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Salon 94, 3 E 89th Street, New York, NY (2026)

09/15/2026

“Black SoHo”—the story of artists who didn’t join a scene, but built their own—by Salon 94 and RYAN LEE Gallery comes to Independent 20th Century.

Between the 1960s and 1980s, more than twenty-five Black artists converted SoHo lofts into studios, stages, salons—Emma Amos, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Camille Billops, Frederick J. Brown, Vivian Browne, Ed Clark, David Hammons, and Norman Lewis among them. A few blocks over, musician Ornette Coleman ran Artist House out of his own loft, where Billops and Browne both had their first solo shows. As Billops said, “Put all your friends in it, everybody you loved, so one day they will find you and know you were all here together.”

The booth unites exceptional and museum-quality paintings, sculptures, ceramics, works on paper, and rare ephemera—including pages from the “Artist and Influence” journal—giving little windows into New York’s cultural history.

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09/14/2026

Anthea Hamilton’s first solo gallery exhibition in the US—titled “Comfort Zones”—brings back her “Giant Leather Pumpkin” series. Like everything she touches, they are bespoke: here stitched, dyed and hand-painted in leather.

First featured in Hamilton’s survey “Mash Up” at M HKA in Antwerp, her pumpkins went on to be seen in Loewe’s FW22 runway and add campaign. For “Comfort Zones,” Hamilton returns to the series in deep green, and yellow specifically for their New York debut!

“Comfort Zones” opens on September 16, 6–8pm. On view through October 24, 2026.

09/10/2026

The outpour from the art world on Lucien Smith’s passing speaks to the community he helped build, and we are moved. 🕊️

Founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and curator Fabienne Stephan met Smith right after he graduated from —already he was the hub of a downtown scene. They were touched by his Winnie the Poo “Tree” paintings, and then watched his “Rain” paintings take shape before they had a name.

Since then, we have shared the journey with him: our Tiarra Hembrough London presentation in 2012, “Nature Is My Church” at our Bowery space in 2013, his 2014 show “Transition Game” with Victory Journal, his “Macabre Suite” party in 2015 at the The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and most recently his restaurant “FOOD,” where he commissioned Max Lamb to build stools for a series of banquets.

09/04/2026

Anthea Hamilton + Gaetano Pesce: Three exhibitions. Three floors. One Autumn kick-off.

In 2009, a Royal College of Art student pulled a book off the shelf—the spine caught her eye before she realized the “building” on the cover wasn’t real. It was Gaetano Pesce’s (1939–2024) “Vertical Loft” (1982). The student was Anthea Hamilton, and that moment sparked a lifelong looking at Pesce’s work—one that resurfaced in her 2015 sculpture-center show, where she scaled up his unrealized 1972 skyscraper design.
A decade later, their shared history fills our New York gallery, floor by floor:

1️⃣ “A Chair Is A Nest, Is A Foot, Is A…” — Hamilton curates Pesce’s archive, including the “Golgotha” table and “Nobody’s Perfect” chair: what she calls “the pop stars of the practice.”

2️⃣ “Comfort Zones” — Hamilton’s first US solo gallery show. Her signature pumpkins, boots, and butterflies, back smaller and stranger.

3️⃣ “Gaetano Pesce Studio: Continued” — rebuilt from his original Navy Yard workshop by the team he trained himself.

Opens September 16, 6–8pm. On view through October 24, 2026.

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Anthea Hamilton, Giant Green Pumpkin 1,2025. Mixed media: polystyrene core, aniline leather and leather paint. 43 1/4 x 66 1/8 x 48 3/8 in., 110 x 168 x 123 cm. Courtesy of Anthea Hamilton and Salon 94. © Anthea Hamilton. Image credit: Pierce Sapper.

09/04/2026

Anthea Hamilton + Gaetano Pesce: Three exhibitions. Three floors. One Autumn kick-off.

In 2009, a Royal College of Art student pulled a book off the shelf—the spine caught her eye before she realized the “building” on the cover wasn’t real. It was Gaetano Pesce’s (1939–2024) “Vertical Loft” (1982). The student was Anthea Hamilton, and that moment sparked a lifelong looking at Pesce’s work—one that resurfaced in her 2015 sculpture-center show, where she scaled up his unrealized 1972 skyscraper design.
A decade later, their shared history fills our New York gallery, floor by floor:

1️⃣ “A Chair Is A Nest, Is A Foot, Is A…” — Hamilton curates Pesce’s archive, including the “Golgotha” table and “Nobody’s Perfect” chair: what she calls “the pop stars of the practice.”

2️⃣ “Comfort Zones” — Hamilton’s first US solo gallery show. Her signature pumpkins, boots, and butterflies, back smaller and stranger.

3️⃣ “Gaetano Pesce Studio: Continued” — rebuilt from his original Navy Yard workshop by the team he trained himself.

Opens September 16, 6–8pm. On view through October 24, 2026.

08/18/2026

Congratulations to Porfirio Gutierrez who has been announced as a 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellow!

Pictured: (Second slide) Porfirio Gutierrez, Cloistering at Sacred Fir, 2024

07/23/2026

The city is built not only by its infrastructure, but by those artists who make it their home and shape it through their works.

Follow Deborah Kass through New York, tracing the places that shaped her practice—where biography and city become one.

Watch the full video above and join us in celebrating Season Four of On This Spot.

Deborah Kass
On This Spot NYC

07/21/2026

Happy Birthday, Raven Halfmoon! This year your Caddo women spanned the globe, standing tall at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Biennial, the High Line, the National Gallery of Australia, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Your Indigenous ancestors and contemporary sisters, demanding their space, their presence monumental.

Photographer: Kes Efstathiou

07/17/2026

Last weekend to visit "Rosetta Galaxy."

"I realized that everything has eyes."

In Sawako Gōda's universe, everything became luminous, and spiritual.

The turn began in Egypt in the 1980s. Gōda settled in the Nubian village of Gabal Takouk, drawn by the Nile's ancient pull. Her work went abstract, visionary. When she eventually moved back to Japan, she dove into the paranormal, the cosmos, and the Eye of Horus.

By 1988, eyes had taken over her canvases entirely—a "Harem of Eyes" that ranged from symbols of protection to sparks of the universe.

With thanks to Nonaka-Hill and natashagarcialomas for their partnership on this exhibition.

📍Salon 94 .atrata 30 Galerie de Montpensier, Palais-Royal, Paris S94 Paris is open Tues – Sat, 2pm–6pm

Pictured: (First slide) Sawako Goda, Untitled, c. 1990, C-print, (second, third and fourth slide) all titled Rosetta Galaxy, 2000, oil on canvas.

07/16/2026

“The colors emitted from the last hours of daylight are one of the sky's mysterious phenomena, and it was those that inspired Dutch–New Zealander designer Sabine Marcelis' first solo exhibition in the U.S.,” writes WWD.

The Nebula Sphere draws on the moment before planets and stars take shape. Inspired by hydrostatic equilibrium—the force through which gravity pulls celestial bodies into spheres—each solid resin light encases a luminous colored core, a visible center of gravity. As light passes through the resin in both cool and warm tones, it is transformed, echoing the shifting colors of dusk while evoking a nebula: matter suspended in a state of potential, before form is decided.

🔗 Read the full feature at the link in our bio.

📍Sabine Marcelis: “Phases” is on view at 3 E 89th Street, NYC.

Pitcutred: Nebula Sphere 1, scale view, photographed by Eugene Bernstein — Nebula Sphere 2 alternating tones, photographed by Tatia Hahne.

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