New York City
Punching bag bearing name of convicted dealer Mary Boone features in New York show on Basquiat’s found objects
Nahmad Contemporary exhibition brings together works made from detritus dotted around the city’s streets and subways
The 2022 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The latest iteration of the Whitney Museum's closely-watched exhibition is structured around a contrast between light and dark, but a few motifs provide alternate ways of navigating the massive show
Five New York shows explore the pandemic’s effects two years after the city's first Covid-19 lockdowns
From Renate Aller’s touching photos of sidewalk gatherings to Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu’s vaccine-inspired Mongol Zurag paintings, artists are reflecting on the darkest days of the initial outbreak
Laurie Cumbo, city council member who founded a museum in Brooklyn, tapped to lead New York’s cultural affairs department
New York mayor Eric Adams has allegedly selected Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, to lead the largest municipal arts department in the US
Anna Sorokin, art world scammer facing deportation from US, is the star of New York exhibition
The pop-up show ‘Free Anna Delvey’ includes a work Sorokin made in prison, as well as pieces by dozens of other artists
Can New York's imminent salary transparency law pierce the art world's smokescreen?
City council's move to enforce wage disclosures in job adverts could usher in a sea change at major US cultural institutions—challenging persistent pay inequality in the sector
A museum exhibition on Woody Guthrie proves the artist’s message is as relevant today as during the Depression era
The show includes original artwork, handwritten lyrics, musical instruments and previously unpublished written works.
Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton and other artists to create works for New York's LaGuardia airport
The commissions are part of a $12m art budget for a new terminal at the Queens airport
‘We want to have romances with many people’: art space focused on forging alliances to open in New York
The Center for Art, Research and Alliances, or CARA, will launch in June with a series of public events at its West Village headquarters
Studio residency at the World Trade Center reserves space for formerly incarcerated artists
Silver Art Projects, which operates a year-long residency program at the Lower Manhattan office complex, has received support for the initiative from Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund
Liz Larner’s Corner Basher channels the helpless and hopeful rage of our day
The artist’s 1988 kinetic, participatory sculpture—which is included in a new survey show at SculptureCenter in New York—is temperamentally attuned to the prevailing moods of 2022
Employees at New York City’s Jewish Museum vote to unionise
The union, if approved, will cover include workers across front-facing, administrative and curatorial departments, among others
Caviar with your crypto? World’s ‘first NFT restaurant’ planned in New York
Access to the members-only restaurant will be available only to holders of limited-edition non-fungible tokens
US museums close or reduce capacity as Omicron variant causes surge in Covid-19 cases
The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily
Afghan Girl cameraman Steve McCurry fears for a world without photojournalism
Fabled Magnum photojournalist expresses continued belief in Western documentary photography as film on his life premieres at DOC NYC
In the Bronx Museum’s biennial, artists grapple with constraints on creativity during Covid-19
A meditation on the practice of everyday life in uncertain times, the show features 68 artists who participated in the museum’s fellowship
A new period room at the Metropolitan Museum examines history through an Afrofuturist lens
Lead curator Hannah Beachler’s imaginative long-term installation brings past, present and future into dialogue
Jon Isherwood's marble sculptures usher feeling of community on New York's most famous street
Eight sculptures, depicting various gigantic blooming flowers, give viewers the chance to interact with public art, and with each other
Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper
The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection
New York City museums will require employees and visitors to provide proof of vaccination
Mayor’s order will be enforced starting on 13 September after a public education campaign
Fourth suicide shuts down New York’s towering Vessel yet again
Critics fault developers for not raising the barriers around the steps of the spiralling 150ft-tall structure to prevent deaths
Workers at the Hispanic Society vote overwhelmingly to unionise
Employees at the New York institution join a phalanx of museum workers in the region seeking representation
Clean, seamless and free from distraction: VR exhibition opens UBS corporate collection of blue-chip art to the public
Presented on Artland's virtual reality platform, the works on show are a time capsule of the downtown New York art scene—our expert panel review the experience
New-York Historical Society presents plans for $140m expansion, including a home for a new LGBTQ museum
Design envisages over 70,000 sq. ft of space for classrooms, collection study areas and the fledgling museum, as well as underground library storage
New York investigators hand over 27 smuggled art objects valued at $3.8m to Cambodia
Charges are pending against two New York-based antiquities dealers linked to the objects
Free zine fair brings countercultural publications and composting workshops to New York’s East Village this summer
The fair will include multiple free activities and community garden programs and a wealth of independent local publishers
Facing protest, Museum of Chinese in America cancels exhibition about Asian American art collective Godzilla
Members of the collective argue that the museum implicitly supported construction of a jail
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander
Thirty-seven years with Richard Feigen: the dealer who was a collector first—and sold to feed his habit
Frances Beatty remembers a mentor who would rather give you a lecture on Max Beckmann or Peter Saul than sell you a Van Gogh, but who could do both