New York’s museums and galleries are preparing for a packed fall and winter season. Highlights include overdue retrospectives, immersive sonic experiments, and major thematic surveys, including the blockbuster Ruth Asawa show at MoMA and the long-awaited reopening of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Here are some of the other shows worth seeing between now and early 2026:

Richard Serra: Running Arcs (for John Cage) at Gagosian

Richard Serra’s massive steel sculptures return to Chelsea. This series is a nod to composer John Cage, whose experimental sound works influenced Serra’s thinking on space, silence and duration. These are the kind of works you don’t just look at, but inhabit.

Running Arcs (for John Cage) opens Sept. 12 at Gagosian West 21st Street.

Witnessing Humanity: The Art of

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