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"We had so many plans, so many summer art books to read, so many out-of-town art destinations to which we'd plotted weekend trips, and now here we are again, swept up in a tidal wave of exhibition openings. To help you \u2014 and ourselves \u2014 better ride New York City's towering swell of art activity, ARTINFO has assembled this handy list of the season's 40 must-attend exhbibitions. (Click the slide show to see artworks from select upcoming exhibitions.)El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, November 28-January 12, 2013The politically-resonant, flexible forms of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui\u2019s contemporary abstract work draw on the colonial and post colonial-history of Africa, and repurpose commercial materials like bottle caps to create monumental flowing sheets that alter the spaces they occupy. \u2014 Alanna Martinez\u201CAs Real As It Gets,\u201D at apexart, 291 Church Street, November 15-December 22Curated by writer and consumer culture expert Rob Walker, this group show turns the commercial product market on its head, appropriating branding and consumption as media for art through fictional products, play-advertising, and dreamed-up brands \u2014 giving the ad man a run for his money. \u2014 A MartinezBernadette Corporation, \u201C2000 Wasted Years,\u201D at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 2nd Floor, September 9-December 16The New York-based conceptual art trio\u2019s first major retrospective brings together works from the mid-\u201990s to today, spanning their BC-branded athletic clothes, the short-lived magazine Made in USA, their best-known video work, and subsequent faux-corporate promotional materials for never-realized film projects. \u2014 Benjamin SuttonPeter Coffin at Venus Over Manhattan, 980 Madison Avenue, opens September 21Merry prankster Peter Coffin, who is perhaps most famous for dressing tree trunks in blue jeans, doesn't get nearly enough play in New York, so this show at the increasingly well-programmed Venus Over Manhattan gallery is a welcome surprise. \u2014 Julia HalperinNancy Davidson, \u201CDustup,\u201D at Betty Cuningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, September 6-October 6Following an immersive investigation into rodeo-riding and cowgirl culture, Davidson\u2019s \u201CDustup\u201D is her massive, inflatable, sculptural response to this obscure facet of Americana glam, presented alongside two smaller pieces and video footage of a real live rodeo. \u2014 Sara RoffinoChris Dorland, \u201CPermanent Vacation,\u201D at Winkleman Gallery, 621 West 27th Street, September 7-October 20Dorland\u2019s exhibition \u201CPermanent Vacation\u201D comes with a call to escape the chaos of the city, but it would be difficult to do so in the artist\u2019s surreal, dystopic paintings like the acid-green \u201Cuntitled (dumping core).\u201D \u2014 Kyle ChaykaLeonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins Co., 530 West 22nd Street, September 6-October 12In his previous solo exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins, San Antonio- and Brooklyn-based Drew created bristling site-specific installations with explosions of splintered wood and worn fiber from the walls, and this return to the gallery has his engaging energy wound through a serpentine sculptural piece. \u2014 Allison MeierJordan Eagles, \u201CHemofields,\u201D at Krause Gallery, 149 Orchard Street, September 5-October 16Eagles is getting serious points for originality by combining body art with abstract easel painting (and a dash of chemical photography) in his series of black acrylic boxes adorned in blood-soaked strips of gauze. \u2014 Reid Singer\u201CThe Feverish Library\u201D at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street, September 6-October 20White Columns\u2019 Matthew Higgs co-organized this \u201Cdensely layered\u201D exhibition of art made from book pages, dust jackets, and shelves that\u2019s a conceptual exploration of the declining medium \u2014 plus 30 artists display their favorite books. \u2014 Rachel CorbettLucie Fontaine, \u201CEstate,\u201D at Marianne Boesky, 118 East 64th Street, August 15-October 15Continuing her \u201CDomesticity\u201D series of exhibitions, Lucie Fontaine, self-described \u201Cart employer\u201D and director of offbeat projects at her Milan art space, entered the Marianne Boesky townhouse with her employees and a group of unidentified artists on August 15 to spend a month completely transforming the place, and at the September opening the public can finally see what kind of immersive manipulation on the idea of the home they have made. \u2014 A MeierRoger Fritz, \u201CQuerelle,\u201D at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, September 7-October 13A collection of over 100 images taken by Roger Fritz during the production of \u201CQuerelle,\u201D the final film of famed New German Cinema film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, convey Fassbinder\u2019s creative brilliance and Fritz\u2019s documentary mastery. \u2014 SRKim Gordon and Karen Kilimnik at 303 Gallery, 547 West 21st Street, September 7-September 29The Sonic Youth front-woman and the painter of wan celebrity portraits are the odd-couple of New York fall shows. While Gordon is critiquing \u201Cthe heroic gestures of the male rock star,\u201D Killmnick will riff on \u201CDesperately Seeking Susan,\u201D \u201CBananarama,\u201D and the long- defunct MTV trend show \u201CHouse of Style.