New York Galleries Open the Season With Quiet Subjects

A run of new exhibitions across Manhattan galleries has settled on unusually familiar ground: unclothed figures, soft renderings of sky, lit candles, and clock mechanisms. The pairing suggests a season opening on subjects that reward close, patient looking rather than spectacle. It is a modest but telling snapshot of where the city's gallery scene is turning its attention this fall.

With reporting from Artnet News.