DC Moore Gallery

In 2006, Valerie Jaudon’s practice underwent a fundamental shift when the artist eschewed color and optical elements for compositions of white paint on bare linen canvas. Her most recent paintings maintain the simplified palette of white and black paint on raw canvas, while introducing freely curving lines, creating irregular forms within the complex architecture of the composition. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue, featuring an essay by Pepe Karmel, “Valerie Jaudon: Symmetry and Its Discontents.”

through November 11, 2023

Yossi Milo 

The show will also exhibit video installations showcasing the artist's process, offering a new perspective of how Linkersdorff's exquisite photographs are made. The artist's Fairies seriesuncovers the microcosmic vastness contained within flowers, and unearths worlds unknown to the naked eye.

through October 21, 2023

Clamp

Amos Badertscher, a self-taught photographer whose stark, powerful and sometimes erotic images of hustlers, prostitutes and drag queens in Baltimore reflected his empathy for people living on the fringes of the city, died on July 24 in Baltimore. He was 86. Mr. Badertscher’s death, at a rehabilitation facility, came after he broke his arm in a fall in his backyard, said Bill Badertscher, his adopted son, former companion and only immediate survivor.

through November 4, 2023

New Museum

“Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation.

through January 14, 2024

Marian Goodman

The film explores history as a form of collage, traversing four decades of the Soviet Union from its early days following the 1917 revolution to the death of Lenin (1924); the suicide of Mayakovsky (1930); the assassination of Trotsky (1940); to the death of Stalin (1953). The work, grounded in Shostakovich’s complex relationship with the Soviet Union, illuminates both the febrile epoch and constraint of the time. The composer, initially lauded as the musical front of Soviet values, was denounced twice under Stalin’s rule with the accusation that his compositions violated Soviet restrictions on cultural production, including formal experiments with contrast and ambivalent tonalities. This was the case for Symphony No.10, a symphony of emotion often perceived as an expression of the composer’s thoughts, which was not made public until after Stalin’s death. “The report that remains of these decades is in the music of Shostakovich, the one who against expectation got away, and survived,” says Kentridge.

through October 21, 2023

Pace Gallery

For the past 40 years, Schnabel has been on a quest to express the inexpressible. He began painting on velvet in 1980, and, in 1984, his velvet paintings were the subject of his first exhibition with Pace Gallery on 57th Street. For Schnabel, filmmaking and painting exist in a continuum in which subject matter crosses between mediums, assuming myriad forms. This relationship resonates throughout the exhibition, where indecipherable narratives emerge from a process of imagery central both to Schnabel’s film and to the paintings on view.

through October 28, 2023

David Zwirner

In the exhibition, multiple places and temporalities exist together within single compositions. In these works, Akunyili Crosby uses doorways, screens, posters, and windows as devices that open to other worlds, such as private interior spaces, lush external gardens, and bustling Nigerian markets. In Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens (2021), for example, which shows the artist with her young child on the back porch of their home surrounded by plants and vines, a sliding door reveals a domestic interior space, hinting at the private world within. Inside, an image of Akunyili Crosby’s mother can be glimpsed, offering a powerful multigenerational representation of the tenderness, love, and beauty of motherhood. The treatment of paint and the layering of the photographic transfers in this work create a tension between depth and surface that optically and narratively affect how the viewer visually navigates the composition. This work first appeared in Picturing Motherhood Now at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2021 and 2022. 

through October 28, 2023

Whitney Museum of American Art

“Through Line” is the first exhibition to examine Ruth Asawa’s oeuvre through the lens of her lifelong drawing practice. Co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Menil Collection, this presentation reveals the complexity and richness of the materials and processes she experimented with, emphasizing the foundational role that drawing played in developing her distinct visual language. While now widely recognized as a sculptor, Asawa (1926–2013) practiced drawing daily, referring to the act as her “greatest pleasure and the most difficult.” Through drawing, Asawa explored the world around her and the boundaries of the medium itself, turning everyday encounters into moments of profound beauty and endowing ordinary objects with new aesthetic possibilities.

