> ## 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. # Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/four-new-york-city-art-shows-to-see-october-14-2025/ - Published: 2025-10-14T22:02:48.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:06.000Z - Description: Some of our favorite exhibitions center performance and pattern, from MoMA PS1’s Vaginal Davis survey to a show on data infographics inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois. - Author: John Yau - Tags: Guide, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) If patterns and performance were the only art options in town, there would still be plenty to see this week. You can find the latter, or archives of it, in one of the season’s major art events, MoMA Ps1’s newly opened survey of work by artist, performer, musician, and curator Vaginal Davis. As Daniel Larkin describes in his review, the show is a trip through the artist’s many themes and roles. Performance is also a key part of Duane Linklater’s current exhibition at Dia Chelsea. The last of a series of Saturday dance pieces takes place this weekend, though there’s plenty more to see in this deeply meaningful display. Patterns appear in appear in very different forms in two more of our favorite shows this week. On the Upper East Side, you can see Judy Ledgerwood’s improvisational take on the Pattern and Decoration movement. Conversely, Chelsea’s Print Center presents a thought-provoking take on infographics inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight in the Wilderness [**Gray Gallery**](https://www.richardgraygallery.com/exhibitions/judy-ledgerwood?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 2, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through November 1 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/10/ennyz.jpg) Judy Ledgerwood, “Crepusculo” (2025), oil on canvas (photos courtesy Gray Gallery) "I have always thought of Ledgerwood as a consummate painter who transformed the rigidity of Pattern and Decoration’s reliance on repetition into a mode of improvisation and surprise." —*John Yau* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/judy-ledgerwood-funkier-feminist-form-of-pattern-and-decoration/). --- ### Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print [**Print Center New York**](https://www.printcenternewyork.org/data-consciousness?ref=hyperallergic.com), 535 West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through December 13 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/10/data4.jpg) Installation view of *Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print* at Print Center New York (photo Seph Rodney/*Hyperallergic*) "The experience \[of the show\] is like encountering an iceberg of meaning: seeing an enormous structure while realizing that most of its entirety I may never be able to perceive." —*Seph Rodney* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/the-propaganda-dilemma/). --- ### Duane Linklater: 12 + 2 [**Dia Chelsea**](https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/duane-linklater-12-2-exhibition?ref=hyperallergic.com), 537 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan Through January 24, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/10/dsc06969.jpg) Performance of “bison bison (dance\_hum for dirtbath),” written and choreographed by Tanya Lukin Linklater as part of *Duane Linklater: 12 + 2* at Dia Chelsea (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "Linklater not only lets buffalo run free in *12 + 2*, conceptually at least, but in the installation, performance, and paintings on view he also reimagines the world in their terms." —*Aruna D'Souza* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/for-duane-linklater-its-a-buffalos-world-dia-chelsea/). --- ### Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product [**MoMA PS1**](https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/610-vaginal-davis?ref=hyperallergic.com), 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens Through March 2, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/10/dsc_0483.jpg) Detail of Vaginal Davis "Sucking Her Unborn Cock - Archivist Headache Wall (1970s - Present) (photo Isa Farfan/*Hyperallergic*) "For her survey, Ms. Davis oscillates between the miniature and the monumental as a strategy to jolt viewers out of complacency and see the imagery anew." —*Daniel Larkin* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/vaginal-davis-is-los-angeles-queercore-fairy-godmother-moma-ps1/).