Your Guide to NYC Art Shows This Fall
We round up the must-see art exhibitions around the city this fall so you don’t have to. Plus: How did the police confuse a sculpture for a person?
For me, autumn in New York means four things: art fair frenzy, leaf peeping, apple cider donuts, and lots and lots of openings. To help you navigate the wealth of stellar exhibitions this year, from gallery shows to blockbuster surveys, we’re proud to present our Hyperallergic Fall 2026 New York Art Guide. Choose your own adventure: telenovelas and their influence on contemporary art, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock side by side, explorations of girlhood and art. As Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang writes in her foreword, there’s something for everyone. Enjoy.
Read on for more in this edition, including a massive auction for an LGBTQIA+ art mentorship program, the many lives of beloved author Virginia Woolf’s small press, and the police who broke into a gallery after confusing a sculpture for a person (no, April Fools’ didn’t come early).
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
Hyperallergic Fall 2026 New York Art Guide
School’s back in session in the art world, too — this fall, exhibitions on textbook artists like Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, and modernist Constantin Brancusi are landing at The Met, the Whitney, and MoMA, respectively. Then there’s the shows writing the textbooks of tomorrow: surveys of artist-filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who remixes and shapes Black visual culture; photographer Taryn Simon, who plumbs American myths and institutions; and conceptual artist (and pathologist!) Teresa Margolles, who takes on death, that cruelest of subjects. Still, it’s not just blockbuster exhibitions this season. There’s something for everyone.
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The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries
Women figurative realist painters can enter to win $75,000 and a traveling solo exhibition. Applications are open through September 19.
News
- Dozens of donated artworks, archival media, experiences, and collectibles that embody the queer canon are available through the second annual Queer | Art x Doll Invasion fundraiser exhibition.
- Emergency personnel force entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver after a 911 caller mistook a sculpture of an art preparator as a person in need of medical attention.
From Our Critics
Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press Gets an Exhibition of Its Own
They were both writers, and amongst the remarkable fruits of their union was a decision to open a small press, which in time grew into something far from small. | Michael Glover
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Four Native Artists Commissioned for Counterpublic Triennial
Plus, the High Line’s fall lineup, new curators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a laid-off Artnet News reporter speaks out, and more in Art Movements.
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Remembering Yayoi Kusama
Lost in Reflection With Yayoi Kusama
I could spend a week inside Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room. | Katie Fricas
Read MoreStanding Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object? | Michael Glover
Read MoreYayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden
Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway’s history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area. | Gregory Volk
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