10/08/2026
Tribeca has continued to draw some of our favorite galleries downtown. We often spend at least half our time in NYC viewing work in this part of the city. Two important photography exhibitions recently opened at two of our favorite spaces in Tribeca. Recently reopened just opened “Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony”, the largest museum survey of the artist’s work to date. Alongside the premiere of new work, the exhibition features Jafa’s celebrated “Love is the Message, The Message is Death” and “The White Album”, as well as recent paintings, large-scale video and film installations, and a range of sculptural and photographic projects. ‘I Am Tony’ offers visitors unique insight into the decades-long evolution of Jafa’s singular visual language and his ongoing explorations into the complexities of Black life in America.
“Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony” New Museum through 3 January 2027
All images courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery. Exhibition photography by Dario Lasagni for the New Museum.
Jack Shainman Gallery’s Tribeca gallery is also a MUST SEE for their Gordon Parks exhibition “Voices in the Mirror”. The exhibition brings together images by Parks alongside reflections from the people and families he photographed, offering new context to some of the artist's most enduring work. For the very first time, the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, among others, have reflected on the photographs Parks made and their enduring power. Marking the 20th anniversary of , “Voices in the Mirror”—titled after Parks’ final memoir published in 1990—also looks deeply at the collaborative relationship between Parks, his subjects and their families as he documented the struggle for equality alongside the perseverance of Black excellence.
Reaffirming the importance of Parks’ legacy in the 21st century, the exhibition provides fresh insight into his work, as memory and anecdote animate photographs long-since analyzed, studied and examined, revealing levels of detail and depth previously unavailable.
"Voices in the Mirror" is on view Jack Shainman Gallery through 7 November
All images courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery
APAA Mindy Taylor Wilson Ross