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Has New York’s hot art market finally cooled?

Dealers at Frieze remain optimistic while noting a shift in collector behaviour

‘Like a striptease’: Gypsy Rose Lee’s legacy lives on as her works remain elusive

New York theatre producer attempts to collect works by women of a landmark 1943 exhibition

The best works at Frieze New York, as chosen by curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

The California curator favours challenging media and juxtaposition in works that capture the present

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

Podcast

New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs

Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London

Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. With guest speakers Anny Shaw and Laura Gilbert. Produced by David. Clack and Julia Michalska
Sponsored byChristie's

Auctions

Louise Bourgeois's record-breaking $32.8m Spider crawls to top of Sotheby's contemporary art sale

A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection

Late real estate developer Gerald Fineberg’s collection comes up short at Christie’s New York

Despite the underwhelming result, the sale notched new auction records for Barkley Hendricks and Alma Thomas

Phillips scores $69.5m in New York evening sale, led by Banksy’s take on Basquiat

A painting by Noah Davis reached more than nine times its low estimate after a 12-minute bidding war

The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's

The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994

Fairs

A cardboard Manhattan and a cosy log cabin: artists stand tall at Nada New York fair

Artists including Kambel Smith and Anya Paintsil were on hand to talk to visitors on the VIP day

Diary

Basquiat is (literally) back in fashion, as are $40,000 knitted sweaters for birds: New York Frieze Week gossip

Plus Hernan Bas's flamingo magnet obsession, Charles Gaines's proud professor moment and JR in AR

New York Frieze Week gossip: skipping the Kusama queue, a trafficstopper in pink and a megadealer loses out

Works by Kusama, Handforth and Basquiat cause a scene on the streets and at the auctions

New York Frieze Week gossip: a Titanic remake, a critique of American football and an art-filled lemonade stand

Works by Dynasty Handbag, Matthew Barney and the Children’s Museum of the Arts capture both the sweet and sour

Artist interviews

Artist Aliza Nisenbaum on colour, Queens and how she makes her paintings 'glow'

The Mexico City-born painter has an exhibition at New York's Queens Museum as well as a new commission for LaGuardia Airport

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

How Cecily Brown breathed life back into painting for a new generation

Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium

Ceramics take centre stage at Spring Break’s 'secret' New York pop-up

The exhibition, in the upstart fair's original venue, features a dazzling array of fun and wonky table-top sculptures

'Sometimes even the vultures have nothing to feed on': Kenyan artists bring an ecological warning to Manhattan

New York exhibition Kenyan Collectives at Affirmation Arts focuses on existential threats to Kenya’s wildlife and water supply

Collectors

'Slime Queen' collector Karen Robinovitz on her dream art purchase and the work hanging in her linen closet

Robinovitz's most recent art purchase was Yoora Lee painting from Half Gallery’s booth at Expo Chicago

‘Nothing beats mileage for developing your own collecting vision’: Komal Shah on what she collects and why

Former tech executive and California collector dreams of purchasing the entire suite of Hilma af Klint paintings