Top (left to right): Jer’Lisa Devezin, Caleb Dowden, Cassie Watson Francillon, Carl Harrison Jr.

Bottom (left to right): Horton Humble, Nikkisha K. Napoleon, LaVonna Varnado-Brown, Andy Young.

New Orleans Museum of Art’s 2025 cohort

Diedrick Brackens, nuclear lovers, 2020, woven cotton and acrylic yarn, 78 x 72”. Courtesy the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles / Dallas / Seoul. The Mohn Family Trust, a promised gift to MAC3.

 Contemporary Tapestry
Dallas, Texas-based art space Dallas Contemporary presents the exhibition You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, featuring artists El Anatsui, Candice Lin, Diedrick Brackens, Sanam Khatabi and more. Curated by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, You Stretched Diagonally Across It offers a consideration of tactility and image in 21st-century tapestries, and the strategies by which artists interrogate haptic sense, material tension and narrative in weaving. The exhibition will be on view through October 12.

An installation view of Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D. © Cynthia Hawkins. Courtesy the artist, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and STARS, Los Angeles. Photo by: Steven Probert. 

Cynthia Hawkins solo show
New York-based painter and sculptor Cynthia Hawkins explores diverse literary, philosophical, and scientific influences through her richly colorful artwork. An exhibition currently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan, showcases new works from Hawkins’ ongoing series Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D. “In these works, the form of specific maps direct investigations into color and light, providing both an underlying compositional structure and a symbolic vocabulary that plays out on the surface. By manipulating the same maps within each work and across the series, Hawkins provides a consistent point of entry that guides the viewer to engage in extended looking,” the gallery notes. Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D will be on view through May 3.

Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Courtesy Tourism Santa Fe.

Canyon Road Spring Art Festival
Dozens of artists working in every medium imaginable will show off their creative processes during the ninth annual Canyon Road Spring Art Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Galleries will present a wide variety of original works in oil, acrylic, watercolors, pastels, charcoal, pen and ink and graphite. Also on view are three-dimensional mixed media works, collages, photography, bronze and metal sculpture, wood working, ceramics, pottery, glass fusion and glass art, hand-crafted art jewelry, leather works and more. The event takes place on historic Canyon Road, Saturday May 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Christopher Cherix

MoMA’s search for new director ends
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has officially appointed its newest director, after an intensive six-month international search. Christophe Cherix will assume the role of  David Rockefeller Director in September, succeeding Glenn D. Lowry. Cherix originally joined the MoMA’s curatorial staff in 2007, and has served as the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints since 2013. Prior to MoMA, Cherix served as curator of the Cabinet des Estampes at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva, Switzerland. At MoMA, Cherix’s exhibitions have included ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN (2024), Betye Saar: Legends of Black Girl’s Window (with Esther Adler, 2019), Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Institutions, 1965-2016 (with Connie Butler and David Platzker, 2018), and many more. —