How’s your mask game these days? With art spaces steadily reopening, now might be a good time to invest in a new autumnal shade—all the better to keep you safe and stylish as you check out one of our top exhibitions to catch this month. We’ve also highlightedseveral virtual shows, to give you some options amid the uncertainty.

One not to miss before it closes this weekend is the delightfully sharp video exhibition at Microscope, Ina Archer: Osmundine (Orchid Slap). Taking on the racist fantasies of Old Hollywood, it’s a clapback for the ages.

In Manhattan, Adina Glickstein previews the upcoming Lynda Benglis show. Spanning three locations, it highlights the artist’s knack for flouting genre “just as handily as [she] rejected the limiting gender roles” of her day.

Also worth catching this week: the Vera List Center’s annual forum, an annual convening of artists, curators, and scholars, which this year hones in on the invisible power of protocol.

P.S. Have you registered to vote yet? There are just two days left until the New York deadline, October 9, so now’s a great time to remind your friends, siblings, cousins, and colleagues. Scream it from the rooftops and call it performance art. I dare you.

As more city dwellers cautiously navigate their reemergence from quarantine, we’ve highlighted ten exhibitions that we’re most looking forward to this month, including a mix of virtual and physical presentations to give you some options amid the uncertainty.

Robert Kobayashi: Moe’s Meat Market at Susan Inglett, through November 7

Martha Tuttle: A stone that thinks of Enceladus at Storm King, through November 9

Hope Wanted at New York Historical Society, through November 29

The Chinatown Art Brigade is demanding that the Museum of Chinese in America reject a “community give-back” proposed by the city as part of its jail expansion plan.

The 80th edition of the Whitney Biennial has been delayed until 2022 due to setbacks related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The Guggenheim Union, armed with a digital screen reading pro-union messages, greeted the museum’s members with a protest upon their first return to the Guggenheim after its six-month closure.