New York
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s cemetery art restored in the Bronx
The Untermyer Memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery contains evocative bronze sculptures created by the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Brooklyn Museum’s $48m energy-efficiency retrofit is latest in New York City’s effort to cut emissions
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism
The Puffin Foundation Center for New York Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape
New York's Split Level art fair returns to Madison Avenue design showroom for second edition
The fair is once again taking over Rimadesio’s design showroom, giving pride of place to young galleries with a focus on experimentation and affordability
Staten Island's historic Britton Cottage gets $2.1m transformation
Over 350 years old, the property once belonged to the founders of the New York Botanical Garden
A friend's ode to Jean-Michel Basquiat privileges sound over sight
Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show is a syncopated story about his famous artist friend
At The Armory Show, emerging galleries are clear-eyed about the risks and rewards of doing fairs
The fair’s Presents section for younger galleries, often among its most vibrant sectors, features bold stands organised by ambitious dealers who understand the costs of doing business
More than just fun and games at the Spring Break art fair in New York
Under the theme “Hide ’n Seek”, the show's latest Manhattan edition uses childhood whimsy to draw audiences into serious topics like colonialism, psychology and the destruction of the planet
Perfect posture? MoMA exhibition explores perspectives on body politics in public spaces
Seven contemporary artists respond to Marianne Wex’s groundbreaking 1970s feminist work on body language in the New York show
From the flower field to the infinity room: a story of Yayoi Kusama’s journey to becoming a superstar artist
Discouraged from pursuing an artistic career as a young woman, Kusama went on to inspire millions with her performances, installations, paintings and more
James Cohan Gallery becomes Norr Cohan as founders step back
Longtime senior director David Norr assumes sole ownership following a years-long leadership transition
New York City’s 2027 budget includes record $323m for culture
Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations
At New York’s Swiss Institute, SoiL Thornton ponders the role an art institution can play in the face of a housing crisis
The artist’s exhibition is based around their own experience of facing eviction
New York’s Cathedral of St John the Divine unveils delicate artistic tribute to city’s unhoused population
Nisha Bansil’s sculpture, made up of more than 50,000 glass ginkgo leaves, draws attention to the city’s more than 100,000 unhoused citizens
New York City’s oldest library refreshes its historic home
The 272-year-old New York Society Library’s patrons have included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton
Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show
Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer explores the decades-long relationship between the Italian artist and Rosenberg's father
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
Frieze New York Diary: celeb sightings and a swag-filled party
Plus Kite's musical ensemble leads visitors through the Shed
Frieze New York Diary: a charity sale and rogue underwear
Plus Lucy's Liu's 'Hard Feelings'
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
Public art blossoms around New York
From the High Line to Brooklyn Bridge Park, artists are thinking big across the five boroughs
Beware the technology rat trap: Cooper Jacoby’s standout contribution to New York’s Whitney Biennial
The US artist’s sculptures explore the ways in which AI behemoths and other corporations turn our data into financial assets
Restored Victorian greenhouse links Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery to its living neighbours
Opening this weekend, the Green-House incorporates a historic 1895 cast-iron and glass structure and serves as the “new front door” to the famed burial ground
Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum
The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away
Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor
The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today”
Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector
The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists
The new New Museum: now with twice the space
The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon
New York State Museum begins $150m modernisation project
A new era of exhibitions and infrastructure upgrades is coming to the oldest and largest state museum in the US
Show on fantastical neoclassicist Johan Tobias Sergel heads to Stockholm and New York
Little known outside his native Sweden, the artist was a master of marble, but also created grotesque and erotic drawings





























