> ## 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 Shows to See This Week - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-city-shows-to-see-this-week-may-5-2025/ - Published: 2025-05-05T22:14:23.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:18.000Z - Description: Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Claudia Alarcón, and Nanette Carter are three of the artists whose work we’re enjoying, among many shows that pack a punch. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) There’s so much to stimulate the eye and mind in museums and galleries this week that it’s a joy to behold. I spent way too much time marveling at 1970s notebook sketches by graffiti artists at White Columns, while our writers sought out awe-inspiring artists, past and present, such as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Claudia Alarcón. Of course there’s plenty to see right here in the city, but it’s well worth following the lead of *Hyperallergic*’s Editor-in-Chief, Hrag Vartanian, to Montclair, New Jersey, to take in the brilliance of Nanette Carter. And if you’re headed downtown to see art, stop into Andrew Kreps Gallery to check out [Michael E. Smith](http://www.andrewkreps.com/exhibitions/michael-e-smith4?ref=hyperallergic.com)’s solo exhibition. It ends this weekend. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- #### Claudia Alarcón & Silät [**James Cohan Gallery**](https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/claudia-alarcon-silat?ref=hyperallergic.com), 52 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan Through May 10 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/187e5870-5b65-482b-a9af-d7c13c158578.jpg) Close-up view of Claudia Alarcón & Silät, “Anochecer (Nay’I’j ta honatsi)” (Dusk) (2024), hand-spun chaguar fibre, woven in yica stitch (photo Gregory Volk/*Hyperallergic*) "A profound connection with the environment that the Wichís have inhabited for millennia is palpable in these ambitious, deeply moving textiles." —*Gregory Volk* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/weaving-that-opens-to-the-world-and-heavens/). --- #### The Unruly Dance of Form [**Fragment Gallery**](https://fragment.gallery/exhibitions/73-the-unruly-dance-of-form-andrius-alvarez-backus-cameron-patricia-downey-ilya-fedotov-fedorov-gordon/overview/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 39 West 14th Street #308, West Village, Manhattan Through May 10 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/img_0989.jpg) Detail of Andrius Alvarez-Backus, "Warming Into My Entry Wounds" (2025) (photo Ho Won Kim/*Hyperallergic*) "Amid pervasive uncertainty, queerness emerges as a deliberate unraveling of solidity across the diverse works of eight artists." —*Ho Won Kim* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/how-can-queer-artists-escape-the-trap-of-tokenization/). --- #### Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti Archive 1972/3 [**White Columns**](https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/gordon-matta-clark-nyc-graffiti-archive-1972-3/?ref=hyperallergic.com#press-release), 91 Horatio Street, West Village, Manhattan Through May 17 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/graffiti7.jpg) Shasta 62/Earl – Earle Augustus, work from 1973, marker on canvas (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "\[W\]hat comes across most in the exhibition is the dynamic energy and creativity of the graffiti art." —NH Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/when-graffiti-met-conceptual-art/). --- #### Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance [**Montclair Art Museum**](https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibition/nanette-carter-question-balance?ref=hyperallergic.com), 3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey Through July 6 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/nanette-carter-06.jpg) A view of Nanette Carter’s large “Afro Sentinels III” (2024) hung in the Montclair Art Museum (photo Hrag Vartanian/*Hyperallergic*) "From the outset, Carter saw how art could bring together parts that may otherwise seem disparate to make things whole, and it’s obvious from this exhibition \[…\]." —*Hrag Vartanian* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/nanette-carter-abstract-balancing-act/). --- #### Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/nancy-elizabeth-prophet?ref=hyperallergic.com), 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Through July 13 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/el237_02.jpg) Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, "Silence" (1926), marble; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (photo Erik Gould) "One accolade she coveted but didn’t receive in her lifetime was a solo exhibition. Nearly a century after she graduated from RISD, her dream has been fulfilled." —*Alexandra M. Thomas* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/nancy-elizabeth-prophet-never-backed-down-to-the-art-world/).