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'We Do Not Dream Alone'

Asia Society Triennial 

Yoko Ono’s seminal artist’s book, Grapefruit (1964), is a trove of aphoristic nuggets, for example: ‘A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.’ The title of the Asia Society’s inaugural triennial in New York, ‘We Do Not Dream Alone’, riffs on this quote. This momentous exhibition – the first part of which took place between October 2020 and February 2021, with part two now open through 27 June – draws attention to an array of artists from across Asia whose works are installed throughout several rooms of the Asia Society’s Park Avenue location. The group show aims to express Asia’s prominence within the global artistic landscape by engaging with the rich art history of Asian countries and its relationship to the West. — Lauren Kane

Nina Katchadourian

Pace Gallery

‘Cumulus’, Nina Katchadourian’s first survey at Pace since joining the gallery’s roster, is a pithy exhibition of new work and additions to long-running series. Katchadourian, who’s known for making art within self-imposed constraints and restrictions, finds wonder in commonplace situations, lending the exhibition a picaresque spirit. Take, for example, the artist’s series ‘Paranormal Postcards’ (2001–ongoing). For 20 years, Katchadourian has collected postcards from gift shops, museums and tourist sites, and arranged them within a vast and seemingly superficial typology. Here, a dotted red line connects portraits of the British monarchy to statues erected in public squares, while a snapshot of two seagulls appears next to an image of a crowd clambering over the Berlin Wall. — Will Fenstermaker

Eva Hesse & Hannak Wilke

Acquavella Galleries

This summer, Hesse and Wilke are being shown side by side for the first time in an exhibition at Acquavella Galleries, New York, titled ‘Erotic Abstraction’. The pairing of the artists, who art-history often siloes into the categories of 1960s post-minimalism and 1970s feminist art respectively, is a remarkably generative one. Deftly curated by Eleanor Nairne, a curator at London’s Barbican Art Gallery, the exhibition presents Hesse and Wilke’s oeuvres in separate rooms and features works on paper, video and sculpture, all made between 1965 and 1977. — Cassie Packard

Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill

Museum of Modern Art 

A multitude of flags hangs above a colony of plush bunny-human shapeshifters who recline, tease or kneel like sentinels on plinths resembling rabbit hutches. Aromas of tobacco waft throughout the space and suffuse the artworks by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, which are currently on view in the artist’s first US institutional solo at the Museum of Modern Art in Lenapehoking (New York). Ground and stuffed into sheer pantyhose to form plump, mammalian figures, tobacco is also infused in oils and used as a drawing medium, pressed and sewn into fragile drapery, rubbed on walls and rolled in cigarettes. — Caitlin Chaisson

_{Main image: Nina Katchadourian, Accent Elimination, 2005, installation view, Pace Gallery, New York. Courtesy: the artist and Pace Gallery, New York}