Fall art in New York City, there's nothing like it. The museums and galleries seem to save their biggest, most ambitious shows for this stretch, and there's a real energy to the calendar right now. Below are the shows, fairs, and openings I'm most excited about this season.
The Armory Show is happening later this year, moving from its usual early-September time to September 24–27 at the Javits Center. It’s the fair’s 32nd edition, with around 230 galleries from over 30 countries. If you’re going to make one big art-fair trip this fall, this is the one.
The Affordable Art Fair returns to the Starrett-Lehigh Building September 16–20, with over 400 exhibitors and original work ranging from $100 to $12,000. We’ve found some pieces there in past years, and one gallery we always make a point to visit is TAG Fine Arts. A great stop if you’re looking to add something original to your walls, and some playful pieces for the kid’s walls.
I’m looking forward to the Neue Galerie to reopening this fall. The museum has been closed for renovation, but it’s coming back November 12 with a 25th Anniversary Exhibition, including Klimt’s iconic Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Café Sabarsky reopens even sooner, on October 1. It’s such a special place and I’m glad to have it back.
The biggest exhibit to check out this Fall: Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You, opening September 18 at the Guggenheim. The entire rotunda dedicated to a single body of new work by a photography-based artist, for the first time in the museum's history. Ten years in the making, the installation weaves together 42 works of photography, text, video, and sculpture. It runs through March 14, 2027, plenty of time to see it, but worth putting on the list early.
Opening October 11, Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at the Whitney is a fresh, career-spanning look at one of Pop Art's defining figures — roughly 130 works from the 1940s through the '90s, including icons like Look Mickey, Drowning Girl, and a nearly 96-foot recreation of the Greene Street Mural. It also reunites, for the first time, every work from Lichtenstein's landmark 1962 debut.
….and you may want to check out before it closes:
Yves Saint Laurent and Photography at ICP: Through September 28. Four-plus decades of Saint Laurent captured by everyone who mattered — Avedon, Penn, Newton, Leibovitz, Warhol. A must for the fashion-and-photography crowd.
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now: The Guggenheim’s survey of Pop art just opened and runs through January 10. The showstopper is Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, a mirrored chamber of suspended, glowing lights. Quietly breathtaking, and worth timing your visit around.
You may have missed it, here is my back-to-school guide (it continues to be such a popular one!) and some of the things I’m most excited to check out this Fall
Continuing my Fall shopping, here are the retailers I’m eyeing:
Ralph Lauren: There’s still a 30% off for Labor Day with some excellent items: the iconic baseball cap, and since I prefer cotton sweaters to any other material: cotton-cable crewneck and a cardigan version
AYR: An excellent long-sleeved tee (such a great seasonal transition item with the weight), I love this black tee that works everywhere, but especially for dinners out, and the best black pants in an incredible material that instantly makes me feel put-together (High Sport for less)
La Ligne: Incredible silky trousers I could get in every color, this white long-sleeved doesn’t seem like much, but it’s a great one with jeans and live in this light-weight silky cashmere polo
Sézane: what a rebrand (!) and call me intrigued. I’ve been eyeing this sweater, I’m usually not a red gal but it looks like a special one. Love the cut that I may have to try it in other colors as well.
And in more sweater news, I couldn’t forget to mention this excellent one from COS
I absolutely love this hair claw clip I got on Amazon, a great dupe.
I was targeted on Instagram the benefits of a lymphatic contour face brush, so of course I immediately got one. I feel like I notice a difference, but maybe it’s placebo!?!
Do you have a label printer? If you don’t, I’d highly suggest one, SO much quicker than using a traditional printer. I can’t believe I went so long without one.