The Most Exciting Art Exhibitions Coming to New York For Fall 2024
Labor Day weekend is your last chance to catch the Costume Institute’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition at the Met museum, which closes Monday. Return to the museum later in September for the opening of “Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,” the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the architect’s work, which includes Brutalist buildings like the Yale Art and Architecture Building.
The fall art season kicks off with the return of the sprawling Armory Show, taking place Sept. 6 through Sept. 8 at the Javits Center. Nearby, the High Line is getting an art refresh with new installations including Iván Argote’s “Dinosaur” sculpture, a larger-than-life pigeon perched above 10th Avenue at 30th street. In September, look for Glenn Ligon’s “Untitled (America/Me)” billboard, near 18th Street. A full stroll of the elevated walkway will take you to the Whitney, which is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the late choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. Opening Sept. 25, “Edges of Ailey” will span live performance, music, archival imagery, performance footage, and Ailey’s choreographic notes. The Ailey company will be in residence at the museum for one week of each month that the exhibition is on view, through Feb. 9, 2025.
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Nearby, Dia Chelsea is debuting new work by artist Steve McQueen, alongside his 2022 two-channel video piece “Sunshine State.” The gallery presentation, which accompanies a concurrent exhibition of McQueen’s work at Dia Beacon upstate, opens Sept. 20. Gladstone Gallery is showing an exhibition of new paintings by David Salle, who brought artificial intelligence into his art-making process. At Gladstone’s 21st Street location, Carrie Mae Weems‘ video work “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things (2021),” on view through Nov. 9, takes on new urgency in the lead-up to the U.S. presidential election. Mary Corse, whose work emerged from the Light and Space movement of the ’60s, continues her investigation of light in paintings with her first solo exhibition in the city since 2019 at Pace gallery’s 540 West 25th Street location, opening Sept. 13.
On the Lower East Side, 56 Henry is presenting new work by Laurie Simmons. The exhibition, “Deep Photos / In the Beginning,” opens Sept. 4. Perrotin Gallery‘s fall exhibitions launch in New York on Sept. 6 with solo shows from painters Zéh Palito, Oli Epp, and Lee Bae, and sculptures by subversive Brooklyn-based art collective Mschf.
Over at the Brooklyn Museum, the inaugural edition of the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is a highly anticipated showcase of the borough’s emerging talent. The group show includes more than 200 artists who have resided or worked in Brooklyn during the last five years, selected by a panel led by artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas and Fred Tomaselli. The showcase opens Oct. 4.
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