{"id":2125999,"date":"2026-09-02T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2125999"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:15:57","slug":"fall-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2125999","title":{"rendered":"Fall Guide: 20 Art World Highlights Not to Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tAs surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America<\/em>, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months.<\/p>\n
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Maurizio Cattelan\u00a0at Neue Nationalgalerie<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Chesnot via Getty\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAfter duct-taping a banana to a wall, gifting Guggenheim-goers a golden toilet, and sculpting a repentant Hitler on his knees, shock-value art-star Maurizio Cattelan won the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie (Germany\u2019s National Gallery Prize). The award comes with a show in the museum\u2019s iconic gridded glass building in Berlin designed by Mies van der Rohe, and whatever Cattelan does with so transparent and unique a space is all but guaranteed to make headlines. Sept. 10\u2013March 7<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Counterpublic<\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tCounterpublic in St. Louis thoughtfully reimagines what a triennial might be. The show bills itself as a \u201ccivic exhibition\u201d and earns the title by asking\u2014and answering\u2014hard questions about art\u2019s long-term impact and rewriting the ways recurring exhibitions might stay sustainable in every sense of the term. This year\u2019s edition, under the title \u201cCoyote Time,\u201d\u00a0 is helmed by star curators Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush, and promises to be a show to watch. Sept. 12\u2013Dec. 12<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Juanita McNeely in St. Louis<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy James Fuentes Gallery, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tFew painters have captured corporeal complexity as fluidly and vibrantly as Juanita McNeely. This fall, the work of the Missouri native returns home for a retrospective spanning both the St. Louis Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, surveying her bold figurative paintings that capture the full spectrum of both the human experience and the color wheel. Canvases show everything from unsafe abortions and animal-human relations to scenes of desire and disability, all swirled together in unforgettable images.\u00a0 Both Sept. 10\u2013February<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cIf Emmett Till Lived\u201d at the Museum of Contemporary Photography<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis expansive show at Columbia College Chicago is curated by the historian and Vision & Justice founder Sarah Lewis with a probing question in mind: What would Emmett Till have seen if he had lived beyond his brutal murder in 1955? Subtitled \u201cFreedom on American Ground,\u201d the exhibition (and accompanying book) includes photographs of the nation by Gordon Parks, Dawoud Bey, Teju Cole, Carrie Mae Weems, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, and more. Sept. 10\u2013Dec. 19<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Lucas Museum\u2019s Story Begins<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles;\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAfter a fitful incubation marked by delays and the departure of both a director and a chief curator last year, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is finally opening in Los Angeles with a range of exhibitions overseen by Star Wars<\/em> creator George Lucas. Galleries will be devoted to figurative artists like Thomas Hart Benton, Norman Rockwell, and Jessie Willcox Smith, and thematic displays will explore themes including \u201cChildren\u2019s Stories\u201d and \u201cEveryday Life.\u201d A big star will be the building itself: a 300,000-square-foot marvel that looks like a spaceship ready to take off from Exposition Park. Opens Sept. 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tTeresa Margolles is known for affecting works about the bodily cost of global supply chains, where human resources and material supplies bleed and blur. In 2009, human blood sourced from Mexican morgues stained the shoes of Venice Biennale visitors when Margolles took over Mexico\u2019s pavilion: The haunting red was memorably mopped up by attendants whose loved ones had been murdered in the narcotics trade, a sobering reminder to jet-setting art-partiers at the opening. Her retrospective at MoMA PS1 teases a new commission that\u2019s sure to haunt, and more of her work will be on view at MoMA\u2019s main Midtown museum. Sept. 24\u2013February<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Toronto Biennial of Art\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial is overseen by Allison Glenn, a New York\u2013based curator with credits including the Public Art Fund, Counterpublic, Crystal Bridges, and Centro Am\u00e9rica Red de Arte (CARA), a new institution opening this fall in Guatemala City. Her theme is \u201cThings Fall Apart,\u201d a reference to Chinua Achebe\u2019s 1958 novel and a hip-hop album by the Roots, and the curatorial statement aligns it with \u201cfractured moments that reverberate across time and geographies.\u201d Sept. 26\u2013Dec. 20<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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The Floating World<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tOn a remote island in the Aegean Sea, a billionaire who shares a name with a fancy mushroom is building a climate refuge for the world\u2019s richest. There, Morel employs this novel\u2019s protagonist, an art critic and recent widower. Borrowing from avant-garde utopian imaginaries, this community is replete with geodesic domes, and the critic is hired to prepare its inaugural exhibition starring his hero\u2014a reclusive, semiretired artist he\u2019d never have access to otherwise. Written by e-flux<\/em>\u2019s Ben Eastham, this novel\u2014like the art world\u2014makes utopia and dystopia frighteningly difficult to tell apart. On sale Sept. 