New York

New York’s Hotel Chelsea honors the late artist Teruko Yokoi with new restaurant

The artist’s former residence opens a restaurant named Teruko this month, featuring her works

Asian galleries move westward: their growing presence and influence in New York

After more than a decade of Western dealers expanding to Hong Kong and Seoul, an inverse dynamic is playing out in the US with a new infusion of energy from Asia

Keeping it in the family: never-before-seen Picasso works to go on show in New York with help from artist's descendants

Exhibitions at Gagosian and Almine Rech will open this spring, featuring work never before displayed in public

Frieze New York shows signs of stability in challenging US art market

Alongside the Frieze fair, a growing cohort of satellite events and weeks of auctions attest to the resilience of the trade in a turbulent macroeconomic climate

The nonconformist: Ben Shahn is honoured in a ‘homecoming’ show at New York's Jewish Museum

The US artist and activist tackled the social issues of his time, from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War

British artist Thomas J Price brings a contemplative colossus to Times Square

The monumental figurative sculpture "Grounded in the Stars" is on show in New York until 17 June

Collections of two leading dealers, Barbara Gladstone and Daniella Luxembourg, hit the auction blocks in New York

Sotheby’s will sell the works from collection of Gladstone, who died last year, and more than a dozen pieces from Luxembourg’s New York home

Diaryblog

The story of the Met’s ‘missing’ Banksy

The New York museum’s former security head admits to taking the street artist's work after it was illicitly hung on the wall in 2005

Arts Clubfeature

Arts clubs: the art world’s best kept secret—and not just for artists, dealers and curators

Though primarily a haven for artists and the like, arts clubs also have a lively programme of exhibitions and events—usually free—for members of the public

Patti Smith plays rally at Elizabeth Street Garden to protest imminent eviction

The Manhattan sculpture garden was denied an injunction against eviction under the Visual Artist Rights Act

Booksreview

Publication reveals there was more to photographer Weegee than his grim crime scene images

A comprehensive overview explores the “paradox” of Weegee’s work and how he went from taking tabloid photos of murder to making distorted celebrity portraits

The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast

A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master

In her comeback show, painter Seung Ah Paik renders her body as a map

After stepping away from the art world and starting a family, the artist is having her first solo show in New York with Gratin and showing two new paintings at Art Basel Hong Kong with Bortolami

Lawsuit to halt demolition of Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden claims it is a protected ‘physical and social sculpture’

Activists say the Visual Artist Rights Act covers the garden, which the city wants to destroy to make way for affordable mixed-use housing

Art marketfeature

Sharing is caring: the New York dealers who are joining forces

Collaborating on projects and sharing spaces allows smaller galleries to keep costs down—and to learn from each other

Neue Galerie in New York examines the New Objectivity movement that emerged in 1920s Germany

The show will contrast the approach of the so-called Verists, such as George Grosz and Otto Dix, with the Classicists, such as Eberhard Viegener

Tribeca galleries damaged in two-alarm fire

The Journal Gallery and Asya Geisberg Gallery, both located at 45 White Street in Manhattan, were both impacted by an outbreak of flames

'Frank conversations on certain topics can lead to real prison terms': Russian artist duo finds haven on Long Island

Dmitry Okruzhnov and Maria Sharova, who opposed Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, are now working from a New York studio

Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored

Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment

Manhattan District Attorney's Office returns antiquities worth a total of $500,000 to Mexico

The trove of 30 Mesoamerican objects includes a ceremonial trophy for the first ball game

Phillips's contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m

The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell

Art marketfeature

Auction houses expect this month's New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

Booksreview

Dealer’s memoir offers a wild ride through the 1960s New York art scene

Michael Findlay reveals his art world beginnings as a lucky 18-year-old Scot in the Big Apple

New York's Kallir institute opens new home dedicated to Austrian and German Modernists

The Manhattan-based centre, which builds on legacy of Otto Kallir’s Galerie St Etienne, is making its vast library and archives available to scholars

Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden

Elizabeth Street Garden can stay open for two more weeks as volunteers try to prevent its demolition

Podcast | A brush with… Robert Longo

An in-depth interview with "collision" artist Robert Longo, who explains the process behind his responses to works by everyone from Jackson Pollock to Rembrandt

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
Sponsored byBloomberg Connects
Diaryblog

Subversive art hidden in plain sight in Times Square

Patrick Amadon slipped a message about Gaza into his New York billboard

Lucien Smith will re-create New York's legendary artist-run restaurant FOOD

The artist-run eatery, which catered to the Manhattan art community in the 1970s, will be revived this autumn in Chinatown

The Big Review: Chicago exhibition captures Georgia O’Keeffe's love of cityscapes

From her Manhattan skyscraper studio, the grande dame of American Modernism painted the city below with aplomb