10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Fall

The exhibits correcting historic oversights, shifting reputations, and shaking up galleries and museums.

This year’s Fall Preview surveys the movies, shows, books, plays, exhibits, albums, and performances that our writers and editors are excited to consume this season. Below, our art list.

Pollock and Krasner meet again. Brâncusi gets a once-in-a-generation showcase at MoMA. Minnie Evans, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, and Scott Kahn receive more of the attention they deserve. The new season — packed with rediscoveries and undervalued established talents, younger and mid-career artists, as well as a few genuine wild cards — feels unusually open-ended. I’m optimistic, even about the provocateur who sometimes annoys me. 

10. 
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

Whitney Museum of American Art, through January 10

The late self-taught artist made hallucinogenic, ecstatic, symmetrical works that dissolved nature and fantasy into one. This exhibit, arriving more than 50 years after her first solo show at the museum, traces the evolution of her practice from 1935 to 1981. A revelatory retrospective. 

9. 
Scott Kahn: Silent Night

David Zwirner, opens September 10

Kahn paints the ordinary world until it begins to look supernatural: moonlit fields, bare trees, basements, enormous clouds. Everything glows with impossible electric color. In his recent paintings as well as the landscapes from the past 23 years featured here, reality remains completely recognizable and like something out of a dream.

8. 
Robert H. Colescott

Gladstone Gallery, opens November 5

Colescott was one of our funniest, angriest, rawest, and most fearless painters. In his nasty hands, every canvas was an indictment, a history painting with its gloves off. This show, the gallery’s first in collaboration with the estate, offers a fascinating look at a period in the 1960s when he lived in Cairo. 

7. 
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson: Beaded and Bound

Fort Gansevoort, opens November 19

Robinson made astonishing handmade books, drawings, paintings, and wild constructions from cloth, paper, and found materials. Her dense imagery, exalting family and the Black communities of her native Columbus, Ohio, made her one of America’s great storytellers in any medium. Her work, and her home studio, is now in the hands of the Columbus Museum of Art, and this is the second show it has staged in collaboration with the gallery. 

6. 
Jordan Wolfson

Gagosian, opens September 18

The artist I hate to love. Wolfson has used animation, video, virtual reality, sculpture, and terrifying robotic figures to render technology as a form of psychological torture and slapstick comedy. This show, his debut at the gallery, features 16 sculptures that incorporate found photographs from the internet and his personal archive. 

5. 
Inka Essenhigh

Miles McEnery Gallery, opens November 5

Essenhigh is one of the stranger survivors of the late-1990s New York painting boom. Few artists make fantasy feel so convincing. Trees turn into bodies, forests seem sentient, flowers transform into creatures. The result: singularly enchanted gardens. 

4. 
Brâncusi: The Artist and His Studio

The Museum of Modern Art, opens October 25

Constantin Brâncusi is modern sculpture. It’s fitting that MoMA is filling the entire sixth floor with photographs, films, tools, hand-carved furniture, rarely lent sculptures from his legendary Paris studio, and those extraordinary bases that sometimes are sculptures themselves. Pay close attention to Bird in Space, a blade of polished abstraction so radical that Customs once refused to recognize it as art.

3. 
Becky Suss: Night House

Jack Shainman Gallery, opens September 10

In complex interiors and exteriors that are both colorful and super-flat, the Philadelphia-based painter infuses architecture with deep feeling. Every domestic space she commits to canvas is its own psychological self-portrait. Her paintings here are darker, featuring rich blues and deep blacks that make them look like ghostly nighttime vignettes. 

2. 
Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, opens October 4

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, whose marriage was one of the best-known and most volatile in American art, get a reconsideration that treats them as the equals they are. Overshadowed by her husband until his death in 1956, Krasner worked for six decades, and her rich, muscular abstractions show her to be every bit the powerhouse he was. This show, which comprises some 120 paintings, works on paper, and personal ephemera, at last acknowledges her place in the pantheon. 

1. 
Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony

New Museum, opens September 24

Jafa is one of the few artists working today who can make images feel radioactive. He doesn’t simply edit film or assemble photographs; he reorganizes history, memory, and documents of violence until it’s almost unbearable to watch and impossible to forget. Every Jafa exhibition is its own emotional weather system where beauty, grief, Black experience, American mythology, and popular culture collide. We leave changed, our thinking rewired. A very anticipated survey. 

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