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Mickalene Thomas’s ex-fiancée accuses the artist of sexual harassment and stealing millions of dollars from her
The curator and model Racquel Chevremont—who appeared on the latest season of ‘The Real Housewives of New York City’—is seeking at least $10m in damages
Gaza Biennale, featuring works by artists from the war-torn strip, will come to New York City
The roving exhibition—previously staged in London, Berlin, Athens and elsewhere—is a beacon of resilience amid destruction and turmoil
New York non-profit Art in General, shuttered since 2020, stages a comeback
While the nonprofit looks for a permanent space, it will host pop-up exhibitions and events throughout the city
Landmark George Morrison show foregrounds Abstract Expressionism’s debt to Native art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting the largest exhibition to date of works by the late Ojibwe painter
American Museum of Natural History announces free admission for low-income New Yorkers
The institution joins the city’s MoMA, Frick, Morgan Library and Jewish Museum in providing free admission to people on food stamps
Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator
The Frick veteran is particularly excited about all the new conservation spaces, created as part of the museum’s recent Selldorf-designed expansion
New York City art schools see surge in Gen Z applications
As economic uncertainty looms, young people are bucking former trends and betting on creativity
Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden to be preserved after about-face by New York mayor
Mayor Eric Adams has sought to demolish the Soho sculpture park in order to build affordable housing for seniors
Taste test: artist-made desserts will be shown (and eaten) in New York gallery’s one-night exhibition
The Lower East Side gallery Olympia has invited 33 artists to participate in “CAKE”, an ephemeral show and fundraising feast
New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan
Helmed by the philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and the founding director of Mass Moca, Joe Thompson, Canyon will open on the Lower East Side in 2026
‘Cultural innovation comes from the margins’—tales of artists pushing boundaries in 1960s New York
The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono
New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met
The Ethiopian American film-maker Sosena Solomon spent two years making short documentaries about specific heritage sites for the newly reopened wing
One of New York City’s oldest houses to open as its neighbourhood’s first museum
The Hendrick I. Lott House in southeast Brooklyn—former home to a family of enslavers who later made it a stop on the Underground Railroad—will undergo a major preservation and renovation project next year
Best-selling memoir about being a guard at the Metropolitan Museum takes the stage
Patrick Bringley’s Off-Broadway one-man show distils ‘All the Beauty in the World’ into an 80-minute meditation on art, life and human connection
In pictures: Frieze week public art puts Manhattan in the pink
From Lily Kwong's installation in Madison Square Park to John Chamberlain's follies at the Rockefeller Center, works are catching the eye across the borough
Ten top shows to see in New York during Frieze week
Our pick of exhibitions includes Rashid Johnson's biggest ever show, Amy Sherald at the Whitney and hypermasculinity in Nigerian culture
The future is sexy—at least in Syd Mead’s visionary science-fiction art
The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century
Mystery in Manhattan: why New York galleries are turning to intrigue this spring
Several dealers are taking a “less is more” attitude by, for example, giving little away in press releases—and it’s making a notable difference
The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre
The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community
Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation
The 90-year-old Manhattan institution—historic home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick—opens a new chapter, expanding gallery space and inviting the public into the Frick family’s former living quarters for the first time
Brooklyn Museum workers protest mass layoffs and alleged union-contract breaches
At least 100 people, including local politicians, gathered on Tuesday night to put pressure on museum leadership
Mel Bochner, conceptual artist known for text paintings and wry humour, has died, aged 84
Bochner was a pioneer of conceptual art, creating works rooted in information systems and decontextualised language
New arts centre opens in Brooklyn, housing three non-profits and a public library
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts has a large, fresh space at the L10 Arts and Cultural Center
New York takes first step towards landmarking Breuer building's interior
Sotheby’s, which bought the former home of the Whitney Museum last year, promises to respect the building’s “architectural significance” in its upcoming renovations
A bibliophile invites New Yorkers to engage with books that do not exist
A unique and artful exhibition of imaginary books is now on view at the Grolier Club
What dealers and art enthusiasts got out of the inaugural Chelsea Art Fair
The five-gallery fair was staged inside one of Manhattan's most famous hotels
Inside Manhattan’s most exclusive street art gallery
Since 2017, Wall Street trader Peter Tuchman has organised exhibitions of finance-themed works by street artists in a somewhat unlikely location
New public art partnership will link New York and Toronto
The forthcoming Lassonde Art Trail is teaming up with both the Public Art Fund and York University’s L.L. Odette Sculptor in Residence programme
New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing
The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial
$3.9m restoration project breaks ground in Brooklyn to preserve remnants of a 19th-century free Black community
Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration