If patterns and efficiency have been the one artwork choices on the town, there would nonetheless be a lot to see this week. Yow will discover the latter, or archives of it, in one of many season’s main artwork occasions, MoMA Ps1’s newly opened survey of labor by artist, performer, musician, and curator Vaginal Davis. As Daniel Larkin describes in his overview, the present is a visit by way of the artist’s many themes and roles. Efficiency can also be a key a part of Duane Linklater’s present exhibition at Dia Chelsea. The final of a sequence of Saturday dance items takes place this weekend, although there’s a lot extra to see on this deeply significant show.
Patterns seem in seem in very completely different kinds in two extra of our favourite reveals this week. On the Higher East Facet, you may see Judy Ledgerwood’s improvisational tackle the Sample and Ornament motion. Conversely, Chelsea’s Print Middle presents a thought-provoking tackle infographics impressed by W.E.B. Du Bois. —Natalie Haddad, Opinions Editor
Judy Ledgerwood: Twilight within the Wilderness
Grey Gallery, 1018 Madison Avenue, Flooring 2, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough November 1
Judy Ledgerwood, “Crepusculo” (2025), oil on canvas (photographs courtesy Grey Gallery)
“I have always thought of Ledgerwood as a consummate painter who transformed the rigidity of Pattern and Decoration’s reliance on repetition into a mode of improvisation and surprise.” —John Yau
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Information Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Modern Print
Print Middle New York, 535 West twenty fourth Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough December 13
Set up view of Information Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Modern Print at Print Middle New York (photograph Seph Rodney/Hyperallergic)
“The experience [of the show] is like encountering an iceberg of meaning: seeing an enormous structure while realizing that most of its entirety I may never be able to perceive.” —Seph Rodney
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Duane Linklater: 12 + 2
Dia Chelsea, 537 West twenty second Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough January 24, 2026
Efficiency of “bison bison (dance_hum for dirtbath),” written and choreographed by Tanya Lukin Linklater as a part of Duane Linklater: 12 + 2 at Dia Chelsea (photograph Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
“Linklater not only lets buffalo run free in 12 + 2, conceptually at least, but in the installation, performance, and paintings on view he also reimagines the world in their terms.” —Aruna D’Souza
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Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product
MoMA PS1, 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensThrough March 2, 2026
Element of Vaginal Davis “Sucking Her Unborn Cock – Archivist Headache Wall (Seventies – Current) (photograph Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic)
“For her survey, Ms. Davis oscillates between the miniature and the monumental as a strategy to jolt viewers out of complacency and see the imagery anew.” —Daniel Larkin
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