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October New York Upper East Side Art Gallery Guide

Updated daily. Curated gallery guide for world-class art exhibitions at the Upper East Side’s leading galleries.

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Exhibiting Artists

Artists

B · Jean-Michel Basquiat · C · Vija Celmins · John Chamberlain · D · Roy DeCarava · G · Maureen Gallace · Justin John Greene · H · Eva Hesse · K · Alicja Kwade · L · Simone Leigh · Sol LeWitt · M · Robert Mapplethorpe · Otto Meyer-Amden · Juan Muñoz · Wangechi Mutu · Eadweard Muybridge · O · Albert Oehlen · P · Sigmar Polke · S · Richard Serra · Pierre Soulages · T · Alma Thomas · U · Piotr Uklański · W · Wang Yan Cheng · Marnie Weber · Boedi Widjaja · Newell Convers Wyeth · Z · Zao Wou-Ki

39 exhibitions to see

Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

last week
Wang Yan Cheng
11 Sep - 18 Oct 2019

18 East 79th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

Wang Yan Cheng’s dynamic abstract canvases merge his training in Chinese painting with the evocative brushstrokes that he gleaned from his study of Western art
Almine RechNew York Upper East Side

last week
Marcus Jahmal: Double down
13 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

39 East 78th Street, 2nd Floor, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
new paintings and a site-specific installation in Jahmal’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York
Boers-Li GalleryNew York Upper East Side

✧Slow Hand Movements✧* Gentle Whispers * Water * Salt * Tingles *
12 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

4 floor, 24 East 81st Street, NY 10028

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
Craig F. Starr GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Eadweard Muybridge and Sol LeWitt
10 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

5 East 73rd Street, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 11am-5.30pm
David Zwirner East 69th StNew York Upper East Side

Roy DeCarava: the sound i saw
5 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

34 E 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Enigma & Desire: Man Ray Paintings
25 Oct - 13 Dec 2019

744 Madison Avenue, NY 10065

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat noon-6pm

a vibrant selection of paintings that reveals the radicality of Man Ray’s thought and practice throughout his career, solidifying his historical position as a prophetic painter and theorist
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Zao Wou-Ki
9 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

976 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm

Zao Wou-Ki’s compositions present a delicate balance, harboring moments of risk within an exploration of abstraction, exploding onto the paper at different velocities as if tracing the artist’s innermost impulses and desires
Gagosian Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

Richard Serra: Triptychs and Diptychs
16 Sep - 2 Nov 2019

980 Madison Avenue, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

new diptych and triptych drawings by Serra
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

last week
Domestic Horror
5 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

821 Park Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

an exhibition - organized by Bill Powers - which addresses the darker fears that arise when we encounter the unknown and probes the friction between the civilized world and baser human impulses
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

Otto Meyer-Amden: Vorbereitung
26 Sep - 2 Nov 2019

17 East 82nd St, NY 10028

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Gladstone 64New York Upper East Side

last week
Maureen Gallace
21 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

130 East 64th Street, NY 10065

By Appointment

not open today
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now
25 Jan 2019 - 5 Jan 2020

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun 10am-5.45pm, Tue 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-7.45pm, Thur closed
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat
19 Apr - 26 Oct 2019

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun 10am-5.45pm, Tue 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-7.45pm, Thur closed
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection
24 May 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun 10am-5.45pm, Tue 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-7.45pm, Thur closed
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story
21 Jun - 6 Nov 2019

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun 10am-5.45pm, Tue 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-7.45pm, Thur closed
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

last week
John Chamberlain: Baby Tycoons
5 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

32 East 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
small-scale sculptures from the artist’s Baby Tycoons series
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

last week
Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS
5 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

32 East 69th Street, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
70 works on paper, selected from the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s collection, illuminate the important role that drawing played in Hesse’s career
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Boedi Widjaja: Declaration of
11 Sep - 7 Nov 2019

