In mid-February, I visited Christie’s auction house in New York for the first time. I admit that I went there with the naive hope of winning a lot at auction…

In New York, there is a peculiar thing that visitors do not get used to immediately: the best exhibition in the city on a particular Tuesday evening may very well…

Gagosian is one of the largest commercial contemporary art galleries and, according to the Financial Times, one of the most influential art dealers in the world. The gallery has 15…

David Zwirner is one of the four leading mega-galleries of contemporary art in the world, alongside Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace. In Chelsea, David Zwirner occupies several buildings. Three…

Hauser & Wirth, also known as the “Swiss mega-gallery,” has three locations in New York, and all of them are free to visit, with no tickets or reservations required. Yet…

Pace Gallery in Chelsea is one of the few galleries in the world that seriously influence what is considered art and how much it is worth. Although the gallery was…

Of all the bars in New York (and there are many of the best bars in the world), there is one common drawback: they are usually very loud. Today, we…

Yayoi Kusama has died — the artist who, half a century ago, unsuccessfully tried to conquer New York and eventually became one of the most famous artists in the world.…

Canal Street is the only street in New York where locals and tourists deliberately go to buy goods that legally should not be sold there. The Counterfeit Triangle is the…

The photo shows the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The archival photograph is dated 1952. The factory closed in 2004. Its iconic brick refinery building was preserved, and a…