Get up, New York — it’s that point of 12 months once more! Fall is nearly right here, that candy spot between the summer season hunch and vacation slowdown, and with it rears the total power of the artwork world. Complain all we’d in regards to the climate getting colder and the whole lot dashing up and the scholars packing the morning commute — there’s one thing enchanting about fall, one thing motivating in regards to the rush. This season, the artwork world’s again with what feels just like the strongest slate of reveals in a minute (and never a New York one). We’ve advisable greater than 80 exhibitions throughout all 5 boroughs in your fall artwork schedule.
First, some huge museum re-openings: The Studio Museum in Harlem returns after a seven-year makeover, and the brand new New Museum debuts on the Bowery. It’s additionally the autumn of Rauschenberg: On the a hundredth anniversary of his delivery, each the Guggenheim and the Museum of the Metropolis of New York are opening exhibitions. And in a weird coincidence, Mika Rottenberg and Woman Pink are each displaying public artworks depicting ft on the Excessive Line and on the facade of MoMA PS1, respectively.
Why ever go away New York? Everybody swings by ultimately. Living proof: Monet’s coming to the Brooklyn Museum, Renoir to the Morgan, and Ruth Asawa and Wifredo Lam to MoMA, simply to call just a few. Elsewhere, you may encounter architectural interventions by Duane Linklater at Dia Chelsea and Jeffrey Gibson at The Met’s facade. Throwbacks abound, from Sixties Surreal on the Whitney to centuries-old luxurious liturgical objects on the Morgan. And, in fact, there are the reveals about New York itself. The Leslie-Lohman Museum is exhibiting pictures of David Wojnarowicz-as-Rimbaud’s peregrinations across the Decrease East Facet and different corners of the town within the ’70s, for one, whereas the New York Historic is celebrating the spirited queer performers of the Harlem Renaissance. We’ve even obtained a complete part on public artwork to see outdoor throughout that pretty gentle autumn climate.
However that’s sufficient of a preview. Try our full information to the autumn season beneath, and preserve coming again. We hope it can function a useful resource you may return to repeatedly, looking for simply the suitable factor. Belief me: You’ll discover it. —Lisa Yin Zhang, Affiliate Editor
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Now on View
Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Artwork Gallery at Columbia College, 615 West 129th Avenue, sixth Ground, Harlem, ManhattanThrough Oct. 19
Nonetheless from Kang Seung Lee (in collaboration with Joshua Serafin and Nathan Mercury Kim), “The Heart of a Hand” (2023), single-channel 4K video, coloration, sound, length: 13:13 minutes, version of 5, 2 AP (picture courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council)
Seven artists, together with Carolyn Lazard and Rirkrit Tiravanija, interrogate queer identification politics, intergenerational kinship, and conventional types of commemorative documentary on this exhibition. Eight video and movie installations centering queer topics within the Columbia College gallery vary from a few minutes in runtime to greater than 10 hours.
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Nina Chanel Abney: San Juan Heal and Jacolby Satterwhite: An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time
Lincoln Heart, 10 Lincoln Heart Plaza, Higher West Facet, ManhattanThrough Oct. 21
Nina Chanel Abney, “San Juan Heal” (2022), latex ink and vinyl mounted on glass (picture by Nicholas Knight, courtesy Lincoln Heart for the Performing Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Public Artwork Fund, NY)
Gracing the sixty fifth Avenue facade of David Geffen Corridor at Lincoln Heart, Nina Chanel Abney’s vibrant patchwork fee “San Juan Heal” (2022) pays homage to a once-thriving primarily Black and Brown neighborhood that was demolished to make manner for the humanities complicated. Inside, Jacolby Satterwhite’s sweeping digital video within the corridor’s foyer reimagines a utopian metropolis panorama constructed on equitable artistry.
Lorna Simpson: Supply Notes
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough Nov. 2
Lorna Simpson, “For Beryl Wright” (2021), ink and screenprint on two gessoed fiberglass panels (© Lorna Simpson; picture by James Wang, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)
Lorna Simpson’s genre-bending work, interlaced with imagery from magazines and archival collections, take middle stage on this landmark presentation spanning the final decade of her follow. Proven alongside a choice of Simpson’s sculptures and collages, these works plumb the politics of identification and visibility.
From the Bronx to the Battery: The Subway Solar
Poster Home, 119 West twenty third Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough Nov. 2
Fred Cooper, “The Cloisters” (1938) (picture courtesy Poster Home)
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(Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller third Assortment
Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough Jan. 4, 2026
Set up view of Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991–current) in (Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller third Assortment (picture © Bruce M. White 2025; picture courtesy Asia Society Museum)
Three main up to date artists forge connections between intersecting historic durations, various cultural views, and distinct Asian areas by placing their practices in dialog with a choice of historical works and artifacts from the museum’s assortment. The ensuing exhibition redefines Asian artwork historical past by deconstructing and increasing pre-existing ideas of identification and cultural heritage.
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Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings
Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanThrough Jan. 4, 2026
Lisa Yuskavage, “Neon Sunset” (2013), monoprint with hand additions in pastel mounted on aluminum (© Lisa Yuskavage; picture courtesy the artist and David Zwirner)
Tender, exhibitionist, and generally uncanny feminine nudes could be seen throughout dozens of sketches, drawings, and research on this exhibition by Philadelphia-born artist Lisa Yuskavage. The primary in depth museum survey of her drawings, the present consists of works from the Nineteen Nineties by means of the current.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough Jan. 18, 2026
Rashid Johnson, “Untitled Escape Collage” (2018), ceramic tile, mirror tile, branded purple oak flooring, vinyl, spray enamel, oil stick, black cleaning soap, wax (© Rashid Johnson, 2025; picture by Martin Parsekian, courtesy Kathy and Mitchell Jacobson)
Throughout his three-decade profession, Rashid Johnson has constructed an erudite physique of labor that pulls from historical past, literature, music, and philosophy, with a give attention to the complexity of Black diasporic identities. Ninety works remodeling the Guggenheim’s rotunda embrace spray-painted textual content items, work product of black cleaning soap, a piano, and sculptures comprising vegetation, cabinets, video displays, ceramics, and even books.
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Umber Majeed: J😊Y TECH
Queens Museum, Grand Central Parkway and Van Wyck Expressway, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, QueensThrough Jan. 18, 2026
Umber Majeed, “Postcard” (2024), combined media on paper and interactive web site (picture courtesy the artist)
The Jackson Heights telephone restore store meets the museum within the work of Umber Majeed. Drawing on the establishment’s historical past as a World’s Truthful host, the visible language of Queens and its South Asian communities, and her uncle’s defunct journey company, Majeed crafts a technologically modern present exploring diasporic aesthetics. Guests are invited to make use of their telephones to entry AR experiences that activate her drawings.