\u201D \u2014 Chloe WymaAntony Gormley at Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 Tenth Avenue, October 27-NovemberThe former Chelsea mega-gallery launches its new Hell's Kitchen space with a show of the British sculptor's fractal humanoids, his first solo exhibition in NY since he placed jumpers atop buildings around Madison Square Park in 2010. \u2014 BSEllen Gronemeyer at Kimmerich, 50 White Street, September 7-October 20The consistently impressive under-the-radar Tribeca gallery brings another Berlin-based artist across the pond, showcasing Gronemeyer\u2019s thickly layered neo-figurative paintings, which include grotesque crowd scenes and portraits in several distinct, art history-referencing styles. \u2014 BSTrenton Doyle Hancock, \u201C...And Then It All Came Back to Me,\u201D at James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, November-DecemberWell on his way to becoming a significant part of the contemporary canon, Hancock continues his hallucinations in paper and paint at James Cohan this fall. Appreciative fans can expect more Mounds, vegans, and bizarre worlds populated by even weirder creatures. \u2014 KCSuzanne Harris at Salomon Contemporary, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 519, September 14-October 6\u201CArriving on the heels of the release of her book chronicling the salad days of DIY art collective 112 Greene Street, curator Jessamyn Fiore highlights the glass sculptures and works on paper of Suzanne Harris, a significant yet unduly forgotten figure in Soho's downtown art scene.\u201D \u2014 CWValerie Hegarty, \u201CFigures, Flowers, Fruit,\u201D at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 21 Orchard Street, September 9-October 21Known for her mixed media works mimicking historical portraits and landscapes that have been burned, rain damaged, or whose wood stretchers have continued to grow and sprouted leaves, Hegarty turns here to still lifes, with flowers and fruit growing and spilling outside the frame in monstrous abundance. \u2014 BSThomas Hirschhorn, \u201CConcordia, Concordia,\u201D at Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21st Street, September 14-October 20This fitting follow-up to his 2009 installation \u201CUniversal Gym\u201D \u2014 a DIY workout facility outfitted with oversized equipment \u2014 finds Hirschhorn recreating the half-sunken cruise ship Concordia in a massive sculptural environment inspired by an iconic photograph of the partly submerged vessel.&amp;nbsp; \u2014 BSRobert Irwin, \u201CDotting the i's &amp;amp; Crossing the t's: Part II,\u201D at Pace Gallery, 510 W 25th Street and 32 E 57th Street, September 6-October 20New technology has allowed Light and Space pioneer Robert Irwin to realize his iconic acrylic columns as he always intended for us to see them \u2014 as single prisms, uninterrupted, shooting more than fifteen feet into the air. \u2014 JHAnya Kielar, \u201CWomen,\u201D at Rachel Uffner Gallery, 47 Orchard Street, September 9-October 21Anya Kielar's velvety, richly-colored fabric portraits of women look best when hanging together from the ceiling, forming a display that looks like a cross between a luxe stage set and a spooky gypsy lair. \u2014 JHRafael Lozano-Hemmer, \u201CVoice Array,\u201D at bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor, September 6-October 13The rising multimedia artist will fill the technology-inclined Chelsea gallery (which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year) with a wall-to-wall participatory audio and light environment. \u2014 KCRodney McMillian at Maccarone, 630 Greenwich Street, opening September 15L.A.-based McMillian takes over Maccarone's new West Village space (a former dry cleaner next-door to the existing gallery) with one of his contemplative and consuming conceptual installations in what will be his first New York solo exhibition. \u2014 A MeierMatthew Miller, \u201CFools Are Those Who Lose Their Mirrors,\u201D at Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry Street, September 5-October 14Miller's latest series of graphite self-portraits, arresting as ever, are gently stylized yet incredibly frank and affectingly earnest exercises in self-examination. \u2014 BSRichard Misrach, \u201CThe Desert Cantos,\u201D at Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, September 13-October 27Robert Mann celebrates the inauguration of their new gallery space with an exhibition of Misrach\u2019s work culled from the first 25 years of his career, beginning with his images of desert night scenes and following him throughout his development into one of the century\u2019s most important landscape photographers. \u2014 SRAndrew Ohanesian, \u201CThe House Party,\u201D at The Boiler, 191 North 14th Street, Brooklyn, September 14-November 18In light of Ohanesian\u2019s previous uncannily realistic installations \u2014 including a functioning and fully stocked deli walk-in freezer built into a gallery\u2019s front door and a church confessional that doubled as a tiny bar \u2014 this full-scale suburban home built inside Pierogi\u2019s industrial-sized satellite space will be one of the highlights of the fall, especially for attendees of the opening night house party. \u2014 BSSusan Philipsz and Analia Saban at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, September 6-October 20With Turner Prize winner Philipsz's haunting and intangible sound installation in one room and L.A.