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Your Handy Guide to the NY Armory Week Art Fairs

Hop from the Seaport District to Madison Avenue without despairing with our run-down of next week’s art-fair extravaganza. | Valentina Di Liscia

Whether you view the prospect of back-to-back art fairs as a soporific schmoozefest or a welcome opportunity to see a lot of art in a short amount of time — and let’s face it, for most of us, it’s somewhere in between — you will most likely need some sort of guide to navigate it all. That’s where we come in! We’ve compiled a digestible list of fairs to check out this week.

SEPTEMBER ART GUIDE

Your Concise New York Art Guide for September 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including birdhouses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and more. | Billy Anania

Everyone knows September to be the month of art fairs, but the big Manhattan attractions are just a few of New York’s autumnal offerings. It isn’t quite winter yet, so you can still catch the tail end of an artist-made birdhouse show beside Prospect Park. All the same, a group exhibition of politically charged textiles along the Long Island Sound packs a punch in an area otherwise flooded with wealth. Our other highlights for this month include a sanctuary of African healing out on Governors Island, colorful deconstructions of gender and sexuality, and transmissions from a post-worker dystopia in Brooklyn.

OPENING THIS WEEK

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, “Sinner Get Ready” (2022) (courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong)

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: I have withheld much more than I have written
Galerie Lelong, opening September 8

Pamela Sunstrum has already lived many lives in the United States, Africa, and Southeast Asia. But as her latest exhibition title reveals, much of that experience has yet to be expressed. Thus, the individual painted canvases that comprise I have withheld — many of which are paired into diptychs or built into three-dimensional installations — together form a surreal tableau of placelessness.

Selections from Australia’s Western Desert: From the Collection of Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
National Arts Club, opening September 12

Karen Lamassonne: Ruido / Noise
Swiss Institute, opening September 14

CLOSING SOON

Henri Matisse, "The Red Studio" (1911), oil on canvas, 71 1/4 x 7 feet x 2 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund (© 2022 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Matisse: The Red Studio
Museum of Modern Art through September 10

Dr. Charles Smith
White Columns through September 10

Mis-Shapes
Tiger Strikes Asteroid through September 11

Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton
Morgan Library & Museum through September 11

Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden through September 11

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
National Museum of the American Indian through September 11

Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective
El Museo del Barrio through September 11

William Klein: YES
International Center of Photography through September 12

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ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

Zoë Buckman and Vanessa German: We Flew Over the Wild Winds of Wild Fires
MOTHER Beacon through September 18

Threading the Needle
The Church through September 18

The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the 15th Century to the Present
The Drawing Center through September 18

Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art through September 30

Unlisted: Underappreciated Women
Derfner Judaica Museum through October 1

PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs
The Morgan Library & Museum through October 2

The Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close
Museum of the City of New York through October 2​​​​​​​