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An Art Flâneur’s Guide to New York

A meandering preview of Manhattan’s most pressing gallery shows, from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Tom Lloyd retrospective to Gagosian’s arresting Richard Prince exhibition, in anticipation of the New York sales season.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
In the current political and cultural climate, where diversity and inclusion have become flashpoints in a renewed culture war, The Studio Museum in Harlem’s new building suddenly seems prescient and essential. Photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto/Courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem
Marion Maneker
November 7, 2025

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I started my Thursday trek along the spine of Manhattan, closer to the top of the island than the bottom. Up on 125th Street, the Studio Museum in Harlem held a press preview for the opening of its new David Adjaye–designed building—a project that has been long in the making and is finally being unveiled. The event also revealed a lot about the new Studio Museum itself. For instance, Raymond McGuire, the chairman of the museum’s board of trustees, announced that the 57-year-old institution had exceeded its $300 million fundraising goal to both pay for the new building and provide the museum with an endowment and reserve funds.