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Shifting Landscapes
Whitney Museum of American Artwork, 99 Gansevoort Avenue, Meatpacking District, ManhattanThrough January 25, 2026
Anita Steckel, “NY Skyline on Canvas #1 (Woman Pressing Finger Down)” (c. 1970–74), screenprint and oil on canvas (© Property of Anita Steckel; picture by Paul Salveson, picture courtesy Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles and Ortuzar, New York)
Some 120 works by greater than 80 artists, together with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Wong, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ana Mendieta, and Gordon Matta-Clark, look at how political, ecological, and social forces affect artists’ representations of their environments. Organized thematically throughout the museum’s total sixth ground, the present explores subjects akin to industrialization, geopolitical borders, ecofeminism, and different geographies.
The Magical Metropolis: George Morrison’s New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough Might 31, 2026
George Morrison, “The Antagonist” (1956), oil on canvas (picture courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork)
This exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of Ojibwe artist George Morrison, an influential chief within the American Summary Expressionist motion, by means of its presentation of 35 work and drawings. Rooted in his time in New York, which he known as a “Magical City,” the present additionally introduces two of the museum’s latest acquisitions by Morrison.
Opening in September
Flora Yukhnovich’s 4 Seasons
The Frick Assortment, 1 East seventieth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanSept. 3–March 9, 2026
François Boucher, “The Four Seasons: Spring” (1755), oil on canvas (picture by Joseph Coscia Jr., courtesy The Frick Assortment, New York)
Millennial British painter Flora Yukhnovich reacts to 18th-century Rococo painter François Boucher’s 4 Seasons collection (1563–73) on this site-specific set up. Protecting the partitions of the newly reopened Frick Assortment’s Cupboard Gallery, the artist will create an summary mural meant to put Boucher’s collection in dialogue with up to date aesthetics.
Amazonia Açu
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanSept. 3–April 18, 2026
Aycoobo (Wilson Rodríguez), “La maloka de las plantas (The plant maloka)” (2024), acrylic on paper (picture by Juan Pablo Velasco, picture courtesy the artist and Instituto de Visión)
The Americas Society presents a pluralistic picture of the Amazon rainforest with multi-media works curated by representatives of every of the 9 nations that embody the huge jungle. Specializing in Indigenous information, this exhibition seeks to dispel stereotypical portrayals of the area, changing them with a nuanced perspective that highlights its multifaceted histories and communities.
Affect and Id: Twentieth Century Portrait Pictures from the Financial institution of America Assortment
Nationwide Arts Membership, 15 Gramercy Park South, Gramercy Park, ManhattanSept. 5–Nov. 26
Yousuf Karsh, “Georgia O’Keeffe” (1956), gelatin silver print (© Yousuf Karsh; courtesy Nationwide Artwork Membership)
The Nationwide Artwork Membership’s Italian Renaissance-meets-Victorian Gothic constructing in Gramercy Park presents greater than 80 pictures of iconic Twentieth-century figures, together with Marilyn Monroe, Miles Davis, and Winston Churchill. One spotlight is Yousuf Karsh’s 1956 {photograph} of Georgia O’Keeffe, wherein the summary artist cuts a glossy silhouette beneath a deer cranium hanging on a wall, one hand wrapped across the gnarled tree trunk by her aspect.
Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald
Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse, The BronxSept. 6–Jan. 11, 2026
Joyce McDonald, “Oh Lord…” (2002), spray paint, Mod Podge, cloth, and graphite on air-dry clay (picture by Ryan Cage, courtesy Bronx Museum)
On this landmark present, over 75 sculptural works by activist and artist Reverend Joyce McDonald discover her battles with habit, HIV, and her personal ministry. Ordained by the Church of the Open Door in 2009, McDonald crafts small-scale ceramic sculptures that always depict scenes of embrace. The exhibition additionally consists of archival supplies delving into her household historical past and her decades-long membership within the arts and activism group Visible AIDS, whose govt director, Kyle Croft, curated the present.
Press & Pull: Two A long time on the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Heart, 365 Fifth Avenue, Murray Hill, ManhattanSept. 9–Nov. 14
Dindga McCannon, “Sojourner, Harriet, Shirley, and Maya” (2022), collagraph with chine collé (picture courtesy James Gallery)
The James Gallery seems again at greater than 20 years of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, whose namesake grasp printer and educator died in 2003. Prints by over 30 collaborating artists — together with Chakaia Booker, Maren Hassinger, and the late Religion Ringgold — are on view alongside works by Blackburn, in addition to archival supplies chronicling the evolution of one of many nation’s oldest collaborative printshops.
June Leaf: Capturing from the Coronary heart
Gray Artwork Museum at New York College, 18 Cooper Sq., East Village, ManhattanSept. 9–Dec. 13
June Leaf, “The Vermeer Box” (1966), mirrors, collage, wooden, glass, steel, and tin (© Property of June Leaf; picture courtesy the David and Alfred Sensible Museum of Artwork, College of Chicago)
Simply over a 12 months after the sculptor and painter June Leaf’s passing on the age of 94, the Gray Artwork Museum is internet hosting an exhibition that organizes the artist’s kinetic works round recurring themes. This present surveys Leaf’s figurative sculptures and work, which discover the female type, dissect the anatomy of the physique in movement, and depict scenes of city life.
Carried Over
Worldwide Studio and Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, East Williamsburg, BrooklynSept. 9–Jan. 16, 2026
Remy Jungerman, “Pimba AGIDA SUSA II” (2022–23), cotton textile, kaolin (pimba) on wooden panel (picture by Veronica Fassbender, courtesy the artist)
Whereas the time period “diaspora” connotes the dispersal of individuals from a selected level of origin, the title of this multi-media exhibition as a substitute attracts consideration to the cautious preservation of tradition amid migration. On this group present, three African and Indigenous diasporic artists make the most of supplies and imagery “carried over” from their cultures to discover placemaking and resistance.
Hong Seon Jang: Minor Landscaping
Korea Society, 350 Madison Avenue, twenty fourth Ground, Midtown, ManhattanSept. 10–Dec. 5
Hong Seon Jang, “The fence of fence” (2025), fencing (picture courtesy the artist)
Impressed by industrial design, Hong Seon Jang’s sculptures subvert conventional notions of societal infrastructure. In a single work on view in Minor Landscaping, Jang converts a police barricade right into a seesaw-like construction, inspecting the connection between energy and subordination.
