New Museum Exhibitions for Fall

Katonah Museum of Art: Arrivals: Guest curated by Heather Ewing, the Katonah Museum of Art’s new fall exhibition features 50 works spanning the 16th century to the present that offer a broad range of perspectives on human experiences of Arrival. The show’s works touch on ideas of belonging and separation, ancestry, displacement, resilience and perseverance. They also shed light on the artist’s perspectives on American ideals, the country’s many complexities, and its ongoing social and demographic changes. Artists represented in the exhibition include vanessa german, Titus Kaphar, Dorothea Lange, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ben Shahn, Roger Shimomura, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Kara Walker. Arrivals opens on Saturday, October 3 and runs through January 23, 2022. Museum hours are Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm, Sun, 12pm-5pm. (134 Jay Street, Katonah; www.katonahmuseum.org)

Hudson River Museum: African American Art in the 20th Century: This exhibit drawn from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum presents 43 paintings and sculptures from 34 African-American artists from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights movement. The works range in style from modern abstraction to the postmodern genre of found objects, from artists such as Frederick Brown (pictured here) and Saam Johnson (at top of page) and address issues from African heritage to the celebration of new world African expressions such as American jazz. African American Art opens on Friday, October 15 and runs through January 16, 2022. Museum hours are Thursday to Sunday 12pm – 5pm. 511 (Warburton Ave., Yonkers; www.hrm.org

Resolute: Native Nation’s Art in the Bruce Collection: Greenwich’s Bruce Museum presents Resolute, a showcase of significant objects from their Native Nations Collection. This new perspective on Native Nations as historical and contemporary societies introduces now-known artists whose works have been overlooked for decades. The collection of works was collected largely west of the Mississippi. The collaboration of experts and elders from the Mohegan Tantaquidgeon Museum, the Mashantucket-Pequot tribe, the Choctaw Nation, the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes has expanded the Museum’s interpretation of many of the works in the collection. The exhibition opens on November 7 and runs through January 31. Museum hours are Tuesday to Sunday 10am-5pm. (1 Museum Drive Greenwich; www.brucemuseum.org

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Karla Knight: Navigator: Karla Knight’s first institutional show surveys her forty year career in painting, drawing and photography. Her imagery synthesizes fascinating influences from science, the occult, abstract art, Surrealism and Native American art. Inspired by “the mysteries and absurdities of life”, Knights lexicon brings together spaceships, floating orbs, and eyeballs, as well as hieroglyphic-like lists, charts, codes, alphabets, and invented symbols. The exhibition opens on October 17 and runs through May 8, 2022. Museum hours are 12pm to 5pm Sun – Mon & Wed-Fri, and 10am to 5pm on Saturdays. (258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT; www.thealdrich.org)

Dia Beac0n: Joan Jonas: The Dia Beacon’s new Joan Jonas exhibition brings together three works in the Dia’s collection from this founding figure in the video and performance art of the 1960s & 70s. Including Jonas’ large-scale multimedia installation The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things (2004), and two recently acquired works, Stage Sets and After Mirage (Cones/May Windows) (both 1976). Collectively, the three works present a trajectory of Jonas’s oeuvre from the pivotal year of 1976, when Jonas decisively turned to translating nonlinear performance and video into performance installations, to the evolution of the artist’s work thirty years later. The exhibition opens on October 8. The museum is open from Friday to Monday from 10am to 5pm. (3 Beekman Street, Beacon; www.diaart.com)

Dia Beacon: Fred Sandback: Fred Sandback’s installation responds to its surrounding architecture using store-bought spools of colored yarn. Sandback traced the space between different points on floors, ceilings, and walls, creating shapes and constructing the illusion of a pane of glass or shimmering lines of color. Previously on view since the opening of Dia Beacon in 2003, and following a pause of three years, a long-term installation of several of Sandback’s yarn works from Dia’s collection returns to the galleries in winter 2021. The exhibition opens in December. The museum is open from Friday to Monday from 10am to 5pm. (3 Beekman Street, Beacon; www.diaart.com)