> ## 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 Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-new-york-city-shows-to-see-right-now-march-24-2025/ - Published: 2025-03-24T21:50:47.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:22.000Z - Description: Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler are among the artists who are taking us off the path of the everyday and into the inexplicable this week. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) Making the ordinary inexplicable, painting landscapes of the psyche, and creating layers that shouldn’t exist. Those descriptions correspond to Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler, three of the artists we’re looking at this week. We’re also pretty enthusiastic about the Asia Society’s pairing of collection items with works by invited contemporary artists. And personally, I could spend hours going down the rabbit hole of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s online exhibition for the Dia Art Foundation. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### David Kennedy Cutler: Second Nature [**Derek Eller Gallery**](https://www.derekeller.com/exhibitions/david-kennedy-cutler6?ref=hyperallergic.com), 38 Walker Street, Tribeca Manhattan Through April 12 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/image-3.png) David Kennedy Cutler, “Stoppage” (2025), inkjet transfer, acrylic and clear coat on canvas, armature wire (photo by Adam Reich, courtesy the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York) "Cutler’s inkjet transfer and acrylic works, poised mid-transformation from painting into sculpture, capture everyday objects from this disorientingly kaleidoscopic perspective." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/artist-david-kennedy-cutler-captures-lifes-relentless-too-muchness/). --- ### Dorothy Hood: Remember Something Out of Time [**Hollis Taggart**](https://www.hollistaggart.com/exhibitions/209-dorothy-hood-remember-something-out-of-time/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 521 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through April 12 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/mndsn.jpg) Dorothy Hood, “The Face in the Sea” (c. 1970s), oil on canvas (image courtesy Hollis Taggart gallery) "Chilean poet Pablo Neruda describes \[Dorothy Hood's\] art as driven by inbuilt contradictions, tracing in it both a 'savage silence' and a 'desperate interrogation.'” —*Tim Keane* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/dorothy-hood-landscapes-of-the-psyche/). --- ### Catherine Murphy: Recent Work [**Peter Freeman, Inc.**](https://www.peterfreemaninc.com/exhibitions/catherine-murphy4?ref=hyperallergic.com), 140 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through April 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/murphy-.jpg) Catherine Murphy, “Under the Table” (2022), oil on canvas (image courtesy Peter Freeman, Inc.) "\[Murphy's\] formal mastery is devoted to making the ordinary inexplicable, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we are seeing." —*John Yau* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/catherine-murphy-makes-the-ordinary-inexplicable/). --- ### (Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection [**Asia Society and Museum**](https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/regenerations-rina-banerjee-byron-kim-and-howardena-pindell-amid-mr-and-mrs-john-d-rockefeller-3rd?ref=hyperallergic.com), 725 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through August 10 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/banerjee-painting-detail.jpg) Detail of Rina Banerjee, “Not like Superman, a superwoman, unlike kryptonite, like a Native of your country’s forrest, it’s soil is what you are and you trust, coined as home is, a currency weighted down in stones” (2018), ink and acrylic on two wooden panels (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/*Hyperallergic*) "How do you claim your place in an artistic lineage without distorting or romanticizing it? Is that even possible?" —*Lakshmi Rivera Amin* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/unlearning-the-myths-of-asian-art-history/). --- ### May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth [**Dia Art Foundation**](https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/may-amnesia-never-kiss-us-on-the-mouth-exhibition?ref=hyperallergic.com), online Ongoing ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/tba21_175-x-120-mm_17jun_br1-copy.jpg) Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, *May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth* (2020) (© Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, courtesy the artists) "As questions and opposition are quelled in the United States by strategic governmental efforts to expunge words, names, and archives, *May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth* proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act." —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/basel-abbas-and-ruanne-abou-rahme-refuse-to-forget/).