MADISON AVENUE FALL GALLERY WALK 2026
Oct 3 10:00 am - Oct 3 5:00 pm
Join ARTnews and Madison Avenue’s galleries for our annual Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk on Saturday, October 3. This free event invites the public to visit participating galleries, view their exhibitions and attend expert talks led by artists and curators on Madison Avenue & side streets from East 57th to East 86th Streets.
See our listings below for a complete directory of participating galleries, gallery talks and exhibitions on view. Galleries are listed from south to north. Questions during the day of the event? Visit our Information Tent, located on the east side of Madison Avenue, between East 74 and East 75 Streets.
Click here to download the printable Guide and Map for the event.
Pre-registration is required for all Gallery & Artist Talks, as well as for the Sotheby’s Open House.
Click here to book your Gallery or Artist Talk Reservation.
Click here to book your reservation for the Sotheby’s Open House.
Participating Businesses
ADELSON GALLERIES
595 Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), 4th Floor (57-58)
A collection of works by Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast, and John Singer Sargent.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-3pm
GALERIE GMURZYNSKA
595 Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), 6th Floor (57-58)
Works by Jiri Kolar.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY
595 Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), Suite 801 (57-58)
Baldwin Lee: New York (1975 – 1979): the exhibition brings together photographs Lee made between 1975 and 1979, a formative period in his career, and marks the first time they have been on view.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERIES
595 Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), 9th Floor (57-58)
A selection of American fine and decorative arts from the 18th century to today.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-4pm
DFN PROJECTS
595 Madison Avenue (The Fuller Building), Suite 1103 (57-58)
Carson Fox – Soft Monsters: Fox creates whimsical, anthropomorphic creatures that exist between familiar and fantastical. These colorful hybrid beings invite curiosity, humor, and empathy. Inspired by nineteenth-century ceramics, modernist color theory, and quilting traditions, Fox transforms humble materials into a celebration of the unexpected.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-4pm
LÉVY GORVY DAYAN
19 East 64 Street (Madison-Fifth)
1st Floor: Wangari Mathenge: Re-membering
2nd Floor: Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper
5th Floor: Inma Barrero: MOTHERS
Gallery Hours: 10am-6pm
PACE DI DONNA SCHRADER GALLERIES
744 Madison Avenue (64-65)
Headquartered on New York’s Upper East Side, PDS specializes in the acquisition and placement of significant 19th and 20th century works of art.
Gallery Talk:
2:30pm: Discussion about the exhibtion on view.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
H|G FINE ART
764 Madison Avenue, Suite 4F (65-66)
Presenting Geoffrey Johnson: Fall in the City, a solo exhibition featuring over a dozen new paintings inspired by the season. Johnson’s impressionist works are known for their neutral palette and their ability to capture the mood and feeling of the city, inviting quiet introspection in the viewer.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
ROSENBERG & CO.
19 East 66 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Esphyr Slobodkina– author, illustrator, and pioneer of early American abstraction. Slobodkina was a forerunner of hard-edge painting and a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. Slobodkina illustrated and published the children’s book Caps for Sale in 1940, which remains a best-selling storybook.
Gallery Hours: 10am-6pm
IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS
790 Madison Avenue, Suite 601 (66-67)
We will display a magnificent selection of leather bound sets, Fine Bindings, Children’s, Illustrated, first and rare editions.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
SIGRID FREUNDORFER FINE ART
790 Madison Avenue, Suite 602 (66-67)
A selection of modern and contemporary works, including Lyonel Feininger, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Norman Bluhm, Katia Santibaňez, Scott Kelley, Frederick Mershimer, and others.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
THOMSEN GALLERY
8 East 67 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Spirituality in Japanese Art.
Gallery Talks:
2pm & 4pm: Spirituality in Japanese Art.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
GRAHAM SHAY 1857
17 East 67 Street, Suite 1A (Madison-Fifth)
A selection of American and European paintings and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
LINCOLN GLENN
17 East 67 Street, Suite 1A (Madison-Fifth)
250 Years: American Women Artists and the Nation’s Story traces the nation’s artistic history through the remarkable achievements of American women artists spanning from the Revolutionary era to the present day.
Gallery Talk:
2pm: An exhibition tour by one of the gallery owners.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
FREEMAN’S
32 East 67 Street (Madison-Park)
This fall Freeman’s Auction will display various highlights from our upcoming auctions, including men’s and women’s watches, fine art, and beyond.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
DEBRA FORCE FINE ART
13 East 69 Street, Suite 4F (Madison-Fifth)
The gallery’s fall exhibition features Impressionist and Modernist paintings and works on paper by American artists including Cecilia Beaux, Frank Benson, Charles Burchfield, Frederick Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Edward Potthast, Everett Shinn, Dwight Tryon, and Irving Wiles, among others.
Gallery Hours: 11am-4pm
VILCEK FOUNDATION
21 East 70 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Danh Võ: Rebuilding Liberty reconsiders iconic American symbols to explore what it means to be American. Presenting monumental sculptures and site-specific commissions by the Vietnamese-born Danish artist, this exhibition invites reflection on evolving ideas of liberty, migration, and national identity.
