> ## 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 This Week - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-new-york-city-shows-to-see-this-week-march-10-2025/ - Published: 2025-03-10T20:54:32.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:24.000Z - Description: From Norman Bluhm’s reinvented abstraction to the history of Barbie at the Museum of Arts and Design, we’re looking at a diverse array of art this week. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/subject-matters-1.jpg) Deborah Kass, “Subject Matters” (1989–90) (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) From reinventing abstraction to recreating Barbie for new generations, we're looking at a wide range of art this week. Make sure to catch Norman Bluhm's unorthodox abstracts and the Museum of Arts and Design's dizzying display of Barbie's history before they end this weekend. After that, revisit art history's past with a survey of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's legendary project "The Gates" and Deborah Kass's feminist pastiches. Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla's poignant 1982 documentary "Trans" and its accompany exhibition at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art rounds out our list. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Norman Bluhm [**Miles McEnery Gallery**](https://www.milesmcenery.com/exhibitions/norman-bluhm?ref=hyperallergic.com), 511 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through March 15 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/nb-bulgaroctonus-37483.jpg) Norman Bluhm, "Bulgaroctonus" (1967), oil on canvas (courtesy Miles McEnery Gallery) "What makes Bluhm’s painting engaging and necessary is that he harnessed his restless, rebellious spirit into a complex, continually changing body of work." —*John Yau* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/how-norman-bluhm-reinvented-gestural-abstraction/). --- ### Barbie®: A Cultural Icon [**Museum of Arts and Design**](https://madmuseum.org/press/releases/new-york-citys-museum-arts-and-design-presents-barbie-a-cultural-icon?ref=hyperallergic.com), 2 Columbus Circle, Columbus Circle, Manhattan Through March 16 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/img_1296-1-1-1.jpg) Carol Ockman, Nathan Stobaugh, and Zachariah DeGiulio in the hot-pink Corvette on the fourth floor of the exhibition (image used with permission) "Its history of inclusions and exclusions continues to stir up everything from veneration to violence in ongoing Barbie play and in the work of generations of artists." —*Carol Ockman* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/barbie-turns-65-at-museum-art-design-nyc/). ### Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City [**The Shed**](https://www.theshed.org/program/441-christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-gates-and-unrealized-projects-for-new-york-city?ref=hyperallergic.com), 545 West 30th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through March 23 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/image-2.png) Christo, “The Gates (Project for Central Park, New York City)” (2004–05), drawing in two parts, pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, technical drawing, aerial photograph, and fabric sample (© 2005 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation; photo by André Grossmann, courtesy Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) "I felt that I shared with these many strangers something so fragile and immaterial as a memory, that these neon orange gates staked not just paths in the park but in my past, our past." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/christo-and-jeanne-claude-gift-to-new-york-the-shed/). --- ### Deborah Kass: The Art History Paintings 1989–1992 [**Salon 94**](https://salon94.com/exhibitions/the-art-history-paintings-1989-1992?ref=hyperallergic.com), 3 East 89th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through March 29 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/img_4894.jpg) Installation view of *Deborah Kass: The Art History Paintings 1989–1992* at Salon 94 (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "Kass collides the stylistic calling cards of prominent male artists with a new, more sexualized reading that turns splashes of paint into cum shots." —*Hrag Vartanian* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/deborah-kass-salon-94-cum-shots-across-art-history/). --- ### Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas [**Institute for Studies on Latin American Art**](https://islaa.org/exhibitions/duenas-de-la-noche-trans-lives-and-dreams?ref=hyperallergic.com), 142 Franklin Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through April 5 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/islaa4.jpg) Promotional image for "Trans" (1982), a documentary directed by Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla, on view at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "The film \["Trans"\] is the exhibition’s clear centerpiece, and may be the only chance most people will get to see it — even upon its release, the filmmakers struggled to secure screenings" —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-luminous-magnetism-of-the-transformistas-islaa/).