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NYC autumn openings — my picks 🍂

September in New York always feels like a reset. The city comes back to life, galleries reopen, museums unveil new exhibitions, and suddenly there are far too many things I want to see at once.

So, here are a few of the autumn openings I’m personally most excited about— from major museum shows to smaller projects I think deserve attention.

And yes, this also means one thing: more art tours are coming.🗽 taken in New York, New York by @werona

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Happy Birthday, my dear Chef, my partner, my husband, my best friend. ❤️

I’m so happy to share life, business, beautiful things — and an occasionally questionable amount of food — with you.

Love you, my favourite person to create, dream, and eat with. ❤️ taken in Paris, France by @werona

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California 💙 taken in California by @werona

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🤍 taken in Berlin, Germany by @werona

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A few vintage gems I found in Berlin 😻
@hardt_store
@dasneueschwarz.vintage
@vintage.revivals
@picknweight
@yummyvintageofficial taken in Berlin, Germany by @werona

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@gropiusbau: Marina Abramović & Gabriele Stötzer
@kwinstitutefcontemporaryart: @kyivbiennial
Berlin streets taken in Berlin, Germany by @werona

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Friends & bulochki in Berlin 🩶 taken in Berlin, Germany by @werona

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Why not host an art night in Berlin — and produce it remotely, from another city, in a place you haven’t been to for a long time?

What started as a light conversation about potentially participating in a festival panel grew into something much bigger: an independent, three-part art evening bringing together performance, public conversation, and an intimate late-night gathering.

The evening included the official preview of @doorsofperceptionlive, an international public talk on art and perception, and an informal cocktail after-party — all within a few hours, and across different spaces in Berlin.

From a producer’s perspective, there was a lot happening behind the scenes: building the perfect timing, coordinating a lot, managing guest lists, communicating, synchronising multiple teams, and making sure the experience felt seamless for everyone attending. And doing all of this remotely, while not having been in Berlin for a long time, was definitely a challenge. But also a very exciting one.

I’m especially happy to have found an @ioginality team that believes nothing is impossible when you are convinced enough. Sometimes you just need to believe in the idea, find the right people around you, and keep pushing until it becomes real.

It reminded me why I love producing cultural projects: you start with an idea that exists mostly as a conversation, and suddenly there are artists on stage, guests arriving, unexpected encounters happening, and an entire evening taking shape around a shared idea.
My biggest congratulations to the IOGINALITY team on such a grand success. 🖤

And after five days of almost no sleep, I’m officially going to take a very long nap before we start preparing for the next international event. ✈️

📸 @darinbelonogova taken in Berlin, Deutschland by @werona

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This is the point in the year when “I should go see that” starts becoming a very long list.

So before the calendar gets completely out of hand, our TEA Art Editor @werona narrowed it down to the “keepers” on your radar.

Send it to your plus-one for the next art weekend…

More in our Telegram. Link in bio. taken in New York, New York by @werona

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summer days ☀️

🎞️ @grumpy_gallerist taken in New York, New York by @werona

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Botero in New York is a show to look at.

It is an invitation to slow down and notice what happens when you really give an image your attention.

Tracing Fernando Botero’s pivotal New York years, from 1960 to 1973, the exhibition follows the moment when his distinctive language of volume, proportion, and compressed space began to emerge.

But perhaps the most rewarding part is simply looking closely.

Botero arrived in New York in 1960, at a moment dominated by abstraction, gestural painting, and the radical visual language of the New York School. Instead of abandoning the figure, he enlarged it. Instead of pursuing distortion through violence or fragmentation, he created a world of deliberate volume and improbable proportion.

The bodies look inflated, but the world around them is not necessarily playful.

A politician, a priest, a soldier, a bourgeois family, a couple at a table — Botero gives them all the same monumental physical presence. Status becomes almost ridiculous when everyone occupies the same inflated universe.

And this is where the pleasure of looking becomes more complicated.

The longer you look, the less these figures seem simply “funny.” The excess of volume becomes a social language. It exposes vanity, hierarchy, ceremony, power, desire — all compressed into bodies that seem to take up more space than they should.

Botero makes you look at excess until excess becomes normal.

And perhaps that is the real pleasure of the exhibition: not just discovering what is in the paintings, but noticing how your own way of looking changes as you spend more time with them.

@sothebys, till September 7. taken in Sotheby's by @werona

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