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“Revisiting Robert Rauschenberg’s Creative Rebellion on His 100th Birthday”
Handle with Care: Robert Rauschenberg’s Ecological Conscience Exhibition Feature
1st Dibs Introspective, November 8, 2026

A planet-wide celebration feels fitting for an artist who saw connections everywhere: between paint and photography, art and life, self and surroundings. by Trent Morse The fame came through a deletion. In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg obtained a drawing from Willem de Kooning. And he erased it. At first glance, this seemed like an art-world stunt, a bratty thumbing […]

“June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Brooklyn Rail, October 15, 2025

by Andrew L. Shea “The secret is not drawing but DANCE.” So declares a work in charcoal on paper by June Leaf included in her current retrospective at NYU’s Grey Art Museum. Titled Drawings in Movement (2020), the piece depicts a circular stage where tiny, naked figures alternately recline, loll, lurch, and sprawl. Though Leaf (1929–2024) made […]

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“Berthe Weill and the Parisian Avant-Garde with Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy”
The American Library in Paris, October 15, 2025

“Berthe Weill and the Parisian Avant-Garde with Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy” Organized by: The American Library in Paris Original date: October 15, 2025 Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy discuss the Musée de l’Orangerie’s current exhibition “Berthe Weill. Galeriste d’avant-garde,” which traces the story of one of the first female art dealers in Paris. A pioneering […]

“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 […]

“Five New York City Art Shows That We Love Right Now”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art. Abstraction is in good form in art institutions at the moment. The Met’s current retrospective of midcentury Ojibwe artist George Morrison brings out a side of Abstract Expressionism that’s rarely discussed in art histories, and well worth seeing. Though […]

“The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Review
Hyperallergic, October 7, 2025

by Faye Hirsch “Nobody knew what was in my mind anyway, least of all myself,” late artist June Leaf said in a 2010 interview about her creative awakening as a child in Chicago. “So little did [my mother] realize that what was being developed in her house was a volcano.” No wonder that, in many […]

“June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Now, the NAWA Magazine, October 6, 2025

by Amy Schneider The Grey Art Museum at New York University will host the exhibition, “June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart,” from September 9, 2025, to December 13, 2025. June Leaf (1929–2024), a renowned American visual artist, left an indelible mark on the art world over her 75-year career. Her work is celebrated for its […]

“15 Women-Led Art Shows to See in New York This Fall”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
Vogue, September 22, 2025

By Fiorella Valdesolo While New York Fashion Week has come to an end, for anyone whose eyes are still starved for beauty, there is a formidable list of ongoing women-led art happenings to fill your calendar. Here, we recommend some long, leisurely art strolling in lieu of that perpetual scrolling. Continue Reading

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Conversation about June Leaf Exhibition: Sam Adams, Allison Kemmerer, Gordon Wilkins and Barry Schwabsky
NSE #1254, Brooklyn Rail, September 19, 2025

Curators Sam Adams, Allison Kemmerer, and Gordon Wilkins join Rail Editor-at-Large Barry Schwabsky for a conversation on Zoom June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Recorded on Friday, September 19, 2025

“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 […]