{"id":359287,"date":"2026-09-28T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359287\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:04:09","slug":"new-museum-fall-2026-arthur-jafa-bowery-history-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359287\/","title":{"rendered":"New Museum Fall 2026: Arthur Jafa, Bowery History and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Museum\u2019s fall season begins before you\u2019ve even made it upstairs. Step into one of its glass-front elevators and AI-generated children appear on screens, offering riddles and thoughts about power as you ride. It\u2019s part of a new work by Ho Tzu Nyen and a fitting introduction to a lineup that gets considerably weirder from there.<\/p>\n

Four exhibitions and commissions opened at the Bowery museum<\/a> last week. The biggest is Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony, the artist\u2019s largest museum survey to date. Spread across two floors, it includes his acclaimed films Love is the Message, The Message is Death and The White Album, alongside paintings, photographs, sculptures and new work. Jafa has spent nearly four decades finding ways to capture the rhythms and realities of Black life in America. (If his images stay with you after your visit, there are two more chances to hear from him: a conversation at the museum on December 3 and a December 4 screening of Daughters of the Dust at Metrograph. Jafa was the film\u2019s cinematographer.)<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Courtesy of New MuseumWork from “Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony” <\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED:\u00a0All of the must-see art exhibitions coming to MoMA this fall<\/a><\/p>\n

For a different sort of screen time, there\u2019s Diego Marcon\u2019s Arrivederci, Piggies! His films borrow from cartoons, musicals, slapstick and horror. The exhibition plays four works at once, including the newly commissioned Krapfen. In it, a child\u2019s family takes the form of floating clothes, while a song cheerfully repeats the name of an Austrian jam doughnut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The museum is also looking out its front door. The Bowery: Devil\u2019s Mile covers 400 years of the street\u2019s history, from Lenape footpath and cattle route to entertainment district, skid row and artists\u2019 neighborhood. Among the objects and artworks are an 1830s fire engine, a nineteenth-century \u201cFeejee Mermaid\u201d dime-museum attraction, Jacob Riis photographs and works by Nan Goldin and Keith Haring.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also more to do than look. Sky Studio offers drop-in art-making on select Saturdays, with the city skyline as a backdrop. Teens can make art for free at Bowery Art Space on October 23, November 20 and December 18. October 17 brings a Community Day with free admission for Lower East Side neighbors and Weirdo Night on December 10 takes inspiration from the street\u2019s old variety theaters and dime museums.<\/p>\n

Families with children ages 4 to 12 can visit for free during Family Days on November 1 and December 6. Check the New Museum\u2019s event calendar<\/a> for times and ticket details before you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Museum\u2019s fall season begins before you\u2019ve even made it upstairs. Step into one of its glass-front…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1149,8944,9,11,10,8945],"class_list":["post-359287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-art","tag-categories-art","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}