Welcome to the autumn artwork season! And what an excellent one it’s shaping as much as be. There’s a lot to select from that it’s onerous to determine what to see first — however The Met’s newly opened Man Ray exhibition ought to be close to the highest of anybody’s record. Julia Curl provides her tackle this extremely anticipated present. One other notable opening is Flora Yukhnovich’s 4 Seasons at The Frick, the painter’s response to François Boucher’s well-known 1755 sequence of the identical title on the museum.
Galleries are alive with new exhibitions as nicely. One standout, amongst many, is Lisa Corinne Davis at Miles McEnery Gallery in Chelsea. John Yau introduced his discerning eye to the present; learn his assessment linked beneath. Additionally closing subsequent month are Ufuoma Essi on the Museum of Trendy Artwork and the Works on Water Triennial on the Arts Middle of Governors Island, each nicely value a go to. Get pleasure from your artwork viewing this week. —Natalie Haddad, Opinions Editor
Ufuoma Essi
Museum of Trendy Artwork, 11 West 53rd Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanThrough October 13
Ufuoma Essi, “Bodies In Dissent” (2021), scanned Tremendous 8mm movie (coloration), 6 min. (picture courtesy the artist)
“Essi’s great skill in these pieces lies in articulating her conceptual concerns through aesthetic and sensory means.” —NH
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Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism
Miles McEnery Gallery, 525 West twenty second Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough October 25
Lisa Corinne Davis, “Notional Adage” (2025), oil on canvas (courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; picture by JSP Artwork Pictures)
“[Davis] shows us a world we know exists but seldom see up close, a beautiful, multicolored system populated by geometric shapes, lines, and grids.” —John Yau
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The Works on Water Triennial
Arts Middle at Governors Island, 110 Andes Highway, Governors Island, ManhattanThrough October 26
Jana Harper, “Music for the Water (2025) (photograph Louis Bury/Hyperallergic)
“[Works on Water’s] willingness to revisit projects indicates that it values art for its depth and persistence rather than how it sets or fits trends.” —Louis Bury
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Man Ray: When Objects Dream
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough February 1, 2026
Man Ray, “Lee Miller” (1929), gelatin silver print; The Museum of Trendy Artwork, New York (© Man Ray 2015 Belief / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025)
“When Objects Dream proves, thrillingly, that anyone left feeling jaded from the many, many recent exhibitions surrounding Surrealism’s centennial in 2024 can still see the movement’s key photographer with a fresh set of eyes.” —Julia Curl
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Flora Yukhnovich’s 4 Seasons
The Frick Assortment, 10 East 71st Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough March 9, 2026
Flora Yukhnovich, “Four Seasons: Winter,” element (2025) (picture © Flora Yukhnovich, courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Victoria Miro, photograph Joseph Coscia Jr.)
“Possibly Yukhnovich’s landscapes are … postcards from a post-human period during which nature, liberated from the unbridled consumption of the Anthropocene, can as soon as once more flourish. —Natalie Weis
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