Doug Aitken: Lightscape 

The Shed, Hudson Yards

The Shed in Hudson Yards is a shape-shifting arts center whose giant outer shell rolls along rails, expanding the building when performances or large-scale exhibitions need more room. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Rockwell Group, its flexible architecture reflects the idea that a cultural building can reinvent itself along with the art inside. 

Closing Sunday, Doug Aitken’s Lightscape is an immersive film and sound installation exploring identity, connection, and life in a rapidly changing world. Moving through deserts, mountains, automated factories, cityscapes, and digital environments, its intertwined characters reveal different experiences of displacement and transformation. At The Shed, the work unfolds across seven screens and is periodically activated by live performances, turning the installation into a constantly evolving space for artistic collaboration and experimentation.

SPRING/BREAK Art Show 

 555 West 57th Street
September 24–28

Opens September 10

In May 2025, David Zwirner opened its new Selldorf Architects-designed gallery at 533 West 19th Street. The ground floor offers 6,000 square feet across three galleries, with 18-foot ceilings, skylights, and concrete floors designed to accommodate larger exhibitions.

Continuing our building theme, Thomas Ruff’s jpegs ny revisits one of the most haunting visual events of the 21st century through a distinctly digital lens. Ruff was in New York on September 11, 2001 and photographed the attacks and their aftermath, but when he returned home to Germany, he discovered that his camera had no photos on it. Years later, he turned to images sourced from the internet, manipulating and heavily pixelating them until familiar news photographs became enormous, almost painterly abstractions. Presented at David Zwirner to mark the 25th anniversary, the twelve works hover between photograph and painting, asking how images of tragedy are remembered, reproduced, and transformed by technology.

Until The Moon Comes Over The Mountain

Designed by Pritzker Prize laureates Herzog & de Meuron, the Parrish Art Museum takes inspiration from the simple, barnlike studios of East End artists and expands that idea into a striking 615-foot-long building. Its skylights bring in the changing natural light of the Hamptons, connecting the museum’s galleries to the landscape and artistic history of the region. 

The current exhibition, UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN, brings together a wonderfully eclectic group of artists exploring the landscape without necessarily depicting it. Andy Goldsworthy, Dan Colen, Richard Long, Delcy Morelos, Martin Puryear, Meg Webster, and others turn to earth, flowers, fur, mud, salt, fiber, and other natural materials to create tactile works exploring memory, identity, history, and our connection to place. From Goldsworthy’s ephemeral interventions in nature to Colen’s crushed-flower paintings and Morelos’s immersive earth-toned sculptures, the landscape becomes less a view than something to touch, remember, and experience.

Curator’s Tour of the World Trade Center Gallery

Friday, September 11 at 1:15 p.m.