With the fall art season kicking off, there are hundreds of options of shows to see throughout the country. Because we believe being a patron through visitation is just as important as a donation, below are a list of exhibitions throughout the country we're excited to support, including female artists, non-traditional mediums, art from cultures outside of Europe, and institutions old and soon to be.
If you're looking to support the ladies...
MARIAN ZAZEELA
An introduction to handsome, low-key works on paper by an artist best known for sound and light installations made with her collaborator (and husband), La Monte Young. Oct. 5-summer 2020; Dia:Beacon, Beacon, N.Y, diaart.org
BY THEIR CREATIVE FORCE: AMERICAN WOMEN MODERNISTS
The Baltimore Museum of Art kicks off a year of women-focused exhibitions with Georgia O’Keeffe and Grace Hartigan, among others, to mark the centennial of women’s suffrage. Oct. 6-July 5; Baltimore Museum of Art, artbma.org
IN A CLOUD, IN A WALL, IN A CHAIR: SIX MODERNISTS IN MEXICO AT MIDCENTURY
Entrancing work by six vital female artists, from Anni Albers to Sheila Hicks, who were influenced by a Mexican sensibility. Sept. 6-Jan. 12; Art Institute of Chicago, artic.edu
WOMEN TAKE THE FLOOR
An ambitious reinstallation of the collection centered on women artists and the female experience, from underrecognized names to Alice Neel’s famous portrait of the art historian Linda Nochlin. Sept. 13-May 3; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, mfa.org
ARTIST IN EXILE: THE VISUAL DIARY OF BARONESS HYDE DE NEUVILLE
A self-taught artist banished by Napoleon, the baroness left behind a cache of delightful ethnographic drawings of early Americans. Nov. 1-Jan. 26; New-York Historical Society, nyhistory.org
If you've had your fill of oil paintings...
COLOR WOODCUTS IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ERA
Hand-colored woodcuts were the gorgeous hipster throwback of a century ago, combining new Western interest in Japanese design with fears about mechanical reproduction. Sept. 14-March 22; Minneapolis Institute of Art, artsmia.org
HANS HAACKE: ALL CONNECTED
This retrospective of the German-born, New York-based artist will include several rarely seen kinetic sculptures. Oct. 24-Jan. 26; New Museum, newmuseum.org
If you're tired of seeing art from white Western-European men...
MODERNISMS: IRANIAN, TURKISH, AND INDIAN HIGHLIGHTS FROM NYU’S ABBY WEED GREY COLLECTION
Paintings from the 1960s and ’70s sound the encounter of Western modernism with ancient cultures. Sept. 10-Dec. 7; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, greyartgallery.nyu.edu
If you can't get enough of Abstraction...
SEARCHING THE SKY FOR RAIN
SculptureCenter in Long Island City pushes back against the easy ways that identity-based art can be pigeonholed with a 16-artist show that asks, “Who has the right to abstraction?” Sept. 16-Dec. 16; SculptureCenter, sculpture-center.org
HANS HOFMANN: THE NATURE OF ABSTRACTION
The broadest career survey yet for the German-American painter, educator and pillar of abstraction (1880-1966). Sept. 21-Jan. 5; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., pem.org
If you want to learn more about underground subcultures...
HENRY CHALFANT: ART VS. TRANSIT, 1977-1987
Photographs that capture the explosive birth of subway-car graffiti art — and, not incidentally, hip-hop — in 1970s and ’80s New York City. Sept. 25-March 8; Bronx Museum of Art, bronxmuseum.org
If you're into home renovations...
LMCC’S ARTS CENTER AT GOVERNORS ISLAND
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council begins its season with site-specific installations by the artists Yto Barrada and Michael Wang in its expanded, renovated and newly permanent 40,000-square-foot home in an 1870s-era space on Governors Island. Sept. 19; https://lmcc.net/lmcc-arts-center-at-governors-island/
THE FACADE COMMISSION: WANGECHI MUTU, THE NEWONES, WILL FREE US
The Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu installs the first-ever commissioned sculptures in the museum’s facade. Sept. 9-Jan. 12; Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org
