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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hometown Galleries Shine at Armory Show
The fall art season is officially underway with the opening of The Armory Show. With more than two hundred exhibitors, the fair can be overwhelming, so it helps to go in with a plan, and we are here to help.
At Ki Smith, A Rexamination of Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s Orisha/Santos
Not seen since 1985, Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s installation Orisha/Santos: An Artistic Interpretation of the Seven African Powers now at Ki Smith Gallery in the LES.
Last Swipe: NYC’s Farecard Artists Face Extinction as the MTA Eliminates the Beloved MetroCard
A peculiar New York City art form that has thrived for decades at the intersection of transportation, art and culture now faces the end of the line.
Exaltation, at Plato Gallery in the LES
Now at Plato gallery on the Lower East Side, Exaltation, curated by gallery owner Elena Platonova.
Beyond Times Square, Jane Dickson’s Other Oeuvre
Almost 50 years after she arrived on 43rd Street and two decades after she quit it, Dickson’s non-Times Square work is drawing new attention. And it’s about time.
Mapplethorpe Unbound: Rediscovered S&M Images Surface in New York City
The portfolio of Robert Mapplethorpe outtakes, held privately for decades, is being shown for the first time by the Kinsey Institute.
MoMA's Duchamp Retrospective: The Return of Art’s Ultimate Disruptor
Next spring, MoMA will present Marcel Duchamp, a sprawling retrospective of the great provocateur’s work.