> ## 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-feb-24-2025/ - Published: 2025-02-24T21:35:03.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:25.000Z - Description: Sylvia Sleigh, Kenneth Tam, Christine Sun Kim, Paul Gardère, and Rudy Burckhardt are ideal for anyone who desires a glimpse into an artist’s personal life and worldview. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) One of the greatest gifts an artist can give the viewer is a sense of the artist as a person — their lives, loves, losses, and the mundane details that amount to their worlds. This is a great moment for getting to know your artist, with shows featuring the always impressive Sylvia Sleigh, whose friends and lovers literally bared all, as well as the beautifully personal mixed media works of Paul Gardère, the celebrated visual and textual world of Christine Sun Kim, and more. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Kenneth Tam: The Medallion [**Bridget Donahue**](https://www.bridgetdonahue.nyc/exhibitions/kenneth-tam-medallion/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 99 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through March 8 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/02/80oim.jpg) Installation view of Kenneth Tam, "The Medallion" (2025), 2-channel HD video with sound (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/*Hyperallergic*) "The message is clear — tides of technology wielded for personal enrichment rather than societal improvement will obliterate us with cold ease." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/kenneth-tam-requiem-for-the-shattered-american-dream-bridget-donahue/). --- ### Rudy Burckhardt: A Painting Exhibition [**Tibor de Nagy Gallery**](https://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions/rudy-burckhardt5?ref=hyperallergic.com), 11 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through March 8 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/02/6655.jpg) Rudy Burckhardt, "Sixth Avenue" (1977), oil on linen (courtesy Estate of Rudy Burckhardt and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York) "Through his directness, modesty, and scrupulous attention to detail, Burckhardt’s representation of the oddness of the ordinary is unrivaled." —*John Yau* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-reluctant-genius-of-rudy-burckhardt/). --- ### Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is precious [**Ortuzar gallery**](https://www.ortuzar.com/exhibitions/sylvia-sleigh?ref=hyperallergic.com), 5 White Street, Tribeca, Manhattan Through April 5 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/02/dsc02878.jpg) Installation view of Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is precious at Ortuzar. Left: "Annunciation: Paul Rosano" (1975); right: "Triple Portrait of Philip" (1971) (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "There’s something wonderful about Sleigh's paintings that feels like showing up to a nudist colony where people are fine letting it all hang out." —*Hrag Vartanian* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/men-undressing-for-women-and-other-contemporary-takes-on-the-old-masters-sylvia-sleigh/). --- ### Paul Gardère: Vantage Points [**Stuyvesant-Fish House**](https://cooper.edu/gallery/paul-gardere-vantage-points?ref=hyperallergic.com), 21 Stuyvesant Street, East Village, Manhattan Through June 6 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/02/pg6.jpg) Paul Gardère, “Rowing to Giverny” (1999) (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "Gardère's techniques and materials merge with his subject matter to sketch out a portrait of his life" —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/haitian-american-artist-paul-gardere-many-lenses-on-life/). --- ## Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night [**Whitney Museum of American Art**](https://whitney.org/exhibitions/christine-sun-kim-all-day-all-night?ref=hyperallergic.com), 99 Gansevoort Street, West Village, Manhattan Through July 6 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/02/qnneb.jpg) Installation view of Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, “Palm Reader” (2020), at Readings from Below at the Times Art Center Berlin (© Christine Sun Kim; photograph by GR.Berlin, courtesy the artists, François Ghebaly Gallery, and White Space) "Kim revels in translation not just between languages or systems of notation, but between concepts and feelings or experiences." —*LYZ* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/christine-sun-kim-multidimensional-music-whitney-museum/).