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

Theatrereview

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

Art fairsreview

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

Obituariesfeature

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

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

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 artfeature

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”

Art marketfeature

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