New York
How Walt Disney’s love of Rococo transformed animation
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores how the legendary film-maker came to be inspired by French decorative arts
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
Frida Kahlo breaks record for a Latin American artist in Sotheby's $238m Modern art sale
While the auction's star lots included the $34.9m Kahlo and four Monets, the most aggressive bidding was on works by Alexander Calder and Pierre Soulages
The top four art documentaries at DOC NYC
The documentary festival includes films about Jesse Krimes, Eadweard Muybridge and the fraught power dynamics of making money from art
Arthur Jafa’s new film—a post-human slow-motion seascape—defies expectations and honours the Black voice
'I wanted to prove that you could take younger artists and have it work out for the gallery': exhibition opens in tribute to influential New York gallerist Martha Jackson
Show aims to draw more attention to the overlooked work of the postwar Manhattan-based art dealer whose gallery is now occupied by Hauser & Wirth
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
Queens Museum director on its transformative expansion and learning from the pandemic
Led by Sally Tallant, the community-focused museum is building a new educational centre thanks to a $26.4m grant from New York City
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From gilded figures at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library to Christo at Galerie Gmurzynska
New blood reinvigorates MoMA leadership
The museum has appointed four impressive women who are breathing new life into the curatorial, education and outreach divisions, including 23-year MoMA veteran Sarah Suzuki.
Another Botticelli hits the market: Sotheby's to sell Botticelli's The Man of Sorrows for in excess of $40m
Auction house will sell the painting in January and is dubbing it "The defining masterpiece of Botticelli's late career". But what exactly does that mean?
Manhattan exhibition combats view of Iran as 'hostile anti-American state'
Asia Society group show from Mohammed Akfami collection shows 'great diversity' of Iran’s often unseen arts scene
New York’s Hispanic Society gears up for its second act
The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon
Seeing double: huge Jasper Johns retrospective opens in two cities, 100 miles apart
Simultaneous shows in New York and Philadelphia cover the artist's seven-decade career and include more than 550 works in total
Tacita Dean's 'museum-worthy' show at Marian Goodman Gallery kickstarts New York's autumn season with intimate portrait of Luchita Hurtado
Hurtado, who was 99 at the time of the film, spoke to Dean about loss, her 13 cats and a stolen Picasso drawing
Sotheby's wins 'dogfight' to sell $600m art collection of Harry and Linda Macklowe
Auction house will sell the 65 works, including $70m works by Rothko and Giacometti, in two standalone sales in November and next May
Who will wear the hottest mask at the Met Gala? Museum charts a more intimate, health-conscious fundraiser
New and noteworthy: see what the Armory Show's younger galleries are bringing to the fair
In the Presents section, galleries founded within the past ten years present solo or dual-artist shows. Here are some works to look out for this year
Institutionalising 9/11: The Outsider documents Ground Zero museum’s contentious formation in Facebook premiere
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, a new film follows the challenges behind the making of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York
The complex journeys of Nazi-looted art are revealed in new exhibition
Stories of how works by Matisse, Cézanne, Chagall and others moved around during Second World War are told at New York's Jewish Museum
The dep-Art-ment store: New York gets new gallery hub within Barneys former flagship store
Tefaf New York's former co-owners will launch the five-storey Art House this November with space for 60 galleries and a member's club—a similar model to London's Cromwell Place
Regrouping after pandemic shut down its new home, International Center of Photography in New York names its next director
David E. Little, who heads Amherst College’s museum, has experience in fund-raising, educating and curating at multiple US institutions
Safani Gallery's lawsuit against Italy over disputed antiquity dismissed in court
The New York-based gallery sued after US authorities seized a bust of Alexander the Great in 2018. The sculpture's ownership and future remains unresolved
Bring your sunscreen and your opera glasses: Lithuanian pavilion performance comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music
The piece that won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale will start a tour of the US in New York this September
Even past the pandemic, New York museum directors plan to continue collaborative conversations
During a regular conference call, the heads of the city’s institutions will keep conferring on finances, social justice concerns, and community needs
Want to escape New York for the weekend? Here’s what to see at the Second Saturday Hudson Gallery Crawl
Galleries are hosting artist receptions, shops and restaurants are open late and buskers will line the streets of the upstate city
The best art day trips you can take from Berlin, London and New York
From crumbling castles to beach huts and giant chalk drawings on the English coast, there's no need for PCR tests if you live near these local gems
A ghost forest and a predator: New York public art grows a conscience
New sculptures in the city by Maya Lin and Sam Durant are not just pretty
Roosevelt equestrian statue will leave American Museum of Natural History soon
A unanimous vote by the New York City Public Design Commission has cleared the way for the controversial statue’s removal to a new home dedicated to the former US president