Dye Hard & Humeau’s Bat Cave

White Cube Gallery New York
Marguerite Humeau’s art takes a story or experience—a trip to a bat cave in the South Pacific, for instance—and turns it into both a fictional world and a metaphor for our own experiences. She’s a contemporary surrealist in the sense that she is interested in emotions and ideas that cannot be reached through reasoning. Photo: Frankie Tyska/Courtesy of White Cube
Marion Maneker
January 20, 2026

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This year got off to a tough start in the art world. A not-insignificant number of people got trapped in the Caribbean after the Maduro extraction created a cascade of missed flights, leaving some industry swells stuck in paradise a bit longer than planned. The inconvenience should have been little cause for panic—after all, the art world always takes a while to get back up and running in January—but with a round of openings late last week, there is now a surprising amount of art to see around town, including the debut at White Cube of surrealist-inspired French artist Marguerite Humeau; a show of the late work of fellow abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart at Pace; a show of William Eggleston’s dye transfer prints at David Zwirner; as well as a great installation of Dan Flavin’s beautiful light sculptures, or “grids.” These are just a handful of an entire menu of options to entertain yourself here in New York, should the president make good on his saber-rattling over Greenland and shut down the airspace over the Atlantic.