Hyperallergic Includes the Exhibition Telenovela in Its Fall 2026 New York Art Guide
Hyperallergic Includes the Exhibition Telenovela in Its Fall 2026 New York Art Guide
"The telenovela is rarely explored as an art form in its own right, and this exhibition amends that oversight," says the publication about AS' new show.
School’s back in session in the art world, too — this fall, exhibitions on textbook artists like Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, and modernist Constantin Brancusi are landing at The Met, the Whitney, and MoMA, respectively. Then there’s the shows writing the textbooks of tomorrow: surveys of artist-filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who remixes and shapes Black visual culture; photographer Taryn Simon, who plumbs American myths and institutions; and conceptual artist (and pathologist!) Teresa Margolles, who takes on death, that cruelest of subjects.
Still, it’s not just blockbuster exhibitions this season. There’s something for everyone. For the girlies, a show at the American Folk Art Museum asks what art history can reveal about girlhood, a fraught and euphoric stage of life. Doll fanatic? Hopi Kachina dolls embodying fertility and rain spirits arrive at the Brooklyn Museum, while doll fashion at the Museum at FIT proves that creativity is all about the little things. Are you a telenovela fan? Boy, do we have a show for you. [...]
Telenovela
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Sept. 9–March 27, 2027
The telenovela is rarely explored as an art form in its own right, and this exhibition amends that oversight. With more than 50 works produced in the past half-century, including a commission by artist Pablo Helguera, Telenovela dissects how the campy, iconic genre has both shaped and subverted standards of gender, class, and taste across visual culture in the Americas...
