Rifka Milder, Madrid #6, #15, #14
Exhibition Review by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Rifka Milder Paints Downtown Without the Downtown Act

New York City loves a label the way it loves a line outside a new restaurant: there is the promise of significance and the reassurance that someone else has already decided what matters. The label flatters, then quietly ends the conversation. The oil painter Rifka Milder’s work refuses that bargain. Call her a “downtown painter,” and you’re not wrong, but her new solo show at Helm Contemporary, GREAT JONES, is what happens when someone who actually grew up downtown, in a household run on paint and argument, makes abstraction that declines to become neighborhood branding. Art in America once called her “an oil painter’s painter.”

Anne Russinof
In Dialogue by Etty Yaniv

Anne Russinof – Gestural Symphony at Equity Gallery

Emily Berger met the late painter and artist, Anne Russinof, twenty years ago at The Painting Center in New York. Russinof’s intelligence and presence were immediate. A friendship formed around their work—studio visits, openings, exhibitions, and eventually, showing together. Both were committed to abstract painting and supported each other’s practice. Berger curated this exhibition of Russinof’s elegant, rigorous paintings at Equity Gallery to bring them wider recognition. What Russinof left behind is a powerful body of work. “I believe she would be pleased with the exhibition, the beautiful catalog designed by Patricia Fabricant, and the thoughtful, poetic writing from Paul D’Agostino and friends,” Berger says.

Krista Voto and collaborator, Brittany Coburn, Her Shadow Casts No Simple Form
In Dialogue by Etty Yaniv

Meghan Roghanchi at RAM Gallery

In her mid-twenties, Meghan Roghanchi began collecting art with her husband, engaging directly with artists and developing an interest in the relationship between artistic production and collecting. After raising three children to school age, she returned to a professional focus shaped by her long-standing engagement with art, education, and collecting. Drawing on these experiences, Roghanchi founded RAM Gallery, positioning it at the intersection of creative practice and collecting, with an emphasis on direct exchange between artists and audiences and an accessible, welcoming gallery environment.

Reflections of Home, Brochure
Exhibition Review by john ros

Making Room: Refusal and Collective Practice at The Living Space

On the second floor of a prewar building on a non-assuming block of Flushing, Queens, one might stumble upon a vibrant community of young artists making work and creating community. There is no signage announcing arrival, no threshold that signals entry into the capital “A” capital “W” Art World. Instead, there is a buzzer, a staircase, and a living room temporarily transformed. This is where Reflections of Home, the inaugural exhibition at The Living Space Gallery, takes place — as an encounter and as a statement of refusal.

Bonny-Leibowitz-_-Adventures-In-Plunderland
Exhibition Review by Emma Ahmad

Bonny Leibowitz: Adventures in Plunderland

In 2023, multidisciplinary artist Bonny Leibowitz’s world shifted when she stumbled upon an active demolition site in a shopping center in Richardson, Texas. She described the landscape as “both horrific and beautiful” – a scene of destruction and chaos situated right in the middle of the inner city Dallas suburb. Braving the sweltering Texas heat, Leibowitz made multiple trips to the site, photographing it extensively and collecting pieces of debris from the wreckage that would later comprise her series Adventures in Plunderland.

Exhibition Review by Taylor Bielecki

Bonesetter: Dislocations, Connections and Synergies

Walking into the space at 86 Bowery, you are greeted by a calm, welcoming exhibition, the walls warmly lit and filled with a wide array of drawings, paintings, and sculptures, featuring works by 24 artists. The exhibition title is Bonesetter, based on the idea of a bonesetter, an individual in many cultures who resets broken bones and dislocations.

Exhibition Review by Jac Lahav

Rachel Rampleman’s “Life Is Drag”: An Epic Queer Archive at SoMad

Rachel Rampleman has been documenting drag performers for 6 years. With over a thousand hours of footage of interviews and performances, she has compiled the largest archive of American drag in the world. At SoMad, a queer and femme-led contemporary art space in Manhattan, Rampleman unveils their latest iteration of Life Is Drag. In a dark room, glowing monitors with monumental portraits of drag artists shimmer, shout, and whisper. Ultra high definition acts of defiance and glamour brighten the walls in this installation, running through December 18, 2025.

Tom LaDuke’s Dream Sets for a Lost Message
Exhibition Review by Stephen Wozniak

Tom LaDuke’s Dream Sets for a Lost Message

Across trippy, iridescent seas, massive, eerie interiors, and uncanny, translucent forms, Tom LaDuke composes intimate “letters” to the cultural ghosts that shaped him—poetic reflections on perception, memory, and the subtle currents of emotional drift.

Love letters straight from your heart
Keep us so near while apart
I'm not alone in the night
When I can have all the love you write

–  Love Letters by Heyman and Young
Exhibition Review by Taylor Bielecki

Spectral Evidence: A deeper introspection on Color, Light, and Energy

Walking into this show on a cold, blustery night, you are greeted by large windows illuminated out by gallery light. Inside, you are met with a collection of color, light, and energy. Each piece in the exhibition Spectral Evidence uses mainly acrylic to illuminate new spaces by dissolving edges, blending colors, and allowing gradients to calmly and smoothly envelope the space within the works. While each artist in the show has their own take on creating their own spaces, they use many conventions of painting and abstraction to create new forms and environments to experience, and each piece seems to flow well into the next. The gallery layout lends itself to a meandering space.