The Storm King Art Center in New York is more than 500 acres (just over 2 km²) of hills, meadows, and groves transformed into an open-air museum of contemporary art. Founded in the 1960s, it is now considered one of the largest and most influential sculpture parks in the United States. Here you can see…
New York City isn’t elastic. The truly stylish and conceptual museums can no longer fit within the borders of Manhattan — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Today’s discovery beyond the island is Magazzino Italian Art. This is one of the most striking and photogenic museums in Upstate New York: a contemporary, minimalist, almost…
The Ukrainian Museum in New York is the largest museum outside Ukraine dedicated to preserving, studying, and presenting the artistic, cultural, and socio-historical heritage of the Ukrainian people. History The museum was founded in 1976 at the initiative of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA). In 2005, the museum moved into a new…
The Met Breuer Museum in New York was a must-see destination for lovers of modern art and architecture. It showcased impressive collections of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works by such masters as Kandinsky, Rothko, and Lichtenstein. History The building that later housed the Met Breuer was constructed in 1966 for the Whitney Museum of…
Founded in 1871, the Salmagundi Club in New York originally served as a meeting place for writers and journalists. Over time, it evolved into a well-known art club supporting artists through exhibitions, workshops, and community programs. However, it’s difficult to call it competitive in the city’s dense museum landscape. It may be especially interesting to…
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, in the very heart of New York’s gallery scene — Chelsea — the exhibition “Desires of the Boulders” opened, presented by a duo of two strikingly distinctive artists. About the artists Emil Silberman is a New York–based sculptor working in contemporary plastics, installation, and site-specific art. He is also the…
I’m not sure why, but I had never really thought about where Marina Abramović lives — the living icon of contemporary performance art. Marina Abramović is a Serbian-American artist who radically transformed the understanding of the body, time, and endurance in art. From her early extreme performances to the legendary “The Artist Is Present” at…
The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts center in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), founded in 1996 by Yuko Nii. From the outside, it may resemble an antique shop, but the center is housed in a historic building — a French Second Empire–style architectural masterpiece built in 1867. History The Williamsburg Art…
Gertrude Whitney Studio is the first studio of artist and sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was a place where she not only created her own work but also attracted contemporary artists whose pieces later became part of the permanent collection of one of the leading museums of…
Remember I wrote about the incredible gallery Salon 94, the one that showed Urs Fischer’s furniture? It turns out Salon 94’s founder — Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — was previously part of the young art consortium LGDR, founded in 2021. History Each letter in LGDR stood for a founder’s last name, and the idea behind the…
