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“Lisa Zwerling – The Fountains”
First Street Gallery
526 West 26th Street
New York City
October 6 – 31

“Artists and Monitors”
Showcasing work of three of New York’s most extraordinary contemporary figurative artists, and the painters who are and have been privileged to be their assistants.
Alex Adam Gallery
78 West 120th Street
New York City
October 15 – 25

“Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009″
Examines the critical role the human figure has played in the Nation’s art for the past 189 years. Transcending chronological, stylistic, and generational boundaries the exhibition will present 160 works drawn from the National Academy’s important and wide ranging collection of American art, as well as an intriguing selection of works by contemporary artists who are carrying on the figurative tradition in new and adventurous ways.
National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
Through November 15

“Augustus Saint-Gaudens”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre—from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to reductions after public monuments for East Coast cities. Through the lens of the Museum’s unparalleled holdings as well as some related loans, this exhibition offers a reappraisal of Saint-Gaudens’s groundbreaking role in the history of late nineteenth-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Through November 15

“Drawings by Henry Lam”
Spring Studio
64 Spring Street
New York City
Through November 5

“Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
Ongoing