833 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
Widjaja’s works re-examine images of Indonesia and its founding figures, Sukarno and Suharto, connecting them with ideas of embodiment, gaze and memory
Henrique Faria Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side

last week
Misky Mayu: Zinny Madigan
13 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

35 East 67th St. 4th Floor, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm

not open today
Jason Jacques GalleryNew York Upper East Side

just opened
Tessa Eastman: Cloudspotting
10 Oct - 16 Nov 2019

29 East 73rd Street, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Leila Heller GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
DOUBLE VISION, curated by Jane Holzer
14 May - 15 Oct 2019

17 East 76th Street, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

Jane Holzer or Baby Jane, Andy Warhol’s muse, curates a collection of works with Leila Hella by established and emerging artists as juxtapositions to one another.
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

Pierre Soulages: A Century
5 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
an exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of France’s foremost living artist through a presentation of works spanning his career from the 1950s to today
Luxembourg & Dayan New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Piotr Uklański: Ottomania
19 Sep - 16 Nov 2019

64 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-5pm

not open today
Menconi + SchoelkopfNew York Upper East Side

N.C. Wyeth: Storyteller
10 Sep - 25 Oct 2019

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm

the exhibition embraces a unified perspective on Wyeth’s work, presenting a dozen canvases both in and out of illustration
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public

Home Is a Foreign Place
9 Apr 2019 - 21 Jun 2020

945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 10am-5.30pm

not open today
The Met BreuerNew York Upper East Side, Public

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
24 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

945 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Tue-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 10am-5.30pm

not open today
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
16 Oct 2018 - 4 Oct 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sun-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

The Roof Garden Commission: Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot
16 Apr - 27 Oct 2019

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sun-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us
9 Sep 2019 - 12 Jan 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sun-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-9pm
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side

Sigmar Polke - Objects: Real and Imagined
18 Sep - 16 Nov 2019

4 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

a mystifying and important body of early sculptures and drawings from the 1960s by one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

last week
Robert Mapplethorpe: Artist Portraits
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

960 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY 10021

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
some of Mapplethorpe’s most iconic representations of celebrity cultural figures within the art world
Mnuchin GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
Alma Thomas: Resurrection
10 Sep - 19 Oct 2019

45 East 78 Street, NY 10075

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
a survey of Thomas’s singular career, featuring paintings and works on paper from 1959 through 1976 - curated by Sukanya Rajaratnam
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

Hard Feelings
11 Sep - 26 Oct 2019

980 Madison Avenue, Third Floor, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Ordovas, New YorkNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Simon Lee New YorkNew York Upper East Side

Marnie Weber & Justin John Greene
6 Sep - 2 Nov 2019

26 East 64th Street, NY 10065

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

a dialogue between two artists of differing backgrounds and generational affiliations, who similarly interrogate latent aspects of the cultural imagination
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

Juan Muñoz: Sculptures
14 Sep - 2 Nov 2019

20 East 79th St, NY 10075

Tue-Fri 9.30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
three works mounted, two hanging and another on the floor, Muñoz creates sensations of ambiguity, tension, humor, and otherness – paradoxically engaged and disorienting
Skarstedt 64th StNew York Upper East Side

Albert Oehlen: Fn Paintings
12 Sep - 2 Nov 2019

19 E 64th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Fri 9.30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm

not open today
twelve of the twenty paintings in Oehlen’s seminal Fn Series - the largest number together since 1991
Sotheby‘s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Auction: 22 Oct - 22 Oct, 2019
Exhibition: 18 Oct - 21 Oct 2019

Prints & Multiples Auction: 24 Oct - 26 Oct, 2019
Exhibition: 16 Oct - 20 Oct 2019

Contemporary Art Evening Auction Auction: 14 Nov - 15 Nov, 2019
Exhibition: 1 Nov - 14 Nov 2019
Thomsen GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Animals in Japanese Art
10 Sep - 8 Nov 2019

9 East 63rd Street, NY 10065

Mon-Fri 11am-5pm

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