It’s about that point of yr when the slight crisping of the air indicators that the balmy summer season is departing, however hasn’t disappeared simply but. Out of the blue, the fluorescent lights, full of life chatter, and overpriced opening wine flowing onto the New York Metropolis streets beckon the passerby who has spent all summer season tanning in Central Park. It’s fall artwork honest season, ultimately.
As typical, the season’s kicking off with the gargantuan Armory Present subsequent week, adopted by a lineup of exhibits that vary from the choice (zines!) to the conservative and historic (Impartial 2oth Century). This yr brings a number of modifications, although: the surprising cancellation of the Artwork Sellers Affiliation of America’s annual Artwork Present, as an illustration, sometimes an anchor of the autumn gala’s. Volta can be skipping its NYC version, whereas Clio is having two gala’s in the identical month.
The artwork market is likely to be topsy-turvy, however your fairgoing expertise doesn’t should be. Our useful information under is right here to assist navigate your method by way of all of it.
The Armory Present
September 5–7 | thearmoryshow.comJavits Middle, 429 Eleventh Avenue, Midtown West, Manhattan
Santiago Yahuarcani, “Sarara III” (2024) (picture courtesy Disaster Gallery)
The Goliath of town’s artwork gala’s, the Armory Present will as soon as once more descend upon the purchasing mall-esque Javits Middle to kick off New York’s fall season. Greater than 230 galleries will convene for the colossal occasion, with highlight cubicles targeted on the late artist Ming Fay and set up artist Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, amongst others. For the primary time, the honest’s Platform part will probably be curated by a nonprofit, Souls Grown Deep, which can have a good time Black artistry from the American South with an exhibition of work, assemblages, sculptures, and textile works. One other recent function this yr is the inaugural design-focused Perform part, showcasing sculptural assemblages and set up works by Nikita Gale, Cauleen Smith, Ryan Johnson, and Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers.
The Armory’s programming can even prolong past the boundaries of Hudson Yards in a targeted sequence of multi-borough partnership displays. On the Queens Museum, a collaboration with Gagosian will produce a monumental banner replica of Honor Titus’s tennis portray “Louis Malle Practice” (2025) on the establishment’s facade. Instances Sq. Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Artwork will host nightly viewings of media artist Marina Zurkow’s multi-channel animation “The River is a Circle (Times Square Edition)” throughout 95 synchronized digital billboard shows all through town.
Impartial twentieth Century
September 4–7 | independenthq.com Casa Cipriani, 10 South Road, The Battery, Manhattan
David Wojnarowicz and Luis Frangella at CAyC Exhibition, Buenos Aires, in 1984 (picture courtesy Rafael Giménez and Cosmocosa)
The trendy artwork sibling honest of the contemporary-focused Impartial New York returns to Manhattan’s Battery neighborhood with 31 galleries and humanities nonprofits for its fourth version. Solo, duo, and group displays notably highlight works by self-taught artists, Lebanese girls artists, and influential figures from Latin America. Attendees may try a number of packages — from a e book signing with jazz musician Joe McPhee to “Downtown Dealers,” a dialogue with gallerists Lucy Mitchell-Innes, Charles Moffett, Kendra Jayne Patrick, and Chris Sharp.
Artwork on Paper
September 4–7 | ny.thepaperfair.comPier 36, 299 South St, New York, New York
Gizem Vural, “Sands” (2024) (picture courtesy Uprise Arts)
Don’t underestimate the flexibility of this pulpy, on a regular basis materials. Returning to its typical venue at Pier 36 on the East River, this yr’s Artwork on Paper honest will showcase boundary-pushing artworks from over 100 galleries, comparable to Tempo-represented artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful ecological sculptures created from discovered paper objects. The present’s meta mini bookfair, BOOKsmART, can even return with exhibitors from greater than 20 presses, together with Oreades Press, Axis Press, and Central Reserving. Installations like feminist participatory artist Mary Beth Edelson’s Story Gathering Bins sequence (1972–2014) and Ruben Castillo’s woodcuts and lithocuts exploring queer intimacy attest to the medium’s limitless potentialities.
