Matthias Franz: Die Dünne Haut Der Zivilisation
The show brings together paintings with ambiguous landscapes and enigmatic interiors, populated by familiar figures.
New York gallery picks: week of October 22, 2026
Gallop's picks for New York galleries, October 22–28, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 4 openings and 4 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Our picks
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
Across freestanding screens, Huyghe’s machine-learning installation generates thousands of hallucinatory, fragmentary interpretations of images imagined by a human subject. A sensor detects visitors’ gazes, helping determine image creation and sequencing alongside simulations of cancer cell mutations.
Louise Bourgeois: Germinal
Large, segmented totemic sculptures in plaster, latex, and bronze are installed on the first floor. Atmospheric, cloud-like Cumul drawings from the 1960s are on the fourth floor.
Jutta Koether: Songs of New York
The exhibition includes large-format canvases and intimate paintings, from pitch-black surfaces marked with metallic-pen lines to all-over compositions in vivid colors. Forms include gestural masses, grids of controlled marks, smiley-faced heads and exploding suns.
Opening this week
Sharon Core: Flowering
Core’s sharp photographs record garden plants and perennials at stages from flowering to nearly withered. The images document varieties she cultivated, some returning the following season while others died out.
Teruko Yokoi: Seasons
Yokoi’s paintings and works on paper from the mid-1950s through the early 2000s engage with the natural world. In Indian ink drawings from 1955-57, she used a bamboo brush, connecting her abstract vocabulary to Japanese brushwork.
Channing Hansen: Metaphotical Spectra
Hand-spun, hand-dyed knitted works render biophotons and metaphysical concepts as tangible topological planes. Hansen collects, processes, and dyes raw fleece from conservation-bred sheep before spinning it into yarn.
Bill Buchman: Infinite Oasis
Across six decades, paintings, works on paper, and prints run from prints made in 1965 to canvases finished this year. Night Vision (2023) fills its canvas edge to edge, while Beyond the Pale (2026) leaves a pale ground open.
Last chance
David Reed: Terrible Idea
Reed’s paintings and working drawings pair finished canvases with process notes, color studies, and compositional diagrams. The exhibition title comes from an annotation in one of the included working drawings.
Eric N. Mack: You Red The Shirt Off My Back
The exhibition includes free-standing and wall-based paintings alongside a site-responsive installation. Textiles and garments are cut, ripped, dyed, sewn, glued and pinned into configurations, with some works extending from walls and ceilings into the gallery space.
Lynda Benglis: Knotting, Tying, Folding
The exhibition gathers Benglis’s sculptures in glazed ceramic, bronze, pleated wire mesh, paper, and glass, made between 1972 and 2024. Sparkle Knot IV (1972) is a knotted wire-mesh tube covered in plaster, paints, and sparkles.
Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision
The exhibition includes paintings made through Lee’s Bondage Baggage methodology. It also includes latex-layer sculptures, textiles with family video stills, salvaged architectural fragments, and a video installation using home footage.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in New York, the week’s openings and what’s closing soon.
Questions
What gallery shows should I see in New York this week?
Gallop's picks for the week of October 22: Matthias Franz at Grimm (Tribeca); Pierre Huyghe at Museum of Modern Art (Midtown); Louise Bourgeois at Craig Starr Gallery (Upper East Side); Jutta Koether at Buchholz (Midtown). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Which New York gallery shows open this week?
Opening the week of October 22: Sharon Core at Yancey Richardson (Chelsea); Teruko Yokoi at Hollis Taggart (Chelsea); Channing Hansen at Susan Inglett (Chelsea); Bill Buchman at Collective Z Gallery (Lower East Side).
Which New York gallery shows close this week?
Last chance the week of October 22: David Reed at Rodder, until Saturday Oct 24; Eric N. Mack at Paula Cooper, until Saturday Oct 24; Lynda Benglis at Pace Gallery, until Saturday Oct 24; Maia Ruth Lee at Tina Kim, until Saturday Oct 24.
How does Gallop choose its weekly picks?
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in New York each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for New York, every Thursday.