Curator Talks:
2pm & 3pm: Join Vilcek Foundation Curator Eana Kim on a tour of the foundation’s special exhibition Danh Võ: Rebuilding Liberty, presented timed to the foundation’s 25th anniversary and the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Gallery Hours: 10am-4pm
KRAUSHAAR GALLERIES
15 East 71 Street, Suite 2B (Madison-Fifth)
All Together: A selection of paintings, works on paper and sculptures in which the figure becomes both subject and an invitation. These works ask us not simply to look at their subjects, but to look inward—to consider the ways a gaze can reveal, challenge, or draw us into another person’s world.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
DONALD RYAN GALLERY
15 East 71 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Noah Jemisin: Fate’s Capriciousness. The exhibition brings together a group of paintings and works on paper primarily made during the 1970s and 1980s. Noah Jemisin (b. 1943), born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, has lived and worked in New York City since 1973. Working across painting, sculpture, and performance, his practice reflects a sustained dialogue with the legacies of postwar American abstraction, the traditions of landscape painting, and the material innovations of assemblage.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY
17 East 71 Street (Madison-Fifth)
The Thread Between: Sophie Delaporte’s Needleworks and her Early Fashion photography are connected by a sustained exploration of femininity, desire, and the representation of women. Both bodies of work reveal Delaporte’s enduring desire to reclaim the female image as a space of agency, imagination, and freedom.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-5pm
ARADER GALLERIES
29 East 72 Street (Madison-Park)
Presenting a variety of fine, historic European and American furniture, fine prints, and oil paintings. Also on display are original baseball-related cartoons and other sports-related ephemera.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
KRISTEN LORELLO
23 East 73 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Bayne Peterson: The Dolphin’s Pearl – New sculptures in hand carved dyed plywood by the Providence, Rhode Island based artist.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
VAN DOREN WAXTER
23 East 73 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Zoe Longfield: A World of One’s Own, an exhibition of rarely shown paintings and works on paper from 1948 to 1950. This is the gallery’s second solo exhibition of the artist since announcing exclusive representation of the Zoe Longfield Estate.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
LUDIVINE
24 East 73 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Curated by Noa Wynn, this intergenerational exhibition spotlights women artists from wide-ranging backgrounds, featuring Zoë Buckman, Abbey Drucker, Iliana Ortega, Gabriela Kramer, Serena Nickson, and Lilah Yektai. Through photography, painting, and mixed media, these artists explore femininity, queerness, nature, heartbreak, sartorial traditions, and the weight of difficult histories – all through a distinctly female gaze. In dialogue with Ludivine’s ethos as a female-founded boutique, the exhibition reclaims space for women’s stories and artistic practices, celebrating expressions that are self-defined, raw, and unapologetically powerful.
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm
D LAN GALLERIES
25 East 73 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Timothy Cook: Kurluwukari presents new paintings by one of Australia’s leading contemporary Tiwi artists. Using natural ochres sourced from his Country, Cook’s bold works on linen and stringybark draw upon the Kulama ceremony, celebrating Tiwi culture, Country and continuity.
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm
LEVEL & CO.
30 East 74 Street (Madison-Park)
Level & Co. is a full-service art advisory and private gallery specializing in Post-War and Contemporary art, from Abstract Expressionism to Neo-Expressionism to 21st-Century masters. On view: A private installation featuring a world-class collection of Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings, among other important contemporary artists.
Viewing Reservation:
11am-5pm. Reservation required for gallery admission.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
SOTHEBY'S
945 Madison Avenue (74-75)
Please join Sotheby’s for the second edition of Open House – a day of conversations, tours and discovery across art, design and luxury. Meet artists, collectors and leading voices from across the creative world, and experience Sotheby’s from the inside.
For a complete list of programming and to register for talks, visit https://events.sothebys.com/openhouse2026
Gallery Hours: 10am-7pm
CEYSSON & BÉNÉTIÈRE
956 Madison Avenue, Suite 2F (75-76)
The first exhibition in over fifty years of self-taught painter Richard “Prophet” Jennings (1922-2005).
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm
STEPHEN RUSSELL
970 Madison Avenue (75-76)
Discover rare Cartier jeweled clocks and objets d’art, currently part of the Stephen Russell Collection. This exhibition showcases the maison’s exquisite craftsmanship—dazzling gemstones, precious metals, and intricate designs reflecting timeless luxury, elegance, and artistry from one of jewelry’s most iconic names.
Gallery Hours: 10am-6pm
VINCE
1005 Madison Avenue (77-78)
The Mack Art Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening community through art. View works from their Residency program, which fosters an environment for both international and local artists to create, collaborate, and grow.
