Wake up, New York — it’s that time of year again! Fall is almost here, that sweet spot between the summer slump and holiday slowdown, and with it rears the full force of the art world. Complain all we might about the weather getting colder and everything speeding up and the students packing the morning commute — there’s something enchanting about fall, something motivating about the rush. This season, the art world’s back with what feels like the strongest slate of shows in a minute (and not a New York one). We’ve recommended more than 80 exhibitions across all five boroughs for your fall art schedule.
First, some big museum re-openings: The Studio Museum in Harlem returns after a seven-year makeover, and the new New Museum debuts on the Bowery. It’s also the autumn of Rauschenberg: On the 100th anniversary of his birth, both the Guggenheim and the Museum of the City of New York are opening exhibitions. And in a bizarre coincidence, Mika Rottenberg and Lady Pink are both displaying public artworks depicting feet on the High Line and on the facade of MoMA PS1, respectively.
Why ever leave New York? Everyone swings by eventually. Case in point: Monet’s coming to the Brooklyn Museum, Renoir to the Morgan, and Ruth Asawa and Wifredo Lam to MoMA, just to name a few. Elsewhere, you can encounter architectural interventions by Duane Linklater at Dia Chelsea and Jeffrey Gibson at The Met’s facade. Throwbacks abound, from Sixties Surreal at the Whitney to centuries-old luxury liturgical objects at the Morgan. And, of course, there are the shows about New York itself. The Leslie-Lohman Museum is exhibiting photographs of David Wojnarowicz-as-Rimbaud’s peregrinations around the Lower East Side and other corners of the city in the ’70s, for one, while the New York Historical is celebrating the spirited queer performers of the Harlem Renaissance. We’ve even got a whole section on public art to see outdoors during that lovely mild autumn weather.
But that’s enough of a preview. Check out our full guide to the fall season below, and keep coming back. We hope it will serve as a resource you can return to again and again, hunting for just the right thing. Trust me: You’ll find it. —Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor
Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, 615 West 129th Street, 6th Floor, Harlem, Manhattan
Through Oct. 19
Seven artists, including Carolyn Lazard and Rirkrit Tiravanija, interrogate queer identity politics, intergenerational kinship, and traditional forms of commemorative documentary in this exhibition. Eight video and film installations centering queer subjects in the Columbia University gallery range from a couple of minutes in runtime to more than 10 hours.
Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through Oct. 19
Brooklyn-based artist Jennie C. Jones brings musical dynamism to The Met’s historic Roof Garden, the last commission before the space closes for renovation until 2030. Ensemble features a monumental Aeolian harp, trapezoidal zither, and leaning one-string, drawing inspiration from the materials and soundscape of the garden itself.
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