New York City
Sculptural symbol of mourning by Jim Hodges unveiled at New York’s Aids Memorial Park
The work, “Craig’s closet”, honours the more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of Aids
New York mayor declares 31 May as Ellsworth Kelly Day in honour of artist's centennary
The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy
A hot pink tree sculpture sprouts amid New York's leafy High Line
Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree is on show close to the Shed, Frieze New York's venue
From Harlem to Brooklyn: public art to see for free in New York this spring
The city's streets and parks are blossoming with sculptures
A pop-up museum in New York pushes back against 'excessive policing'
The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD
New works by Charles Ray and Christopher Wool will be public fixtures of Manhattan development
Ray’s large-scale statue of Adam and Eve will beckon visitors into the a plaza while Wool’s enormous mural looms from a glass-enclosed lobby
First-ever insider trading trial over NFTs set to begin in Manhattan court
A former OpenSea employee has been accused of insider trading; the outcome of the case may change the meaning of that phrase forever
Gallery Climate Coalition launches New York chapter with nine-member founding committee
Artists, dealers, advisors and institutional leaders are among the founders of the environmental non-profit’s new chapter
MoMA apologises to artist Heather Agyepong, who was ejected from exhibit intended as safe space for Black visitors
New York museum pledges to “protect the experience” of Black visitors after leading British Ghanaian artist is asked to leave Black Power Naps installation following another visitor’s complaint
Rafael Viñoly—museum 'starchitect' who believed in experience over aesthetics—has died, aged 78
Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings
Anish Kapoor’s shiny 'bean' sculpture in New York finally completed
Commissioned nearly 15 years ago, the bulbous outdoor artwork was delayed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic
Photography curator accused of attempted child molestation pleads not guilty
Efrem Zelony-Mindell was arrested in December by FBI agents in an undercover sting operation
New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards $58m in grants to more than 1,000 arts organisations
The 1,070 cultural grant recipients, the first since new municipal reforms to correct for funding biases were introduced, are the largest funding cohort in the department’s history
Monumental tree sculpture to be unveiled on New York’s High Line elevated park
High Line Art has commissioned artist Pamela Rosenkranz to make a 25ft-tall, red and pink tree in the park
Record-breaking Mondrian leads an evening of mixed results at Sotheby’s marquee Modern art sales in New York
The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night
New York's salary transparency law finally goes into effect, bringing some clarity to art industry's opacity around compensation
The municipal law, which was originally due to go into effect in the spring, requires businesses to list salary ranges on job postings, but many feel this should already be standard practice in the art world
Mexico City gallery Kurimanzutto expands its New York footprint with Chelsea storefront
What the gallery co-founder Mónica Manzutto calls “a space that lets you wander a little bit” is the gallery’s first major venture in the US since an Upper East Side project space in 2018
Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith to create giant mosaics for new Manhattan train station
The 700,000 sq. ft Grand Central Madison, being built beneath Grand Central Terminal, will be home to permanent installations by the renowned artists
New York's Print Center reopens in Chelsea in an expanded and more visible space
Previously known as the International Print Center New York, the new studioMDA-designed space aims to serve as the main hub for prints in the city
New Brooklyn art space launches with exhibition celebrating birthdays of people of colour killed by police violence
Worthlessstudios is expanding upon the digital project 1-800 Happy Birthday, debuted in a physical form at Nada New York in May
Play that brought Warhol and Basquiat to the stage in London to be adapted for the silver screen
Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope will once again play Warhol and Basquiat in the $20m feature, which will be directed by the Young Vic’s Kwame Kwei-Armah
Meta puts analogue art front and centre in sprawling new Manhattan office
The tech giant’s new complex inside the historic Farley Building features site-specific commissions by Baseera Khan, Timur Si-Qin, Liz Collins, Matthew Kirk, and Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard
Jennifer Bartlett, a painter known for her conceptual approach and grids, has died, aged 81
Bartlett studied with some of the titans of Conceptual and Minimalist art, applying their lessons to her relentlessly inventive painting practice
Artist’s salad restaurant chain replica sparks confusion and conversations about gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown
Over two weeks, Alexander Si served up pointed questions about the aesthetics of whiteness and eco-chic branding
A Frida Kahlo musical is headed to Broadway
Developed with the permission and assistance of Kahlo’s estate, the musical will offer “a full-throated celebration of Kahlo’s joyous spirit of creativity”
South Australia’s Aboriginal arts community makes New York debut
Iwantja Arts sits in the heart of the outback, while its members use art to connect with one another and the rest of the world
A new documentary offers an elegy for the Chelsea Hotel and New York’s bohemian middle class
“Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” avoids outright nostalgia for an earlier New York, instead impressionistically bemoaning its disappearance
At the Morgan Library and Museum, the art of a misfit master revealed
The story of Rick Barton, such as we know it, can only be told thanks to a curator’s detective work and some chance connections
A match made in heaven: The Armory Show brings large scale sculptures to the US Open
The sculptures, which will be placed on the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the tournament, will all be by artists from underrepresented backgrounds
With a Whitney Biennial feature and newfound commercial representation, James Little's commitment to abstraction is finally paying off
The artist, who has been making work for nearly 40 years, has lately achieved several career milestones