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Auction houses expect this month's New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

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Dealer’s memoir offers a wild ride through the 1960s New York art scene

Michael Findlay reveals his art world beginnings as a lucky 18-year-old Scot in the Big Apple

New York's Kallir institute opens new home dedicated to Austrian and German Modernists

The Manhattan-based centre, which builds on legacy of Otto Kallir’s Galerie St Etienne, is making its vast library and archives available to scholars

Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden

Elizabeth Street Garden can stay open for two more weeks as volunteers try to prevent its demolition

Podcast | A brush with… Robert Longo

An in-depth interview with "collision" artist Robert Longo, who explains the process behind his responses to works by everyone from Jackson Pollock to Rembrandt

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects
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Subversive art hidden in plain sight in Times Square

Patrick Amadon slipped a message about Gaza into his New York billboard

Lucien Smith will re-create New York's legendary artist-run restaurant FOOD

The artist-run eatery, which catered to the Manhattan art community in the 1970s, will be revived this autumn in Chinatown

The Big Review: Chicago exhibition captures Georgia O’Keeffe's love of cityscapes

From her Manhattan skyscraper studio, the grande dame of American Modernism painted the city below with aplomb

Largest Morandi exhibition in almost 20 years to open in New York

The show, organised by the Italian dealer Mattia de Luca, coincides with the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death

Despite art market ‘doomsayers’, Armory Show dealers see signs of 'a good turnaround' in opening sales

Works at price points up to the high six figures found buyers during the VIP preview of the fair’s first edition fully under the Frieze corporate umbrella

Neighbours fight to save Soho sculpture garden

The Elizabeth Street Garden, founded by a local gallerist more than 30 years ago, is scheduled to be demolished to make way for housing

How a new US art fair nearly ‘sold out’—without any money changing hands

By signing an inventive contract, visitors to the new fair can take home pieces of art at no charge, while artists are allowed to keep rights on the work

Here's what galleries will bring to The Armory Show's 30th-anniversary edition

New York's largest art fair is welcoming both a new director and a new floor plan

New York City’s 2025 budget includes a record $254m for culture

Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month

The Week in Art podcast | Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York, Studio Voltaire at 30, Martha Jungwirth responds to Goya

We discuss O'Keeffe’s deeply personal renderings of Manhattan cityscapes and skyscrapers, plus look back at Studio Voltaire’s achievements and talk to a curator about a bold Jungwirth still life

The Armory Show lines up 235 galleries for 30th edition, including 55 first-time exhibitors

The fair, now in its second iteration since being acquired by Frieze, remains New York's largest

Officials in New York return antiquities worth $14m to Pakistan

Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale

Collector Ron Perelman sold $963m worth of art to pay off debt

Recently unsealed court filings show 71 works by artists like Basquiat, Twombly and Giacometti were unloaded over a two-year period

Art world power players reportedly encouraged New York mayor to send police to pro-Palestine student protests

Chat logs from a private WhatsApp group created by billionaire Barry Sternlicht were leaked to the Washington Post last week

America as you've never seen it before: the Dutch settlement of New York from the Native American perspective

An exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum in the Netherlands marks 400 years since the colonisation of the city at the mouth of the Hudson River

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Margaret Lowengrund: a woman who left her mark

Manhattan print studio The Contemporaries and its founder helped to establish a mid-century market

One of the biggest social media jobs in the art world is now up for grabs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is on the hunt for a new social media manager

‘There were lots of parties here’: exhibition of Rauschenberg’s photographs opens at his former New York residence

The show in this deeply personal setting offers an insight into the artist‘s relationship to the medium that interested him above all others

‘It has all the capacity to move somebody’: fibre art celebrated in pop-up New York show

The exhibition, staged in the historic South Street Seaport district, brings textile works to an 18th-century warehouse

The New Art Dealers Alliance fair returns to New York’s Chelsea with off-the-wall works

The fair’s tenth edition features a critical mass of unusually arranged sculptures.

Booksreview

Ghosts of America’s ‘Street of Dreams’: a comprehensive book brings the history of New York’s Fifth Avenue to life

Established in the early 1800s, the street was once home to the city’s grandest houses, but many were soon replaced by towering apartment buildings, shops and hotels. A comprehensive book brings this history to life