Curator Talks:
12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm: A discussion about the works on view.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-5pm
GRAY NEW YORK
1018 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor (78-79)
GRAY debuts a new series of sculptures and wall drawings in Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal, a co-presentation with Galerie Lelong. The exhibition features three elongated portraits in bronze, echoed in the gallery by a wall drawing the artist will create on site.
Gallery Hours: 11am-5pm
ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN
1018 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor (78-79)
Danny Fox blends domestic imagery with influences from his natural environment to create eerily striking articulations of the human psyche. His new body of work Fata Morgana explores illusion through optical distortions, ambiguous imagery, and abstracted depth.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm.
ONISHI GALLERY
16 East 79 Street, Ground Floor (Madison-Fifth)
Celebrating Onishi Gallery’s twentieth anniversary, this exhibition presents contemporary kōgei artists working in metal, lacquer, and ceramics who reinterpret Japanese artistic traditions through innovative forms and perspectives, bringing the evolving spirit of Japanese craftsmanship to audiences in New York.
Gallery Talk:
3pm: Gallery Talk by the Director on Contemporary Japanese Metalwork, Lacquer Art, and Ceramics.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
SKARSTEDT GALLERY
20 East 79 Street (Madison-Fifth)
Experience our exhibition on view.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY
53 East 79th Street (Madison-Park)
Collective Witness explores how the New York Society Library, founded 22 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending volumes to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress.
Curator Talks:
12pm, 2pm & 3pm: The curator’s talk will delve into the ideals of the Enlightenment by viewing key objects, including a first edition of Thomas Paine’s cataclysmic pamphlet Common Sense, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington.
Library Hours: 11am-5pm
SHEPHERD W & K GALLERIES
58 East 79 Street (Madison-Park)
Three exhibitions: Face Off:works from the 19th and 20th/21st centuries; Intimate Spaces of the 19th and and early 20th century; Homage to Alfred Brendel and George Name, works on paper, accompanied by Brendel’s poetry.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
LEILA HELLER
22 East 80 Street, Lower Level (Madison-Fifth)
Bringing together large-scale photographic works, immersive moving-images, and hand-cut glass mosaic wall sculptures, the exhibition marks the artists’ first solo presentation in New York. Over the past several years, Koopmans and Wexell have travelled across the world reinterpreting abandoned palaces, villas, sites of worship, theatres, and civic buildings.
Curator Talks:
Every 20 minutes, from 10am to 4pm: Every 20 minutes, from 10am to 4pm: Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell will lead an in-person walkthrough of the exhibition, discussing The Wild Within, their collaborative process, and how photography, digital reconstruction, nature, and motion shape their work.
Gallery Hours: 10am-6pm
SPRÜTH MAGERS
22 East 80 Street, Second Floor (Madison-Fifth)
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present A well of night, a solo exhibition of new and reimagined works by Thea Djordjadze. Known for sculptural environments that are continually reworked in response to the spaces they inhabit, Djordjadze draws on the logic of architectural space, the formal legacy of modernist design, and the cultural memory of her Georgian roots to produce works that resist easy categorization.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
RODDER
22 East 80 Street, Fifth Floor (Madison-Fifth)
David Reed: Terrible Idea is the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery. By presenting Reed’s working drawings alongside his paintings, Terrible Idea makes visible the process that underlies the artist’s practice. The revisions, annotations, and discarded ideas that might otherwise remain unsaid become embedded in the paintings. The exhibition offers an opportunity to consider Reed’s work not only as finished objects, but as the materialization of an ongoing consideration of what painting can be.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
BONNER DAVID GALLERIES
4 East 81 Street, Suite 2B (Madison-Fifth)
Garden Party is a group exhibition of artist Hunt Slonem and Kevin Box, on view that will include Slonem’s fascination with flowers, an intimate side of his creative practice that has long existed alongside his iconic rabbits, birds, and butterflies, and Box’s captivation of geometry, light, and paper by way of bronze sculpture- this is his debut show with Bonner David.
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm
ELKON GALLERY
18 East 81 Street (Madison-Fifth)
“Surfaces and Reflections”: A group exhibition of artists from the 1970’s to the present. From abstraction to figurative, the exhibition explores diverse approaches to color, light, gesture, surface, and perception — tracing the ways artists have engaged with these ideas across generations.
Artists on view: Vicky Colombet, Françoise Gilot, Nir Hod, Lluis Lleo, John McCracken, Matteo Montani, Bernardo Siciliano and Harold Joe Waldrum.
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm
MEMOR MUSEUM
1130 Madison Avenue (84-85)
Featuring 17 works in ink, mixed media, and glass, Xie Tian’s solo exhibition transforms traditional Chinese calligraphy and brushwork beyond paper, creating an immersive dialogue among Eastern aesthetics, material experimentation, and contemporary three-dimensional space.
Curator Talks:
1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm: Join a guided exploration of Xie Tian’s innovative practice, examining how he deconstructs Chinese characters, calligraphic forms, and classical brushwork to reimagine traditional ink through mixed media, glass installation, and contemporary spatial expression.
Gallery Hours: 12pm-5pm
