It’s difficult to avoid hyperbole when describing this grandest of all art fairs - Art Basel turns 21.

A new book from East Village photographer Daniel Root, New York Bars at Dawn, captures watering holes in the Lower East Side and across New York City at their most revealing.

Beggars Banquet a group art show that defies expectations opens Nov. 20, 6 to 9 p.m., at Not For Them, 28 Locust Street, Brooklyn.

Almost 40 years after they were created, more than 30 collaborative works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel return to New York as part of Basquiat x Warhol at the Brant Foundation in the East Village.

Best in Show, the current installation at Fotografiska New York celebrates the eternal bond between people and animals and highlights how animals and artists can form special partnerships. 

New work by NYC street art legend Al Diaz and Danny Cortez, the emerging superstar of hyperrealistic urban grit sculpture, at Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard Street, opening Friday, Oct. 20, 6 PM.

DAIN is a second generation New York street artist whose practice draws largely on a pair of divergent influences: the chaos and grit of 1980s New York City and the lost urbanity of golden age Hollywood.

Contemporary art icons Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol will be reunited in the East Village on Nov. 1 in a show at The Brant Foundation.

A solo show of work by Norwegian street artist Martin Whatson runs through September at Harman Projects, 210 Rivington Street, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Ed Ruscha / Now Then, a monumental, career-spanning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, pays due appreciation to Ruscha’s early fascination with Route 66’s fuel franchises before accelerating to trace the 85-year-old pop art pioneer’s six-decade career.

The work of Barkley L. Hendricks, the American contemporary artist whose early portraits captured the courage, strength and style of Black America at a critical moment in its history, is featured in a widely anticipated solo exhibition at the Frick Madison.

Love and Science, an exhibition of new works by William Nelson, is on display at Cavalier Gallery through Sept. 30.

Lichtenstein Remembered at Gogosian’s Madison Avenue gallery features some 20 sculptures, along with a number of framed studies.

Joey Tepedino solo-exhibition entitled Macrocosmic Minds opens Sept 21 at Hal Bromm’s Tribeca gallery.

Park Avenue is home to sanctioned, fine-art installation on the street and the transitory, outlaw work in the shadowy tunnel below.

Open now at Mindy Solomon Gallery on the outskirts of Miami’s Wynwood art district, Natalia Arbelaez’s show La Mujer, La Warmi, y La Lady.

Ode to Duchamp; a Liar is the latest solo show Ryan Bock at the Lower East Side’s Ki Smith Gallery

Big Nudes, the latest solo show by New York–based artist/photographer Heji Shin, at 52 Walker, the David Zwirner satellite location in downtown Manhattan near Broadway and Canal.

Kris Hull has emerged in the last year as New York City’s street art pianist.

The city’s fall art season is more than a month away, but news from Frieze and new entrant PHOTOFAIRS New York promise to make the Javits Center the epicenter of the global art world this September.