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| | Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd St (5th & 6th Aves)
212.708.9400 MoMA was recently renovated by Yoshio Taniguchi and houses an amazing array of sculptures, paintings, and photography by celebrated modern artists. A vast space that is in itself a marvelous work of modern art, it’s said that new renovations nearly hit the billion dollar mark, making it one of the most expensive museums humans have ever constructed. Let’s say more Picasso than in Spain. | | | The New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery (@ Prince St)
212.219.1222 Located in the Lower East Side, New York’s newest contemporary museum stands tall along the horizon, jutting out where Bowery and Prince meet. Its design, by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, Tokyo, is a monumental undertaking—a seven-foot floor stack of silvery boxes each teetering slightly off center and housing three floors of exhibition space, levels for educational and administrative purposes, and its top floor, an intimate room offering spectacular views of downtown. The New Museum’s commitment to showcasing visionary, daring work by living artists was born from founder Marcia Tucker. Less than 24 hours after being fired from her curatorial post at the Whitney Museum for staging exhibitions that were deemed too risky, this innovator created an institution that has quickly became known for provocative and inspired projects. Photo © Dean Kaufman
| | | Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave (@89th St)
212.423.3500 The museum itself is Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece housing magnificent work: Impressionist, Post Impressionist, and Modernist collections. | | | The Whitney Museum
945 Madison Ave (@ 75th St)
212.570.3676 Founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and originally located at 10 West 8th Street, the collection now resides permanently in Marcel Breuer's Brutalist monument. The Whitney collects and exhibits American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and nearly every significant contemporary American artist can be found here including Hopper, Stella, Glackens, Demuth, de Kooning, Rothko, and O'Keeffe. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs. Focusing on contemporary works, the Whitney Biennial is the highest-profile contemporary art showcase in the country. | | | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave (@ 46th Ave)
Long Island City, Queens
718.784.2084 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center stands out amidst the NYC art scene with its unique involvement with artists as well as its cutting edge approach to exhibitions. In the summer, PS1’s pulsating fusion of contemporary art, dynamic architecture, and experimental deejays and bands spill outside onto the art center’s patio. | | | The Frick Collection 1 East 70th St (@ 5th Ave)
212.288.0700 Featuring works by Bellini, El Greco, Vermeer, Velazquez, Boucher, Goya, Turner, Van Dyck, Renoir, and Holbein, The Frick Collection is just as impressive as the ornate rooms in which they are showcased. Here the emphasis isn’t on style or date but rather on thematic representation and décor. |
| | Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Ave (@ 76th St)
212.744.2313 Larry Gagosian’s primary exhibition space is a daunting grand penthouse duplex showcasing modern masters like Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Arshile Gorky. | | | Gagosian Gallery 555 West 24th St (10th & 11th Aves)
212.741.1111 Larry Gagosian’s primary exhibition space is a daunting, grand penthouse duplex showcasing modern masters like Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Arshile Gorky. The downtown branch on 24th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) features 20,000 feet of exhibition space, allowing for monstrous sculptures and pieces by ‘80s stars like Larry Poon and David Salle. | | | Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th St (10th & 11th Aves)
212.752.2929 Opened in 2000 in a former Chelsea garage, Mary Boone Gallery’s downtown location accommodates large-scale pieces and dynamic installations. Focusing on artists with a ‘downtown’ aesthetic, the Mary Boone Gallery is more likely to take chances on emerging young artists at the Chelsea location. | | | Deitch Projects 76 Grand St (@ Wooster)
18 Wooster St (Canal & Grand)
212.343.7300 Deitch Projects specializes in producing ambitious projects by contemporary artists. Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in January 1996, the gallery has presented over one hundred and twenty solo exhibitions and projects, twelve thematic exhibitions, and numerous public events. The gallery has a global outlook and has presented projects by artists from thirty-three countries. | | | Tony Shafrazi Gallery
544 West 26th St (10th & 11th Aves)
212.274.9300
As the exclusive representative of Francis Bacon’s estate, Tony Shafrazi brings to his galleries unique and stunning pieces from popular and revered modern artists: David Lapachelle, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dennis Hopper, Keith Haring, and even Pablo Picasso. | | | Cheim & Read 547 West 25th St (10th & 11th Aves)
212.242.7727 Cheim & Read, founded in 1997 by co-owners John Cheim & Howard Read, focuses on the representation of an international group of contemporary artists. The work here spans from painting and illustration to sculpture and photography. The gallery also specializes in the resale of select works by twentieth-century artists including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Cy Twombly. | | | Mary Boone Gallery
745 5th Ave (@ 57th St)
212.752.2929
The ‘downtown’ aesthetic so popular among much of ‘80s artwork has matured into middle age money. Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Barbara Kruger, and Damian Loeb are highlights in this midtown gallery.
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