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Has New York’s hot art market finally cooled?
Dealers at Frieze remain optimistic while noting a shift in collector behaviour
‘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
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
Podcast
New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs
Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London
Auctions
Louise Bourgeois's record-breaking $32.8m Spider crawls to top of Sotheby's contemporary art sale
A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection
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
Phillips scores $69.5m in New York evening sale, led by Banksy’s take on Basquiat
A painting by Noah Davis reached more than nine times its low estimate after a 12-minute bidding war
The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's
The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994
Fairs
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
When 1970s art feels current: new pop-up fair 'disrupts the usual fair week' in New York
That 70s Show includes only artists who were active during the titular decade
Nigerian artists stand out at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York
Twenty-six stands span the four floors at the fair’s new Harlem space
Diary
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
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
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
Artist interviews
Artist Aliza Nisenbaum on colour, Queens and how she makes her paintings 'glow'
The Mexico City-born painter has an exhibition at New York's Queens Museum as well as a new commission for LaGuardia Airport
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
How Cecily Brown breathed life back into painting for a new generation
Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium
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
'Sometimes even the vultures have nothing to feed on': Kenyan artists bring an ecological warning to Manhattan
New York exhibition Kenyan Collectives at Affirmation Arts focuses on existential threats to Kenya’s wildlife and water supply
From Harlem to Brooklyn: public art to see for free in New York this spring
The city's streets and parks are blossoming with sculptures
Collectors
'Slime Queen' collector Karen Robinovitz on her dream art purchase and the work hanging in her linen closet
Robinovitz's most recent art purchase was Yoora Lee painting from Half Gallery’s booth at Expo Chicago
'We should have bought Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room’: collectors James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach on the work that got away
The joint collection of the laywer and the investment manager spans the contemporary art world
‘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