Gagosian, London
Cady Noland has spent four decades dissecting the material and symbolic architecture of American culture: its myths, its violence, its celebrity, its systems of control. Her new show at Gagosian Davies Street opened October 12. Alongside it, Gagosian relaunches The Clip-On Method, the two-volume, 600-page book she conceived, edited, and designed herself in 2021. It’s less a catalogue than an artwork, a nonlinear archive of sculptures, sociological texts, and her own writing, including her 1989 essay “Towards a Metalanguage of Evil.” Still uncomfortably timely.
Through Dec 19, 2026
Skarstedt, New York
Eric Fischl paints people who are together but not really connected. In Pursuit of Pleasure at Skarstedt Chelsea is thirteen new paintings of couples by the water, women heading to yoga, and neighbors drifting through yards, all in saturated dog-days color. The glass houses give nothing away. A dog, labeled a self-portrait, hesitates on a pink houseboat deck. It’s an unusually easy, joyful set for Fischl, and the question lingers: must we judge the surface, or can we just enjoy the summer light?
Nov 12 – Dec 19, 2026
Gagosian, Los Angeles
Richard Avedon once considered giving up photography to direct films. Instead he spent half a century photographing the people who made them. Hollywood at Gagosian Beverly Hills brings together more than 120 images, from Chaplin, Bogart, and Marilyn to Tilda Swinton and Philip Seymour Hoffman, alongside some rarely seen frames. It reads Hollywood as a very American invention, equal parts glamour and power. The seed was Funny Face, the 1957 musical loosely based on Avedon’s own improbable rise.
Nov 4–Dec 19, 2026
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Jasper Johns is still mining his own vocabulary. Recent Drawings at Matthew Marks brings together twelve works from the past two years. Eight of them start with tiny images lifted from a drawing he made on Shrinky Dinks fifteen years ago, then circle back to old favorites: the silhouette of a boy, a Rubin’s vase of facing self-portraits, the sign language alphabet, a Picasso-inspired figure. Elsewhere, the shadow from The Seasons gets a darker update. Johns swaps himself for a skeleton holding a skull.
Through Jan 24, 2027
Karma Gallery, New York
Ouattara Watts starts a painting with fabric. “It has got to talk to me,” he says of the textiles he collects from around the world. In New Paintings, Dutch wax cloth, black-and-gold florals, an orange drop cloth scuffed with his own footprints, and papier-mâché mixed with leaves become the ground for his symbols: eyes, numerals, African masks, spaceships. Music plays constantly in the studio, and no painting is ever finished. My Favorite Thing is his tribute to Coltrane, who would have turned a hundred this year.
Nov 5 – Dec 19, 2026
David Zwirner, Los Angeles
Thomas Ruff doesn’t care how a photograph gets made, only whether the result is worth talking about. “There’s not one way of making photographs,” he says, and this survey at David Zwirner proves it. It’s his first major Los Angeles presentation and first solo here in over a decade. Four decades of work, from 1979 to 2024, move from analogue to digital: interiors, portraits, houses, stars, nudes, jpegs, photograms, and his latest light experiments. One restless eye, a thousand methods.
Nov 13 — Feb 6, 2027
The Hole, New York
Nick Thomm paints like a Jolly Rancher looks. HEAVENS, his second solo at The Hole, fills the Bowery space with glowing, glossy lozenges of color, built in layers and finished under inches-thick resin. The Australian artist pulls from California Light and Space, car culture, and contemporary design, and he’s wrapped a McLaren for the Miami F1 Grand Prix and collaborated with Louis Vuitton and Tiffany along the way. It’s also a homecoming. Thomm lived in New York ten years ago and promised himself he’d get serious about his art. This is the receipt.
Nov 5 – Dec 27, 2026
Gagosian, New York
Michael Chow opened Mr Chow in Knightsbridge in 1968, and it has been the art world’s dining room ever since. Friends and Legends gathers eleven works from his sixty-year collection, mostly portraits of Chow himself by the friends who ate at his tables: Basquiat, Warhol, Hockney, Haring, Ruscha, Schnabel, Blake, and Fischer. After a quick Beverly Hills debut, the show lands at Gagosian’s new Madison Avenue gallery from November 14 through December 22. Larry Gagosian has been throwing parties at Mr Chow for thirty years, so he’s a fitting host.
