Frieze New York 2026

Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Sutton and Kabir Jhala discuss this year's Frieze New York, other fairs across the city this week and the upcoming New York auctions. Ben Luke speaks to Martin Bailey about a Cranach painting discovered to have once hung in Hitler's home, and hears from Charlotte Keenan of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on a photography series by Ajamu X.

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack and Alexander Morrison

Finding art in the uncanny aesthetics of MAGA

A new pop-up gallery blurs the line between party and exhibition as it brings out the suppressed queerness of right-wing aesthetics

For young dealers, being in New York is key to surviving and thriving

Josh Kline’s recent essay revived a generations-old conversation about the city’s corrosive costs and stresses for artists, but having a foothold in Gotham remains essential for art-market success

Tribeca Gallery Night brings together more than 80 spaces

The influx to the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood includes three recent arrivals

Artists turn to textiles as they excavate history at Nada New York

Various stands at the fair explore textiles' capacity to bring history to the senses

Independent art fair makes the most of more spacious digs

The fair has nearly doubled its footprint at its new location on the East River, offering exhibitors and collectors more room while allowing for larger site-specific artistic interventions

In Pictures: New Museum curator Gary Carrion-Murayari’s Frieze favourites

The New Museum’s senior curator takes us around the fair, highlighting works by Arthur Simms, Pedro Neves and others

New York institutions offer nuanced and inclusive views of US’s 250th birthday

Museums across the city have organised shows dedicated to the history of the American Revolution, featuring at least three historical copies of the Declaration of Independence—but some are focusing on the present day, too

Photographer Giles Duley brings images of historic and current wars into dialogue in Manhattan pop-up show

For a pop-up exhibition in a penthouse apartment high above Midtown, the British photographer is showing archival materials, his own photos and three room-sized installations

‘Blood can either be a connective tissue or something used for division’: Jordan Eagles on his show at Pioneer Works

The artist uses the Mets baseball team and his own blood to explore his battle for belonging and the politics of health

Sophie Rivera's first survey focuses on experimentation

The show at El Museo del Barrio seeks to introduce audiences to a more playful and exploratory side of her work

'I get strong gut reactions': Jonathan Travis on what he collects and why

The art collector and realtor, who has helped dozens of galleries relocate to Tribeca and co-founded the Wolf Hill artist residency, craves a Caravaggio but could do without art-fair small talk

New fund helps museums make purchases at Frieze New York

The Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art both acquired works with assistance from the Sherman Family Foundation Acquisition Fund

Latin American galleries dominate at Frieze New York

Despite mounting costs and political pressures, exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere are bringing their artists’ work to the city—with the fair committed to representing the region

A reading room for the Epstein files opens in New York

A display of more than 3,000 volumes of printed-out files seeks to inform the public about the sex offender's multifarious entanglements

Dinosaurs roam New York’s Bowery

The fossilised skeletons make an unusual incursion into a downtown gallery, meeting John Chamberlain's twisted-metal forms

Esther fair goes out on top

The indie art fair with Estonian roots is once again making the most of its Beaux-Arts setting and collaborative spirit

In Pictures: the best of Venice at Frieze New York

It is not only many of the fairgoers at Frieze New York who are fresh off the plane from the Venice Biennale. Quite a few of the works on the stands at the Shed are by artists who have just made a splash in Koyo Kouoh’s central exhibition 'In Minor Keys', at national pavilions or in collateral shows in Venice

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are given a voice by New York's Metropolitan Opera

A new production, loosely based on the artists' lives, is accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art—both visually imagined by the set and costume designer Jon Bausor

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‘The content, material and form support each other’: Sandy Rodriguez on her Hispanic Society Museum show

The Los Angeles-based Chicana artist employs centuries-old Indigenous processes for making maps and other materials

Garment, body and space merge in Iris van Herpen’s first major New York show

The Dutch couturier blends art and fashion with nature and technology

'Trusting that first reaction is important': Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska on the process of collecting

The co-founders of the design gallery Studiotwentyseven view collecting as an instinctive process, regret missing out on a Nick Cave sculpture and covet a Basquiat

Nine shows to see during Frieze New York

Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city

A sonic tribute to the act of speech on New York City’s Roosevelt Island

An installation by the sound artist Hans Rosenström at Four Freedoms Park uses the human voice to meditate on space and freedom

Cai Guo-Qiang joins White Cube

The Chinese artist presents a new iteration of his gunpowder paintings at Tefaf New York

New York’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair focuses on Afro-Brazilian art

A special section at the fair seeks to deepen visitors’ understanding of “the largest Black country outside the African continent”, says curator Igor Simões

Underground Railroad stop in New York threatened by real-estate development

Construction next door to the Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan could damage its historic secret hiding place

New York art world spared worst of logistics woes

While the war in Iran has complicated art-market activities in the Middle East, the impact on this month’s fairs appears minimal