📌 Highlights

🎈  The renowned — or notorious — artist Jeff Koons opens at Gagosian on Nov 13.

🎉 Catherine Goodman’s expressive monotypes open at H&W, also on Nov 13. While Louis Bourgeois opened last week at H&W, the opening reception is on Nov 12. Read below for a few upcoming events at the gallery.

📖 Check out Marion Maneker’s An Art Flâneur’s Guide to New York and Sarah Bahr’s Can You Stare at a Work of Art for 10 Minutes? for further reading. More below.

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🎉 Just In

Jeff Koons: Porcelain Series

📍 Gagosian

⏰ opening Nov 13

❓mirror-polished stainless steel sculptures modeled after historical porcelain figurines

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Lauren Halsey opens Nov 14 (with a reception 6-8pm) in UES, exhibiting sculptural reliefs

Catherine Goodman: Island

📍 Hauser & Wirth (22nd St)

⏰ opening Nov 13 with a reception at 6-8pm

❓highly expressive, densely layered monotypes

🔗 see exhibit details. 

➕ Reminder, Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool opened last week on Nov 6, but will have a reception on Nov 12, 6-8pm. Furthermore, Franz Gertsch: Presence is opening today.

🎟️ Events: Artist & Curator Walthrough: Nicolas Party & Tobia Bezzola on Nov 11, Screening of ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Rage to Understand’ on Sat, Nov 15, Book Launch on Sat, Nov 15 & Screening Room on Franz Gertsch on Nov 19

Reinhard Mucha

📍 Luhring Augustine

⏰ opening Nov 14 with a reception on Nov 13, 6-8pm

❓emblematic vitrine works, free standing sculptures, and site-specific installation with themes such as collective identity, memory, nationhood, and the psychology of architecture and institutional power

🔗 see exhibit details. 

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📚 Further Reading

• An Art Flâneur’s Guide to New York — Puck News

• Can You Stare at a Work of Art for 10 Minutes? — NYTimes

• The Studio Museum in Harlem Returns—Triumphant — Artnet

• Sotheby’s New Breuer Home Dazzles, Even If the Iconic Building’s Elevators Remain Slow — Artnet

• Is This Artist the Joe Rogan of the Art World? — NYTimes

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