Who needs a holiday weekend getaway when New York City is serving up Warhol, wonderfully wild sculpture, light-bending installations, and 85 artists opening their studio doors? This weekend, get personal with Warhol at the Whitney, see Lynda Benglis bend the rules of sculpture at Pace, and let Rana Begum work her magic with light and geometry at Lehmann Maupin. The Studio Museum has a whole lot to say with black and white, and EFA offers a rare backstage pass to the city’s working artists. Your long weekend just got a lot more interesting.
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Rana Begum’s first solo exhibition in New York explores light, geometry, and quiet transformation. For more than two decades, the Bangladesh-born, London-based artist has developed a distinctive visual language in which industrial materials, reflective surfaces, and geometric forms respond dynamically to their surroundings. Drawing on geometric abstraction and Islamic art and architecture, her sculptures combine rigorous structure with contemplation, using repetition, symmetry, color, shadow, and reflection to create ever-changing experiences. Following her U.S. museum debut at the SCAD Museum of Art and participation in Desert X in California’s Coachella Valley, Begum’s international practice spans site-specific projects and exhibitions across Finland, Sussex, Houston, and Eastbourne, consistently revealing new relationships between light, space, and place.
Few artists transformed the way we see modern life quite like Andy Warhol, for whom photography was not simply a tool but a way of looking, collecting, and turning everyday experience into art. Rarely without a camera, he amassed hundreds of thousands of images, using photography both to document his world and as the foundation for his iconic silkscreen portraits. Andy Warhol Family Album brings together Polaroids from 1972–73, offering an intimate glimpse into his world through posed portraits, candid moments at his Montauk home, European travels, familiar faces, and his beloved dog, Archie. Drawn from one of Warhol’s personal “family albums,” the photographs capture both the glamour and ordinariness of his life, revealing him as not only a chronicler of celebrity culture but a continually curious observer who transformed life itself into artistic material.
Lynda Benglis has spent more than five decades pushing sculpture beyond the expected. KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING brings together works from 1972 to 2024, spanning ceramics, bronze, glass, paper, and Benglis’ signature pleated forms. Known for her bold color, tactile surfaces, and fluid shapes, she transforms materials through knotting, folding, twisting, and pouring, creating works that feel both playful and intensely physical. From the early Sparkle Knot IV to rarely seen glass sculptures and recent bronze and paper works, the exhibition traces Benglis’s enduring fascination with surface, light, gesture, and movement and her ability to make solid materials seem wonderfully alive.
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Tone explores the expressive power of black, white, and everything in between. Inspired by photography’s early reliance on the gradual accumulation of light, the exhibition considers how artists use tonal shifts to create form, depth, rhythm, and atmosphere. Bringing together photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture, the works demonstrate that tone is more than a technical element, it can function as a material and visual language in its own right. From Roy DeCarava’s nuanced play of light and shadow to contemporary explorations of contrast and gradation, Tone reveals how much can be said without a single bright color.
Open Studios
EFA Center
323 West 39th Street
October 10, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts invites the public inside its Midtown Manhattan home to explore 85 artist studios, exhibitions, and dynamic arts programming. This rare opportunity offers an intimate look at artists at work and a chance to connect with EFA’s vibrant community of internationally recognized professionals. Members will open their studios to share (and sell!) recent work and creative practices, while the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will host special events and tours, offering an up-close experience of art in the making.
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