Art & Exhibitions
60 Fall Gallery Shows You Can’t Miss
From LA to New York, and Birmingham to Boston, September is art's coolest month.
The fall art season is upon us, when galleries return from their August hibernation, and bring out their best stuff in an attempt to catch the buzz. In September alone, hundreds of shows kick off around the country, and we’ve picked out 60 that we are particularly keen on. They range from the blue chip (Gagosian’s Helen Frankenthaler show, its first with the artist’s foundation) to A-list contemporary (Allora & Calzadilla at Gladstone, Doug Aitken at Regen Projects) to the more intriguing and far-out (the outrageous blown-glass sculptures of the De La Torre brothers at Mindy Solomon in Miami). Below, we offer up a calendar of some of what we’re looking forward to across the land. Enjoy!
NEW YORK
Helene Appel at James Cohan, September 4–October 4
Justine Kurland, “Sincere Auto Care” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, September 4–October 11
Farhad Moshiri, “Float” at Galerie Perrotin, September 4–October 4
Roxy Paine, “Denuded Lens” at Marianne Boesky, September 4–October 18
Johannes Vanderbeek, “Early Hand” at Zach Feuer, September 4–October 4
Breyer P-orridge and Pierre Molinier at Invisible-Exports, September 5–October 12
Shamus Clisset, “Space God / Magic Guy” at Postmasters, September 6–October 11
Roger Hiorns at Luhring Augustine, September 6–October 1
Jean-Luc Moulène, “Torture Concrete’ at Miguel Abreu, September 7–October 26
Arp + RO/LU + Paul Clipson, “In Waves” at Jack Hanley, September 7–October 5
Andy Coolquitt, “Somebody Place” at Lisa Cooley, September 7–October 19
David Benjamin Sherry, “Climate Vortex Surtra” at Salon 94, September 7–October 25
Cory Arcangel, “tl;dr” at Team, September 7–October 26
Ryan McGinley, “Yearbook” at Team, September 7–October 12
Nick Cave, “Ever-After” at Jack Shainman, September 8–October 8
Ai Weiwei, “Part I/Part II” at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art/Chambers Fine Art, September 11–November 1
Do Ho Suh, “Drawings” at Lehmann Maupin, September 11–October 25
Helen Frankenthaler, “Composing With Color: Paintings 1962-1963” at Gagosian, September 11–October 18
Jenny Holzer, “Dust Painting” at Cheim & Read, September 11–October 25
Adam Putnam at PPOW, September 11–November 1
Jason Rhoades, “PeaRoeFoam” at David Zwirner, September 11–October 18
Wayne White, “Invisible Ruler,” at Joshua Liner, September 11–October 11
Laurent Grasso, “Soleil Double” at Sean Kelly, September 12–October 18
Jose Parla, “In Media Res” at Bryce Wolkowitz, September 12–October 18
Kate Shepherd, “Fwd: The Telephone Game” at Galerie Lelong, September 12–October 18
Allora & Calzadilla, “Fault Lines” at Gladstone, September 13–October 11
Rob Pruitt, “Multiple Personalities” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, September 13–October 25
Xanti Schawinsky, “Eclipse” at Broadway 1602, September 16–November 22
“FIRE!” curated by Simon de Pury, at Venus Over Manhattan, September 18–November 1
LOS ANGELES
Giuseppe Penone, “Branches of Thought” at Gagosian, September 5–October 16
“20 Years of Acme” at Acme Gallery, September 6–October 4
Doug Aitken, “Still Life” at Regen Projects, September 6–October 11
Matthew Ronay at Marc Foxx, September 6–October 4
Eddie Martinez, “Nomader” at Kohn, September 12–October 25
Pia Fries, “Paisages Maritimes” at Christopher Grimes, September 13–November 1
Rashid Johnson, “Islands” at David Kordansky, September 13–October 29
KAWS at Honor Fraser, September 13–October 31
Kehinde Wiley, “The World Stage: Haiti” at Roberts & Tilton, September 13–October 25
Darren Almond at Matthew Marks, September 20–October 25
Mark Handforth, “Rough Dark Diamond” at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, September 20–January 3, 2015
Horfee at New Image Art, September 27–October 18
CHICAGO
Hank Willis Thomas, “Bench Marks” at Monique Meloche, September 1–November 30
Natalie Frank, “Interiors and Openings” at Rhona Hoffman, September 9–October 25
Adam Pendleton at Shane Campbell, September 12–October 24
Mickalene Thomas, “I Was Born to Do Great Things” at Kavi Gupta, September 19–November 15
Whitney Bedford at Carrie Secrist, September 19–November 15
MIAMI
José Toirac and Meira Marrero, “Vanitas” at Pan American Art Projects, September 12-November 23
Einar and Jamex de la Torre, “Folkloric Acid” at Mindy Solomon Gallery, September 19-October 31
SAN FRANCISCO
Ruth Laskey and Suzan Freco at Ratio3, September 5–October 25
Rob Putnam, “Foundlings” at Rena Bransten Projects, September 6–October 25
BIRMINGHAM
Eugene James Martin, “Favorite Blues” at Maus Contemporary, September 5–October 31
BOSTON
Nathalie Miebach, “Three Works” at Miller Yezerski, September 5–30
DETROIT
Pieter Schoolwerth at What Pipeline, September 5–October 11
HOUSTON
Troy Woods, “The Tipping Point (Notes On)” at McMurtrey Gallery, September 13–October 18
MINNEAPOLIS
Mitchell Syrop, “It is better to shine than to reflect” at Midway Contemporary Art, September 20–October 25
NEW HAVEN
Clare Grill, “Petal, Pedal, Peddle” at Giampietro, September 5–October 4, 2014
PHILADELPHIA
Virgil Marti, “Forest Park” at Locks Gallery, September 5–October 18
PORTLAND, OREGON
Ellen Lesperance, “You & I Are Earth” at Adams and Ollman, September 5–27
SANTA FE
Alice Leora Briggs, “Asylum” at Evoke Contemporary, September 26–October 26
SEATTLE
Lauren Grossman at Platform, September 5–October 11
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