Editors’ Picks: 8 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and
thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. See them
below. 

Thursday, September
5–Saturday, October 19

1. “Domestic Horror” at
Gagosian 

Gagosian’s fall opener at their Park & 75th gallery is curated
by Bill Powers and takes on the potent subject matter of
domesticity. Whether referring to the psychological interior, the
physical space of the home, or the grand-scale politics of the
world, the theme is ripe for artists including Chloe Wise, Vaughn
Spann, Natalie Ball, Louise Bonnet, Ginny Casey, and Genieve
Figgis, among others.

Location: Gagosian, 821 Park
Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Caroline Goldstein

Thursday, September 5 and
Saturday, September 7

2. “Autumn Knight: Sanity TV” at the
Whitney Museum of American Art

As part of the Whitney Biennial’s final month of programming,
artist Autumn Knight presents two more editions of Sanity
TV, the performance series she inaugurated during a residency
at the Studio Museum three years ago. In Sanity
TV, Knight plays the host of a fictional television talk
show—one that hinges on improvisation and absurdist interactions
with audience members, who may be instructed to change seats or
become performers for various segments. By turns humorous and
uncomfortable, but always thought-provoking, Sanity TV
brings our current era of madness into focus through one of the
media mechanisms most responsible for it.

Location: 99 Gansevoort Street
Price: $10 Adults; $8 Students, Seniors, and
Visitors With Disabilities; Free for Members
Time: 7:30 p.m. both days

—Tim Schneider

Thursday, September
5–Sunday, September 29

3. “John Chamberlain: Baby
Tycoons” at Hauser & Wirth

John Chamberlain is revered for his large-scale works, but his
smaller, more intimate objects—and specifically those from his
“Baby Tycoons” series—have not been the subject of an exhibition in
15 years. This show remedies that situation through a presentation
of works from his estate as well as loans from private collections.
Hauser & Wirth is using the exhibition as a teaser for a larger
presentation of the artist’s work in New York in 2020. This is the
first show since the gallery announced worldwide representation of
the artist’s estate in May 2018.

Location: Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Tanner West

Thursday, September
5–Saturday, October 19

4. “Jessica Warboys: Snake
Shape Lake” at Hales Gallery

“Snake Shape Lake” is the Welsh
artist’s first solo show in the US, featuring painting, glasswork,
film, and sculpture. Her multifaceted practice is informed by
personal and collective memory, landscape, history, ritual and
mythology.

Location: Hales Gallery, 547 West 20th
Street, New York
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception 6 p.m.— 8 p.m.
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Eileen Kinsella

Thursday, September
5–Saturday, November 2 

5. “Jenna Gribbon: When I
Looked At You The Light Changed” at Fredericks &
Freiser

Jenna Gribbon melds art history,
memory, and her own intimate experiences into a dream-like cohesion
for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Two recent bodies
of work make up the show: portraits of her friends and family, and
paintings of women wrestling. In these works, Gribbon draws on a
deep historical well—from the Rococo indolence of Fragonard, to the
haptic homoeroticism of archaic Greek athletes, to the lively
brushstrokes of the Impressionists—with remarkable fluidity. One
has the sense that she is as familiar with art history as she is
with her subjects, and is allowing her viewers a coveted glimpse
into a private sphere. It’s all done so eloquently that the gesture
is as disarming as it pleasing.    

Location:
Fredericks & Freiser, 536 W
24th Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening, 6
p.m.–8 p.m, Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Katie White 

Friday, September
6

6. “The Criminal
Type” at apexart
The 19th-century field of positivist criminology used the
burgeoning medium of photography to put a face on felonious
activity, introducing the world to the idea of the “mugshot”—and
producing reductive, stereotypic tropes along the way. Curated by
Elizabeth Breiner, “The Criminal Type” examines the lingering
visual legacy of those tropes and how they continue to define our
legal system today.

Location: 291 Church Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.;
Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Taylor Dafoe

Friday, September 6–Saturday, October
26

7. “Rachel Howard: L’appel du vide” at
Blain/Southern

“Rachel Howard: L’appel du vide” (“the call of the void”) is the
artist’s first exhibition at Blain/Southern’s new Chelsea location.
The show consists of sculptures and works on paper, but five
large-scale paintings in alizarin crimson dominate the space. By
pushing the crimson paint through lace, Howard creates a measured
chaotic effect where the pattern is visible in some places and
completely absent in others.

Location: Blain/Southern, 547 West 25th
Street
Price: Free
Time: Opening reception, Thursday, September
5, 6 p.m.–8 p.m.; Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

—Neha Jambhekar

Saturday, September
7

8. “Black Rock Coalition:
History of Our Future” at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art

To coincide with the exhibition “Play It Loud: Instruments of
Rock & Roll,” the museum has invited the Black Rock Coalition to
perform a “sonic timeline” of pioneering black music from American
history. A number of special guests will be joining the coalition’s
regular company, including Fantastic Negrito, Nona Hendryx, Vernon
Reid, Corey Glover, Will Calhoun, “Captain” Kirk Douglas,
Stew, The Family Stand, Carl Hancock Rux, and Toshi Reagon.

Location: The Grace Rainey Rogers
Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue
Price: Tickets start at $40
Time: 7 p.m.

—Nan Stewart

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