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Primary: After and\u00a0With Alma Thomas<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tA sort of biography in the unconventional form of poems and prose, Primary<\/em> tells the story of Alma Thomas, whose vividly colored abstract paintings made her one of the most distinguished Black artists of the 1960s and \u201970s. But it tells her story through lessons learned from her work by the author Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who wrote a vaunted biography on Audre Lorde as well as other books on subjects surrounding Black feminist ideals. (See: Undrowned<\/em>, a 2020 treatise on prospects for social justice as divined from the lives of marine mammals.) On sale Sept. 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cKrasner and Pollock: Past Continuous\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9Pollock-Krasner Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis comprehensive look at Abstract Expressionism\u2019s most tempestuous couple will at last consider how their respective lives and work intersected. The subtitle of the vast show\u2014with more than 120 works from 80 lenders\u2014is a nod to Krasner\u2019s 1976 painting Past Continuous<\/em>, subtly placing her in the foreground of the collaboration rather than in her famous husband\u2019s shadow. Oct. 4\u2013Jan. 31<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cRoy Lichtenstein: Like New\u201d at the Whitney Museum of American Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York\/\u00a9Estate of Roy Lichtenstein\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis retrospective will look beyond the Ben-Day dots of Roy Lichtenstein\u2019s paintings to see how Pop art continues to resonate after the artist\u2019s death in 1997. It includes work by Lichtenstein as well as contemporaries like Louise Lawler, Richard Pettibone, and Sturtevant. And highlights include every work from a formative 1962 Leo Castelli Gallery show and a re-creation of a 96-foot-long Lichtenstein mural from the \u201980s by Alex Da Corte, who worked with the Whitney\u2019s team as a guest curator. Oct. 14\u2013May 10<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Le Large Museum<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Nicolas Trouillard\/\u00a9RCR Arquitectes\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tLe Large Museum, opening in time for Art Basel Paris, is large indeed. Occupying its own island\u2014the \u00cele Seguin, sitting in the Seine and accessible from the western suburbs of the French capital\u2014the new building is over 50,000 square feet and 10 years in the making. Its inaugural show, curated by Cecilia Alemani, considers odd relationships between humans and machines. Opens Oct. 17<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Marfa, Marfa<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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Marfa, Marfa: Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas<\/em> contextualizes the remote town that Donald Judd turned into an artistic pilgrimage site, paying special attention to Marfa\u2019s rasquache<\/em> sensibilities born of the town\u2019s Chicanx, Mexican American, and Catholic communities. Where the rasquache<\/em> ethos was marked by resourcefulness\u2014making the most from the least\u2014Minimalism is something of its obverse. In West Texas, where the author Josh T Franco grew up, the two worlds refract and collide.\u00a0 On sale Oct. 20<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Best of Franz West\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Lisa Rastl\/Courtesy Albertina Museum, Vienna\/\u00a9Estate Franz West\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe Austrian artist who dissolved boundaries between art and life gets a hometown retrospective at the Albertina Modern. Coming of age under the aegis of Viennese Actionism, West made sculptures you could sit on and saw objects as opportunities, all with a signature combination of humor and humility. Alongside the retrospective, the Wien Museum will mount a show situating the artist in his city\u2014including a sculpture he made using his childhood bed from the iconic Karl-Marx-Hof\u2014and the Atelier Franz West, in the city\u2019s third district, will open its doors to the public. Nov. 6\u2013March 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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The Space Behind the Face: Life Stories<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis memoir by the peerless theater\/opera artist Robert Wilson reminisces on productions like Einstein on the Beach <\/em>and the unrealized 12-hour CIVIL warS, <\/em>while taking time for poetic incursions and brief interludes devoted to such subjects as drawing, contradictions, Samuel Beckett, and the Air France flight he once shared with George H. W. Bush. On sale Nov. 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Opus Siniestrus: Selected Plays<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tLeonora Carrington is a gift that keeps on giving. A new volume from New York Review Books collects, for the first time in English, the recently rediscovered Surrealist\u2019s plays, many of them concerning relationships between humans and animals. One story imagines a girl falling in love with her rocking horse\u2014a tale adapted by filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky\u2014and another stars the last woman standing, her kind ravaged by a virus that kills only women. She must battle the patriarchy in order to save, of all things, the last ostrich egg in the world. On sale Dec. 1<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Carroll Dunham at\u00a0ICA Miami<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tCarroll Dunham gets the retrospective treatment, right in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. His paintings scramble figure and form in ways both playful and sophisticated. With bold colors and ordinary objects and bodies, his scenes feel familiar while also making you ask, \u201cWhat am I looking at?\u201d An accomplished artist who\u2019s spent decades on the New York scene, Dunham is also known as one of the most thoughtful artist-writers of our time\u2014as well as the loyal, loving dad in Famesick<\/em>, the bestselling memoir by his daughter, Lena Dunham. Dec. 1\u2013March 14<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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