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TOMORROW Join us Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:30 pm for a conversation between artist Nicola Tyson and writer Cassie Packard on the occasion of Tyson’s exhibition, “NEED.” Nicola Tyson In Conversation with Cassie Packard 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:30pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Nicola Tyson: NEED 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 25, 2026 #nicolatyson #petzel #artist #mustsee #talk #drawing

Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston bring a distinctive sensibility to their collaborative practice—debuting a new series of prints that combine woodcut and lithographic processes. Their meticulous technique builds layered tonal values, resulting in compositions of remarkable complexity and depth. Drawing on historical engraving traditions including the 18th century illustrated natural history volumes of Thomas Bewick, these new prints examine animals within the context of the Anthropocene, exploring the shifting relationships between human industry, animal life, and the visual systems through which “nature” is understood and represented. The series will be on view through April 11, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street. The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 11, 2026 Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston in Conversation with Lauren Rosenblum 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn 🗓️ April 9–12, 2026 Artworks: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston, “Pigeon,” 2026, Signed, titled, and dated verso, Lithograph and woodcut on fabric, Framed: 26 5/8 x 34 3/4 x 1 in, 67.6 x 88.3 x 2.5 cm, Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs; “Rat,” 2026, Signed, titled, and dated verso, Lithograph and woodcut on fabric, Framed: 26 5/8 x 34 3/4 x 1 in, 67.6 x 88.3 x 2.5 cm, Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs; “Tiger,” 2026, Signed, titled, and dated verso, Lithograph and woodcut on fabric, Framed: 26 5/8 x 34 3/4 x 1 in, 67.6 x 88.3 x 2.5 cm, Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs. #robswainston #zorawarsidhu #print #printfair #petzel

Happy holiday season from all of us at Petzel! Artwork: Sean Landers, “See and Feel,” 2025, Signed and dated on verso, Oil on linen, Framed: 41 x 35 in, 104.1 x 88.9 cm, Unframed: 40 x 34 in, 101.6 x 86.4 cm. #seanlanders #petzel #artist #easter

Happy holiday season from all of us at Petzel! Artwork: Sean Landers, “See and Feel,” 2025, Signed and dated on verso, Oil on linen, Framed: 41 x 35 in, 104.1 x 88.9 cm, Unframed: 40 x 34 in, 101.6 x 86.4 cm. #seanlanders #petzel #artist #easter

OPENING TODAY Opening today, April 4, 2026, “The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston” features a new series of prints combining woodcut and lithographic processes by artist duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston. The exhibition will be on view through April 11, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street. The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 11, 2026 Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston in Conversation with Lauren Rosenblum 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn 🗓️ April 9–12, 2026 Installation view, The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston, Petzel, 2026. Photo by Meg Symanow. #robswainston #zorawarsidhu #print #printfair #petzel

Join us Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:30 pm for a conversation between artist Nicola Tyson and writer Cassie Packard on the occasion of Tyson’s exhibition, “NEED.” In connection with this presentation of Tyson’s new drawings, Tyson and Packard will discuss the artist’s view of the self-portrait as a set of moving coordinates, as well as the function of embarrassment and humor in her work. With an eye to the concurrent show of late work by Maria Lassnig, they will also touch on resonances between the pair’s practices, from a shared interest in relationality to the parallels between “body awareness” (Lassnig) and “psycho-figuration” (Tyson). Nicola Tyson In Conversation with Cassie Packard 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:30pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Nicola Tyson: NEED 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 25, 2026 Photo: Installation view, Nicola Tyson, “NEED,” Petzel, 2026. Photo by Meg Symanow. #nicolatyson #petzel #artist #mustsee #talk #drawing

