The first round of fall shows are open in cities around the world – these are our highlights. Los Angeles is the place to experience the Light and Space movement, with solo shows for founding fathers Robert Irwin and James Turrell. New York’s Museum of Modern Art assembles the first museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of Willem de Kooning’s career. In London, Ryan Gander locks visitors out of his Locked Room Scenario, and in Paris, Aleksandra Mir shows her felt-tip pen drawings of LPs. These are just a few of the season’s events – check our exhibition calendar for the full list.
Los Angeles
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Pacific Design Center (MOCA), through Oct. 2
Alexis Smith: Works from the 1970s, Thomas Solomon Gallery, through Oct. 22
Matt Johnson, Blum and Poe, through Oct. 22
José Parlá: Character Gestures, OHWOW (Los Angeles), through Oct. 22
Robert Irwin: Way Out West, L&M Gallery (Venice), through Oct. 22
Andrea Zittel, Regen Projects, through Oct. 29
Charles Gaines, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, through Nov. 5
Frank Benson, Overduin and Kite, through Nov. 8
James Turrell, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, through Dec. 17
George Herms, Xenophilia, 2011, Mixed media. Courtesy of MOCA Pacific Design Center.
San Francisco
Brion Nuda Rosch: New Works, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, through Oct. 4
Ari Marcopoulos, Ratio 3, through Oct. 22
Christian Marclay: Cyanotypes, Fraenkel Gallery, through Oct. 29
Tamas Dezso: Here, Anywhere, Robert Koch Gallery, through Oct. 29
Ari Marcopoulos, Mask, 2011. Courtesy of Ratio 3.
Chicago
Lovesick: Nathan Vernau, Robert Bills Contemporary, through Oct. 15
Bruce Nauman, Donald Young Gallery, through Oct. 22
Ellen Lanyon and Philip Pearlstein: Objects/Objectivity, Valerie Carberry Gallery, through Nov. 5
Angel Otero : The Dangerous Ability to Fascinate Other People, Kavi Gupta, through Nov. 12
Nathan Vernau, You don’t see, you don’t see?, 2011. Courtesy of Robert Bills Contemporary.
Miami
Behind the curtain, a lock of hair falling, Gallery Diet, through Oct. 1
New York
Raoul De Keyser: Freedom, David Zwirner, Sept. 20-Oct. 29
Julio Bittencourt: Ramos, 1500 Gallery, Sept. 21-Jan. 28
Red Grooms, New York: 1976-2011, Marlborough New York, Sept. 21-Oct. 22
Frank Stella: Geometric Variations, Paul Kasmin Gallery (10th Ave), Sept. 22-Oct. 29
Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk – An Introspective, Brooklyn Museum, Sept. 23-Jan. 8
Olaf Bruening: The Art Freaks, Metro Pictures, Sept. 23-Oct. 29
Manifesto 06: Finding the Formless, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Sept. 23
Walking Forward-Running Past, Art in General, Sept. 23
Living as Form, Essex Street Market Building, Sept. 24-Oct. 16
This Is Then, DODGEgallery, through Oct. 2
Martha Wilson: I Have Become My Own Worst Fear, PPOW Gallery, through Oct. 8
Siah Armajani: 1957-1964, Meulensteen, through Oct. 8
Alex Katz, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, through Oct. 8
Alessandra Expòsito: Once-Blooming and Button-Eyed, Mixed Greens, through Oct. 8
Michael Schall, Pierogi, through Oct. 9
Dev Harlan: Astral Flight Hanger, through Oct. 9
John Chamberlain, FRIVOLISTECHEEK, 2011. Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery.
