We entirely forgot to acknowledge our one-year anniversary earlier this month, just before our brief break! A heartfelt thank you to our readers, the vibrant community that has grown with us over the year. We’re so happy to be helping you uncover the abundant New York art scene. As always, we welcome your thoughts, suggestions, art recommendations, and more. Now, back to regular programming…

🚨 Last Chance

In the Museums

No major exhibit closures to report.

In the Galleries

Jiro Takamatsu: The World Expands

📍 Pace | 24th St

⏰ closing Nov 2

❓ paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects showcasing Takamatsu’s inventive practice and his role in developing Conceptual Art

🔗 see exhibit details. 

David Salle: New Pastorals

📍 Gladstone | 24th St

⏰ closing Nov 2

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

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Robert Rauschenberg: Arcanums closes at the Glastone 64 the same day

🎉 Just In

In the Museums

Shifting Landscapes

📍 The Whitney

⏰ opening Nov 1

❓ 120 works from > 80 artists exploring the effects of industrialization on the environment, the influence of geopolitical borders, and creation of imagined spaces

🔗 see exhibit details. 

Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial

📍 Cooper Hewitt

⏰ opening Nov 2

❓ 25 site-specific installations exploring design’s role in shaping the realities of ‘home’ across the United States

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ On Nov 2, there’ll be two events related to the new exhibition: An Introduction from the Curators and Cultivating Belonging and Reshaping An Understanding of Home

In the Galleries

Annie Leibovitz: Stream of Consciousness

📍 Hauser & Wirth | 22nd St

⏰ opening Nov 2

❓ a fluid visual dialogue among photographs, including landscapes, still lifes, and portraits

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 2, 3-6pm

✚✚ Henry Taylor: no title is opening on Nov 1 at the 18th St location with an opening reception 7-9pm

✚✚✚ Thornton Dial: The Visible and The Invisible is opening the same day, same location; Gary Simmons: Thin Ice is opening the same day at the Wooster St location

Lorna Simpson: Earth & Sky

📍 Hauser & Wirth | 22nd St

⏰ opening Nov 2

❓ monumental new body of large-scale works of meteorites, encouraging viewers to reflect on the vastness of the cosmos

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 2, 3-6pm

The Street, Curated by Peter Doig

📍 Gagosian | 980 Madison

⏰ opening Nov 1

❓ works by Doig presented alongside personally selected paintings by artists who have informed his own artistic development, including Francis Bacon, Vija Celmins, and more

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 1, 6-8 pm

Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance

📍 Luhring Augustine | Tribeca

⏰ opening Nov 2

❓ highlighting how Haitian artists of the past and present explore themes of survival, spirituality, and resistance through painting, sculpture, and textiles

🔗 see exhibit details. 

✚ Opening Reception on Nov 1, 6-8 pm

In addition:

• Clementine Keith-Roach: New Statue is opening at PPOW on Nov 1, featuring sculptures

• Paul P.: Sibilant Esses opens at Greene Neftali on Nov 1 with intimate painted portraits (opening reception 6-8pm)

• Jenny Morgan: No Endings for the Wild showcasing idiosyncratic paintings opens at Anat Ebgi on Nov 1 with an opening reception (6-8pm); Angela Lane: Phantom Light opens the same day with celestial landscapes

• wangshui opens at kurimanzutto on Nov 1 exploring their intimate painting process

🗓️ Events of the week

• Film Premiere of Mother Weaver & more (Hauser & Wirth, Nov 1, 7-9pm) — opening party for the Henry Taylor exhibit, Ursula Issue 11, & ‘Mother Weave’ Premiere

• An Afternoon of Music and Art (Arts and Letters, Nov 3, 3pm) — salon concert of contemporary works composed by recent and past recipients of the Charles Ives Awards in Music; reserve tickets

📚 Further Reading

• The Artist Who Shaped SoHo’s Avant-Garde Finally Gets Her Due — Artnet

• Who’s Afraid of Robin F. Williams? — Artnet

• 50 Artists, 50 Years: Marian Goodman Gallery Opens a New Chapter — The NYTimes

• Are You Under 25? Admission to the Whitney Museum Will Soon Be Free for You — Artnet

• Meet the Rising Young Artist Marina Abramović Thinks You Need to Know — Cultured Mag

• Marina Abramović on Her Epic Walk Across the Great Wall of China: ‘This Is the Best Thing I’ve Ever Done’ — Artnet

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