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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

“This Organization Has Added Legions of Women to Art History, and Now There’s a Show to Prove it”
Anonymous Was A Woman Exhibition Review
ArtNews, April 3, 2025

by Alex Greenberger At New York University’s Grey Art Museum, the head of artist Rona Pondick—a cast of it, anyway—can be seen emerging from a pedestal in the center of one gallery. Her skin is pink, her ear is translucent, her head is bald, and her eyes are closed. It is hard to look away from her […]

“Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
The Brooklyn Rail, February 11, 2025

by Ekin Erkan Grey Art Museum’s Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde is a welcome conspectus of the titular Parisian art dealer and gallerist. In comparison to her Montparnasse male counterparts, such as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Ambroise Vollard, Weill’s promulgation of the nascent School of Paris (among other, unrelated and unaffiliated avant-gardists) […]

“Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Review: Modernism’s Little-Known Godmother”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
MSN, February 1, 2025

by Lance Esplund Occasionally an exhibition is as art-historically groundbreaking as it is visually arresting. Rarely, however, will it also force scholars to rewrite the origin story of European modernism. But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of […]

“Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Review: Modernism’s Little-Known Godmother”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2025

“Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
Artforum, February 1, 2025

by Megan Kincaid This exhibition, honoring Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill (1865–1951), constitutes its subject through far-reaching networks of aesthetic trajectories, mirroring her vision for vanguard experimentation and enterprise. Weill has been largely erased from defining accounts of twentieth-century modern art despite her significant contributions. Continue Reading

“A Gallerist on View”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
NYU Arts Digest, November 20, 2024

The Grey Art Museum celebrates Berthe Weill, an unsung Parisian art dealer who championed up-and-comers Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and other heavyweight French modernists by Peggy McGlone She was the first dealer to buy works by Pablo Picasso and gave Henri Matisse, Diego Rivera, and others their first big breaks. The largely overlooked powerhouse who championed […]

“NYU’s Grey Art Museum unearths a vital female art dealer”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
Washington Square News, October 30, 2024

by Siobhán Minerva Entering the Grey Art Museum, English and French chatter bounces off the walls as gallery-goers lust over harmonious impressionist paintings, absurd cubist pieces and striking fauvist colors. It is a space where well-known paintings by artists such as Henri Matisse can coexist with the works of lesser-known painters like Louis Cattiaux. Continue Reading