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November in the Museums 🍂
Issue #85
Art Pulse NYC
October 29, 2025
📌 Highlights
🚨 A variety of smaller exhibits are closing, including Lorna Simpson at The Met and Temitayo Ogunbiyi at Noguchi.
🎉 Wifredo Lam opens at MoMA and Gabriele Münter at Guggenheim.
🚨 Last Chance
 Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will wonder if we would have been friends closes on Nov 2 at Noguchi |  Lorna Simpson: Source Notes closes on Nov 30 at The Met |
 Porcelain Garden: Vladimir Kanevsky closes Nov 15 at The Frick Collection |  Melissa Joseph: Tender closes on Nov 2 at the Brooklyn Museum |  Pirouette: |
🎉 Just In
Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
📍 MoMA
⏰ opening Nov 10
❓paintings which expanded the horizons of modernism, creating space for the beauty of Black diasporic culture
Wifredo Lam. La jungla (The Jungle), 1942-43. Oil on paper on canvas, 94 ¼ x 90 ½” (239.4 x 229.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Inter-American Fund. © Succession Wifredo Lam, ADAGP, Paris/ARS, New York 2025
Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World
📍 Guggenheim
⏰ opening Nov 7
❓over 50 paintings tracing Münter’s pioneering role in modern art (note, not a rotunda exhibition)
Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep
📍 MoMA
⏰ opening Nov 18
❓a succinct exploration of Frankenthaler’s experiments with painting technique
Helen Frankenthaler. Chairman of the Board, 1971. Acrylic and felt-tip pen on canvas, 6′ 10 1/16″ x 16′ 2 5/16″ (208.4 x 493.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest. © 2025 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital Image © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
If you’re hungry for more…
 Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid opens on Nov 19 at MoMA |
Will you visit one of these exhibitions? |
📚 Further Reading
The House That Ruth Built — Puck News
Anish Kapoor Isn’t Done Reflecting — NYTimes
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