Takashi Murakami @ Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21st St, ends 7/11 exhibition website
121 brand new works that perfectly replicate Hiroshige’s famous Japanese woodblock prints (and a few Van Goghs) at a massive scale.

Thomas Demand @ Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 W 24th st, ends 6/28 exhibition website
New unbelievable photographs of meticulous paper models (yes it’s all paper) are hung in a cave-like space that’s also created from a photograph of paper.

Willem de Kooning @ Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24th St, ends 7/11 exhibition website
Speaking of big…Don’t miss a more-than-you-expect curation of many de Kooning paintings and a MASSIVE jaw-dropping sculpture in the 2nd room, shown indoors for the first time in ~30 years.

Alicja Kwade @ PACE Gallery, 510 W 25th St, ends 8/15 exhibition website
Clocks in massive reflective tubes! The secret that most visitors miss is to find the glass sculptures in the 2nd room and look straight down to see what’s inside.

Andy Warhol @ Skarstedt, 547 W 25th St, ends 6/28 exhibition website
Maybe Warhol’s most controversial works (you’ve been warned), these abstract paintings were created by pee’ing on copper or gold paint to cause a chemical reaction!

Sam Moyer @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 10th Ave (at 36th St), ends 6/14 exhibition website
It’s a 10 block walk north to see this, but well worth it. Sam Moyer’s new marble works are exceptional, and the new small paper works are intriguing.

Thomas J Price @ Hauser & Wirth Gallerly, 134 Wooster, ends 6/14, exhibition link
Bronze statues, up to 12 feet tall, stand directly on the gallery floor and seem lost in thought (not paying any attention to you). A rare chance to see this many of them indoors, but there’s also one morenin the middle of Times Square now!.

Jovencio De La Paz @ PPOW Gallery, 390 Broadway 2nd Fl, ends 6/21, exhibition link
Looms and ancient weaving techniques (wow that 3D weaving is crazy) meet computer algorithms in an exploration of the relationship between weaving & digital language and the errors in translation.

Louise Giovanelli @ GRIMM Gallery, 54 White St, ends 6/21, exhibition link
Paintings, often of movie stills, slow your view of a millisecond of a film while inviting you to re-knit motion by comparing paintings throughout the exhibition to each-other.

Toyin Ojih Odutola @ Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette St, ends 7/18, exhibition link
Another knock-out in this beautiful 130-year-old bank hall. Here Ojih Odutola new figurative paintings captivate with impressive technique & emotion.

Randy Wray @ Karma Gallery, 22 E 2nd St & 188 E 2nd St, ends 6/21 exhibition link
My favorite paintings on view find resonance between something viscerally gross and poetically beautiful. The longer you stare, the more colors & complexities come to focus. See paintings first at “22” location, then drawings are “188” location if you liked them.