Costume, Desires, and Want: Style and Psychoanalysis
The Museum at FIT, 227 West twenty seventh Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanSept. 10–Jan. 4, 2026
The artist Alisa Gorshenina carrying synthetic eyes and a jeweled mouth (© The Museum at FIT; picture by Elizaveta Porodina)
Sigmund Freud is again! On this exhibition, the Museum at FIT examines 100 clothes gadgets by probably the most recognizable names in style, together with Gianni and Donatella Versace and Alexander McQueen, by means of a psychoanalytic lens. Curated by Valerie Steele, the present charts the evolution of style alongside the propagation of theories on intercourse, ego, and the unconscious.
Athi-Patra Ruga: Lord, I gotta carry on (movin’)
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Artwork, 26 Wooster Avenue, Soho, ManhattanSept. 11–Jan. 18, 2026
Nonetheless from Athi-Patra Ruga, “Over the Rainbow” (2017) from the Queens in Exile collection, single-channel HD video, length: 9:20 minutes, version of 10 and a couple of AP (picture courtesy the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape City)
On the world’s solely LGBTQ+ artwork museum, South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga conjures a glittering imaginative and prescient of Azania, a queer Black matriarchy named after an historical time period for part of southeastern Africa. His seamless use of textiles, glass, video, and different mediums renders this mythological society as an area of liberated risk, peopled by femme figures from South African and international Black historical past — his grandmother amongst them.
Sing a New Tune: The Psalms in Medieval Artwork and Life
Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanSept. 12–Jan. 4, 2026
Giulio Clovio, Farnese Hours: Dying of Uriah and David in Penance manuscript (1546) (picture by Janny Chiu, courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum)
It’s not possible to rely what number of occasions people have learn, uttered, or sung the 150 sacred poems within the Hebrew Ebook of Psalms. This exhibition on the luxurious Morgan Library takes a better take a look at the function of Psalms in Medieval Europe, tracing their presence in glimmering illuminated manuscripts and on a regular basis life, from childhood prayers to deathbed invocations.
Chiharu Shiota: Two Residence International locations
Japan Society, 333 East forty seventh Avenue, Turtle Bay, ManhattanSept. 12–Jan. 11, 2026
Chiharu Shiota, “Uncertain Journey” (2016), steel boat and purple wool (©VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025 and Chiharu Shiota; picture by Sunhi Mang)
Chiharu Shiota’s haunting, immersive purple webs tackle new significance in Two Residence International locations, timed to the eightieth anniversary of the top of World Battle II. The Japanese-born, Berlin-based artist pairs earlier works with a site-specific set up to enlarge the extremely emotional expertise of encountering her work, the place private and collective identities collide within the face of loss.
Duane Linklater: 12 + 2
Dia Chelsea, 537 West twenty second Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanSept. 12–Jan. 24, 2026
Nonetheless from Duane Linklater, “primaryuse” (2020) (© Duane Linklater; picture courtesy the artist)
Omaskêko Cree artist Duane Linklater brilliantly scales up the 14 poles of a teepee to embody the house of Dia Chelsea. The result’s a poignant meditation on ecology comprising music, performances, samples of rock and soil, and sculptures honoring the wallowing of North American buffalo, which he says have “shaped, marked, and, in turn, regenerated the land from time immemorial.”
Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Footage from the Actual World
Museum of the Metropolis of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, Carnegie Hill, ManhattanSept. 12–March 22, 2026
Robert Rauschenberg, “New York City” (1981), gelatin silver print (© Robert Rauschenberg Basis; picture courtesy the Museum of the Metropolis of New York)
Robert Rauschenberg could also be synonymous with New York, however this exhibition proves that we nonetheless have a lot to be taught from his revolutionary follow and relationship to the town. Soak in his spirited use of images and located supplies right here, after which mark your calendar for the Guggenheim’s large present opening in October, each staged on the a hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birthday.
The New York Sari
New York Historic, 170 Central Park West, Higher West Facet, ManhattanSept. 12–April 26, 2026
Eugene Gordon, “New York, Jackson Heights, Queens” (1984), {photograph} (picture courtesy the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library on the New York Historic)
An antidote to mango diaspora poetry (if you already know, you already know), this creative present explores the intricacies of South Asian America by means of the sari. With archival pictures, textiles, and works by artists together with Chitra Ganesh, The New York Sari weaves a sorely wanted vital timeline by means of the layered political, inventive, casteist, and cultural dimensions of a single garment.
Fia Backström: The Nice Society
Queens Museum, Grand Central Parkway and Van Wyck Expressway, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, QueensSept. 13–Jan. 18, 2026
Fia Backström, “Coal Slurry Dam above Toney Fork Surface Coal Mine” (2023–25), pigment print on clear movie (picture courtesy the artist)
Rural communities in West Virginia, a woefully misrepresented area of the nation, give highly effective testimony by means of embroidery and images on this exhibition. Artist Fia Backström spoke with activists, divinity students, and neighborhood members to tell her delicate meditations on labor, environmental catastrophe, and the ability of collective therapeutic.
New Pictures 2025: Traces of Belonging
Museum of Fashionable Artwork, 11 West 53rd Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanSept. 14–Jan. 17, 2026
Tania Franco Klein, “Mirrored Table, Person (Subject #14)” (2022), inkjet print (© 2025 Tania Franco Klein; picture courtesy the artist)
In an period of infinite scrolling, images’s restraint is usually a balm. Works by 13 artists and collectives in New Pictures are simply that. That includes photographs from 4 cities — Kathmandu, New Orleans, Johannesburg, and Mexico Metropolis — this version of the Museum of Fashionable Artwork’s recurring images collection invitations us into scenes of neighborhood that defy societal constraints, a welcome providing now greater than ever.
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanSept. 14–Feb. 1, 2026
Man Ray, “Self-Portrait in 31 bis rue Campagne-Première Studio,” (1925), gelatin silver print (© Man Ray 2015 Belief/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris 2025; picture by Ian Reeves, The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork personal assortment)
Man Ray as soon as characterised what he referred to as “rayographs” — pictures taken with out a digital camera — as portraits of “when objects dream.” It’s this alluring description that guides The Met’s examination of the rayograph within the context of the artist’s earlier works. Round 160 work, pictures, drawings, and work seize the breadth of his imaginative, path-breaking follow.
Knowledge Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Modern Print
Print Heart New York, 535 West twenty fourth Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanSept. 18–Dec. 13
William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani, “Average Annual Income and Expenditures of Black Families in the U.S.” (2023), silkscreen and collaged digital print (picture by Graphicstudio, College of South Florida, Tampa, FL, courtesy the artists)
Over a century after W. E. B. Du Bois offered groundbreaking information visualizations of Black American society, 5 artists and collectives look to his infographics to discover Black creativity in an period of surveillance. This must-see constellation of labor, whose title references Du Bois’s principle of double-consciousness, each engages with information and gives methods for Black artists to reclaim autonomy from constrictive applied sciences.
Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Change into an Island
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem, ManhattanSept. 18–Jan. 11, 2026
Nonetheless from Coco Fusco, “Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word” (2021) (picture courtesy the artist and Mendes Wooden)
Coco Fusco’s long-overdue retrospective arrives in her hometown this fall, gathering highlights from her expansive follow that explores race, energy, and imagery. Amongst her extremely influential video works, pictures, and writings, guests can encounter her iconic 1992–94 efficiency “Two Undiscovered Amerindians Discover the West,” a biting critique of colonial reminiscence.
Mimosa Echard: Facial
Girls’s Historical past Museum: Grisette à l’enfer
Lu Yang: DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe
Amant, 315 Maujer St, East Williamsburg, BrooklynSept. 18–Feb. 15, 2026
Mimosa Echard, {photograph} taken on Grand Avenue, Brooklyn (2025) (picture courtesy the artist)
Three exhibitions at Amant contact on the whole lot from digital avatars and collaborative style to a meditation on Manhattan as a machine. Lu Yang reveals three feature-length movies exploring reincarnation through a digital doppelganger, and artist duo Girls’s Historical past Museum gives multimedia works on labor and femininity. In the meantime, Mimosa Echard takes inspiration from Manhattan magnificence salons to hint the currents of femininity by means of the city panorama.
100 Works on Paper Profit Exhibition 2025
Kentler Worldwide Drawing House, 353 Van Brunt Avenue, Purple Hook, BrooklynSept. 20–Oct. 17
Set up view of 100 Works on Paper Profit Exhibition 2025 (picture by Teri Slotkin, courtesy Kentler Worldwide Drawing House)
Established 35 years in the past by artists Florence Neal and Scott Pfaffman, the Kentler Worldwide Drawing House has caught by its founding mission: supporting artists working within the medium at completely different levels of their profession, whereas embracing expansive definitions of what a drawing could be. On this spirit, the middle’s annual profit present will embrace over 100 works ranging in method and materials, from chine collé and pastel on paper to Japanese mokuhanga.
Magdalena Dukiewicz and Caroline Garcia
Wave Hill Public Backyard and Cultural Heart, 4900 Independence Avenue, Riverdale, The BronxSept. 20–Nov. 2
Element from Magdalena Dukiewicz, Bloom (2025), interactive sound set up commissioned by Wave Hill for the Sunroom Venture House (picture courtesy the artist)
On this lush city haven spanning 28 acres, two very completely different site-specific exhibitions interact with the encircling setting. Within the Sunroom, Caroline Garcia transforms her analysis on native native flora and Indigenous historical past into recycled plastic sculptures that reimagine Native instruments crafted from natural parts. On the Solar Porch, Magdalena Dukiewicz will translate information on industrial land contamination and socioeconomic markers to construct an interactive sound set up that invitations reflection on humanity’s ecological footprint.
Witnessing Humanity: The Artwork of John Wilson
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanSept. 20–Feb. 8, 2026
All through his greater than six-decade profession drawing from Twentieth-century racial justice and labor actions, John Wilson represented Black individuals in ways in which centered their autonomy, dignity, and splendor, looking for to redress the evident absence of such depictions. The late artist’s largest exhibition up to now will notably embrace maquettes and sketches for pivotal items, akin to his 1986 bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr. on view on the US Capitol.
The Future Was Then: The Altering Face of Fascist Italy
Poster Home, 119 West twenty third Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanSept. 27–Feb. 22, 2026
Erberto Carboni, “SNIA Viscosa: le opere assistenziali (SNIA Viscosa: Welfare Programs)” (1938) (picture courtesy Fondazione Massimo e Sonia Cirulli Assortment, Bologna)
In an bold present that couldn’t be extra well timed, Poster Home examines the ambiguous boundaries between artwork and propaganda on the top of Italy’s fascist regime. Dozens of works on mortgage from the Fondazione Massimo e Sonia Cirulli in Bologna, which chronicles Italian visible tradition from the early 1900s to the Seventies, illustrate how avant-garde aesthetics bled into state-sponsored promoting throughout Mussolini’s rise to energy.
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Will Beattie: Open Sky
UrbanGlass, 647 Fulton Avenue, Fort Greene, BrooklynSept. 24–Nov. 14
Know-how is a prism by means of which notion shifts and refracts in Will Beattie’s multidimensional glass sculptures. Titled after French media theorist Paul Virilio’s 1997 critique of recent info, communication, and surveillance methods, this present presents a choice of the artist’s forged glass objects, which incorporate early audio mechanisms to create sensory experiences on the intersection of sunshine and sound.
Sixties Surreal
Whitney Museum of American Artwork, 99 Gansevoort Avenue, Meatpacking District, ManhattanSept. 24–Jan. 19, 2026
Fritz Scholder, “Indian and Rhinoceros” (1968), oil on canvas (picture courtesy the Nationwide Museum of the American Indian, New York, Smithsonian Establishment)
Greater than 100 artists — together with Diane Arbus, David Hammons, Yayoi Kusama, and Romare Bearden — are a part of this survey, which resurrects the lesser-known erotic and fantastical undertones of American artwork between 1958 and 1972. The present argues that the groundwork for Surrealism within the Nineteen Sixties was laid earlier within the century, as seismic sociopolitical shifts in the USA rendered actual life uncanny.
An Ecology of Quilts: The Pure Historical past of American Textiles
American Folks Artwork Museum, 2 Lincoln Sq., Higher West Facet, ManhattanSept. 26–March 1, 2026
Log Cabin Variation Quilt, probably from Georgia (c. 1900), cotton, linen, wool, synthetics (picture courtesy the American Folks Artwork Museum)
An beautiful choice from the American Folks Artwork Museum’s assortment of a whole lot of quilts spanning the 18th to Twentieth centuries will hint an arc between quilting and the pure world. From the alchemy of dyeing methods to the violent historical past of the cotton gin, this exhibition will plumb the environmental and sociopolitical complexities of certainly one of our oldest and most enduring artwork types.
