New York City is the world’s art capital. It’s a city of exhibitions at museums, galleries, fairs and auctions. Art fairs cluster around Armory Week in March and Frieze Week in May. Art auctions cluster in May and November.
The cover image is “Man, Controller of the Universe” (1934), the mural Diego Rivera replicated at Palacio de Bellas Arts in Mexico City after his original “Man at the Crossroads” (1933) in 30 Rockefeller Center was destroyed. The mural contrasts capitalism and socialism. Nelson Rockefeller was upset about the portrait of Lenin. It’s the most famous New York City painting that no one will never see.
Latin Art Exhibitions
Zilia Sánchez: Eros
Tuesday-Saturday
Nov 21, 2019 – Jan 18, 2020
Galerie Lelong
CHELSEA, NYC
The Cuban artist’s new freestanding work and first marble and bronze sculptures
An Emphasis on Resistance
Wednesday-Sunday
October 30, 2019-Feb 2, 2020
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
2019 commissions from the Foundation that holds the world’s leading collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Mexico is Mexico: Contemporary Mexican Design
Tuesday-Saturday
Oct 24, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020
HENRIQUE FARIA FINE ART
Upper East Side, NYC
A century after the first exposition of Mexican folk art, contemporary design objects continue to show the diversity and unity of contemporary Mexican culture
Continue Reading Mexico is Mexico: Contemporary Mexican Design
Socrates Annual
Daily
Oct 5, 2019 – Mar 8, 2020
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
Astoria, Queens
The annual exhibition of work by emerging artists created during the park’s summer residency
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla
Wednesday-Sunday
Nov 20, 2019-Mar 22, 2020
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
A touring retrospective of the Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist whose sensual abstractions broke the picture plane before standing on their own
Crown of the Andes
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
New York Art Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daily
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ New York’s encyclopedia of art
American Museum of Natural History
Daily
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC ~ Human cultures, the natural world and the universe
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA
Daily (Fridays until 9pm)
MIDTOWN, NYC
One of the world’s great collections of modern art, contemporary art and film
New York Art Galleries
Edwynn Houk Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue #407
at 58th St
Midtown East, Manhattan
Monday – Friday
Lehmann Maupin
Tuesday – Saturday
CHELSEA, NYC
Contemporary art gallery
Marlborough Gallery
Closed Sundays
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ This New York/London gallery represents major international artists
New York Auction Houses
There are art auctions all year long, but they cluster in May and November. Auction exhibitions are museum quality and free. You can attend most auctions. Only a few require an invitation.
Sotheby’s folded their Latin American Art auctions into their general auctions. This has increased prices for Latin American artists.
One of the things we like about Christie’s Latin American art auction is the colonial art done in European styles by American, often Indigenous artists.
Christie’s
Daily
ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NYC
One of the world’s leading art auction houses
Phillips
Daily
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
A contemporary art auction house
Sotheby’s
Daily
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
One of the world’s leading art auction houses
Like New York real estate, art prices seem to go nowhere, but up.
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