Frank Lloyd Wright's postwar jewel was protested by many artists when he debuted, but it has become a modern landmark for the city. Read more.
Started after the Met turned down gifts from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, this shining star owns 18,000 works - 3,116 by Edward Hopper.
Henry Clay Frick's former residence may have the densest collection of masterpieces in Manhattan, with works by Titian, Turner, and Vermeer, among others. Read more.
After a long renovation, this under-appreciated museum is once again showing off its trove of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American art.
Check out the New York Interiors (1690-1906) permanent exhibition. It features elements of New York domestic environments from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. Read more.
Check out the William Kentridge: Stair Procession exhibition. Stair Procession is a white-on-black drawing similar to white chalk graffiti. Read more.
Check out the "Reframing American Art" exhibition, which features iconic works of modern art selected from the collection donated by Roy R. Neuberger. Read more.
Cecily Brown created Untitled for the 1997 group exhibition Vertical Paintings. Don't miss out on this permanent exhibit. Read more.
Don't miss Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedman's Son, the first exhibition featuring the work of the nineteenth-century African-American landscape painter. Read more.
Check out the permanent collection of Richard Artschwager: blips. Read more.
El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 highlights the most innovative, cutting-edge art being produced by emerging Latino and Latin American artists currently working in the greater New York area. Read more.
Sweet Dreams: Comics, Cartoons and Contemporary Art presents artists who either directly use, are influenced by or reference the medium of comic books and cartoon illustrations. Read more.
The Smithsonian museum network isn't just in D.C. Its design museum is tucked in Andrew Carnegie's 64-room mansion and features a gift shop to conquer all gift shops. Read more.
Inaugurated in 1985, Lawrence R. Luhring and Roland J. Augustine's gallery has been fertile ground for multiple generations of artists, including Christopher Wool and his onetime assistant Josh Smith.
Don't miss the upcoming exhibition "Risaburo Kimura: Great Cities of the World" running from August 1, 2011—October 2, 2011, a portfolio of prints drawn from the Hebrew Home’s permanent collection. Read more.
Don't miss Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection of European Paintings on the 3rd floor. Experience the taste of classic Europe. Read more.
Don't miss the Summer Selects exhibition running until September 9, 2011. It's celebrating the gallery's 5th anniversary! Read more.
Make sure to see the "André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments," which reopened as part of the permanent collection. Read more.
Check out the "On the Move: Transportation Toys from the Permanent Collection" exhibition. The transportation toys on view are modeled on vehicles once commonly recognized throughout our city. Read more.
World’s largest & finest selection of historically important maps & city views, atlases, Audubons, natural history engravings & watercolors/ Read more.
Check out "Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933" from the permanent collection. Read more.
Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce that Liam Gillick’s new artwork in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Read more.
Check out the Signs, Systems & the City exhibition. Features works with an urban sensibility that deploy pared-down building blocks of shape, color, and form to express revealing worldviews. Read more.
Check out the African Art and Culture exhibition. Reinstallation of its nationally recognized collection of African art is Westchester’s only permanent display of African art. Read more.
Check out the Soft Machines exhibition running from July 14, 2011—August 26, 2011. It explores the influence and effects of control mechanisms on one's psychological and physical disposition. Read more.
Check out the marble sculpture attributed to Michelangelo on Loan to Metropolitan Museum from French Republic.On view until October 13, 2014. Read more.
Check out the permanent exhibition "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art."
Check out the Anthony Caro sculpture exhibition on the MET's rooftop! Enjoy food, drinks and a beautiful view of Manhattan. Read more.
Lesley Heller Workspace allows anyone to make curatorial suggestion submissions through their website.
In 2010, a Prince “Nurse” sold here for $6,466,500, the third highest price for a Prince at auction.
The world's best modern art museum is in New York City, and it's open late every first Thursday.
