The ultimate guide to art galleries this fall

The Ross Art Group has specialized in original vintage posters for more than 20 years. From the Belle Époque period through the Pop Art era, the gallery represents more than 120 years of advertising posters. Subjects span from liquor to military, fashion, travel and more. Custom framing, delivery and installation are available. 532 Madison Ave, fourth floor (212-223-1525, rossartgroup.com). Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–5pm.

Photograph: Herbert Suarez

4 E 77th St (212-988-1623, michaelwerner.com). Mon–Sat 10am–6pm.

17 E 82nd St (646-964-4276, galeriebuchholz.de). Tue–Sat 10am–6pm.

18 E 79th St (212-734-6300, acquavellagalleries.com). Mon–Sat 10am–5pm.

Miquel Barceló, Larvaire, 2015
Photograph: Art © 2015 Miquel Barceló

Current exhibition: “Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press”
Through Dec 17
Housed in a landmark McKim, Mead & White mansion, the Americas Society art gallery is dedicated to exhibiting art from Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. Since its founding in 1965 by David Rockefeller, the gallery has showcased works by major historical and contemporary artists including Carlos Cruz-Diez and Marta Minujín, among others. This fall, Americas Society continues this tradition with the first U.S. solo exhibition of Hungarian-born Mexican photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000).
“Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press” traces the photographer’s life and career as it unfolded around the globe. From her native Budapest, Horna took part in the radical intellectual circles of Berlin, interwar Paris, the frontlines of war-torn Spain and, ultimately, Mexico City. Featuring both her photographs and the magazines and periodicals that put them in circulation, “Told and Untold” considers the previously lost histories and forgotten narratives underlying Horna’s politically engaged practice. 680 Park Ave at 68th St (212-277-8367,as-coa.org/visualarts). Wed-Sat noon–6pm.

Photograph: Cameron Blaylock

213 Bowery (212-598-3012, onstellarrays.com). Wed–Sat 10am–6pm, Sun noon–6pm.

291 Grand St, third floor (646-918- 7019). Wed–Sun noon–6pm · 439 W 127th St (212-627-5258). Tue–Sat 10am–6pm · gavinbrown.biz.

Current exhibition: “AmericanCalendar,” a solo show by the legendary New York artist, Ray Smith.
Through Oct 30
Painter, sculptor, filmmaker and printmaking artist Ray Smith mixes art-historical elements with postmodern imagery. In “American Calendar,” he merges American pop-culture iconography from the ’50s and his dreamlike cartoons and, in this game juxtaposition, finds a medium with which to rewrite history. The exhibition features a series of interventions for which Smith uses images from vintage calendars depicting the American dream as his starting points. Then, drawing on plexiglass, he creates an inverse image that lays over the print, becoming a sort of antipainting. Idyllic American panoramas are contrasted with our charged sociopolitical situation. “Each one of these images can be read as surrealistic visions, but I can see them as nightmares as well,” says Smith. 139 Eldridge St (646-478-8055, lyleoreitzel.com). Wed–Sun 10am–6pm.

77 Mercer St, #2N (347-604-2346, anitarogersgallery.com). Tue–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–4pm.

Current installation: Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear
Through Dec 17
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts is proud to present the solo exhibition of Nancy Chunn and her 13-and-a- half year, site-specific painting-installation Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, which updates the folk tale of the paranoid fowl. As Chunn describes it, after 9/11 the media went into overdrive, broadcasting every idiotic, innocuous, hilarious and—on rare occasions—real danger the country faced. In Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine, Professor Barry Glassner referred to this as a “Culture of Fear” that flooded the public with stories about immigrants, welfare mothers, kidnappings and other threats. To maintain sanity in this age of absurdity, Chunn has embarked on a baroque, obsessive, labor-intensive process that has become as wild as the culture of fear that inspired it. 31 Mercer St (212-226-3232, feldmangallery.com). Tue–Sat 10am–6pm.

Photograph: Megan Paetzhold

The Untitled Space gallery, founded by Indira Cesarine, specializes in contemporary artists exploring conceptual framework and highlights a program of “Women in Art.” Recent exhibits include “SELF REFLECTION,” an exhibit of 21 female artists addressing self-portraiture through mediums of photography, painting, mixed media, textile art and video. 45 Lispenard St, #1W (212-780- 0960, untitled-space.com). Mon–Fri 11am–6pm, Sat noon–6pm.

Grace Graupe Pillard, Leni's Diver

Owen James Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focusing on emerging and mid-career artists from an international perspective. Through intrepid research, exploration and critical curation the gallery strives to present a balance of perspectives, methods and genders. The space aims to be a hub for the increasingly global scope of the contemporary art market, and to compare and contrast concurrent contexts, methods and narratives in art practices that span it. The gallery is a showcase for the interweaving histories of America, Asia and Europe, with special attention to emerging art from Southeast Asia. The gallery opened its doors in September 2014, in the historic Pencil Factory in Greenpoint Brooklyn, joining a diverse array of artist studios, designers, wood craftsmen, vintage furniture salons and internet projects. The building resides in the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District. 61 Greenpoint Ave, suite 215 (718-395-4874, owenjamesgallery.com). Wed–Sun 11am–6pm.

Photograph: Courtesy Owen James Gallery

Current exhibition: “Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950”
Oct 25–Jan 8
It was an extraordinary period that shaped modern Mexico and captured the attention of the world. Artists took their ideas from the studio into the streets, painting the revolution. In a landmark exhibition—the first of such scope to be seen in the United States in more than seven decades—the Philadelphia Museum of Art in partnership with the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City has organized “Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950.” This timely exhibition looks at the achievements of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, along with Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo; it also surveys the broader panorama of Mexican art during this period, contains many new discoveries and explores the artistic exchanges that continue to resonate on both sides of the border today. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA (215-763-8100, philamuseum.org). Tue, Thu, Sat & Sun 10am–5pm; Wed & Fri 10am-8:45pm.

Diego Rivera, Liberation of the Peon, 1931
Photograph: (Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cameron Morris; 1943-46-1) © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York