The online art gallery Artalistic has carefully combed through the brimming schedule of New York City’s art exhibitions to bring you its top picks! We bring you the very best exhibitions scheduled for fall 2021, including museum shows, virtual galleries and must-see art fairs. (Illustration: Georgia O'Keeffe - Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930.)



New York’s fall 2021 museum exhibitions that you shouldn’t miss



Surrealism Beyond Borders | The Met Fifth Avenue

October 11, 2021 – January 30,2022

The Surrealism movement began in Paris around 1924 and embraced work whose subject matter was born in the unconscious and dreams while dismissing work that focused on the familiar and everyday. Surrealism Beyond Borders reconsiders the movement across geographical boundaries and chronology. It includes work spanning eight decades from forty-five different countries, including Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, North Africa, Australia and Latin America.



Cézanne Drawing | MoMA

Through September 25, 2021

This is one of your last chances to see Cézanne Drawing at the Museum of Modern Art as the exhibition is closing September 25, 2021! This show has two hundred and eighty works on paper by the great artist Paul Cézanne. Although he is known for his paintings, this revolutionary artist created countless drawings that are equally ravishing. The viewer will be lost in this exhibition, studying his tangles of lines and patches of watercolour that render three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane filled with illusions.



Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

November 5, 2021 - ongoing

This show promises explosive visuals and art of the African diaspora. The Met has created a period room that assembles furnishings and objects to create a space that embraces the African and African diasporic belief that the past, present and future are interconnected. The exhibition’s narrative revolves around the Seneca Village - a community established mostly by free Black people, which was destroyed in 1857 to make way for Central Park. This village was located just a few blocks from The Met. Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room showcases work from living artists created in hope of conjuring what the village was like before it was displaced.



What I Saw: Joseph E. Yoakum | MoMA

November 28, 2021 – March 19,2022

The self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum (1891–1972) started depicting his world travels at the age of 71, capturing whimsical landscapes of childlike wonder that are almost all void of human figures. He and said, “Wherever my mind led me, I would go … I’ve been all over this world four times.” Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw gives us a unique glimpse of the world as he saw it while seeing his artistic style develop.



Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930 – 1950 | Whitney Museum of American Art

October 9, 2021 – March 2022

The abstract movement gained in popularity in America during the 1930s and 1940s. This fresh way of capturing the world attracted the attention of several artists, many of which were female artists whose work went largely unnoticed. To this day most of these artists remain overlooked despite the technical, conceptual and formal contributions they made to the movement. This Labyrinth of Forms features over thirty works - mainly from the Whitney’s permanent collection - by twenty-seven artists.



Online art galleries: Virtual reality gallery



Start exploring at home and around the world

With COVID restrictions changing from day to day, many galleries and museums are working hard to improve their online viewing room (OVR) capabilities so that you can see great art whether it is around the corner or the other side of the world.



Markus Lüpertz: Recent Paintings | Michael Werner Gallery

Markus Lüpertz (b. 1941, Liberec, Bohemia) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from post-war Germany. This show at the Michael Werner Gallery, New York features recent paintings by Lüpertz. The pieces created over the past four years masterfully combine Southern and Northern European painting techniques while creating fresh and contemporary works. The art historian Eric Darragon stated that Lüpertz “is a contemporary artist who wants a future for his works and finds it by thinking about the past.” You can see this show in person through Septmeber 2021 or do an online art gallery trip from the comfort of your home!



Knox Martin: Homage to Goya | Hollis Taggart

If you missed out on the Knox Martin exhibition at Hollis Taggart, New York - no need to fret! You can do an online art gallery trip! Knox Martin experimented with several artistic styles over his seven-decade career, from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, creating his own exuberant, complex compositions. Homage to Goya explores Martin’s affinity toward Francisco Goya while artfully capturing his conceptual relationship to Goya.



Janaina Tschäpe: Balancing into the Deep | Sean Kelly Gallery

The only way to view this art exhibition, which was featured at Sean Kelly Gallery, is through an online art gallery trip. Unfortunately this show is now closed but you can still see Tschäpe’s large-scale canvases in virtual reality. Balancing into the Deep features the artist’s latest works created during the pandemic lockdowns. Tschäpe stated, “Being out of my domestic situation gave me a different space to think…I was painting all day long, at night, on Saturdays and Sundays.” During this short period of time she created pieces that echo self-reflection while breaking down the barrier between painting and drawing.



Top New York City Art Fair



Independent Art Fair |Battery Maritime Building

September 9 – 12, 2021 | Online September 9 – 26, 2021

Art fairs are back in New York City and the New York Times is calling the Independent Art Fair, “the art fair whose edge most deserves to be cutting, the one where you stand to learn the most about promising new art.” This fair formerly took place in Tribeca and was moved to a new and stunning location: the Beaux-Arts style Battery Maritime Building, at South Ferry. Many of Independent’s forty-three exhibitors are presenting works by just one or two artists. Timed tickets are required and can be purchased via independenthq.com, as are masks and proof of vaccination. An Online Viewing Room will be available starting September 9, 2021.



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