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Saturday, October 3 · 420 shows on view at 338 galleries

Openings this week

11 new shows in the next seven days

Thursday, October 8Opens Thursday
Tang ShuoBorrowed HistoryPlato, Nolita

Tang Shuo draws on memories of his upbringing and family history to make mysterious scenes in which he often appears as the protagonist.

Thursday, October 8Opens Thursday
Shuto OkayasuImpermanencePlato, Nolita

Inspired by Japanese painting, visual culture, and poetry, as well as by cross-cultural exchanges between Japanese and Western artists, Okayasu created a series of works dedicated to the fleeting nature of life and the…

Friday, October 9Opens Friday
Fever DreamPalo Gallery, East Village

Referencing Okwui Enwenzor’s Archive Fever, the title of the show calls to his writing and the general sense of informational deluge that often accompanies archival research and work.

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Closes today

Ákos EzerCall of the WildPlato, Nolita

Call of the Wild presents a new body of work by the Hungarian artist in which his signature dreamy youths, with their elongated limbs and expressive forms, venture into nature in search of solace.

Closes today

Katia SantibañezAnd Yet AgainDC Moore, Chelsea

The visual impact of Santibañez's abstract paintings is immediate, felt simultaneously in the vibrant color combinations on the canvas and also in the intensity of the repeated forms throughout each work.

Closes today

On, In, Off the GridDC Moore, Chelsea

The artists in this exhibition organize their work around constructed generative systems and methodology that explore the grid as a foundational basis for sustained inquiry and artistic expression.

Closes today

Barbara IshikuraAcquired TasteKaliner, Chinatown

The exhibition brings together paintings of women in domestic interiors and decorative spaces. Velvet upholstery, floral wallpaper, pearls, silks and decorative textiles appear alongside cigarettes, sneakers and Solo cups.

Closes today

No LosersNo Inc., Chinatown

Louis Backhouse Donald Baechler Paul Levack Chim Pom John Waters Jenny and Tenko present No Losers.

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420 shows on view

Through Oct 24

Carroll DunhamPaintingsMatthew Brown, Chinatown

Carroll Dunham never went to art school. He tried studying philosophy at a university in upstate New York, then transferred to a small liberal arts college in Connecticut, where he switched to visual studies.

Through Oct 24

Leidy ChurchmanSpace RemembersMatthew Marks, Chelsea

The exhibition includes fifteen new paintings. Churchman is known for their wide-ranging subject matter, which draws variously from nature, contemporary media, and everyday objects, as well as myriad cultural signs and symbols.

Through Oct 24

Nate LowmanHanging OutDavid Zwirner, Chelsea

The exhibition debuts a body of shaped canvases that take the form of keys–objects freighted with associations of access, security, and exclusion–a new motif for the artist.

Through Oct 24

David ReedTerrible IdeaRodder, Upper East Side

Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, the renowned artist’s signature approach to painting has established him as a leading figure among the process-based avant-garde.

Sculpture You Can Walk Around

Shows where the work stands in the room.

Through Aug 31

Isamu NoguchiLever House, Midtown

This extensive public presentation explores Isamu Noguchi's unrealized dream to create a sculptural environment for the courtyard, plaza, and lobby of the Lever House building in New York City.

Through Oct 24

LA StatuetteCherkovski, Williamsburg

Organized in partnership with Max Levai and The Ranch, the exhibition is conceived as a companion to LA Monumental, The Ranch's outdoor presentation of three monumental works by the same artists…

Still in the Studio

Artists born before 1950, showing work they are still making.

Born 1945, Evanston

John DilgOnce and FuturePeter Freeman, SoHo

Drawing from a lexicon of earth tones and stylized iconography, John Dilg creates pared-down landscapes that feel familiar, uncanny, and mystical all at once.

Born 1946, San Diego

David ReedTerrible IdeaRodder, Upper East Side

Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, the renowned artist’s signature approach to painting has established him as a leading figure among the process-based avant-garde.

Born 1949, New Haven

Carroll DunhamPaintingsMatthew Brown, Chinatown

Carroll Dunham never went to art school. He tried studying philosophy at a university in upstate New York, then transferred to a small liberal arts college in Connecticut, where he switched to visual studies.

Photographs Worth the Trip

Photography on view now.

Through Oct 24

Daniel Buren & Barbara KastenBortolami, Tribeca

For the last six decades, Buren has worked in direct relation to the architectural placing of his works, with an interest in the physical conditions that shape how space is experienced.

Through Oct 17

Thomas RuffJPEGs NYDavid Zwirner, Chelsea

Featuring images from jpegs ny, a subset of the artist's larger jpegs series, the twelve works on view are derived from images of the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001.

Through Oct 25

Peter HujarHujar:ContactMorgan Library, Murray Hill

The exhibition features more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements from the Morgan's Peter Hujar Collection, which includes over 5,700 contact sheets from throughout the artist's career.

Through Oct 31

Renée CoxTake a Good LookEthan Cohen Gallery, Chelsea

Bringing together works from the early 1990s through the present, the exhibition traces more than three decades of Cox’s uncompromising approach to photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image.

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