Andy Warhol's "Men in Her Life" - his 1962 black-and-white Liz Taylor silkscreen - sold for $63,362,500 here on 11/08/2010, as part of the "Carte Blanche" contemporary sale that made $137 million. Read more.
While most art dealers have decamped from SoHo for Chelsea, Blum has opted to keep a foothold in the neighborhood to present smaller, more intimate shows than his large Chelsea space allows. Read more.
This print gallery is one of SoHo's great art secrets. Tucked away in a loft above Wooster, it sells editioned work by some of America's most legendary artists. Read more.
Founded by Emily Fisher Landau, a committed contemporary art collector, this 25,000-square-foot space shows work from her collection. Well-catered public openings are usually held Sunday afternoons.
A joint venture between gallerists Joel Mesler and Carol Cohen, UNTITLED is the biggest (and most brightly lit) gallery along the burgeoning Orchard Street gallery stretch.
Worth the trip up into the no-man's-land above Chelsea. Founded in 1982, it boasts 11,000 square feet of space, which founders Jeanette Ingberman & Papo Colo use to stage their adventurous program. Read more.
When Swiss power dealer Iwan Wirth came to New York, he opted for a townhouse (with two floors of exhibition space) instead of a Chelsea box. The legendary Martha Jackson Gallery was once based here.
Founded by a former Christie's contemporary art director, ABFA is one of the Upper East Side's most adventurous secondary-market dealers. Read more.
Jeanne Greenberg Rohaytn is a reality star now (after her appearance on "Work of Art"), but her first gallery is located here. Shows are usually open only Monday through Friday. Read more.
Fresh from graduation at the Bard curatorial school, partners Pascal Spengemann and Kelly Taxter made an unusual decision: opening a major Chelsea gallery that quickly attracted a serious following.
Bortolami's new home on gritty 20th will provide the ascendent gallery plenty of space, perfect for strengthening the careers of emerging stars like Patrick Hill, Hope Atherton, and Richard Aldrich.
Metro Pictures has been showing art for 30 years and has earned the loyalty of many of today's leading artists, like superstar photographer Cindy Sherman, who first showed there in 1980. Read more.
Though names like Ernesto Neto and Olafur Eliasson are household terms now, they have achieved that recognition in no small part because of Bonakdar.
Nolan has been in the art game since 1987, and currently represents artists as diverse as Barry Le Va and Peter Saul. His bright yellow storefront is impossible to miss in normally drab Chelsea. Read more.
Husband-and-wife pair David Nash and Lucy Mitchell-Innes are both Sotheby's alums, who opened up shop in the 1990s. Among their artists: William Pope.L, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Allan D'Arcangelo. Read more.
The skylight provides this long, cavernous space an elegant ruggedness that is perfect for viewing work by artists like Nancy Spero, Angelo Filomeno, and Helio Oiticica. Read more.
This handsome bastion of all things drawing-related hosts shows of established and emerging artists throughout the year. Don't miss the extra gallery space across the street! Read more.
Run by Williamsburg gallery Pierogi, this space is, in fact, in a former boiler room. That means towering ceilings, tons of space, and great, old brick walls, perfect for displaying large-scale works.
The best-lit gallery in Chelsea, in our opinion (a silly accolade, but there is a lot of competition). Works by Jasper Johns, Ken Price, and Jo Baer have graced this space. History happens here. Read more.
Vital and energetic, Cinders is an art-run gallery with major ambitions. Check their Web site for information about regular readings, BBQs, and concerts. Their shows are usually a treat to see. Read more.
Four decades after bringing art to SoHo, Cooper may still be the classiest, most devoted gallerist in the business. With soaring ceilings, this is her biggest space, but it's also strangely intimate. Read more.
Despite hosting only a few shows each year, Freeman is influential. The under-recognized artists he features (like Franz Erhard Walther) have a habit of turning up in major museum shows soon after. Read more.
