New York Spring Fairs 2023

Ceramics take centre stage at Spring Break’s 'secret' New York pop-up

The exhibition, in the upstart fair's original venue, features a dazzling array of fun and wonky table-top sculptures

‘Like a striptease’: Gypsy Rose Lee’s legacy lives on as her works remain elusive

New York theatre producer attempts to collect works by women of a landmark 1943 exhibition

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Basquiat is (literally) back in fashion, as are $40,000 knitted sweaters for birds: New York Frieze Week gossip

Plus Hernan Bas's flamingo magnet obsession, Charles Gaines's proud professor moment and JR in AR

A cardboard Manhattan and a cosy log cabin: artists stand tall at Nada New York fair

Artists including Kambel Smith and Anya Paintsil were on hand to talk to visitors on the VIP day

The best works at Frieze New York, as chosen by curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

The California curator favours challenging media and juxtaposition in works that capture the present

A hot pink tree sculpture sprouts amid New York's leafy High Line

Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree is on show close to the Shed, Frieze New York's venue

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New York Frieze Week gossip: skipping the Kusama queue, a trafficstopper in pink and a megadealer loses out

Works by Kusama, Handforth and Basquiat cause a scene on the streets and at the auctions

Late real estate developer Gerald Fineberg’s collection comes up short at Christie’s New York

Despite the underwhelming result, the sale notched new auction records for Barkley Hendricks and Alma Thomas

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New York Frieze Week gossip: a Titanic remake, a critique of American football and an art-filled lemonade stand

Works by Dynasty Handbag, Matthew Barney and the Children’s Museum of the Arts capture both the sweet and sour

Is Frieze New York well placed to jolt an iffy art market?

Dealers hope the fair will create some momentum during a sluggish season

Works by Klimt and Magritte lead Sotheby’s stolid Modern art sales in New York

The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees

Manhattan to the Caribbean: 1-54 New York fair expands with group show in Chelsea

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opens largest ever US edition and adds concurrent exhibition of artists with Caribbean roots

Iranian women artists facing repression find platform at Frieze New York

Dastan Gallery's stand hosts works by five artists that interweave the personal and the political

Gallery pays tribute to America's lost abortion rights, 50 years after landmark Roe v Wade ruling

Michael Rosenfeld's Frieze New York booth features works by feminist artists from 1973

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

A homecoming for Abstract Expressionist Shirley Jaffe at Tefaf New York

The native Brooklynite, fêted in Europe, figures prominently on Nathalie Obadia’s stand at the fair

At Tefaf New York, dealers spotlight work by women

Gallerists at the fair say more collectors are invested in greater gender diversity among their holdings and are keen to invest in art by women

An overdue showcase for midcentury abstractionist Anna Walinska

A presentation at the American Art Fair puts Walinska in context with Elaine de Kooning and others

Dreams and nightmares abound at New York's Independent art fair

The latest spring edition of the fair places an emphasis on phantasmagorical figuration

A century of Ellsworth Kelly in pictures

As the American painter's 100th birthday approaches, a look back on his life and legacy in photos

An overdue retrospective for an artist in touch with America’s dark ‘underbelly’

Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour

‘Western Chinese restaurants are magical realist places’: Lap-See Lam on her first US solo exhibition

The artist’s video installation extrapolates a fantastical narrative from the kind of Chinese restaurant her own parents ran

Abstraction is ascendant at New York’s Future Fair

The fair, a haven for fresh painting, may signal a coming shift in the market power dynamic between representation and abstraction

Design dealers set the tone at Tefaf New York

Despite the fair’s small stands in comparison to its Dutch sister fair, gallerists are pairing art with functional design

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Auction houses anticipate $2.2bn from New York spring sales despite cooling market

Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms

Future Fair pays it forward with fund to support emerging galleries

The upstart fair proffers on-trend paintings for collectors and mutual aid for dealers

At New York’s Independent fair, opportunities to discover the overlooked and the emerging

The fair’s founder Elizabeth Dee wants to preserve its boutique identity while continuing to fill gaps in recent art history and launching a new print project

‘Nothing beats mileage for developing your own collecting vision’: Komal Shah on what she collects and why

Former tech executive and California collector dreams of purchasing the entire suite of Hilma af Klint paintings