Postcard from New York I Nov 02-Nov 06, 2026
Here is our weekly Postcard from New York 2026, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!
In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.
Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!New York 2025
In Museums
JOHN PUHIATAU PULE TAPA: ART OF THE GIFT IN POLYNESIA @METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
02 NOV, 2026 - 12 DEC, 2027 Vibrant bark cloth textiles known as tapa are produced by collectives of women in Polynesia. Developed from a tradition spanning over 3,500 years, these hand-painted textiles are central to the ceremonial exchanges and gift-giving that have long been at the heart of political and cultural diplomacy among Pacific Islanders. Wrapping the body in tapa enhances an individual’s spiritual status and prestige (mana). Produced from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, the cloths possess a unique materiality and dynamic geometric designs that have contributed to their longevity, with the practice of tapa-making continuing to flourish in many of the islands today. Makers select intricate designs from a complex visual vocabulary that is passed between generations of women and reinterpreted for their own times.
In Galleries
MILDRED THOMPSON: COSMOS CALLING @GALERIE LELONG & CO. NEW YORK
29 OCT, 2026 - 19 DEC, 2026 Galerie Lelong, New York, is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of work by Mildred Thompson (b. 1936-d. 2003), the gallery's third exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking American artist. Entitled Cosmos Calling, the exhibition presents her masterwork Music of the Spheres paintings alongside a selection from her Heliocentric Series. In these bodies of works, Thompson turns her longstanding interest in the invisible forces that make up the fabric of the universe toward our solar system. Created in the early-to-mid 1990s, the works on view represent the coalescence of Thompson's artistic practice with her deep personal interests in astrophysics and music. In an artist statement from the same decade, "I seek to portray some of the profound meanings and influences indicated by the invisible dimensions and realities around us. Discover more
In Brooklyn
CÉZANNE TO MODIGLIANI: GIFTS OF MODERN ART FROM THE PEARLMAN COLLECTION @BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART
02 OCT, 2026 - 18 APR, 2027
Discover more than 50 modern European masterpieces—representing one of the most important gifts of European art in the Brooklyn Museum’s history—and meet the remarkable collectors who brought them together. Featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by the title artists along with Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Chaïm Soutine, Cézanne to Modigliani celebrates the transformative gift of the renowned Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA.
Outside
JUMWELT - PIERRE HUYGHE
ON VIEW THROUGH NOVEMBER 29, 2026 UUmwelt, presented on freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, uses machine learning to explore what it might look like if nonhuman entities could reconstruct our thoughts. Working with a team of neuroscientists in Kyoto, Japan, Huyghe asked a human subject to imagine a set of images while an fMRI scanner recorded their brain activity. An artificial neural network then used the data from the scans to generate thousands of visual interpretations of what they might have imagined. Hallucinatory and fragmentary, these indeterminate mental images reveal the neural network’s attempts to interpret and refine the data while conjuring a reality different from our own. The work is activated in real time by the gazes of visitors to the Sculpture Garden (which are detected by a sensor) and data collected from virtual simulations of cancer cell mutations. These inputs determine the creation of new images and their sequencing on the screens, drawing metaphorical connections between the limitless proliferation enabled by algorithmic systems and metastatic growth. Discover more
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