Upper East Side Art Guide | Gallery & Exhibition Listings

47 exhibitions to see

Acquavella GalleriesNew York Upper East Side

Masterworks from Cézanne to Thiebaud
10 Sep - 16 Oct 2020

18 East 79th Street, NY 10075

By Appointment

works by Paul Cézanne, George Condo, Jean Dubuffet, Jacob El Hanani, Ellsworth Kelly, Damian Loeb, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, David Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Tom Wesselmann
Almine RechNew York Upper East Side

Kenny Scharf: Dystopian Painting
10 Sep - 28 Oct 2020

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

Tue-Sat noon-5pm & by appointment

Scharf’s first exhibition at the gallery debuts paintings and sculpture, showcasing the energy and depth of his singular artistic practice
Barbara Mathes GalleryNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Color and Shape: Frank Bowling, Ed Clark and Sam Gilliam
1 Oct - 22 Dec 2020

22 East 80th Street, NY 10075

Mon-Fri 10.30am-4pm

not open today
works by three major figures of postwar abstraction, who, whether applying color with their hands, soaking pigment into their canvases, sweeping paint on with brooms, or draping canvases from the walls and ceilings, dramatically transform their medium
Boers-Li GalleryNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
ColnaghiNew York Upper East Side

Old Masters, Ancient and Modern works of art
Craig F. Starr GalleryNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
David Nolan GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Barry Le Va: Floor Sculpture from the 1960s
17 Sep - 7 Nov 2020

24 East 81st Street, NY 10028

By Appointment
Di DonnaNew York Upper East Side

Surrealist | Modern | Post-War Art
Gagosian 976 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Gagosian 980 Madison AvenueNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Gagosian Park & 75New York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Louise Bonnet: The Hours
29 Sep - 7 Nov 2020

821 Park Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

“This is what my unconscious looks like” - Louise Bonnet
Galerie BuchholzNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Isa Genzken
28 Oct 2020 - 9 Jan 2021

17 East 82nd St, NY 10028

temporary closure

not open today
galerie gmurzynskaNew York Upper East Side

Robert Indiana: LOVE is in the Air
25 Feb -

43 E 78th Street, NY 10075

By Appointment

a comprehensive exhibition featuring Indiana masterpieces from 1959 to 2007
Gladstone 64New York Upper East Side

Kasper Bosmans: Four
17 Sep - 24 Oct 2020

130 East 64th Street, NY 10065

By Appointment
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction
ongoing

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

temporary closure
Guggenheim MuseumNew York Upper East Side, Public

The Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting
ongoing

1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128

temporary closure
Hauser & Wirth 69th StNew York Upper East Side

no current exhibition
Helwaser GalleryNew York Upper East Side

last week
Richard Fleischner: Witness Mark
12 Feb - 3 Oct 2020

833 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, NY 10021

By Appointment

Fleischner’s practice consistently investigates our perceptual and physical interactions with space – working at the intersection of art, architecture, and urban design, his works are a result of a process of “place-making”
Henrique Faria Fine ArtNew York Upper East Side

Luis Roldán: Strange Likeness
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020

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

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
Leila Heller GalleryNew York Upper East Side

Bahar Sabzevari: Gaze and Glance
17 Sep - 14 Oct 2020

17 East 76th Street, NY 10021

By Appointment

Sabzevari considers the importance of the gaze, inviting the viewer to observe her and be observed by her, and provoking the questions; “Who is the object?” and “Who is the subject?”
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

last week
Francesco Clemente: Watercolors
17 Aug - 1 Oct 2020

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm by appointment

a survey of three decades of work in the medium, celebrating Clemente’s mastery of the visual effects of his materials and the depth of physical and metaphysical concerns that inform his artistic practice
Lévy GorvyNew York Upper East Side

last week
Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings on Paper
17 Aug - 1 Oct 2020

