New York City
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
New York City mayor’s aides allegedly pressured Brooklyn Museum to host Chinese history exhibition
A recent investigation found that Eric Adams’s office was involved in the scheme to mount a show about Sun Yat-sen with just one month’s notice
Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle
This could be the beginning of the end for the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden
New York arts non-profit launches three-year programme celebrating the city’s Latinx community
The Clemente’s ambitious ‘Historias’ project officially begins this weekend with a block party on the Lower East Side
Academy of Arts and Letters launches contemporary gallery at Manhattan headquarters
The space will open with an exhibition devoted to the late Conceptual artist Christine Kozlov
New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday
Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession
New York's Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects
A $4.3m renovation grant will help restore the historical Art Students League to its former glory
Man who claims he was injured in 'sprinkle pit' sues Museum of Ice Cream
A father who sustained a fracture during a visit to the immersive attraction in Manhattan in 2023 is suing the company for unspecified damages
New York City’s ‘first Ukrainian art gallery’ highlights artists living in the war zone
“Some of the works that we’re selling here, I’m very confident that in three years they will double in price,” says Mriya gallery founder Artem Yalanskiy
Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum
The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”
New York's Hispanic Society launches Goya Research Center
Headed by the Goya scholar Guillaume Kientz, the new project anticipates the 200th anniversary of the artist’s death in 2028
In Guggenheim exhibition, Jenny Holzer grapples with the post-internet world she helped inspire
A lacklustre show begs the question: can Holzer survive the scrutiny that her institutional exaltation invites in 2024?
Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86
An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylised drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings
Oyster sculptures and whale songs: exhibition on Governors Island explores the role of extraction in climate change
Jenny Kendler’s multidisciplinary project seeks kinship between humans and other animals
Manhattan dealers feud over client contacts
The founder of Tribeca’s 1969 Gallery claims a former employee has been contacting the gallery’s clients for his own business
Remembering Paul Auster, the ground-breaking novelist who fused art and literature
The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work
'Empty promises': art on Queens College campus in New York has languished in damaged state for decades
Staff allege that ongoing systemic issues have left the institution's art collection at risk—well before the City University of New York system could blame it all on lack of public funding
New York’s Independent art fair delivers an ‘adrenaline shot’ for dealers and collectors
Prices at the fair are ticking up, but that did not stop several galleries from selling out their stands during the VIP preview
Israeli music festival that Hamas attacked on 7 October is re-created in New York exhibit
An immersive exhibition brings the Nova Music Festival’s campgrounds—including tents and burned-out cars—to Lower Manhattan
Ex-husband of murdered gallerist Brent Sikkema arrested in New York
Daniel Sikkema has been accused of planning and paying for his ex-husband’s murder in Rio de Janeiro
Lucas Samaras, tirelessly adventurous New York artist, has died, aged 87
The Greek American artist was always willing to try new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, installation and more
Exhibition in Los Angeles unearths Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘graffiti time capsule’
Around 200 largely unseen images that the artist created in the early 1970s are on show at Los Angeles's Control Gallery
Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation
Ian Wardropper has been leading the museum since 2011, guiding it through its renovation and temporary relocation to the former Whitney Museum building
Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertips
Digital art platform Kinfolk has launched a four-artist exhibition that is available to view at designated sites through their application
As it marks its 20th anniversary, Madison Square Park's art programme will extend across Manhattan
The public art organisation will bring major sculptural installations to its namesake green space, and bring projects to other parks uptown
Frick Collection's fundraising for renovation and capital campaign reaches $242m
With 83% of its renovation fund raised, the museum is on target to reopen in its historic home in late 2024