-based Argentinian Saban's highly tactile new works on life and decay in another, this will be an intriguing and meditative contrast of unconventional artistic practices. \u2014 A MeierWalid Raad and David Diao at Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, September 22-October 27Two old friends juxtapose their shared fascination with time and historical archives \u2014 Raad with a look back on art in the Arab world and Diao on the history of modernist architecture and art. \u2014 RCGerhard Richter, \u201CPainting 2012,\u201D at Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, September 12-October 13Using computer software, Richter digitally reduces one of his legendary abstract paintings to patterns of mirrored and magnified striations for his aptly titled series \u201CStrips.\u201D \u2014 RCMakoto Saito at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street, OctoberThe renowned Japanese graphic designer makes a transition to painting in his first American exhibition at Paul Kasmin this October, where he will debut to Chelsea audiences his elegantly distorted images of iconic filmmakers and classic movie scenes, drawing inspiration from the rapidly dissolving lines between a natural and digital world. \u2014 A MartinezSam Samore, \u201CLibrary of Appearances,\u201D at Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street, September 12-October 27Richly colored, close-up images of isolated facial features with magnified curves, embellished lines, and dramatized details are stacked upon one another creating a sculptural experience of Samore\u2019s photographs. \u2014 SRDesi Santiago, \u201CThis Pop is Perfection,\u201D at Envoy Enterprises, 131 Chrystie Street, September 13-October 14A former New York club-kid who went by the alias Desi Monster, Santiago\u2019s work is a fusion of fetish attire with a goth-metal twist, and if the balloon demons and illuminated occult symbols he\u2019s made in the past are any indication, his fall show will be a funhouse of creepy wonders. \u2014 A MartinezRegine Schumann, \u201CLuminous,\u201D at De Buck Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Suite 502, September 13-October 25German-born painter Schumann puts fluorescent and photo luminescent acrylic materials to inventive 2-D use, with nods to the plastic severity of Dan Flavin or the neon tastes of Lynda Benglis. \u2014 RSMarc S\u00E9guin, \u201CMy Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens),\u201D at Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24th Street, September 6-October 13Hopes abound for brashly stained and defaced portraits of celebrities and world leaders in this, the second solo New York exhibition in less than two years by a witty (and intermittently cutting) Canadian painter. \u2014 RSShakyo, \u201CSutra,\u201D at Mika Gallery, 595 Madison Avenue, September 5-September 14As part of the September edition of Asia Week, viewers will have the enviable chance to view gorgeous calligraphic renditions of Buddhist aphorisms and stories from the 8th century \u2014 a rare opportunity for a non-museum setting. \u2014 RSKate Steciw, \u201CBoundless Hyper,\u201D at Toomer Labzda, 100a Forsyth Street, September 13-October 28Steciw continues to combine new and old media practices with her latest wall pieces \u2014 framed mashups of stock photography adored with Internet-bought objects \u2014 and looping line sculptures of abstract wire forms that once spelled the words \u201Claugh,\u201D \u201Clive,\u201D and \u201Clove.\u201D \u2014 BSMickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street, 540 West 26th Street, November 1-January 5, 2013Concurrent with her solo show at the Brooklyn Museum, Thomas unveils her latest photos and glittery portrait paintings of African-American women in brightly colorful vintage attire. \u2014 BS\u201CTo Be a Lady: 45 Women in the Arts,\u201D curated by Jason Andrew, at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, 1285 Sixth Avenue, September 24-January 18, 2013Venerable non-profit Norte Maar is mounting this incredible survey of women artists in Midtown, including works by Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Grossman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Judy Pfaff, Jessica Stockholder, and many more. \u2014 BSGuido van der Werve, \u201CNummer veertien, home,\u201D at Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street, 25 Knickerbocker Avenue, September 7-October 20The Dutch filmmaker's new work, \u201CNummer veertien, home,\u201D traces the posthumous path that Frederic Chopin\u2019s heart traveled from Paris back to his homeland of Poland, while the gallery\u2019s Bushwick warehouse will showcase eight of van der Werve\u2019s earlier films. \u2014 KC\u201CA Visual Essay on Gutai,\u201D curated by Midori Nishizawa, at Hauser &amp;amp; Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, September 12-October 27The still-underappreciated and extremely influential Gutai group \u2014 which shook up Japan in the 1950s and went on to inspire Fluxus and Arte Povera \u2014 gets a rare American showing at Hauser &amp;amp; Wirth 50 years after making its U.S. debut in the very same townhouse. \u2014 JHAndrea Zittel, \u201CFluid Panel State,\u201D at Andrea Rosen Gallery, 527 West 24th Street, September 14-October 27Relational artist, designer of utopian objects, and experimental lifestyle guru Andrea Zittel parses the difference between carpets, shelters, garments, and picture planes in a new show of textiles by made weavers from throughout the country; with luck, her new creations will look as good as they make Jerry Saltz feel. \u2014 CW[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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