🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

Jenny Holzer: Light Line

📍 Guggenheim

⏰ closing Sep 29

❓ the conceptual artist legend Holzer, especially known for text-based works, will be exhibiting a reimagination of her landmark 1989

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Vivian Maier: Unseen

📍 Fotografiska

⏰ closing Sep 29

❓ 200 works from the 1950s-80s, including vintage and modern prints, films, and more reflecting on post-war America and the American dream

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Bruce Gilden: Why These? is closing the same day

In addition:

• Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour closes at MoMa on Sep 28 (Sep 29 for members)

In the Galleries

Matvey Levenstein: Zone

📍 Kasmin Gallery | 28th St

⏰ closing Sep 28

❓ intimate paintings presenting fictionalized impressions of interiors and landscapes

🔗 see exhibit details. 

At-Will Adaptation

📍 Eli Klein | 398 West St

⏰ closing Sep 28

❓ showcasing new, experimental works exploring adaptation, selective perception, and transformation in modern society by Quan Wenfei, Yang Shuai, and Echo Youyi Yan during their residencies

🔗 see exhibit details. 

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Thomas Schütte

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening Sep 29 (Sep 26 for members)

❓ the most comprehensive U.S. exhibit of Schütte’s career, exploring the variety of his work, from intimate watercolors to vivid ceramics

🔗 see exhibit details. 

In the Galleries

David Salle: New Pastorals

📍 Gladstone Gallery | 24th St

⏰ opening Sep 26

❓ paintings developed in collaboration with AI, trained on masterworks and his own previous Pastorals series

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ opening reception on Sep 26, 6-8pm

✚✚ Robert Rauschenberg: Arcanums opened on Sep 21 at Gladstone 64 and Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things opened Sep 24 at the 21st St location

Steve McQueen

📍 Dia Chelsea | 22nd St

⏰ opened Sep 20

❓ exploring the possibilities of film as a medium while addressing power dynamics

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Note, Helen Marden: The Grief Paintings was extended an additional week, and is now closing Sep 28.

🗓️ Events of the week

• In Conversation: Shaping our Common Future Through the Power of Art (Hauser & Wirth, Sep 24, 6-7pm) — a panel discussion in celebration of the launch of FUTURE OURS, a public art exhibition across NYC in response to the UN Summit of the Future; free

• Art & Architecture of the Modern Japanese Home (The Met, Sep 29, 2-3pm) — conversation with scholars, followed by a meet the author event; free with admission

• Mary Sully: Native Modern — A Conversation (The Met, Sep 30, 6-7pm) — historian and Met curator discussing the artist’s distinctive work; free, but advanced registration required

• Paul Pfeiffer on Bruce Nauman (Dia Chelsea, Sep 26, 6:30pm) — part of the Artists on Artists lecture series; free

• Hilary Harkness Book Launch (The Flag Art Foundation, Sep 26, 6-8 pm) — book signing of Harkness’s first comprehensive monograph; free

• Works & Process: Martha Graham Dance Company: Baye & Asa (Guggenheim, Sep 29, 7 pm) — dance highlights from the commissioned expansion of Cortege 2023; $35-$55

• Opening Weekend Concert (American Academy of Arts and Letters, 4 pm) — performance at the newly reopened museum; $10

📚 Further Reading

• Elizabeth Catlett: Revolutionary Artist, Radical Inspiration — The NYTimes

• Artist Thomas Schütte Is Allergic to Categorization. A New MoMA Show Embraces His Stubborn Eclecticism. — Cultured Mag

• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in September — The NYTimes

• Mother Nature Is His Accomplice — The NYTimes

• Why TikTok Is Obsessed with a 16th-Century Tragic Teen Queen — Artnet

• As It Reaches Middle Age, New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture Looks Ahead—and Inwards — Cultured Mag

• Two Art Dealers on How to Emerge From a Market Downturn Smarter, Stronger, and Smaller — Cultured Mag

• The Artnet Numbers — Puck News

• A Trip to the Many Worlds of Hellboy’s Creator — The NYTimes

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