Our Critics Disagree on MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, a Wide-Ranging Survey Defined by a Fascination with Fragility
MoMA PS1 has opened the sixth edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial survey of artists living and working across New York City’s five boroughs, featuring 53 artists and staged during the institution’s 50th anniversary year. ARTnews editors Maximilíano Durón and Alex Greenberger describe the exhibition as focused on vulnerability and precarity tied to weakened infrastructure and fragile support systems, with many works using delicate materials. Durón highlights Kenneth Tam’s 2026 video I’M STAYING HOPEFUL AND STRONG (For Bilal and Salah), which centers on taxi drivers affected by the taxi medallion crisis and the debt and bankruptcies linked to ride-sharing’s impact. The show is the first Greater New York since the Covid-era 2021 edition and was organized entirely by MoMA PS1’s in-house curatorial staff rather than outside contributors.
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