One of the art world's oldest brands, Marlborough is mixing younger artists into its established roster. With giant windows overlooking the street, it is one of the Chelsea's most welcoming galleries. Read more.
Cohan has a big presence in Shanghai, but his New York operation is every bit as formidable. His artists range from young wonders (Trenton Doyle Hancock) to the estates of old legends (Nam June Paik). Read more.
Anton Kern has a sense of humor, representing the pleasantly acerbic Dave Shrigley and the occasionally pornographic Dorothy Iannone. Check the back room - there are often extra works on view. Read more.
He may be known best for his decision to vandalize "Guernica," but Shafrazi has become one of New York's best, most idiosyncratic dealers. One never knows what he has up his sleeve. Read more.
For almost three decades Staley-Wise has been showing a sterling selection of leading photographers. Though the focus is on masters, there is usually a surprise or two on view. Read more.
The woman who is revolutionizing the sale of photography through her 20x200 company also runs a small but ambitious gallery in SoHo. Founded only in 2003, it has already picked some winners. Read more.
The Lower East Side's resident alternative space, White Box has been showing nontraditional, noncommercial art for more than a decade. Think of it as a nonprofit antidote to the big-box spaces popping Read more.
The hipper, younger brother of the powerhouse's Chelsea branch, this gallery's two floors and towering ceilings make a perfect display space for large-scale video work and other hulking art objects. Read more.
Though relative newcomers to Chelsea (they arrived in 2002), they have helped establish artists like painter Hernan Bas and video master Jennifer Steinkamp.
Created by composer La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, "Dream House" transforms a TriBeCa loft floor into a trippy environment of strange lights and sounds.
Proprieters Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich may be the most pleasantly idiosyncratic gallerists in Chelsea: always surprising, usually pleasurable.
For more than 20 years, Rosen has been on the cutting edge, making stars of artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres and David Altmejd.
This alternative space dates back to 1970s SoHo. In its current Meatpacking home, it hosts a remarkable number of shows each year, including many by young artists, right on the edge of fame.
The two partners at this estimable UES spot come from Christie's and Goldman Sachs. They show beautiful work by big names in a tony townhouse. A gold standard.
This is the third gallery of Upper East Side maven (and "Work of Art" star) Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.
Feldman is a SoHo mainstay, having ventured into the neighborhood well before it had a Prada store. Expect a wide range of interesting fair.
This tiny LES gallery represents a stellar band of young artists, as well as international legend Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Check out the room behind the desk, where more art is sometimes hidden.
Portions of five medieval French cloisters were combined to create this treasure that is run by the Met. Make sure to visit the "unicorn tapestry," which made a guest appearance in "Harry Potter."
Representing legends (like Alighiero e Boetti), superstars (like Anish Kapoor), and rising forces (like Allora & Calzadilla), Barbara Gladstone is the pinnacle of class.
Tucked on the second floor of a nondescript LES building, Scott shows a small, smart group of artists including Franklin Evans.
The hip downtown cousin of Upper East Side gallery Greenberg van Doren, this space, run by artist Augusto Arbizo has introduced stars like Jacob Kassay to New York.
Clinton Street is about more than boutique restaurants and fine bakeries: it has a great, adventurous art gallery, which is part of the “Lush Life” show this summer.
Deitch Projects director Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman recently opened this new SoHo gallery with a show of unfinished work.
Goodman is a legend in her own time, the gold standard for a serious, devoted dealer. That reputation helped her nab Julie Mehretu earlier this year.
A stone's throw from the main drag of Chelsea, Murray Guy represents a smart cast of emerging artists, like photographer Barbara Probst and ace conceptualist Matthew Buckingham.
Having trouble finding an art book? If it's not at this Chelsea mainstay, it probably does not exist.
One of the first Williamsburg galleries, Pierogi is also one of the best. One of its artists, Dawn Clements, was a star at the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
This stalwart antiques master specializes in 17th to 19th European pieces, and has sold works to Louvres and other top museums.
