One of the greatest gifts an artist can give the viewer is a sense of the artist as a person — their lives, loves, losses, and the mundane details that amount to their worlds. This is a great moment for getting to know your artist, with shows featuring the always impressive Sylvia Sleigh, whose friends and lovers literally bared all, as well as the beautifully personal mixed media works of Paul Gardère, the celebrated visual and textual world of Christine Sun Kim, and more. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews EditorKenneth Tam: The MedallionBridget Donahue, 99 Bowery, Lower East Side, ManhattanThrough March 8Installation view of Kenneth Tam, “The Medallion” (2025), 2-channel HD video with sound (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)“The message is clear — tides of technology wielded for personal enrichment rather than societal improvement will obliterate us with cold ease.” —Lisa Yin ZhangRead the full review here.Rudy Burckhardt: A Painting ExhibitionTibor de Nagy Gallery, 11 Rivington Street, Lower East Side, ManhattanThrough March 8Rudy Burckhardt, “Sixth Avenue” (1977), oil on linen (courtesy Estate of Rudy Burckhardt and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York)“Through his directness, modesty, and scrupulous attention to detail, Burckhardt’s representation of the oddness of the ordinary is unrivaled.” —John YauRead the full review here.Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is preciousOrtuzar gallery, 5 White Street, Tribeca, ManhattanThrough April 5Installation view of Sylvia Sleigh: Every leaf is precious at Ortuzar. Left: “Annunciation: Paul Rosano” (1975); right: “Triple Portrait of Philip” (1971) (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)“There’s something wonderful about Sleigh’s paintings that feels like showing up to a nudist colony where people are fine letting it all hang out.” —Hrag VartanianRead the full review here.Paul Gardère: Vantage PointsStuyvesant-Fish House, 21 Stuyvesant Street, East Village, ManhattanThrough June 6Paul Gardère, “Rowing to Giverny” (1999) (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)“Gardère’s techniques and materials merge with his subject matter to sketch out a portrait of his life” —NHRead the full review here.Christine Sun Kim: All Day All NightWhitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, West Village, ManhattanThrough July 6Installation view of Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, “Palm Reader” (2020), at Readings from Below at the Times Art Center Berlin (© Christine Sun Kim; photograph by GR.Berlin, courtesy the artists, François Ghebaly Gallery, and White Space)“Kim revels in translation not just between languages or systems of notation, but between concepts and feelings or experiences.” —LYZRead the full review here.