Nov 14 – Dec 22, 2026
Gagosian, London
Cady Noland has spent four decades dissecting the material and symbolic architecture of American culture: its myths, its violence, its celebrity, its systems of control. Her new show at Gagosian Davies Street opened October 12. Alongside it, Gagosian relaunches The Clip-On Method, the two-volume, 600-page book she conceived, edited, and designed herself in 2021. It’s less a catalogue than an artwork, a nonlinear archive of sculptures, sociological texts, and her own writing, including her 1989 essay “Towards a Metalanguage of Evil.” Still uncomfortably timely.
Through Dec 19, 2026
Skarstedt, New York
Eric Fischl paints people who are together but not really connected. In Pursuit of Pleasure at Skarstedt Chelsea is thirteen new paintings of couples by the water, women heading to yoga, and neighbors drifting through yards, all in saturated dog-days color. The glass houses give nothing away. A dog, labeled a self-portrait, hesitates on a pink houseboat deck. It’s an unusually easy, joyful set for Fischl, and the question lingers: must we judge the surface, or can we just enjoy the summer light?
Nov 12 – Dec 19, 2026
Gagosian, Los Angeles
Richard Avedon once considered giving up photography to direct films. Instead he spent half a century photographing the people who made them. Hollywood at Gagosian Beverly Hills brings together more than 120 images, from Chaplin, Bogart, and Marilyn to Tilda Swinton and Philip Seymour Hoffman, alongside some rarely seen frames. It reads Hollywood as a very American invention, equal parts glamour and power. The seed was Funny Face, the 1957 musical loosely based on Avedon’s own improbable rise.
Nov 4–Dec 19, 2026
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Jasper Johns is still mining his own vocabulary. Recent Drawings at Matthew Marks brings together twelve works from the past two years. Eight of them start with tiny images lifted from a drawing he made on Shrinky Dinks fifteen years ago, then circle back to old favorites: the silhouette of a boy, a Rubin’s vase of facing self-portraits, the sign language alphabet, a Picasso-inspired figure. Elsewhere, the shadow from The Seasons gets a darker update. Johns swaps himself for a skeleton holding a skull.
Through Jan 24, 2027
Karma Gallery, New York
Ouattara Watts starts a painting with fabric. “It has got to talk to me,” he says of the textiles he collects from around the world. In New Paintings, Dutch wax cloth, black-and-gold florals, an orange drop cloth scuffed with his own footprints, and papier-mâché mixed with leaves become the ground for his symbols: eyes, numerals, African masks, spaceships. Music plays constantly in the studio, and no painting is ever finished. My Favorite Thing is his tribute to Coltrane, who would have turned a hundred this year.
Nov 5 – Dec 19, 2026
David Zwirner, Los Angeles
Thomas Ruff doesn’t care how a photograph gets made, only whether the result is worth talking about. “There’s not one way of making photographs,” he says, and this survey at David Zwirner proves it. It’s his first major Los Angeles presentation and first solo here in over a decade. Four decades of work, from 1979 to 2024, move from analogue to digital: interiors, portraits, houses, stars, nudes, jpegs, photograms, and his latest light experiments. One restless eye, a thousand methods.
Nov 13 — Feb 6, 2027
The Hole, New York
Nick Thomm paints like a Jolly Rancher looks. HEAVENS, his second solo at The Hole, fills the Bowery space with glowing, glossy lozenges of color, built in layers and finished under inches-thick resin. The Australian artist pulls from California Light and Space, car culture, and contemporary design, and he’s wrapped a McLaren for the Miami F1 Grand Prix and collaborated with Louis Vuitton and Tiffany along the way. It’s also a homecoming. Thomm lived in New York ten years ago and promised himself he’d get serious about his art. This is the receipt.
Nov 5 – Dec 27, 2026
Gagosian, New York
Michael Chow opened Mr Chow in Knightsbridge in 1968, and it has been the art world’s dining room ever since. Friends and Legends gathers eleven works from his sixty-year collection, mostly portraits of Chow himself by the friends who ate at his tables: Basquiat, Warhol, Hockney, Haring, Ruscha, Schnabel, Blake, and Fischer. After a quick Beverly Hills debut, the show lands at Gagosian’s new Madison Avenue gallery from November 14 through December 22. Larry Gagosian has been throwing parties at Mr Chow for thirty years, so he’s a fitting host.
Nov 14 – Dec 22, 2026