Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York are all bursting with must-see art exhibits this spring. For eager artists and art-admirers alike, exhibits are the best way to go check out relevant and exciting work being produced right now. Here’s a list of some of the most talked about shows coming up soon in the tri-state. See what’s happening and get inspired!
CONNECTICUT
A-Space Gallery at West Cove Studio
“String Theory: Six Artists”
West Haven, Mar 28 to Apr 25, 2015
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art
“Premiere 2015 Exhibition”
Groton, Feb 27 to Apr 11, 2015
Artspace
“Heads Will Roll”
“Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now”
New Haven, Feb 20 to May 2, 2015
City Gallery
“In Passing”
New Haven, Apr 2 to Apr 26, 2015
Lyme Art Association
“94th Annual Elected Artist Exhibition”
“Heat, Wave: Summer on the Water”
“Summer Nights and the Connecticut Pastel Society”
Old Lyme, Mar 6 to Apr 17, 2015
Mystic Arts Center
“MAC Members and Elected Artists Exhibition”
“Young At Art”
Mystic, Mar 7 to Apr 11, 2015
Wadsworth Atheneum
“Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008”
“Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy”
“Michael C. McMillen / MATRIX 171”
“Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls”
Hartford, Jan 31 to May 31, 2015
NEW JERSEY
The Center for Contemporary Art
“Spring Exhibits at The Center for Contemporary Art”
Bedminster, April 6 to May 23, 2015
Douglass Library Galleries
“Momentum: Women/Art/Technology”
New Brunswick, January 20 to April 17, 2015
Grounds for Sculpture
“Jae Ko: Selections”
Hamilton, March 29 to February 7, 2016
The Newark Museum
“Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars”
“Royals and Regalia: Inside the Palaces of Nigeria’s Monarchs”
Newwark, February 25 to August 9, 2015
Paul Robeson Galleries
“Healing Through Art: A Collaborative Exhibition”
“Fertile Soil”
“Clark Stoeckley: The United States Versus Private Chelsea Manning”
January 20 to July 30, 2015
“Our Common Cause: Rutgers University Photography: Newark Students Engaging in Women’s Health in Nicaragua”
February 16 to July 30, 2015
“Robert Lobe: In the Forest Drawn of Metal”
April 11 to January 17, 2016
Puffin Cultural Forum
“One-Day Exhibition: Mihoko Suzuki and Naomi Shibuya”
Teaneck, April 25, 2015
TCNJ Art Gallery
“An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media”
Mar 11, 2015 – Apr 26, 2015
“Remixing Revolution: Contemporary Culture in Cuba”
Ewing, Mar 12, 2015 – Apr 26, 2015
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
“Summer Exhibition”
June 26 to August 2015
NEW YORK
Apexart
“Feel Big Live Small”
Manhattan, Through May 16
Asia Society and Museum
“Buddhist Art of Myanmar”
Through May 10
Benrubi Gallery
“View, Kyoto”
Through May 9
Brooklyn Museum
“Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks”
April 3 to August 23, 2015
“Judith Scott: Bound and Unbound”
“Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic”
Through March 5, 2015
“Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time”
Through July 12, 2015
Brooklyn Historical Society
“Mapping Brooklyn”
Brooklyn, Through September 6
Children’s Museum of the Arts
“Pixelated: Sum of its Pieces”
Through May 3
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian
“Making Design”
Through June 14
“Beautiful Users”
Through April 26
“Tools: Extending Our Reach”
Through May 25
Gagosian Gallery
“Tatiana Trouvé: Studies for Desire Lines”
March 3–April 25
“In the Studio: Paintings”
“In the Studio: Photographs”
Through April 18
“Chamberlain | Prouvé: In Collaboration With Galerie Patrick Seguin”
Ongoing
Galerie Lelong
“Etel Adnan”
April 2 through May 8
The Jewish Museum
“Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey”
Ongoing
Marianne Boesky Gallery 
“Hans Op de Beeck: The Drawing Room”
Manhattan, April 1 to May 1, 2015
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art”
Through September 7, 2015
“Bazm and Razm: Feast and Fight in Persian Art”
Through June 31
“The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky”
Through May 10
Michael Mut Gallery
“Patrick Scheid: Zara Notes”
Manhattan, April 2 to May 2, 2015
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
“Joseph Beuys: Multiples from the Reinhard Schlegel Collection”
Manhattan, Through April 18
MoMA PS1
“Simon Denny: The Innovator’s Dilemma”
Manhattan, April 3–September 7
Museum of Arts and Design
“Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin”
March 31 to August 30, 2015
“New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America”
Ongoing
“Painting Realism From Photographs”
Through May 11
“Richard Estes: Painting New York City”
Through September 20
The Museum of Biblical Art
“Sculpture in the Age of Donatello”
Manhattan, February 20–June 14
The Museum of the City of New York
“Hip-Hop Revolution”
April 1 to September 13, 2015
“A Beautiful Way to Go: New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery”
Ongoing
“Soundscape New York”
Through June 7
“Activist New York”
Ongoing
“Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand”
Through July 19
Museum of the Moving Image
“Behind the Screen”
Ongoing
Neue Galerie New York
“Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold”
Manhattan, April 2 to September 7, 2015
Queens Museum of Art
“Panorama of the City of New York”
Ongoing
“Queens Museum Studio Program Exhibition”
Through June 28
Skarstedt Gallery
“Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell”
New York City, until April 18, 2015
The Studio Museum in Harlem
“Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing”
Through June 28
