This week, it’s all about seeing things differently, whether that means rethinking a Renaissance rivalry, revisiting the Pop Art icon who anticipated our meme-obsessed world, or getting lost in landscapes that feel like fever dreams. From Calida Rawles’s watery perspectives to Scott Kahn’s delightfully eerie worlds, these shows remind us that art isn’t just about what’s in front of us. It’s about how we look at it.
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Ready to see what you’ve been missing? If your answer is yes, stay to the end of the article to discover beautiful corner units that let the light shine bright to help you see differently. And with Open House New York underway this weekend, you can also see notable buildings, cultural sites, city infrastructure, and other parts of New York City from a new perspective.
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Select Art Shows to See this Weekend
Florence, move over. The Frick Collection is putting Siena in the Renaissance spotlight with Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500. Nearly 40 works, including sculptures, medals, and candelabra by masters like Donatello and Vecchietta, reveal a hotbed of artistic innovation that’s long been overshadowed by its Tuscan neighbor. Many of these rare bronzes are making their first trip beyond Italy, so consider this your chance to meet the Renaissance’s other MVP.
Before memes and endless scrolling, Roy Lichtenstein was already remixing image culture, turning comic strips and mass-media imagery into Pop Art icons. Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, his first New York retrospective since 1993, spans six decades of painting, sculpture, prints, film, and those signature Ben-Day dots, with iconic works, lesser-known gems, and four re-created murals. I’m especially excited to see the short film by co-curator Alex Da Corte about Lichtenstein’s art teacher, who taught him how to “see.” Because sometimes the most radical thing an artist can do is teach the rest of us to look again.
Calida Rawles makes a splash with Parallax, a trio of paintings inspired by photographs of her daughter in a pool, each captured from a slightly different angle. Blending hyperrealism with dreamy abstraction, Rawles transforms water, light, and movement into meditations on Black identity, memory, and belonging. The takeaway? Sometimes all it takes to see a moment differently is to change your point of view.
Scott Kahn: Silent Night — Installation Views
Scott Kahn’s landscapes are where the everyday takes a darkish, dream-like turn. At David Zwirner, Silent Night brings together new paintings and works spanning 25 years, filled with electric-color trees, ominous moons, floating windows, and skies that shift from daylight to darkness mid-canvas. Part visual diary, part dreamscape, these scenes aren’t so much about capturing a place as bottling a feeling. Nature, but make it mysterious.
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Michelle Sinclair Colman
Michelle writes children's books and also writes articles about architecture, design and real estate. Those two passions came together in Michelle's first children's book, "Urban Babies Wear Black." Michelle has a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in the Cities Program from the London School of Economics.
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