This uptown gem of a museum, which recently celebrated its 40th birthday, has a show of Zwelethu Mthethwa's photographs on tap.
An art professor told Kelly he'd make a better dealer than artist. Today he shows superstars like Marina Abramovic and Gavin Turk.
One of the scrappiest and smartest spaces on the Lower East Side, this gallery shows a bracing blend of young artists.
This SoHo gallery is one of the neighborhood's best, representing the photographer of America's naked youth, Ryan McGinley, and a handful of other rising stars.
This jewel of a museum sports a 9,335-square-foot model of New York called the Panorama, making its choice art exhibitions icing on its curatorial cake.
This old factory is one of the most underrated spots to see new art in the city. Make sure to head to the dark, danky basement below.
This expansive subway stop features an effervescent, multicolored wall piece by Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt — and cell phone service near its upper level to let you "check in."
Canada opened on the Lower East Side well before that was a popular decision and shows smart young artists like Op Art master Xylor Jane and the wily Joe Bradley.
Abreu is one of the most ambitious dealers on the scrappy LES gallery scene. He knows how to pick winners, like Whitney Biennial star R. H. Quaytman.
Sotheby's arch-rival has plush digs in Rockefeller Center. Works that will be sold on the block go on view a few days before each sale.
Visit the auction house's palatial home to see previews of work that will be sold at auction, potentially disappearing into private hands for years.
This is a hidden gem in New York's museum world. Make sure not to miss the Goya on view, a gorgeous portrait of the Duchess of Alba.
This tiny photography gallery surprises time and time again. The name is a mission statement but also a geographic truth: they are located on an upper floor on the Upper East Side.
Those trees lining the streets? They're the work of German sculptor Joseph Beuys, a handful of a project that called for 7,000.
This former church is a temple to the late, great sculptor whose works are made of nothing more than fluorescent lights.
This LES coffee shop and art gallery space, owned and curated by John Latimore, is known to host a late-night dance party or two.
The Forum hosts a series of fascinating shows throughout the year. Worth the trip for what may be the strangest building in Midtown: one of the few Raimund Abraham designs ever built.
The former wife of legendary gallerist Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend became a successful dealer in her own right, representing artists like Jeff Koons and Robert Morris.
As art became an industry in the 1980s, this is where its participants drank and ate (and smoked). Though Mary Boone and Julian Schnabel are gone, its French bistro food is still solid.
At Gagosian uptown, Richard Prince is showing pricey new paintings. At this new space, the third Salon 94 outpost, he offers three decades of art peculiarly placed on humble T-shirts.
With "Resurrectine," expect a hulking group show with rising stars (Cory Arcangel) and aged legends (Chris Burden). Its brazen theme: art designed to create resurrection, aesthetic and otherwise.
Taxter and Spengemann sits casually outside of New York's main gallery districts, in the former studio of Minimalist painter Frank Stella. Consistently unusual and excellent.
One of the most successful art dealers of the early 1960s and 70s, Leo Castelli died in 1999, but his gallery continues to present shows of major historical works.
The rooftop sculpture garden is a reliable venue for surprisingly cutting-edge contemporary art installations - to be enjoyed with a glass (or two) of champagne.
Now in a beautiful, light-flooded new loft, this venerable SoHo nonprofit has hosted vital shows and performances by artists from Adrian Piper to Laurie Anderson.
This adventurous, highly intellectual Chinatown gallery is known for showing important stars-to-be and hosting unpublicized openings that draw the New York art elite.
An oasis of transporting sculptures and calm, Zen-like environments designed by Japanese-American modernist Isamu Noguchi.
Mimi Ferzt Gallery has represented the contemporary art of Russia, the former Soviet republics and the Baltic States. Read more.
BABCOCK GALLERIES was established in 1852, and is the oldest gallery in the United States which has, from its inception, focused on American Art. Read more.
