> ## 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 Shows to See in New York City Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-shows-to-see-in-new-york-city-right-now-march-17-2025/ - Published: 2025-03-17T22:03:10.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:12:00.000Z - Description: Nick Cave leaves behind his Soundsuits, Ericka Beckman reimagines a fairy tale, American Artist explores the sci-fi world of Octavia E. Butler, and more. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, Featured, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If you haven’t already made the trip to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood to see American Artist’s exploration of author Octavia E. Butler, we highly recommend it. Multimedia artist Nick Cave’s new work makes some pretty grand statements as well, while a survey of the 1960s Black-owned and focused gallery Acts of Art and a Hilton Als-curated show on the limits of language and silence provide plenty of food for thought. And filmmaker Ericka Beckman’s solo presentation at the Drawing Center may be the most surreal “Pictures Generation” show you’ll ever see. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Acts of Art in Greenwich Village [**Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College**](https://www.leubsdorfgallery.org/calendar/2024/11/7/acts-of-art?ref=hyperallergic.com), 132 East 68th 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/2025/03/2024_11_12_argenis_apolinario_hunter_acts_of_art_installs_5543.jpg) Installation view of *Acts of Art in Greenwich Village* at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College (photo by Argenis Apolinario) "\[Acts of Art\] operated for only six years but exemplified the spirit of a subversive and consequential period in Black art history." —*Jasmine Weber* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-gallery-that-captured-the-spirit-of-the-black-arts-movement/). --- ### Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts [**Jack Shainman Gallery**](https://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/nick%5Fcave%5Famalgams%5Fand%5Fgraphts?ref=hyperallergic.com), 46 Lafayette Street, Civic Center, 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/dsc02814.jpg) Nick Cave, “Amalgam (Plot)” (2024), bronze, tole flowers, and cast iron door stops, on view at Jack Shainman Gallery (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "Cave visualizes himself not as safe and separate from the powerful, as his earlier work appeared to, but as perpetually open to interpretation from his audience." —*Hrag Vartanian* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/nick-cave-eternal-garden-jack-shainman-gallery/). --- ### The Writing's on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts [**Hill Art Foundation**](https://hillartfoundation.org/art/exhibitions/view/the-writings-on-the-wall/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 239 Tenth Avenue, 3rd Floor, Chelsea, 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_5445_4.jpg) Andy Warhol, "Close Cover Before Striking" (1962), acrylic and collage on linen (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/*Hyperallergic*) "The exhibition is relatively straightforward — though no less rich and evocative for it — asking and suggesting answers to the question: What is the relationship of language and silence to visual art?" —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/how-do-you-paint-language/). --- ### American Artist: Shaper of God [**Pioneer Works**](https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/american-artist-shaper-of-god?ref=hyperallergic.com), 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn Through April 13 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/250123_pw_install_view16.jpg) Installation view of *American Artist: Shaper of God* at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. Left: “Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy” (2024); right: “To Acorn (1984)” (2023) (courtesy Pioneer Works) "What would it mean for the survival of the planet if we were to take seriously Black feminist visions of climate justice in which coexistence with nature is prioritized over environmental plunder?" —*Alexandra M. Thomas* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/american-artist-love-letter-to-octavia-e-butler-pioneer-works/). --- #### Ericka Beckman: Power of the Spin [**Drawing Center**](https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/ericka-beckman?ref=hyperallergic.com), 35 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan Through May 11 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/eb3.jpg) Ericka Beckman, "Tension Building Concept Drawing" (2015), charcoal, graphite, felt-tip pen, and pastel on paper (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "Visually, \[Beckman's\] schematic images are closer to Russian Constructivism and even some of Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical paintings than to anything from 1980s New York." —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/ericka-beckman-surreal-visions-of-late-capitalism-drawing-center/).