In this week's episode, Ben Sutton and Kabir Jhala discuss this year's Frieze New York, other fairs across the city this week and the upcoming New York auctions. Ben Luke speaks to Martin Bailey about a Cranach painting discovered to have once hung in Hitler's home, and hears from Charlotte Keenan of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on a photography series by Ajamu X.
A new pop-up gallery blurs the line between party and exhibition as it brings out the suppressed queerness of right-wing aesthetics
Josh Kline’s recent essay revived a generations-old conversation about the city’s corrosive costs and stresses for artists, but having a foothold in Gotham remains essential for art-market success
The influx to the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood includes three recent arrivals
Various stands at the fair explore textiles' capacity to bring history to the senses
The fair has nearly doubled its footprint at its new location on the East River, offering exhibitors and collectors more room while allowing for larger site-specific artistic interventions
Plus Kite's musical ensemble leads visitors through the Shed
The New Museum’s senior curator takes us around the fair, highlighting works by Arthur Simms, Pedro Neves and others
Museums across the city have organised shows dedicated to the history of the American Revolution, featuring at least three historical copies of the Declaration of Independence—but some are focusing on the present day, too
For a pop-up exhibition in a penthouse apartment high above Midtown, the British photographer is showing archival materials, his own photos and three room-sized installations
The artist uses the Mets baseball team and his own blood to explore his battle for belonging and the politics of health
The show at El Museo del Barrio seeks to introduce audiences to a more playful and exploratory side of her work
The art collector and realtor, who has helped dozens of galleries relocate to Tribeca and co-founded the Wolf Hill artist residency, craves a Caravaggio but could do without art-fair small talk
The Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art both acquired works with assistance from the Sherman Family Foundation Acquisition Fund
Despite mounting costs and political pressures, exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere are bringing their artists’ work to the city—with the fair committed to representing the region
A display of more than 3,000 volumes of printed-out files seeks to inform the public about the sex offender's multifarious entanglements
The fossilised skeletons make an unusual incursion into a downtown gallery, meeting John Chamberlain's twisted-metal forms
The indie art fair with Estonian roots is once again making the most of its Beaux-Arts setting and collaborative spirit
Plus Lucy's Liu's 'Hard Feelings'
It is not only many of the fairgoers at Frieze New York who are fresh off the plane from the Venice Biennale. Quite a few of the works on the stands at the Shed are by artists who have just made a splash in Koyo Kouoh’s central exhibition 'In Minor Keys', at national pavilions or in collateral shows in Venice
A new production, loosely based on the artists' lives, is accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art—both visually imagined by the set and costume designer Jon Bausor
The Los Angeles-based Chicana artist employs centuries-old Indigenous processes for making maps and other materials
The Dutch couturier blends art and fashion with nature and technology
The co-founders of the design gallery Studiotwentyseven view collecting as an instinctive process, regret missing out on a Nick Cave sculpture and covet a Basquiat
Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city
An installation by the sound artist Hans Rosenström at Four Freedoms Park uses the human voice to meditate on space and freedom
The Chinese artist presents a new iteration of his gunpowder paintings at Tefaf New York
A special section at the fair seeks to deepen visitors’ understanding of “the largest Black country outside the African continent”, says curator Igor Simões
Construction next door to the Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan could damage its historic secret hiding place
While the war in Iran has complicated art-market activities in the Middle East, the impact on this month’s fairs appears minimal