OPENING THIS WEEK Featuring a new series of prints combining woodcut and lithographic processes by artist duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston, as part of the gallery’s “The Viewing Room” series on view from April 4 through April 11 at 520 West 25th Street. Central to the series is an engagement with inherited visual histories of nature. Sidhu and Swainston reference the engravings of Thomas Bewick, whose illustrated volumes such as “History of Quadrupeds” (1790) and “History of British Birds” (1797–1804) helped establish enduring visual conventions for representing animals. Adapting engraving techniques associated with Bewick’s innovations, the artists layer historical imagery with contemporary references, reflecting on how our understanding of the natural world is mediated through books, zoos, cities, and screens rather than direct encounters with the wild. In this context, animals appear suspended between scientific illustration and spectacle—figures encountered as images and symbols as much as living creatures. Coinciding with this presentation, Sidhu and Swainston will be joined in conversation with Lauren Rosenblum, The Print Center Philadelphia’s Jensen Bryan Curator, on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm, at Petzel. RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Additionally, Sidhu and Swainston will be exhibiting at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair from April 9–12, 2026, at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Opening April 4, 2026 Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston in Conversation with Lauren Rosenblum 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn 🗓️ April 9–12, 2026 Artwork: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston, “Falcon,” 2026, Lithograph and woodcut on fabric, Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs. #robswainston #zorawarsidhu #print #printfair #petzel

Petzel presents “Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone,” a new exhibition by Emma Webster on view April 30 through June 6, 2026, at 520 West 25th Street. Drawing on her early background in theatre design, Webster creates physical maquettes which she then renders digitally and choreographs with illusionistic effects of light, texture, and scale. Her paintings capture the distorted, otherworldly scenes with abstract, painterly gestures. The result is a reproduction of natural form that blurs the lines between composite and observational painting, physical and digital reality. Webster’s forthcoming exhibition blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination even further. The exhibition introduces the digital wander for the first time, an interactive digital experience that invites visitors to engage with her world building, expanding the visual experience of her paintings beyond the canvas. With this body of work, Webster presents her take on pastoral painting: rolling hills, livestock, and flora are rendered as fantastical scenes where the idyllic becomes mystical, and the provincial becomes complex, even uneasy. Through the digital experience, viewers can prowl through the constructed wilds peppered with strange beasts. Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Them Alone 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Opening April 30, 2026 Artwork: Emma Webster, “Moon-Eyed at Mid River,” 2026, Oil on linen, 60 x 84 in, 152.4 x 213.4 cm. #emmawebster #petzel #paintings #interactive #digital

Join us on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm at Petzel for a conversation with Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston, joined by Lauren Rosenblum, Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center Philadelphia. The conversation coincides with Sidhu & Swainston’s presentation in “The Viewing Room” series opening Saturday, April 4, 2026. RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston in Conversation with Lauren Rosenblum 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Opening April 4, 2026 #robswainston #zorawarsidhu #print #printfair #petzel

The Austrian painter Maria Lassnig spent decades developing a radically self-referential practice she called "body awareness." Working against the grain of a male-dominated art world, her paintings resist categorization, moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration while charting an unflinching investigation of the self. Three concurrent exhibitions are currently paying tribute to her legacy including "Maria Lassnig" at Petzel, New York. Read the full article on @AirMailWeekly airmail.news/issues/2026-3-…

RESCHEDULED The conversation between Nicola Tyson and Cassie Packard, previously scheduled for March 28th, will now take place on Wednesday, April 8th, at 6:30 pm at 520 West 25th Street. We apologize for any inconvenience. On the occasion of the exhibition, NEED, of Tyson's new drawings, Tyson and Packard will discuss the artist's view of the self-portrait as a set of moving coordinates, as well as the function of embarrassment and humor in her work. With an eye to the concurrent show of late work by Maria Lassnig, they will also touch on resonances between the pair's practices — from a shared interest in relationality to the parallels between "body awareness" (Lassnig) and "psycho-figuration" (Tyson). Your previous RSVP will be carried over and if you wish to RSVP for the April 8th date, please email press@petzel.com to reserve a seat. Nicola Tyson In Conversation with Cassie Packard 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:30pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Nicola Tyson: NEED 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 25, 2026 #nicolatyson #petzel #artist #mustsee #talk #drawing

In the 1990s, Maria Lassnig became increasingly interested in visualizing electromagnetic forces, brain waves, and neural pathways. “How far does a body extend electrically—and which parts of it participate?” she asked. In works such as “Lichtboot (Lightboat)” (1993), her sense of bodily awareness expands from isolated parts to networks of nerves, currents, and invisible energies moving through the figure. Maria Lassnig 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 18, 2026 Artwork: Maria Lassnig, “Lichtboot (Lightboat),” 1993, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 57 1/8 in, 200 x 144.1 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation. #marialassnig #petzel #artist #mustsee #painting

Petzel is pleased to present a new series of prints combining woodcut and lithographic processes by artist duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston, as part of the gallery’s “The Viewing Room” series on view from April 4 through April 11 at 520 West 25th Street. With exceptional expertise in the history of printmaking and mastery of the woodcut process, Sidhu and Swainston bring a distinctive sensibility to their collaborative practice—their meticulous technique building layers of tonal values into compositions of remarkable complexity and depth. Drawing on historical engraving traditions including the 18th century illustrated natural history volumes of Thomas Bewick, these new prints examine animals within the context of the Anthropocene, exploring the shifting relationships between human industry, animal life, and the visual systems through which “nature” is understood and represented. Sidhu and Swainston depict animals such as pigeons, owls, pigs, rats, and monkeys as they appear within human-made environments, considering the often “unnatural” ways humans interact with animals: as urban cohabitants, scientific test subjects, and food commodities. In Owl, 2026, a great horned owl looms against a backdrop of glowing city towers—evoking Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and became a symbol of wildness persisting within the urban grid. Across these layered compositions, the artists examine how urbanization reshapes animal habitats while revealing how animals circulate through culture as symbols as much as through ecosystems as living beings. Coinciding with this presentation, Sidhu and Swainston will be joined in conversation with Lauren Rosenblum, The Print Center Philadelphia’s Jensen Bryan Curator, on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4pm, at Petzel. RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Additionally, Sidhu and Swainston will be exhibiting at the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair from April 9–12, 2026, at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. The Viewing Room: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Opening April 4, 2026 Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston in Conversation with Lauren Rosenblum 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4 pm 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Artwork: Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston, “Owl,” 2026 Lithograph and woodcut on fabric, 31 ½ x 23 ½ in, 80 x 59.59 cm, Edition of 3, 2 AP. #zorawarsidhu #robswainston #print #printfair #petzel

“New Humans: Memories of the Future” inaugurates the New Museum’s expanded building with an exploration of artists’ enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes. “New Humans” traces a diagonal history of the 20th and 21st centuries through the work of more than 150 international artists, including Seth Price, Maria Lassnig, and Simon Denny, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and social changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its possible futures. Exhibition views: “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” 2026. New Museum, New York. Photo 2: Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Featured artworks in “New Humans: Memories of the Future”: Seth Price, “Bob,” 2015, Dye-sublimation print on synthetic fabric, aluminum, LED matrix, 58 x 157 x 4 in., 147.3 x 398.8 x 10.2 cm; Seth Price, “Danny,” 2015, Dye-sublimation print on synthetic fabric, aluminum, LED matrix, 58 x 223 x 4 in, 147.3 x 566.4 x 10.2 cm; Seth Price, “Untitled,” 2015, Dye-sublimation print on synthetic fabric, aluminum, LED matrix, 60 x 115 x 4 in, 152.4 x 292.1 x 10.2 cm; Maria Lassnig, “Selbstportraet als Tier,” 1963, Oil on canvas, 39.37 x 28.74 in, 100 x 73 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation; Simon Denny, “Amazon worker cage patent drawing as virtual King Island Brown Thornbill cage(US 9,280,157Charles Desmarais, "'Uncanny Valley' tests our patience with artificial intelligence," Datebook, February 28, 2020. B2: “System and method for transporting personnel within an active workspace”, 2016),” 2019, Powder coated metal, plastic, digital print on cardboard, iOS augmented reality interface, 84.65 x 84.65 x 112.6 in, 215 x 286 cm. #simondenny #marialassnig #sethprice #tschabalalaself #artist #newmuseum #newhumans

Tschabalala Self’s new sculpture, “Art Lovers,” is currently on view on the facade of the New Museum. The work depicts a romantic scene of a couple embracing, playfully nodding to the architectural “kiss point” where the SANAA-designed building meets the OMA-designed expansion. Installed on the exterior of the Museum’s third floor, Self’s work is visible down Bowery and Prince Street, offering viewers a contemporary portrait of New York City life and the personal connections enabled by public spaces like museums. Critically engaged in questions surrounding figuration, Tschabalala Self has built a singular style from the syncretic use of painting, printmaking, and sculpture to construct her subjects. Self, whose work was included in the New Museum’s 2017 exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” traverses different artistic and craft traditions to explore questions of selfhood and human flourishing. Photos: Exhibition view: “Tschabalala Self: Art Lovers,” 2025. New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photos by: Dario Lasagni. #tschabalalaself #newmuseum #petzel #installation #artist #mustsee

Surveying the later stages of Maria Lassnig’s career, the exhibition spans the late 1980s through the early 2000s and brings together a focused selection of works that reflect her sustained engagement with the body as a site of perception, conflict, and existential inquiry. Included are works from her “Be-Ziehungen” series, a linguistic play that can be translated as “Re-lations.” Figures appear bound, entangled, or tethered, rendered against sparse grounds with an economy of line and heightened expressivity. These works offer incisive and at times darkly sensual reflections on intimacy and attachment. Maria Lassnig 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 18, 2026 Artwork: Maria Lassnig, “Schicksalslinien / Be-Ziehungen VIII (Lines of Fate / Re-lations VIII),” 1994, Oil on canvas, 59 1/8 x 80 3/4 in, 150.2 x 205 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation. #marialassnig #petzel #artist #mustsee #painting

The paintings and drawings in Maria Lassnig’s current exhibition turn to Lassnig’s later years in Vienna, where she served as a professor at the University of Applied Arts starting in 1980. Deeply committed to her students, Lassnig found teaching demanding, requiring a shift from the studio’s solitude to the classroom’s performative dynamics. Many works from this time reflect these psychological pressures. In “Unterwassertherapie (Underwater Therapy)” (1986), she staged vulnerable, often allegorical scenarios where anthropomorphic figures appear endangered, submerged, or suspended in physical and psychic tension. Using her well-known “body awareness” painting, Lassnig painted bodily sensations as lived and felt. The degree to which visible reality informed the work varied from image to image, from phase to phase. Maria Lassnig 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 18, 2026 Artwork: Maria Lassnig, “Unterwassertherapie (Underwater Therapy),” 1986, Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 57 1/8 in, 130.1 x 145.2 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation. #marialassnig #petzel #artist #mustsee #painting

Through an array of contemporary art practices, The Dorsky Museum presents “Watts per Lumen,” a group exhibition that approaches light as both a material and an object of study. Featuring work by Nikita Gale, including “NOSEBLEED 15” (2024), the exhibition traces light along distinct paths that ultimately converge. The exhibition will be on view through July 12, 2026. Learn more: newpaltz.edu/museum/exhibit…

Marking Nicola Tyson’s first drawing exhibition since her 2017 retrospective, “Beyond the Trace,” at The Drawing Room in London her new body of large-scale drawings in “NEED,” represents a significant return to charcoal after several decades working predominantly in graphite, underscoring drawing as a central and sustained component of her practice, parallel to her work in painting. Nicola Tyson: NEED 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ On view until April 25, 2026 🗓️ Nicola Tyson in conversation with Cassie Packard: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 4 pm. 📧 RSVP is required as space is limited; please email press@petzel.com to reserve your seat. Artwork: Nicola Tyson, “Self-portrait: Spectacles,” 2026, Signed and dated verso, Charcoal, conte, pastel on sanded paper, 50 x 38 in, 127 x 96.5 cm, Frame: 52 x 40 in, 132 x 101.6 cm. #nicolatyson #petzel #artist #mustsee #charcoal #drawing

OPENING TODAY Throughout her career, Maria Lassnig resisted stylistic fixity, drawing from expressionism, surrealism, automatism, art informel, Narrative Figuration, and Pop Art while refusing to align herself fully with any single movement. Instead, she forged an independent pictorial language rooted in lived experience, one that treated the body as both subject and instrument of knowledge. The works in this exhibition reflect the sustained intensity in her final decades, affirming her lifelong commitment to painting as a means of exploring existence from within. Maria Lassnig 📍520 W 25th Street 🗓️ Opening reception March 12, 2026, 6–8 pm Artwork: Maria Lassnig, “Blasser Nachtgeist (Pale Night Spirit)," ca. 1990 – 1999, Oil on canvas, 49 1/4 x 40 1/2 in, 125.2 x 103 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation. #marialassnig #petzel #artist #mustsee #painting