🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

📍 MoMA

⏰ closing Sep 2

❓ 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries, united by iconography related to nature, from The Costume Institute

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Note, you need to join the virtual queue to visit the exhibit

In the Galleries

No major gallery exhibit closures to report!

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation

📍 Noguchi Museum

⏰ opening August 28

❓ revisiting works from the Museum’s original second-floor installation, with 60 pieces highlighting significant phases of Noguchi’s career

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ This exhibit will be open for a long time — until Sep 14, 2025

In the Galleries

There’s just one major gallery exhibit opening this week… but we’re going to get a head start with sharing what’s opening early next week (specifically on Sep 4) as there is a lot happening in early September.

Philip Guston: Room, Sea & Sky

📍 Hauser & Wirth | W 18th

⏰ opening Sep 3

❓ major prints with metamorphic qualities, made in collaboration with the famed printshop Gemini GEL and its director Sidney Felson

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ an opening reception will be held on Sep 11, 6-8pm

Arshile Gorky

📍 Hauser & Wirth | Wooster St

⏰ opening Sep 4

❓ artworks blending cubism and surrealism, developing a unique artistic language, with unseen works

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Encyclopedia: The Late Collages of Dorothea Tanning

📍 Kasmin Gallery | 10th Ave

⏰ opening Sep 4

❓ intricate late-career collages from the 1980s and ‘90s, showcasing Tanning’s exploration of the textual dimension in her visual art

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ For some further reading, here’s a 1990 interview with Tanning from BOMB magazine

Nengi Omuku: Wild Things and Perennials

📍 Kasmin Gallery | 27th St

⏰ opening Sep 4

❓ 8 oil paintings, blending impressionistic landscapes with personal narratives, on the traditional Nigerian textile sanyan

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Matvey Levenstein: Zone, featuring landscape painting, will be opening at the neighboring gallery at 28th St, the same day

🗓️ Events of the week

• Independent 20th Century (Sep 5-8) — an upcoming art fair championing artists and movements that took place between 1900-2000; tickets are ~$50

📚 Further Reading

• The Four Horsemen of the Ultra-Contemporary Apocalypse — Puck News

• Here Are the 12 Must-See Gallery Shows Coming to New York This Fall — Cultured

• Rashid Johnson Will Have Career Survey at Guggenheim in 2025 — The NYTimes

• 7 Days in the Cultural Life of an Artistic Director — The NYTimes

• For Collector Christine Mack, if You’re Going To Put Your Art in Storage, Why Buy It? — Cultured

If you haven’t read it already, check out the interview we published last week:

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