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 exhibition spaces in seven countries, more than 300 employees, its own publishing house with hundreds of books published, and a quarterly magazine. Admission to all…
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 of them stand next to each other on West 19th Street: 519, 525, and 533, while another is located one block away, on West 20th…
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 almost no one comes in. This is perhaps one of the main paradoxes of Chelsea: between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues stand museum-level exhibition spaces showing…
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 founded in 1960 as a tiny shop in Boston, its collection today includes Picasso, Rothko, Calder, Brancusi, de Kooning, Modigliani, and Agnes Martin. Admission is…