In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Avenue, West Village, ManhattanSept. 26–Dec. 20
Derrick Adams, “Fixing My Face” (2021), acrylic paint and cloth collage on paper on wooden panel
A star-studded roster on this exhibition marks the sixtieth anniversary of historian and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois’s demise. Eleven artists — together with Derrick Adams, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Julie Mehretu, and Mickalene Thomas — contribute pictures, sculptures, movies, installations, and extra to construct on Du Bois’s legacy in Pan-Africanism, girls’s rights, environmental stewardship, and anti-nuclear advocacy.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés: Useless Parrot Radio
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Avenue, Dumbo, BrooklynSept. 27–Dec. 14
Set up view of Armando Guadalupe Cortés’s Useless Parrot Radio (picture courtesy the artist)
Armando Guadalupe Cortés’s large-scale installations discover spectatorship and efficiency, drawing on information inherited from his native Mexico, wider Latin American cultural traditions, and experiences of migration and hybridity. His new work at Smack Mellon, a mixture of sound and sculpture, will proceed these inquiries with a give attention to communication applied sciences.
11,000 Strings
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanSept. 30–Oct. 7
Ensemble Klangforum Wien (picture by Tina Herzl)
Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas’s newest work dares to radically broaden what an instrument could be. Described as a “concert installation,” this piece situates the viewers on the middle, encircled by 50 upright pianos tuned to minuscule increments as musicians from the Klangforum Wien orchestra plunge listeners into an experiential soundscape.
In The Wake of Blind Navigation: Boekie Woekie – Books by Artists
Heart for Ebook Arts, 28 West twenty seventh Avenue, third Ground, Nomad, ManhattanSept. 30–Dec. 13
Saskia de Vriend, “Strokkur II” (1986), linocut, self-published in Amsterdam (picture by Tobias Hübel, courtesy Heart for Ebook Arts)
This present introduces American audiences to the work, legacy, and anarchist spirit of the Amsterdam-based unbiased bookshop Boekie Woekie, based by a gaggle of artists in 1986. With its sustainable self-publishing mannequin, the celebrated retailer is a contemporary reminder {that a} life exterior the artwork market remains to be doable.
Opening in October
Jesse Mockrin
Merikokeb Berhanu
James Cohan, 48 Walker Avenue and 52 Walker Avenue, Tribeca, ManhattanOct. 9–Nov. 1
Jesse Mockrin, “Echoes 1” (2025), graphite on paper (© Jesse Mockrin 2025; picture by Dan Bradica, picture courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York)
Throughout its two areas on Walker Avenue, mere steps aside, James Cohan Gallery is displaying artists who reward shut trying. Los Angeles-based painter Jesse Mockrin’s portraits possess the cinematic luminosity and charming oddness of Mannerism, whereas Maryland-based painter Merikokeb Berhanu’s biomorphic work in lurid colours teem with element and coloration.
Tatiana Arocha: Entre la Coca y el Oro
Newhouse Heart for Modern Artwork, Comfortable Harbor Cultural Heart, 1000 Richmond Terrace, North Shore, Staten IslandOct. 12–Jan. 11, 2026
Works in Tatiana Arocha’s studio (picture by Nathalie Sayago, courtesy Newhouse Heart for Modern Artwork)
The Newhouse Heart for Modern Artwork, a stately Greek Revival constructing on the campus of the historic Comfortable Harbor Cultural Heart on Staten Island, brings us a present of labor by Tatiana Arocha. It’s a becoming match: The New York-based artist probes the connection between individuals and land by means of prints, drawings, fieldwork, pictures, plant-pressing, and extra.
Nicole Eisenman
52 Walker, 52 Walker Avenue, Tribeca, ManhattanOct.–Jan. 30, 2026
Picture by Nicole Eisenman (2025) (picture courtesy the artist and 52 Walker)
Recognized for expressive figuration that explores the boundaries of human pleasure, anguish, and absurdity, Nicole Eisenman builds narratives that exude each humor and discomfort. On this solo exhibition, guests will actually step contained in the artist’s creativeness, coming into a room the place an imagined story unravels through sculptures, video parts, and work, together with new work and loans from public collections.
David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Artwork, 26 Wooster Avenue, Soho, ManhattanOct. 1–Jan. 18, 2026
David Wojnarowicz, “Arthur Rimbaud in New York (Puerto Rican flag)” (1978-79/2004), gelatin silver print (picture courtesy PPOW)
There’s merely no manner a present combining Twentieth-century American artist David Wojnarowicz with Nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud is usually a dud. The 2 are deeply associated — Rimbaud was an inspiration to Wojnarowicz, and so they have been each runaway teenagers dreaming of a creative life amid risky occasions. This present options pictures from the latter’s Arthur Rimbaud in New York collection (1978–79), wherein he posed across the metropolis in a cut-out masks of the poet’s face.
In Follow: Nadim Choufi
In Follow: Coco Klockner
SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensOct. 2–11 and Oct. 18–Dec.22
Coco Klockner, studio picture (2025) (courtesy the artist)
In Follow, SculptureCenter’s taste-making annual open name supporting rising artists and curators, is again with two solo reveals: Lebanese artist Nadim Choufi’s e-book/ exhibition/ expertise, in addition to Coco Klockner’s multimedia architectural innovations exploring trans identification.
To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum
The Frick Assortment, 1 East seventieth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanOct. 2–Jan. 5, 2026
Antonio de Laurentiis, Throne of Eucharistic Exposition (1754), gold, gilt copper, almandine garnets, amethysts, rock crystal, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, carnelians, peridots, smoky quartzes, glass, and doublets (picture by Joseph Coscia Jr., courtesy Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem)
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem — constructed on what Christians imagine to be the location of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection — is jam-packed with centuries-old liturgical objects made by Europe’s best goldsmiths and artists. It is a uncommon probability for New Yorkers to get a style of the priceless treasures saved throughout the historical metropolis’s partitions.
Designing Motherhood: Issues that Make and Break Our Births
Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, Midtown, ManhattanOct. 4–March 15, 2026
DialPak Contraceptive Dispenser (c. 2001) (picture courtesy the Designing Motherhood Archive)
This wide-ranging exhibition gathers 150 years’ value of instruments associated to fertility, being pregnant, postpartum, parenthood, and reproductive well being, all analyzed by means of the lens of design. Count on the whole lot from classic child displays and doula zines to a Nineteenth-century vaginal speculum and a 1936 tampon.
Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensOct. 9–March 2, 2026
Set up view of memorabilia and ephemera in Vaginal Davis, The Depraved Pavilion (2021) at Eden Eden in Berlin (© Vaginal Davis; picture by GRAYSC, picture courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin)
A career-spanning tribute to queer icon Vaginal Davis, this present chronicles the prismatic work of the LA-born, Berlin-based performer, visible artist, writer, filmmaker, musician, activist, and educator. After its run at MoMA PS1, the present will journey to Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Gropius Bau in Berlin.
Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Jap Parkway, Prospect Heights, BrooklynOct. 10–March 8, 2026
Seydou Keïta, “Untitled” (1949–51), (printed ca. 1994–2001), gelatin silver print (© SKPEAC/Seydou Keïta; picture courtesy the Musée nationwide du Mali and the Jean Pigozzi Assortment of African Artwork)
When you don’t but find out about late photographer Seydou Keïta’s portraits of on a regular basis Malians within the capital metropolis of Bamako, you’re in for a deal with. Taken primarily in his studio within the mid-Twentieth century, these beautiful pictures are delicate, creative, and timeless.
The Homosexual Harlem Renaissance
New York Historic, 170 Central Park West, Higher West Facet, ManhattanOct. 10–March 8, 2026
Marking the centennial of the groundbreaking 1925 anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke, this exhibition takes us on a historic tour of the wonder, hardships, and triumphs of Black queer life in Harlem within the Nineteen Twenties and ’30s, together with the thriving arts scenes of speakeasies and nightclubs.
Monet and Venice
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Jap Parkway, Prospect Heights, BrooklynOct. 11–Feb. 1, 2026
Claude Monet, “The Red House” (1908), oil sketch on canvas (picture courtesy Galerie Larock-Granoff)
Heads up — New York is getting its largest Monet exhibition in over 25 years! Greater than 100 work, watercolors, books, and items of ephemera come collectively to showcase the French painter’s elegiac imaginative and prescient of the historic metropolis. The present is accompanied by sound items by Niles Luther, the Brooklyn Museum’s composer-in-residence.
Decrease East Facet Yearbook: A Dwelling Archive
Abrons Artwork Heart, 466 Grand Avenue, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanOct. 17–Jan. 4, 2026
Future Mata, “Built to Win” (2021), {photograph} (picture by Future Mata, courtesy Abrons Arts Heart)
Led by artist Future Mata, this “yearbook” is a dwelling photographic archive of Manhattan’s ever-unique Decrease East Facet neighborhood, as seen by its public housing residents. It’s directly a images exhibition and a community-building challenge.
Voice of House: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena
The Drawing Heart, 35 Wooster Avenue, Soho, ManhattanOct. 17–Feb. 1, 2026
Stephen Willats, “Travelling with the Good Connector” (2019), watercolor, ink, and letraset textual content on paper (picture courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro)
Simply in time for Halloween, an exhibition on the Drawing Heart takes on the paranormal. Consisting of each historic and up to date works, the present touches upon themes like faith, know-how, and scientific (or probably pseudoscientific) theories about spacetime. Featured artists embrace Noland Oswald Dennis, Isa Genzken, Howardena Pindell, Pope.L, and even René Magritte.
Renoir Drawings
The Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanOct. 17–Feb. 8, 2026
Auguste Renoir, “Boating Couple” (1880–81), pastel on paper (© 2025 Museum of High quality Arts, Boston; courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum)
Seeing a Renoir portray in individual is a uncommon privilege, however it’s rarer nonetheless to spend time together with his lesser-displayed drawings. The primary of its variety in a century, this exhibition gives a glimpse into the artistic course of and inventive strategies of the Impressionist grasp by means of 100 drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints, and extra.
Carolina Paz
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Avenue, Dumbo, BrooklynOct. 18–Nov. 16
Carolina Paz, “imagining spaces” (2025), acrylic on picket cubes (picture courtesy A.I.R. Gallery)
For her first solo present in New York Metropolis, Brooklyn-based artist Carolina Paz presents small-scale work, a participatory set up, and a salon happening at her close by studio on the Brooklyn Navy Yard. One spotlight of this present is “imagining spaces” (2025), wherein guests are invited to rearrange 1,200 one-inch painted cubes. Taken collectively, the present is an invite to sense, suppose, and create in relation to others.
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
Museum of Fashionable Artwork, 11 West 53rd Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanOct. 19–Feb. 7, 2026
Ruth Asawa at Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View on the San Francisco Museum of Artwork in 1973 (© 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; picture by Laurence Cuneo, courtesy David Zwirner)
The primary posthumous survey of iconic Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa options round 300 artworks — not simply these well-known wire sculptures, but in addition bronze casts, drawings, prints, and public works. This exhibition demonstrates how deeply embedded artwork was in her life: She created daily, typically utilizing quotidian supplies like paper. Within the presence of such wealthy choices of her work, her dedication to neighborhood and creativity involves life.
Opening in November
New People: Reminiscences of the Future
New Museum, 235 Bowery, Decrease East Facet, Manhattan Opening this fall
Nonetheless from Daria Martin, “Soft Materials” (2004), 16mm movie, coloration, sound, length: 10:half-hour (© Daria Martin; picture courtesy the artist)
This fall, the New Museum will reopen its expanded house — now over 60,000 sq. ft — with commissions by Klára Hosnedlová within the staircase and Tschabalala Self on the facade, plus this exhibition about what it means to be human amid world-shattering technological developments. Spanning your entire museum, notable up to date artists within the present embrace Pierre Huyghe, Tau Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, Treasured Okoyomon, Anicka Yi, and plenty of others.
Ayoung Kim
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensNov. 6–March 16, 2026
Set up view of Ayoung Kim, “Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse” (2024), three-channel video, coloration, two-channel sound, lighting set up, random video playback and lighting synchronization management program, sundial sculptures, graphic sheets and round screens, length: 27 minutes, on the Nationwide Asian Tradition Heart in Korea (picture courtesy the artist and ACC)
Ayoung Kim is a famend determine in Korean artwork, having represented the nation within the 2015 Venice Biennale. Now, a serious present consisting of video installations will take over the third-floor galleries of MoMA PS1. Utilizing online game engineering, recorded footage, and generative AI, Kim makes work that’s concurrently speculative and grounded in real-world geopolitics.
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Areas
Wallach Artwork Gallery at Columbia College, 615 West 129th Avenue, sixth Ground, Harlem, ManhattanNov. 7–March 15, 2026
Lotty Rosenfeld, “Una Milla de Cruces Sobre el Pavimento [One Mile of Crosses on the Pavement]” (1979), artwork motion in entrance of the Moneda Palace, Santiago de Chile (picture courtesy the Lotty Rosenfeld Basis)
One of the vital influential feminist artists of the final century will get her first solo retrospective in the USA at Columbia College’s artwork gallery. Highlights of the Chilean artist’s in depth profession throughout printmaking, site-specific set up, and video embody political works that challenged militarization below the Pinochet dictatorship, together with a piece wherein she remodeled street markings into crosses.
Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World
Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanNov. 7–April 26, 2026
Gabriele Münter, “Breakfast of the Birds” (1934), oil on board (picture courtesy Nationwide Museum of Girls within the Arts)
When Gabriele Münter was rising up in Germany, the general public education system excluded girls. So, she cast her personal path — so efficiently that she turned a founding member of the famed Blue Rider artist group. This exhibition spans the years 1908 to 1920 and ranges from summary work to pictures. Collectively, these works chart not simply Münter’s profession however a vital chapter in German artwork historical past.
Wifredo Lam: Once I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
Museum of Fashionable Artwork, 11 West 53rd Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanNov. 10–March 28, 2026
Wifredo Lam, “La Jungla (The Jungle)” (1942–43), oil on paper on canvas (© Wifredo Lam Property, Adagp, Paris / ARS, New York 2025; picture courtesy Inter-American Fund)
The late Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam will get his most in depth retrospective on this present. With over 150 hardly ever exhibited artworks, the exhibition consists of work, works on paper, and ceramics relationship from the Nineteen Twenties to the ’70s. Lam’s life spanned two world wars and a number of nations, together with France, Spain, and Italy — and it reveals in his cosmopolitan work, which melds European modernity, Caribbean aesthetic custom, and African diasporic visible tradition.
Tom Lloyd
Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West one hundred and twenty fifth Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan Nov. 15–winter
After seven years, the Studio Museum in Harlem is reopening with the work of late artist, activist, and educator Tom Lloyd. It’s becoming, because the establishment’s first exhibition in 1968 was devoted to the artist. The present explores his founding of the Retailer Entrance Museum in Queens, in addition to his work with the Artwork Employees’ Coalition, shaped to stress New York Metropolis museums to institute financial and political modifications. (Don’t these points sound acquainted?)
Stirring the Melting Pot: Pictures from The New York Historic Assortment
New York Historic, 170 Central Park West, Higher West Facet, ManhattanNov. 28–Mar. 29, 2026
Unrecorded photographer, “Arriving in America – Hester Street Market at Norfolk” (c. 1898) (picture courtesy The New York Historic)
The immigrant expertise is usually half and parcel of being a New Yorker. This exhibition attracts on the huge assortment of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library to assemble pictures of the town’s immigrant communities over time. It coincides with a digital initiative inviting museumgoers throughout the nation to share birthday needs for our democracy, which might not be a democracy with out immigrants.
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass
Nationwide Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Inexperienced, Monetary District, ManhattanNov. 15–Might 29, 2026
Virgil Ortiz, “Incubators” (2016), excessive hearth clay vessels, underglazes, acrylic paint with corning glass tendrils (© Virgil Ortiz; picture by and courtesy the artist)
Glass artwork turns into a vessel for Indigenous tales on this exhibition, which traces round half a century of fabric historical past by means of greater than 100 artworks by almost 30 artists, together with stained-glass portraits, experimental vases, and glass totems. One spotlight is the work of Dale Chihuly, who based the primary glass program at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts.
Outside within the Metropolis
Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Roof Backyard, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough Oct. 19
Set up view of The Roof Backyard Fee: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble (2025) (picture by Hyla Skopitz, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork)
Brooklyn-based artist Jennie C. Jones brings musical dynamism to The Met’s historic Roof Backyard, the final fee earlier than the house closes for renovation till 2030. Ensemble encompasses a monumental Aeolian harp, trapezoidal zither, and leaning one-string, drawing inspiration from the supplies and soundscape of the backyard itself.
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Van Gogh’s Flowers
New York Botanical Backyard, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Fordham, The BronxThrough Oct. 26
Rendering of “The Starry Night” drone present finale throughout Van Gogh’s Flowers exhibition (picture courtesy the New York Botanical Backyard)
Sculptures of radiant sunflowers and beautiful irises meet bold-colored botanical installations on this 250-acre celebration of Vincent van Gogh’s artistry. On choose evenings, guests can expertise the exhibition below the glow of a kaleidoscopic drone show.
Turbulence 2025
Brooklyn Botanic Backyard, 990 Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn By means of Oct. 26
Set up view of Suchi Reddy, Turbulence (2025), Luminux and aluminum body (picture by Gabrielle Beaumont, courtesy the Brooklyn Botanic Backyard)
Architect and artist Suchi Reddy invitations guests to stroll by means of the mirrored passageways of her eight-foot-tall (~2.4-meter-tall) sculpture on the Brooklyn Botanic Backyard, positioned proper subsequent to the Brooklyn Museum. The sonic and visible set up fuses bioacoustic analysis and environmental consciousness to reimagine our emotional connection to nature.
Harlem Sculpture Gardens
West Harlem Artwork Fund and New York Artists Fairness Affiliation, numerous areas, Harlem, ManhattanThrough Oct. 30
Savona Bailey, “Place of the Rushes” (2025), 3D printed panels and aluminum, in Morningside Park (picture courtesy West Harlem Artwork Fund and NY Artist Fairness Affiliation)
Take a day (or three) to discover this 12 months’s Harlem Sculpture Gardens, however don’t let the title idiot you. Reasonably than a standalone garden, this initiative transforms present parks throughout the historic neighborhood right into a collective sculpture present, together with over 25 works dotting locations like Jackie Robinson Park and the Ralph Ellison Memorial in Riverside Park, the place you may uncover a piece by the late American-Mexican artist Elizabeth Catlett.
Relaxation/Play
Governor’s Island Arts, numerous areas on Governor’s Island, ManhattanThrough Nov. 2
Governor’s Island — these 120 acres of open inexperienced house only a fast ferry trip from the tip of Manhattan — is residence to an exhibition devoted to relaxation and recreation, and goodness is aware of we want it. Works by Nina Chanel Abney, Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis, Arlene Shechet, and Hank Willis Thomas invite guests to play, mirror, lounge, and discover.
Melissa Joseph: Tender
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Jap Parkway, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThrough Nov. 2
Melissa Joseph, “Tender” (2025), needle-felted wool, recycled sari silk on industrial felt (© Melissa Joseph; picture by Daniel Greer, courtesy the artist)
Recognized for her labor-intensive works constructed from needle-felted wool, Brooklyn-based artist Melissa Joseph transforms the Brooklyn Museum’s outside plaza steps into an enormous orange blanket, patterned with hexagons that provide portals into every day scenes of connection and neighborhood.
Thaddeus Mosley: Touching the Earth
Metropolis Corridor Park (Public Artwork Fund), Broadway and Chambers Avenue, Monetary District, ManhattanThrough Nov. 16
Set up view of Thaddeus Mosley, “Gate III” (2022), bronze (picture by Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Artwork Fund, NY)
Modernist artistry meets West African maskmaking and jazz music in Thaddeus Mosley’s eight bronze sculptures interspersed all through Metropolis Corridor Park. Solid from summary timber works the artist created between 1996 and 2021, the sculptures culminate within the large-scale archway “Gate III” (2022).