909 Madison Avenue, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm by appointment

paintings on paper, ranging from intimate to human-sized in scale, that present an immersive and non-representational but recognizably figurative and architectonic space expressed through organically emerging and dissolving forms
Menconi + SchoelkopfNew York Upper East Side

a leader in the field of American art, focusing on the finest works of art created in the country between 1800 and 1950
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
16 Oct 2018 - 13 Mar 2021

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
29 Aug - 1 Nov 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
30 Jan - 26 Oct 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
10 Mar - 30 Nov 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

Making The Met, 1870-2020
29 Aug 2020 - 3 Jan 2021

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York Upper East Side, Public

The Roof Garden Commission. Héctor Zamora: Lattice Detour
29 Aug - 7 Dec 2020

1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10028

Sat-Mon 10am-5pm, Thu-Fri 12noon-7pm with advance booking
Michael Werner, Upper East SideNew York Upper East Side

Peter Saul: Murder in the Kitchen, Early Works
17 Sep - 14 Nov 2020

4 East 77th Street, NY 10075

Tue-Fri 11am-5pm

not open today
paintings and works on paper from 1959 to 1966, the exhibition charts the artist's development as he emerges as one of the most original voices in 20th century American painting
MignoniNew York Upper East Side

Uncanny Materiality: Donald Judd’s Specific Objects
16 Jun - Fall 2020

960 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY 10021

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm

comprised only of six solitary, single-form, wall-mounted sculptures, the exhibition offers a sequence of the artist’s ‘specific objects’
Mnuchin GalleryNew York Upper East Side

forthcoming:
Church & Rothko: Sublime
30 Sep - 12 Dec 2020

45 East 78 Street, NY 10075

By Appointment

a dialogue between two distinctly American artists uniquely surveys how the conceptual application of the sublime has been central to the aesthetic language of artists over the last two centuries
Nahmad ContemporaryNew York Upper East Side

SUPERUNKNOWN | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer
17 Sep - 5 Nov 2020

980 Madison Avenue, Third Floor, NY 10075

Mon-Sat 10am-6pm

featuring works across centuries in a jarring yet markedly relevant discourse, the exhibition includes iconic paintings by the Surrealist masters alongside the debut of an immersive wallpaper installation by Urs Fischer
PetzelNew York Upper East Side

last week
Nicola Tyson: Sense of Self
2 Sep - 3 Oct 2020

35 E 67th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

new large-scale paintings that relay a gender-fluidity typical of Tyson’s work, now with a more emotional twist
Skarstedt 79th StNew York Upper East Side

Contemporary European and American Art
Skarstedt 64th StNew York Upper East Side

Selected Works
Fall 2020

19 E 64th Street, NY 10065

Tue-Fri 10am-5pm
Sotheby‘s New YorkNew York Upper East Side

The Hundred Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction: 18 Sep - 29 Sep, 2020
Exhibition: 18 Sep - 29 Sep 2020

American Art Auction: 21 Sep - 30 Sep, 2020
Exhibition: 21 Sep - 30 Sep 2020

Contemporary Photographs Auction: 21 Sep - 01 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 21 Sep - 1 Oct 2020

Classic Photographs Auction: 21 Sep - 01 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 21 Sep - 1 Oct 2020

Choice Works Auction: 21 Sep - 05 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 21 Sep - 5 Oct 2020

Cult Canvas Auction: 22 Sep - 30 Sep, 2020
Exhibition: 22 Sep - 30 Sep 2020

Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring Auction: 24 Sep - 01 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 26 Sep - 30 Sep 2020

Impressionist & Modern Art Auction: 25 Sep - 05 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 25 Sep - 5 Oct 2020

Contemporary Art Auction: 25 Sep - 06 Oct, 2020
Exhibition: 26 Sep - 6 Oct 2020

Contemporary Curated Auction: 02 Oct 2020
Exhibition: 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2020

The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn Auction: 14 Oct 2020
Exhibition: 14 Oct - 14 Oct 2020
Thomsen GalleryNew York Upper East Side

important Japanese paintings and works of art

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