This weekend, the New York-based artist celebrates her family history and diaspora communities in the culmination of her museum residency

The Untermyer Memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery contains evocative bronze sculptures created by the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Puffin Foundation Center for New York Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape

A new project by the artist Molly Gochman features large-scale reproductions of artefacts from the museum’s collection on its glass façade

Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show is a syncopated story about his famous artist friend

The Morbid Anatomy Library has acquired dozens of unique pieces from the recently shuttered Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri

The Australian American artist Anita Glesta’s installation will transform the storied overpass for two nights this month to raise awareness of Hudson Canyon’s rich ecosystem

The truck-based fair’s latest edition, coinciding with The Armory Show, will feature 20 exhibitors

Several institutional construction projects have already opened this year, with more in the pipeline

New York’s biggest art fair has revamped its footprint to place artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas in the foreground, as well as stalwarts of the hometown scene

The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo

A Connecticut auction house identified the stolen works in a private estate collection and helped return them

A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into something wholly her own

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Soho appears to have escaped the wrecking ball for good after a decade-long dispute over its future

A new public work by Alan Michelson and an exhibition by Leslie Wayne explore climate change and fragile ecosystems

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding

As the outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease continues on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a new city report shows more art institutions affected

One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

The late artist’s first-ever institutional survey at the Aspen Art Museum honours him through its theatrical staging, featuring works on loan from friends like Agosto Machado and Jimmy Wright

The building remains safe for both visitors and employees, as city inspectors continue to test for Legionella across Manhattan’s Upper East Side

The longtime artistic director takes the helm at the recently expanded New York institution

The Neue Galerie’s merger with the Met—the world’s fourth-largest museum—serves as a recent example of a smaller US institution uniting with a larger neighbour

Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring

The 272-year-old New York Society Library’s patrons have included the likes of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled

In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory