Museum picks and exhibits
W Magazine flags Dean Majd’s NYC solo debut and notes a major European survey for Lorna Simpson as spring museum season ramps up ( ). Queens College’s Godwin‑Ternbach Gallery is running 'LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art' through May 14, and MoMA programming includes 'Performing Abstraction' with Kronos Quartet among SF events called out this week ( ).
BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York is showing Dean Majd’s debut solo exhibition Hard Feelings at 154 Ludlow Street from February 4 through April 8, 2026, curated by Marley Trigg Stewart. (baxterst.org)) Hard Feelings assembles roughly a decade of largely nocturnal, point‑and‑shoot photographs that trace intimacy, violence and grief in an insular Queens crew after the 2016 death of a childhood friend. (museemagazine.com)) Majd’s breakout museum visibility extends beyond Baxter St: he is listed among artists in the Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1, which runs April 16–August 17, 2026. (aperture.org)) Punta della Dogana in Venice will mount Lorna Simpson’s first large‑scale European survey from March 29 to November 22, 2026, curated by Emma Lavigne in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (pinaultcollection.com)) The Venetian presentation brings together roughly fifty works—paintings, collages, videos, sculptures and installations—and includes several new works made specifically for the Punta della Dogana installation. (pinaultcollection.com)) Queens College’s Godwin‑Ternbach Museum organized LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art (February 10–May 14, 2026), curated by Jayne Cole Southard and featuring artists such as Alison Kuo, Paul Pfeiffer and Lanna Apisukh; the exhibition is free and lists weekday hours and two Saturdays per month. (gtmuseum.org)) Performing Abstraction brings Samia Halaby together with members of the Kronos Quartet for live performances at SFMOMA on April 4 (1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.) as part of the Electric Movements series curated by Karen Cheung. (sfmoma.org))