Salon Zürcher: 100 Girls of Spirit +, Half 3
September 2–7 | galeriezurcher.comZürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Road, Soho, Manhattan
Returning for its thirty third version as an intimate and quieter satellite tv for pc honest of the Armory Present, 100 Girls of Spirit + brings collectively 11 girls artists at its Bleeker Road house. Deriving its identify from the French phrase femme d’esprit, referring to mental and witty girls, this yr’s honest options psychedelic work by Amy Cheng, welded metal constellations by Dutch-born artist Marieken Couchius, and oil self-portraits by trauma-informed psychotherapist Trissy Callan.
Clio Artwork Truthful
September 5–7 & 18-21 | clioartfair.com511 West twenty fifth Road, Chelsea, Manhattan
Efficiency by FannnSystem at Clio Artwork Truthful’s spring 2025 version (picture courtesy Clio Artwork Truthful)
A biannual occasion that platforms rising artists with out gallery illustration, Clio payments itself as a extra accessible and intimate various to different gala’s. In opposition to the chances of a reportedly slumping artwork market, Clio will placed on not one however two consecutive editions in a brand new Chelsea venue this yr, presenting totally different rosters of greater than 35 artists and collectives in every iteration. A program titled One other Brick within the Wall will delve into artwork’s potential to disrupt the “algorithmic order,” with performances by multidisciplinary artist Gabrielle Meyerowitz and self-styled “paper funk artist” Ama.
Open Invitational New York: An Artwork Truthful For Artists With Disabilities
September 4–7 | openinvitational.com356 Broadway, Floor Ground, Tribeca, Manhattan
Inaugurated in Miami final December, Open Invitational is now debuting in New York Metropolis, bringing its imaginative and prescient of deconstructing the boundaries usually confronted by artists with disabilities within the modern artwork world. Contributors within the upcoming version will embrace galleries, studios, and collectives showcasing work by numerous artists, together with NYC’s Group Entry Artwork Collective and Detroit’s Progressive Artwork Studio Collective.
Duet at WSA
September 4–8 | wsa.nyc161 Water Road, Monetary District, Manhattan
Elliot & Erick Jiménez, “Ibejí” (2022) (picture courtesy Spinello Tasks)
Although not technically an artwork honest, Duet will convey collectively 11 modern galleries in a promoting exhibition timed with the opening of two renovated flooring within the Monetary District’s Water Road Associates (WSA) tower. Curated by Kyle DeWoody and Zoe Lukov, the present explores themes of dopplegangers, doubles, and reflections — assume works just like the trippy portrait “Ibejí” (2022), pictured above, created by an identical twin brothers Elliot and Erick Jiménez. Duet is the most recent mission from WSA, the repurposed workplace constructing that’s making an attempt to be a sceney hybrid of other artwork house, actual property enterprise, and luxurious venue for occasions like Emily Ratajkowski’s Met Gala afterparties attended by Unhealthy Bunny.
U-Haul Artwork Truthful
September 12–14 | uhaulgallery.com Between tenth and eleventh Avenues and 18th and twenty seventh Streets [NOT YET FINALIZED] in Manhattan
Exterior view of U-Haul Gallery, which will probably be featured in a line-up of exhibitors for the primary time U-Haul Artwork Truthful (picture courtesy U-Haul Gallery)
Honoring the longstanding custom of presenting artwork in transport containers, U-Haul Artwork Truthful will showcase “booths” from 11 galleries and unbiased curators in custom-made container vans parked alongside the breezy streets of Chelsea. The primary-time occasion was organized by the nascent U-Haul Gallery, which will probably be featured in a line-up of exhibitors that additionally consists of the pop-up artwork collective I Made This Up and the eccentrically named Los Angeles gallery AUTOBODY autobody.
