New York A month-by-month visual guide to the museum exhibitions and art events you should check out in New York City this season. This guide is focused on the art institutions that help make this city great, and it highlights the breadth of venues throughout the boroughs, as well as a few beyond in the Greater New York region for those adventurous enough to go on a day trip. Art in New York is truly unlike anything else in the world. View the full guide here. IN THE NEWS NYC Department of Sanitation’s initiative, Trucks of Art, raises criticism about whether the open call devalues artists. A devastating attack on Sculpture Space in Utica leaves smashed windows, destroyed equipment, and damaged works slated for a charity auction. The vandals are suspected to be a group of five children aged 8 to 11. SPONSORED “Brings together the personal and political with lacerating cool.” — New York Times
See festival favorite The Cathedral, an impressionistic family saga from Ricky D’Ambrose. Opening at Film at Lincoln Center this week, with director Q&As at 6:15pm Friday & Saturday. Streaming exclusively on MUBI September 9. Get tickets: mubi.io/thecathedralny ARMORY WEEK PREVIEW Anoushka Mirchandani, “Déjà vu” (2021), oil and oil pastel on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (© Anoushka Mirchandani, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York) The Armory Show
Javits Center, September 9—11This year’s Presents section is devoted to galleries under the age of 10, while two curated sections — Focus and Platform — will both highlight Latinx and Latin American art. The first, organized by Carla Acevedo-Yates, takes an intersectional approach to environmentalism “focusing on personal and political climates as they interact with race and gender,” while the second, curated by Tobias Ostrander, reimagines public monuments through large-scale installations. A new Armory Spotlight program will feature the New York-based multidisciplinary performance and experimental art space The Kitchen, which will present rarely seen material from its archive, dating back to its founding days as an artist collective in 1971. Nick Angelo, “Park Ave. Painting (Opulence Hoard)” (2022), oil on linen, 48 × 36 inches (NIA19) (courtesy the artist and Sebastian Gladstone) SPRING/BREAK Art Show
625 Madison Avenue, September 7–12Themed around Naked Lunch, the 11th New York City edition of the delightfully offbeat SPRING/BREAK Art Show invites “new portraiture, complex realism, updates on the artist gaze, a ‘Renaissance’ approach to multimedia, poetics and problems with objectification, and many happy Hellenistic returns.” Art on Paper
Pier 38, September 8–11A hundred galleries will exhibit modern and contemporary paper-based work at this year’s New York City edition of the medium-specific fair. Keep an eye out for Bang Geul Han’s series of tapestries hand woven from legal documents on topics including abortion and immigration. Independent 20th Century
Battery Maritime Building, September 8–11More than 70 artists, 22 solo and duo artist presentations, and special projects have been commissioned especially for this new fair, presented by 32 galleries. Clio Art Fair
Five Five Zero, September 8–11The biannual and bicoastal Clio Art Fair, which bills itself as an independently minded “anti-fair,” was created to give exposure to independent international artists who are not exclusively represented by any New York or Los Angeles gallery. SPONSORED From September 8 to 11, the fair will showcase top modern and contemporary paper-based art from 95 galleries, including works from Bang Geul Han, Yuko Nishikawa, and more. Learn more. OPENINGS THIS WEEK LaJuné McMillian, “Black Movement Library” (2021), featuring dancer Roukijah Rooks (photo by Guy de Lancey) Harnessing the slick visual language of advertising in subversive photo-performances that challenge the commodification of bodies, artist and activist Martine Gutierrez questions normativity and supremacy in their many guises. See also: LaJuné McMillian: The Black Movement Library (opening September 6 at Recess), Umber Majeed: Made in Trans-Pakistan (opening September 9 at Pioneer Works), and more in our Fall 2022 Art Guide. SPONSORED On September 9, the first event in this free, virtual series will focus on how museums of Native American art and culture are leading the reinvention of art museum missions and practices in the 21st century. Learn more. MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC The Collection Bowl is about fundraising as well as supporting drag performers and those behind the scenes who have been impacted by COVID-19. | Francesca Magnani The exhibition Shall Make, Shall Be at Manhattan’s Federal Hall wants to educate us critically about the Bill of Rights amendments, but nearly half of the displays are dysfunctional. | Billy Anania In 1911 Matisse created “The Red Studio,” a self-enclosed world in his studio, by showing 11 earlier works of art, without the presence of the artist. | David Carrier Become a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a Member CLOSING SOON Cecilia Vicuña, “Autobiografía” (1971), oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London) Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through Sept 5 Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through Sept 5 Theresa Has Kyung Cha
Featured as part of the 2022 Whitney Biennial through September 5 Matisse: The Red Studio
Museum of Modern Art through September 10 Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton
Morgan Library & Museum through September 11 Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden through September 11 Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
National Museum of the American Indian through September 11 Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective
El Museo del Barrio through September 11 ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS William Klein: YES
International Center of Photography through September 12 The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the 15th Century to the Present
The Drawing Center through September 18 Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
New Museum through October 9 F*CK ART: THE BODY & ITS ABSENCE
Museum of Sex through October 11 Doreen Lynette Garner: REVOLTED
New Museum through October 16 Black Melancholia, Martine Syms: Grio College
Center for Curatorial Studies Bard / Hessel Museum of Art through October 16 Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through October 16 | 