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

Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art. by Will Heinrich The fall calendar is full of exciting museum exhibitions despite the climate of political and economic volatility. Some museums, amid increasingly urgent questions about their cultural role, are addressing the political […]

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 […]

by Erin Zhang The city has everything from video game-rendered social commentary to larger-than-life nudes on display in its museums and private foundations this month. Continue Reading

Your comprehensive guide to this season’s major exhibitions and art events around the city. by Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor Wake up, New York — it’s that time of year again! Fall is almost here, that sweet spot between the summer slump and holiday slowdown, and with it rears the full force of the art world. […]

by Alice Zinnes The current June Leaf exhibition at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, up through Dec. 13, is a must-see show. With 150 pieces, representing works on paper, sculptures, paintings, collages and constructions throughout her 75-year career, we get a glimpse of the infinite creativity that marks this artist’s work. Continue Reading

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 […]

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 […]

This fall, one of the most exciting exhibitions in recent memory arrives: a survey of the paintings, drawings, and sculptures of the great June Leaf (1929-2024). One of the finest artists of her generation, Leaf was also, for decades, a crucial and beloved figure in the cultural lives of both New York City and Mabou, […]

by Josh Niland This summer in Andover, Massachusetts, I had the chance to take in the enthralling June Leaf retrospective June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart at the Addison Gallery of American Art on the campus of Phillips Academy (about one hour north of Boston). The premier iteration of the show, which will next travel to NYU’s Grey […]

by Joe Fyfe When I first moved to New York after art school in 1977 I was often asked who my favorite artists were. I said, “June Leaf and Lee Lozano.” I often heard “Lee Lozano is living on the street” in response. The collectors Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick in Philadelphia had a lot […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

by Barry Schwabsky I’ve known June Leaf’s work for 40 years, but that makes me a bit of a Johnny-come-lately to an artist who had already been at work for three decades. So for me, getting my first-ever in-person view of many pieces from the 1950s through the ’70s was one of the great pleasures […]

June Leaf, the legendary artist and wife of photographer Robert Frank, were my neighbour. They were often seen on the street, in their eighth decade and full of energy. Robert and June hung outside their loft on Bleecker Street, watching the neighbourhood, which was bustling with old-timers, hipsters, and NYU kids. Continue Reading

NYU’s Grey Art Museum hosts the traveling exhibition, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist June Leaf (1929–2024) in more than thirty years. Continue Reading

NYU’s Grey Art Museum hosts the traveling exhibition, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist June Leaf (1929–2024) in more than thirty years. Continue Reading

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 […]

As a child, the late artist June Leaf approached a teacher to show her a drawing she had made of a Biblical scene. Without even looking up, the teacher assumed Leaf was asking for permission to go to the bathroom. “I looked at her, and I looked in my hands, and I thought, Oh. That’s how it is. […]

by Abigael Sidi As you walk into the June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart exhibit at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, currently on view through Saturday, December 13th, 2025, you are confronted with works of art made from paint, charcoal, pencil, wire, photographs, and just about every other art medium imaginable. Yet, at the center of all of these […]

"Grant Wood’s oil on masonite painting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) can be seen in Gallery 900 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Further downtown, however, at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, the picture is also on view—that is, printed on a vintage piece of fabric (1952). The textile hangs in the downstairs room of the gallery’s current show 'Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000' (through July 9)."

"The Grey Gallery exhibition includes dozens of early black-and-white AAA prints depicting rural vistas, Mexican laborers, ironworkers, and leisure-time pursuits in cities and heartland alike. The torqued bodies and tilted curves of crashing furniture in Benton's Frankie and Johnnie (1936), based on the song about a murderous love triangle, reveal the influence of such melodramatic masters as the sixteenth-century Italian Tintoretto, a role model Benton impressed upon his most famous pupil, Jackson Pollock."

by Abigael Sidi Featured on The Easel | Art Journalism Originally published on The Science Survey

In 1934, as the U.S. emerged from the Great Depression, an industrious businessman and arts patron named Reeves Lewenthal convened a group of artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. He proposed that they produce prints for him to sell to the public at reasonable prices. Thus was born Associated American Artists (AAA), a highly influential commercial enterprise that brought art collecting to the middle and upper-middle classes in America. Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000, on view at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery from April 19 through July 9, 2016, provides a fascinating survey of AAA, which inspired and cultivated American collectors over six decades.

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