New York Artwork E book Truthful
September 17–21 | printedmatterartbookfairs.orgMoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens
The New York Artwork E book Truthful returns to MoMA PS1 this yr. (picture by Megan Mack, courtesy Printed Matter)
In opposition to a backdrop of DJ units, discussions of cross-border aesthetics, and improv performances, 250 presses from world wide will show books, zines, and extra at Printed Matter’s New York Artwork E book Truthful. This yr, the honest is notably returning to its previous haunts at MoMA PS1, the place the occasion was held from 2009 to 2019. Programming highlights embrace The Classroom, the place exhibitors will spotlight subjects in arts publishing; and the honest’s first “Reading Room,” which can assemble supplies associated to grassroots activism comparable to publications by the Homosexual Liberation Entrance and Argentina’s Frente de Liberación Gay.
Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful
September 17–21 | affordableartfair.comStarrett-Lehigh Constructing, 601 West twenty sixth Road, Chelsea, Manhattan
Selling itself because the extra economical and accessible alternative of town’s fall line-up, the Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful will return to Chelsea in late September in a brand new venue with greater than 75 displays from galleries and humanities organizations. Works by rising and established artists are priced as little as $100 and all the best way as much as $12,000, providing one thing for everybody, whether or not you’re a seasoned collector or a first-time purchaser. Highlights of this extra budget-friendly honest embrace the return of the present’s fellowship program for rising New York and tri-state arts organizations and a wall show of “Wonders Under $1,000,” selling artworks within the triple-digit worth vary.
La Feria: Print Media Truthful
September 17 | latinxproject.nyu.edu20 Cooper Sq., 1st Ground & third Ground, Noho, Manhattan
Carlos Hernandez, “The Last Supper” (2023) (picture courtesy the artist)
On its second birthday, the La Feria print media honest hosted by the Latinx Venture at New York College will enhance its exhibitor class from 30 to 45 and increase to 2 flooring of the varsity’s 20 Cooper Sq. constructing following a wildly widespread launch final yr. The one-day honest will function a tutorial e book showcase of not often introduced titles on subjects pertaining to Latin America and its diaspora, along with excursions of the Latinx Venture’s exhibition Escenas, that includes seven rising photographers. Artists together with Queer Icons (2015–) creator Gabriel García Román and Mexican painter Miguel Martinez will exhibit and promote their work alongside small publishers just like the New York- and Buenos Aires-based New Mundo Press.
ABC No Rio Zine Truthful
September 27, 12–5pm | instagram.comMayDay House, 176 Nicholas Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Zine lovers, rejoice! Over 25 zine makers and collectives will current a wealth of DIY publications protecting music, visible artwork, activism, mutual help, and extra on the inaugural version of ABC No Rio’s devoted honest. Organized by the historic Decrease East Aspect artist squat-turned-nonprofit, the daylong occasion will embrace workshops, reside discussions, a screenprinting station, free vegan meals and low, and flash tattoos. Masks are required for the primary two hours of the honest. Be sure you additionally stick round later for a night hardcore live performance with performances by Pure Terror, Fulano, Particular person/A, Jolana Star, and DJ Libby Move.
The Different Artwork Truthful
November 6–9 | theotherartfair.comZeroSpace, 337-345 Butler Road, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
A brief stroll from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, 125 unbiased artists, principally hailing from New York Metropolis, will current their work on to honest attendees — no galleries or different intermediaries mandatory. As artworks celebrating trans people come underneath scrutiny throughout the nation, the Different Artwork Truthful will accomplice with Black Trans Femmes within the Arts, a nonprofit connecting Black trans femme artists to assets and alternatives. The sixteenth version of this honest spans worth factors from $100 as much as $20,000 and is geared towards collectors, each seasoned and novice. Among the many Brooklyn-based artists displaying their work are painter Arlina Cai and ceramicist Haewon Jung.
