith-linhares-still-life-painting-that-is-anything-but-still/). --- #### Weegee: Society of the Spectacle [**International Center of Photography**](https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/weegee-society-of-the-spectacle?ref=hyperallergic.com), 84 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through May 5 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/n6ntq.jpg) Weegee, “Weegee” (c. 1958), photograph (image © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; courtesy International Center of Photography) "There are “self-made men,” and then there are self-made legends: artists who mythologize themselves so thoroughly that they seem to escape the confines of normal personhood. Weegee was one such artist." —*Julia Curl* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/weegee-the-pop-artist-that-never-was/). --- #### The Reopened Frick Collection [**The Frick Collection**](https://www.frick.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1 East 70th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan Opens to the public April 17 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/dsc03377.jpg) The newly donated “Portrait of a Woman” (c. 1575) by Giovanni Battista Moroni hangs in the renovated galleries (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "We simply don’t talk enough about why the wealthy build institutions like this, ones clearly designed to distort the realities of their lives." —*HV* Read the full article [here](https://hyperallergic.com/is-the-new-frick-collection-just-the-same-old-thing/).