through January 15, 2024

MoMA

“I don’t have any Seine River like Monet,” Ed Ruscha once said. “I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles. The exhibition will feature over 200 works—in mediums including painting, drawing, prints, photography, artist’s books, film, and installation—that make use of everything from gunpowder to chocolate. Exploring Ruscha’s landmark contributions to postwar American art as well as lesser-known aspects of his more than six-decade career, the exhibition will offer new perspectives on a body of work that has influenced generations of artists, architects, designers, and writers.

through January 13, 2024

Paula Cooper Gallery

Since his first New York exhibition at the Green Gallery in 1960, di Suvero has astounded audiences with his strong, monumentally-scaled sculpture made from salvaged metals. Reviewing di Suvero’s very first exhibition for Arts in 1960, Donald Judd described the size and force of di Suvero’s sculpture as “thunderous,” an adjective that is equally applicable to the new work di Suvero continues to produce today.

through October 21, 2023

Gagosian

To create the miraculous drawings in space that constitute his sculptural work, Lichtenstein employed an array of visual strategies familiar from his painting and printmaking. Representing glasses, lamps, mirrors, and mobiles, as well as portrait heads and stylized explosions, he produced witty and seductive sculptures in the Pop art mode of which he was a progenitor. Referencing his adaptation of popular print media in general and comic book illustration in particular, the works on view in New York evoke the stylistic and conceptual innovations of artists including Matisse and Picasso.

through October 21, 2023

Marlborough New York

Since the early-1990s, Laura Anderson Barbara has initiated art-centered projects in the United States, the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Norway which emphasize reciprocity, shared knowledge, and decolonial thinking. Through anchoring objects, Singing Leaf gathers many traditions, voices, and communities that are empowered by the artist’s expansive definitions of authorship and collaboration.

through October 28, 2023

Hauser & Wirth 

Once there was a mother’ takes its title from Plate 9 of Bourgeois’s 1947 illustrated book ‘He Disappeared into Complete Silence,’ which pairs nine engravings with short texts she called parables. These stories and their accompanying images of isolated buildings convey a sense of loneliness, alienation and lack of communication. They also show Bourgeois’s fascination with the architecture of her adopted city, New York, where she lived and worked from 1938 until her death in 2010. In the parable which accompanies Plate 9, a son ultimately rejects his devoted mother despite her best efforts to protect him. Bourgeois wrote this in the mid-1940s, while raising three young sons.

through December 23, 2023

Lehmann Maupin

A longtime resident of Los Angeles (he spent his early childhood in Colombia), Pittman’s longstanding interest in the dynamics and decorative possibilities of the urban fabric developed in dialogue with one of America’s most surreal metropolises. Los Angeles’ astounding heterogeneity affirmed a set of ethics that has guided Pittman’s exploration of themes such as the AIDS epidemic, racial discord, LGBTQ+ civil rights struggles, and gun violence that continue to define life in America. Nowhere are such issues as intensely incubated and explosively scaled as they are in cities. During the 1990s, Pittman’s work investigated the densely patterned and productively disruptive logic of such social-political currents, using his signature painting technique to build up refracted surfaces that draw on an array of stylistic and iconographic references. Among these, Pittman has repeatedly invoked the egg as a metaphor for regeneration.

through November 4, 2023

Perrotin

Arsham will debut multiple series of work that draw inspiration from the evolution of his artistic practice over the past two decades. Renowned for visually transforming cultural objects into subtly eroding artifacts, Arsham showcases the power of nostalgia by conflating past, present, and future. In the forthcoming exhibitions, Arsham will return to his oeuvre to examine and reflect on his longstanding appreciation for the complexities of materiality and space.

through October 14, 2023

Rachel Uffner Gallery

Making lightness out of some of life’s most painful and complicated moments is at the core of Susan Chen’s practice. Such is Chen’s own essence and as such, this ability to transmute compassion almost comes as an after-thought —something that happens naturally while she is in the midst of creating.

through August 18, 2023