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A Brief History of Banksy's Christmas Interventions: Is UPDATE: Banksy Confirms His 2026 Gift
J. Scott Orr 12/21/25 J. Scott Orr 12/21/25

A Brief History of Banksy's Christmas Interventions: Is UPDATE: Banksy Confirms His 2026 Gift

For nearly two decades, Banksy has used the holiday season to stage interventions aimed at highlighting injustice in the face of the retail sentimentality machine. This could be his 2025 gift.

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Holiday Shopping at Sotheby's: All I Want for Christmas Is a Shot Marilyn
J. Scott Orr 12/16/25 J. Scott Orr 12/16/25

Holiday Shopping at Sotheby's: All I Want for Christmas Is a Shot Marilyn

Sotheby’s latest exhibition at its new global headquarters in the Breuer Building on Madison Avenue has a combined market value in excess of $2 billion.

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The Aerosol Awakening: Shepard Fairey On Street Art’s Infiltration of Miami Art Week
Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/7/25 Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/7/25

The Aerosol Awakening: Shepard Fairey On Street Art’s Infiltration of Miami Art Week

As street art gains traction in the elite word of Miami Art Week fairs, Shepard Fairey and other artists take time to reflect on the gains.

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In Miami, Street Art’s Unstoppable Ascension
Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/7/25 Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/7/25

In Miami, Street Art’s Unstoppable Ascension

Once an afterthought, the street art component of Miami Art Week finally seems ready to assert itself.

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Seven Things Not to Miss at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025
Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/3/25 Fairs J. Scott Orr 12/3/25

Seven Things Not to Miss at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

VIPs swarmed the Miami Convention Center Wednesday for the 23rd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, which comes at a time of angst and uncertainty in the fine art market.

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Art Week Miami 2025 - Wynwood: Where the Streets Still Matter
Fairs J. Scott Orr 11/30/25 Fairs J. Scott Orr 11/30/25

Art Week Miami 2025 - Wynwood: Where the Streets Still Matter

While the moneyed collectors and elite gallerists at the big art fairs in Miami Beach, the pulse of Miami Art Week beats just as hard a few miles inland in Wynwood.

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Miami Art Week 2025: Your Essential Guide to the Fairs, Exhibits, and Chaos
Fairs J. Scott Orr 11/25/25 Fairs J. Scott Orr 11/25/25

Miami Art Week 2025: Your Essential Guide to the Fairs, Exhibits, and Chaos

The art world makes its annual southern pilgrimage December 2-7, and for seven days, Miami becomes the proving ground where reputations are minted, careers launched, and the very definition of contemporary art is contested. Here’s your guide.

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Keith Haring Returns to His East Village Roots at the Brant Foundation
Artists J. Scott Orr 11/22/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 11/22/25

Keith Haring Returns to His East Village Roots at the Brant Foundation

Keith Haring opens March 11, 2026, at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 421 East 6th Street, East Village.

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At Hauser & Wirth: Franz Gertsch’s Monumental Patti Smiths
Artists J. Scott Orr 11/13/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 11/13/25

At Hauser & Wirth: Franz Gertsch’s Monumental Patti Smiths

Two monumental portraits of Patti Smith dominate Franz Gertsch. Presence, which runs through January 31, at Hauser & Wirth, 134 Wooster Street, Soho.

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Joan Mitchell's Dark Mediterranean: “That Awful Thing Called Nature”
Artists J. Scott Orr 11/10/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 11/10/25

Joan Mitchell's Dark Mediterranean: “That Awful Thing Called Nature”

Mitchell's "black paintings" on view at David Zwirner in Chelsea are far more psychologically complex than mere impressions of seascapes and shorelines.

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Louise Bourgeois’s Psychological Abstraction at Hauser & Wirth
Artists J. Scott Orr 11/7/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 11/7/25

Louise Bourgeois’s Psychological Abstraction at Hauser & Wirth

Beyond spiders and cells, the mega-gallery focuses on an often overlooked segment of Bourgeois's decades-long career through January 24.

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Espace Louis Vuitton New York Pop-Up: Impressionist Painter and Patron Gustave Caillebotte
Artists J. Scott Orr 10/29/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 10/29/25

Espace Louis Vuitton New York Pop-Up: Impressionist Painter and Patron Gustave Caillebotte

Louis Vuitton unveils its first New York art exhibition: two Gustave Caillebotte masterpieces installed on the fifth floor of its temporary 57th Street store.

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Paul Richard Pops Up in a Posh UES Townhouse
Artists J. Scott Orr 10/26/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 10/26/25

Paul Richard Pops Up in a Posh UES Townhouse

Paul Richard turns up in the most unlikely of places, like perched on top of a wet bar in a tony townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side. That's where he was the other day, showing his latest work.

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Fine Art Meets Street Art: The New Museum’s Freeman Alley Gambit
Museums J. Scott Orr 10/19/25 Museums J. Scott Orr 10/19/25

Fine Art Meets Street Art: The New Museum’s Freeman Alley Gambit

If you want to dine at the New Museum’s high-end restaurant when it opens this fall, you’ll have to walk through New York's premiere graffiti spot to get there.

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Flora Yukhnovich Coast to Coast: From Gilded Age Manhattan to LA’s Right Now
Artists J. Scott Orr 10/19/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 10/19/25

Flora Yukhnovich Coast to Coast: From Gilded Age Manhattan to LA’s Right Now

Flora Yukhnovich is featured amid the great masters of The Frick Collection in New York followed by the opening of a solo show at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles.

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Art for Nobody's Sake: The 59th Street Bridge Anonymous. UPDATE: Mystery solved.
J. Scott Orr 9/30/25 J. Scott Orr 9/30/25

Art for Nobody's Sake: The 59th Street Bridge Anonymous. UPDATE: Mystery solved.

UPDATE: Mystery solved. Someone hung a spectacular photography exhibition on the approach to the 59th Street Bridge and didn't bother signing it.

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When Down Was Up: Revisiting '80s NYC at Lévy Gorvy Dayan
Artists J. Scott Orr 9/23/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 9/23/25

When Down Was Up: Revisiting '80s NYC at Lévy Gorvy Dayan

Lévy Gorvy Dayan's Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties captures a "messy, contradictory, and occasionally brutal" era in NYC art.

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Man Ray's Revolutionary Vision Gets Its Due at the Met
Artists J. Scott Orr 9/20/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 9/20/25

Man Ray's Revolutionary Vision Gets Its Due at the Met

In "Man Ray: When Objects Dream" the Met gives Man Ray and his rayographs their props. It’s about time.

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Joe Iurato: A Trouble Maker With Hope at Taglialatella
Artists J. Scott Orr 9/19/25 Artists J. Scott Orr 9/19/25

Joe Iurato: A Trouble Maker With Hope at Taglialatella

Joe Iurato’s Trouble Maker runs through October 10th at Taglialatella Galleries, 229 10th Avenue, Chelsea, New York City.

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It’s Born to be Wild, But Street Art Doesn’t Always Stay That Way
J. Scott Orr 9/14/25 J. Scott Orr 9/14/25

It’s Born to be Wild, But Street Art Doesn’t Always Stay That Way

The complicated story of how street art finds its way from alley walls into private collections.

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