> ## 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. # New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-city-and-upstate-shows-to-see-july-29-2025/ - Published: 2025-07-29T21:49:04.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:12.000Z - Description: Histories are at the heart of some of our favorite shows, from queer video art to the cultural and familial traditions invoked by Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Guide, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) Sometimes it seems like the art world has a short attention span, skipping from one trend to the next, so it’s satisfying to find exhibitions that hold onto histories and memories. In different ways, the shows below all maintain a connection with the past. For artists Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton, this may mean summoning childhood memories and cultural traditions or looking back on tender and casual moments among family. For other artists, such as those included in *Queer Lineages* at the Wallach Art Gallery, drawing on the past involves learning from artistic precursors who broke down boundaries. Or, if you’re squeezing in a late-summer trip upstate, you could be exploring a fascinating history of mushrooms and the equally fascinating story of a renegade mycologist. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop [**El Museo del Barrio**](https://www.elmuseo.org/exhibition/candida-alvarez-circle-point-hoop/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1230 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem, Manhattan Through August 3 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/01001844.jpg) Candida Alvarez, “Mary in the Sky with Diamonds” (Mary en el cielo con diamantes) (2005), acrylic and enamel on canvas (photo Valentina Di Liscia/*Hyperallergic*) "Throughout \[Alvarez's\] oeuvre, abstraction and representation bleed into one another in the same way that memories momentarily coagulate into images before dissolving again." —*NH* [Read the full review](https://hyperallergic.com/memory-becomes-form-in-the-art-of-candida-alvarez/). --- ### Thomas Holton: The Lams of Ludlow Street [**Baxter St. Camera Club**](https://www.baxterst.org/events/the-lams-of-ludlow-street/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 154 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through August 13 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/img_0116.jpg) Thomas Holton, “A Crowded Christmas” (2022), archival inkjet print (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/*Hyperallergic*) "These photos reveal the beauty emergent from a lifestyle of frequenting businesses run by those of the mother culture, of scrimping and upcycling, and of dutiful ingenuity." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* [Read the full review](https://hyperallergic.com/twenty-years-of-life-in-chinatown-thomas-holton/). --- ### Homage: Queer Lineages on Video [**Wallach Art Gallery**](https://wallach.columbia.edu/content/homage-queer-lineages-video?ref=hyperallergic.com), 615 West 129th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattanville, Manhattan Through October 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/img_5784.jpg) Installation view of Kang Seung Lee, "The Heart of a Hand" (2022) in *Homage: Queer Lineages on Video* at the Wallach Art Gallery (photo Daniel Larkin/*Hyperallergic*) "In *Homage: Queer Lineages on Video*, artists draw upon the legacies of folks who opened the doors we now get to walk through." —*Daniel Larkin* [Read the full review](https://hyperallergic.com/video-art-that-chases-the-rainbow-wallach-art-gallery/). --- ### Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms [**New York State Museum**](https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/outcasts-mary-bannings-world-of-mushrooms?ref=hyperallergic.com), 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, New York Through January 4, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/marybanning-installationview-1.jpg) Installation view of *Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms* at the New York State Museum, Albany, showing three botanical illustrations by Banning (photo Alexis Clements/*Hyperallergic*) "Not only was \[Banning\] one of the first women to put a name to an entire group, or taxon, of fungus, but a full 23 of the 175 species she records in the manuscript were unknown in the field at the time" —*Alexis Clements* [Read the full review](https://hyperallergic.com/mary-banning-woman-scientist-and-artist-who-revolutionized-the-study-of-mushrooms/).