Exhibition Review

“June Leaf Made Art Like a Mad Scientist, a Dancer, an Aviator and an Archer”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
New York Times, November 26, 2025

Endlessly energetic, the sculptor, who died last year, was often overshadowed by her famous husband, Robert Frank — but the Grey Art Museum brings her to the foreground. by Jillian Steinhauer June Leaf’s artworks are animated by a force that’s easy to see but difficult to describe. They feel thrillingly dynamic — and not just […]

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“June Leaf’s New York survey captures a life in motion”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Wallpaper, October 7, 2025

by Osman Can Yerebakan Many artists have been fascinated by movement, from da Vinci to the Futurists and Martha Graham. Physics’ objectivity aside, motion resonates with individuality – an urge for introspection on the body’s procession as well as its transcendental limits. For American artist June Leaf, who passed away in 2024 aged 94, movement […]

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“June Leaf at the Grey Art Museum — grace and rage in one thrilling mix”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Financial Times, September 17, 2025

A retrospective in New York is a sweeping examination of the artist’s creative and destructive sides by Ariella Budick June Leaf, who died last year at 94, refused to put herself in a box, although her art includes all sorts of confining containers. Leaf’s 75-year career trajectory only rarely crossed her peers’; her mythology was […]

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“The Art of “Anonymous Was A Woman”
Anonymous Was A Woman Exhibition Review
Art and Object, July 7, 2025

This modest-size, thoughtful, insightful, and shapely show, celebrating the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, established in 1996 by philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg, is testimony to the Grey Art Museum’s long-time director Lynn Gumpert on the occasion of her well-earned retirement. The gathering was organized by curator, writer, and editor Nancy Princenthal and curator Vesela […]

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“‘Anonymous Was A Woman’ celebrates women artists’ individuality”
Anonymous Was A Woman Exhibition Review
Washington Square News, April 16, 2025

NYU’s Grey Art Museum presents work from the first 25 years of the Anonymous Was A Woman grant program. by Siobhán Minerva Anonymity erases authorship from works of art. Without a name, these individuals’ contributions end up forgotten. Throughout history, women visual artists have traditionally been subjected to this erasure. Under patriarchal constructions, women were […]

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