> ## 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 We Love Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-city-shows-we-love-right-now-april-2-2025/ - Published: 2025-04-01T21:44:22.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:21.000Z - Description: The exhibitions below, featuring such artists as Deborah-Joyce Holman and Luis Fernando Benedit, ask viewers to spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you'd otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and Deborah-Joyce Holman. It could also mean reimagining something familiar, like a rose at the FLAG Foundation, or “exposure” in the Ulterior exhibition. Or considering what makes something natural versus artificial, in the fascinating conceptual art of Luis Fernando Benedit. The last two shows end this weekend. Also ending this weekend is [*Etel Adnan: On Paper, 1960-2021*](https://galerielelong.com/exhibitions/242-etel-adnan-on-paper-19602021/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Chelsea. Make a day of it this weekend and see all three! —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Exposure [**Ulterior Gallery**](http://www.ulteriorgallery.com/exposure%5Fcurated%5Fby%5Fcarrie%5Fyamaoka?ref=hyperallergic.com), 424 Broadway #601, Soho, 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/exposure2.jpg) Carlos Reyes, “Popular Jewelry” (both 2023) (photo Alexis Clements/*Hyperallergic*) "*Exposure* is an exploration of ideas surrounding photographic exposure, 'our exposure to each other,' and the ways in which art itself is exposed to the world." —*Alexis Clements* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/what-can-art-expose-about-us-ulterior-gallery/). --- ### Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths [**Institute for Studies on Latin American Art**](https://islaa.org/exhibitions/luis-fernando-benedit-invisible-labyrinths?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/2025/04/lfb6.jpg) Luis Fernando Benedit, "Labyrinth for Ants" (1970) "\[Benedit’s habitats\] tread a philosophical line between art and science by raising issues — then prescient, now pressing — about surveillance and control, but prioritizing questions over answers." —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/luis-fernando-benedit-exposed-the-politics-of-world-making/). --- ### Deborah-Joyce Holman: Close Up [**Swiss Institute**](https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/deborah-joyce-holman-close-up/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 38 St. Marks Place, East Village, Manhattan Through April 20 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/4_close-up-2024_film-still.png) Deborah-Joyce Holman, “Close-Up” (2024), film still (photo courtesy Swiss Institute/the artist) "Given the opportunity to pay such close attention to the minutiae of the everyday, a subtle, easily overlooked beauty in each visual element begins to emerge." —*Alexandra M. Thomas* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/deborah-joyce-holman-quietly-radical-black-femininity-swiss-institute/). --- ### Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets [**American Folk Art Museum**](https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/madalena-santos-reinbolt-a-head-full-of-planets/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 2 Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan Through May 25 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/madalena4.jpg) Madalena Santos Reinbolt, “Untitled” (1962–67), acrylic wool on burlap (photo Debra Brehmer/*Hyperallergic*) "Her dense, free-form landscapes, often embedded with childhood memories, seemed to help her hold on to a sense of place, identity, and individuality." —*Debra Brehmer* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/a-brazilian-artist-intergalactic-wool-paintings/). --- ### A Rose Is [**FLAG Art Foundation**](https://www.flagartfoundation.org/exhibitions/aroseis?ref=hyperallergic.com), 545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan Through June 21 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/mzdwy.jpg) Farah Al Qasimi, "Gurdwara Nanak Darbar Sahib (Kansas)" (2017), inkjet print (image courtesy the artist and the Third Line) "The rose might be the most densely described flower in history: It’s pure and chaste, like the Virgin Mary; stained by the blood of Aphrodite and the bloodshed of the Wars of the Roses." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/artists-meditate-on-the-rose-as-a-symbol-flag-art-foundation/).