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…
The Judd Foundation is the home and museum of the legendary artist Donald Judd, one of the founders of minimalism. Here, every object is placed exactly as the artist intended. History Donald Judd (1928–1994) was an American artist and theorist whose ideas about “specific objects” revolutionized the concept of sculpture. The artist argued that a…
New York City boasts numerous museums, but few know about a place where art thrives in the fresh air, amidst grass, wind, and the city skyline. Socrates Sculpture Park is a unique open-air museum in Long Island City, Queens, where you can see large-scale installations by contemporary artists, relax by the East River, and experience…
One of the things I love most about New York is how you can encounter art anywhere — even while shopping. For example, inside the Alexander Wang flagship store in SoHo, you’ll find a sculpture by John Chamberlain, one of the most recognizable American sculptors of the 20th century. Though, to be honest, I only…
The world’s largest globe isn’t hidden inside a planetarium or a science museum — it stands proudly outdoors in New York City. The Unisphere is a monumental stainless-steel sculpture, 37 meters (120 feet) in diameter, located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens — just across from the Queens Museum. Although it looks like a globe, it’s…
If you haven’t yet visited the SculptureCenter in Queens — where the Khajistan exhibition on forbidden pop art is currently on view — here’s another reason to go: the museum itself is a story worth discovering. SculptureCenter is New York’s contemporary art hub — a powerhouse gallery dedicated to sculpture and spatial practices. The museum…
At Dia:Chelsea, through October 25, you can visit the exhibition Duane Linklater: 12 + 2 — a project in which sculpture becomes a language of memory and movement. At the heart of the show are seven large bison sculptures, each presented in a different pose — as if the animals are lying down, rolling, or…
Living in a city with more billionaires than some countries is a special kind of privilege. Here, art stops being a rarity locked behind museum walls and becomes part of everyday life. What we’re used to seeing under perfect lighting, against sterile white walls, watched over by a quiet museum attendant — in New York,…
Carpenters Workshop Gallery occupies a two-story penthouse (19th and 20th floors) on Fifth Avenue, just a few blocks from Central Park. But it’s not just an exhibition space — Carpenters Workshop Gallery is a museum-like gallery-store specializing in so-called “functional sculpture”: furniture and objects that are both works of art and serve a utilitarian purpose,…