Lightscape: Winter Gentle Artwork Path
Brooklyn Botanic Backyard, 990 Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Nov. 21–Jan. 4, 2026
Set up view of Cascade Stroll by Tradition Inventive (picture by Liz Ligon, courtesy Brooklyn Botanic Backyard)
The Brooklyn Botanic Backyard calls this annual show New York Metropolis’s “most dazzling light show,” and so they may simply have a case. The illuminated trails lead guests by means of lit-up sculptures, site-specific music, and colourful projections. It’s a comfy and weird strategy to take pleasure in a spot greatest identified for its verdant foliage within the hotter months.
Torkwase Dyson: Akua
Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 (Public Artwork Fund), 2 Furman Avenue, Brooklyn Heights, BrooklynThrough March 8, 2026
Set up view of Torkwase Dyson, “Akua” (2025), powder-coated metal and aluminum, 8-channel sound (picture by Nicholas Knight; courtesy the artist; Tempo Gallery; GRAY Chicago | New York; and Public Artwork Fund, NY)
Recordings of conversations sourced from Black archives, pure ambient sounds, and digital beats course by means of this multi-channel set up exploring the intersections of house, language, and reminiscence. Positioned in Brooklyn Bridge Park and outlined by crisscrossing monumental beams, “Akua” is the artist’s first main public soundscape in New York Metropolis.
Larry Bell: Improvisations within the Park
Madison Sq. Park, 11 Madison Avenue, Nomad, ManhattanSept. 30–March 15, 2026
Digital rendering of an set up view of “Fourth of July in Venice Fog” (2018), true sea salt, lapis, purple poppy, and Optimum White laminated glass (© Larry Bell; picture courtesy the artist; Hauser & Wirth; and Anthony Meier, Mill Valley)
Gentle and House pioneer Larry Bell debuts his first public fee in New York with this piece, his largest outside work up to now. Monumental dice sculptures and nested preparations throughout six lawns play on opacity, reflection, and perspective to have interaction guests with the encircling setting, inviting us to look at the work’s evolution because it interacts with climate patterns, pure parts, and seasonal shifts.
The Socrates Annual 2025: Up/rooted
Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensThrough April 6, 2026
Set up view of Guadalupe Maravilla, “Disease Throwers #13” and “Disease Throwers #13” (2021) (picture by Kyle Petreycik, courtesy Socrates Annual)
The Socrates Annual is among the yearly highlights of the New York Metropolis artwork scene. Set exterior on the grass with among the best views of the town behind it, the present is the end result of an annual open name. This 12 months’s artists — Natalia Nakazawa, Pioneers Go East Collective, Rowan Renee, Catherine Telford-Keogh, and Zipporah Camille Thompson — interact the theme of roots, each ecologically and socially.
Kinfolk: Portals of Remembrance
New York Metropolis AIDS Memorial, 76 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich Village, ManhattanThrough April 30, 2026
Movie nonetheless from work by Tourmaline (picture courtesy New York Metropolis AIDS Memorial)
The digital platform Kinfolk and the town’s AIDS Memorial come collectively to current this exhibition consisting of a trio of AR monuments by artists Derek Fordjour, Egyptt LaBeija, Tourmaline, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Satterwhite honors legendary musician Sylvester, whereas Fordjour meditates on the thought of the Black horse jockey. Collectively, these works reimagine commemoration within the digital age.
The Excessive Line, thirtieth Avenue, Chelsea, ManhattanThrough Might 2026
Set up view of Mika Rottenberg, “Foot Fountain (pink)” (2024) (picture by Liz Devine, courtesy the Excessive Line)
Argentinian artist Mika Rottenberg has put in a monumental pink foot on the Excessive Line — and it’s additionally a sprinkler. A incredible, if considerably weird, and deeply surreal paintings to go to throughout these hotter fall days, the 10-foot-tall sculpture is bumpy and phallic, gross but oddly charming; its purple toenails, as an illustration, match the playful and grotesque mouths that adorn its shaft.
Molly Gochman: Monuments to Motherhood
Prospect Park Alliance, Grand Military Plaza entrance, Prospect Park, BrooklynThrough Might 10, 2026
Set up view of Molly Gochman, “Monuments to Motherhood” (2025) (picture by Alex Mctigue, courtesy the artist)
When you’ve been to Prospect Park just lately, you’ve nearly definitely seen the bronze tangle that’s Molly Gochman’s monument to caregivers of every kind. Repurposing a fabric that always immortalizes males’s violence to honor mothering as a substitute, Gochman’s comfortable loops really feel as intimate as they’re monumental. Approaching the sculpture is like strolling towards an embrace.
Woman Pink: Foundations
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensThrough June 26, 2026
Woman Pink, “Lady Pink on C Train” (1983), aerosol paint (picture courtesy the artist)
Identifiable by her signature spray-paint tag “Pink,” Woman Pink rose to prominence as one of the famend girls graffiti artists in New York Metropolis by the mid-Eighties. In a mural depicting a monumental stone foot coated with avenue artwork, the Ecuadorian-born artist eulogizes a demolished constructing throughout the road from MoMA PS1 that after served as an incubator for New York avenue artwork.
Monira Al Qadiri: First Solar
Public Artwork Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, ManhattanSept. 3–Aug. 2, 2026
This painted aluminum sculpture by Monira Al Qadiri takes inspiration from the androgynous deity Khepri, the traditional Egyptian god of the rising solar. By reimagining the traditional hybrid human-scarab determine, the Senegalese-Kuwaiti sculptor invitations us to query our personal relationship with nature and gender.
Jeffrey Gibson: The Animal That Due to this fact I Am
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, Manhattan Sept. 12–June 9, 2026
Final 12 months, Jeffrey Gibson turned the primary Native artist to symbolize the USA on the Venice Biennale. For this 12 months’s facade fee at The Met, the artist brings his characteristically interdisciplinary spirit to 4 new figurative sculptures exploring the interaction of dwelling beings and our surroundings.
The Fashionable Window: Pao Houa Her
Museum of Fashionable Artwork, 11 West 53rd Avenue, Midtown, ManhattanThrough Fall 2026
Set up view of The Fashionable Window: Pao Houa Her (picture by Emile Askey, courtesy the Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York)
Spotlighting the work of Laos-born Hmong photographer Pao Houa Her, this sidewalk-facing window set up makes use of multilayered imagery of seemingly idyllic poppies and a jungle panorama to grapple with the artist’s complicated relationship along with her homeland, which she and her household have been compelled to flee many years in the past to evade authorities persecution.