Reuben Negron: This House of Glass, Like the Spice Gallery, through Oct. 9
Sterling Ruby & Lucio Fontana, Andrea Rosen Gallery, through Oct. 15
Joe Grillo & Jason McLean: O-Pee-Chee Dirt Pile, Allegra LaViola Gallery, through Oct. 15
Anarchism Without Adjectives: Christopher D’Arcangelo, Artists Space, through Oct. 16
Look: The work of Michael Murphy, gallery nine5, through Oct. 16
G.T. Pellizzi: Transitional, Y Gallery, through Oct. 16
Roy Lichtenstein: Entablatures, Paula Cooper Gallery (21st street), through Oct. 22
Richard Benson: North South East West, Pace/MacGill Gallery, through Oct. 22
Josh Dorman: Lost Divers, Mary Ryan Gallery, through Oct. 22
Word up! Recent Text Based Art, Benrimon Contemporary, through Oct. 22
Eve Sussman: whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, Cristin Tierney, through Oct. 22
Do-Ho Suh: Home Within Home, Lehmann Maupin (26th St.), through Oct. 22
Human Statue (Jessie): Frank Benson, Taxter and Spengemann, through Oct. 22
Andy Warhol: Liz, Gagosian (21st St.), through Oct. 22
Christina Hejtmanek: Pour the Sun Upon the Ground, Blackston, through Oct. 23
Charting Ground Zero: Ten Years After, Woodward Gallery, through Oct. 23
John Chamberlain: Pictures, Steven Kasher Gallery, through Oct. 29
Marc Hundley: Joan Baez is Alive, Team Gallery, through Oct. 29
Agnes Martin: The ‘80s: Grey Paintings, The Pace Gallery (25th Street), through Oct. 29
Susan Rothenberg, Sperone Westwater, through Oct. 29
Meredyth Sparks: Striped Bare, Even and Again, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, through Oct. 29
Sculptures 1973-74, Team Gallery, through Oct. 29
This is Not My Color / The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Swiss Institute, through Oct. 30
Richard Serra: Junction/Cycle, Gagosian (24th St.), through Nov. 26
Sanford Biggers: Cosmic Voodoo Circus, SculptureCenter, through Nov. 28
Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, through Jan. 9
September 11, MoMA PS1, through Jan. 9
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, Queens Museum of Art, through Jan. 15
Meredyth Sparks, Chapter Pages (Chapter 3), 2011. Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
Beacon
Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, Dia:Beacon, through Oct. 31
London
Marius Bercea: Remains of Tomorrow, Blain Southern, through Oct. 1
Joseph Kosuth: The Mind’s Image of Itself #3, Sprüth Magers London, through Oct. 1
Lee Friedlander: America By Car & The New Cars 1964, Timothy Taylor Gallery, through Oct. 1
Christian Jankowski, Lisson Gallery, through Oct. 1
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Annely Juda Fine Art, through Oct. 20
Phyllida Barlow: Rig, Hauser and Wirth (Saville Row), through Oct. 22
Mike Kelley: Exploded Fortress of Solitude, Gagosian (Brittania St.), through Oct. 22
Roni Horn: Recent Work, Hauser and Wirth (Saville Row), through Oct. 22
Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario, Artangel, through Oct. 23
Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker, Whitechapel Gallery, through Dec. 4
Taryn Simon, Tate Modern, through Jan. 2
Rothko in Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, through Feb. 26
Josiah McElheny: The Past Was A Mirage I’d Left Far Behind, Whitechapel Gallery, through July 20
Taryn Simon, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (detail), 2011. Courtesy of Tate Modern.
Paris
Gerhard Richter, Galerie Marian Goodman, Sept. 23-Nov. 3
My Winnipeg, la maison rouge, through Sept. 25
Aleksandra Mir: Drawings, Galerie Laurent Godin, through Oct. 8
Jannis Kounellis: Early Paintings, Galerie Karsten Greve, through Oct. 8
Candida Höfer: Erinnern, Yvon Lambert, through Oct. 9
Zaha Hadid, une architecture, Mobile Art Institut du monde arabe, through Oct. 30
Richard Wentworth, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, through Nov. 10
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 1960. Courtesy of Galerie Karsten Greve.
Berlin
John Baldessari: Double Feature, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Sept. 23-Oct. 29
Ryan Gander: New Collisions in Culturefield, Johnen, through Oct. 22
Pierre Huyghe, Esther Schipper, through Oct. 22
Tacita Dean: More or Less, Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, through Nov. 5
Guiseppe Penone: New Work, Konrad Fischer Galerie, through Nov. 13
Aleksandra Mir, You Can Dance, 2010. Courtesy of Galerie Laurent Godin.
Amsterdam
Gert and Uwe Tobias, Grimm, through Oct. 1
Informality: Art, Economics, Precarity, Stedelijk Museum (Bureau Amsterdam), through Oct. 2
Hans Broek: Delacroix makes a Movie, Gerhard Hofland, through Oct. 8
The Art of Hacking, Netherlands Media Art Institute, through Nov. 12
Zurich
Ugo Rondinone: Kiss Now Kill Later, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, through Oct. 13
Salzburg
Anselm Kiefer: Alkahest, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, through Sept. 24
Stockholm
Klara Lidén, Moderna Museet, Oct. 9
Brussels
Richard Prince: The Fug, Almine Rech Belgium, through Nov. 5
Ahmad Moualla, Untitled, 2011. Courtesy of Green Art Gallery.
Dubai
Ahmad Moualla, Green Art Gallery, through Nov. 10
Toronto
Simon Fujiwara: Welcome to the Hotel Munber, The Power Plant, Sept. 24-Nov. 11
Beijing
Christian Schoeler: Pussy, King of the Pirates, Galerie Urs Meile (Beijing), through Oct. 23
Sligo
Omer Fast: The Tunnel, The Model, through Nov. 27
