An artist's CV is a short summary of a career: training, exhibitions, collections, and awards. Learn what each section means and what it can tell you before you walk into a gallery, so your next visit starts with context.
A charity's tax filing is public. Here is what to look for in it, and in what order, before you give.
The fair's second Houston edition scales up to 98 galleries from 20 countries and territories, and the local contingent has grown with it.
One headline show, two smaller rooms, and a plan that keeps the walking manageable.
Museum calendars in New York follow a rhythm of fall and spring openings. Knowing that rhythm turns a crowded afternoon into a well-placed visit.
The city rewards a full day: one encyclopedic collection at the center, smaller university galleries at the edges.
Culture Pass lets cardholders of New York's three public library systems reserve free entry to museums, gardens and historical sites across the city.
The New York exhibition calendar is built on a simple pattern: prestige openings crowd September through November, while summer belongs to long-running shows aimed at visitors already in the city.
The fair's VIP preview moves to September 24 to avoid clashing with Frieze Seoul, with roughly 230 galleries and two new Caribbean-focused sections.
Between The Kitchen in Chelsea, the Museum of Modern Art's Kravis Studio and the Performa biennial, New York covers performance art from intimate experiments to citywide spectacle.
Friday is the city's museum late night — the Whitney to 10 p.m., the Met to 9, MoMA, the Frick and the Morgan to 8:30 or 8 — but every weeknight has at least one late option, and the evenings are the calmest hours in the building.
The Park Avenue Armory fair reported energetic crowds and sales from Miró to Lalanne in its closing statement of May 20, 2026, ending the city's May art week on an up note.
The New Museum has named Massimiliano Gioni its Toby Devan Lewis Director, announced in early July 2026, completing a leadership transition that began with Lisa Phillips's retirement in April.
New York's public art runs through three channels — the city's Percent for Art law, the Public Design Commission, and MTA Arts & Design — each with its own budget rule and vetting process.
New York's commercial galleries are free, unstaffed by ticket desks and quietly rule-governed; a first-timer's guide to entering, asking prices, bags, photography and leaving without buying.
Brownsburg's Festival of the Arts offers a working checklist for visitors and artists alike — what to see, what to ask, and how to plan for the weather.
A granite knob in Franconia Notch carries a painter's name and one of the White Mountains' best reward-for-effort ratios.
Percent for Art sets aside a share of city construction budgets for artwork, and the transit authority runs its own parallel commissioning system — here is how each one picks an artist.
Studios, stipends, and fifty-eight years of the Studio Museum's program: how New York residencies work and which documented programs run today.
Consignment, the fifty-fifty split, the stable, and the secondary market: the mechanics behind what hangs in New York's commercial galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art charges $30 general admission but remains pay-what-you-wish for New York State residents and tri-state students, per the museum's current policy.
The Met, MoMA, MoMA PS1 and the Whitney each waive or reduce their standard ticket price under specific conditions, from residency-based pay-what-you-wish rates to a museum that has gone fully free.
A visiting guide to the Brooklyn Museum: the Egyptian galleries, Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, the 2 and 3 trains from Manhattan and the First Saturdays evening series.
A first-visit guide to the Museum of Modern Art: which floor to start on, how the 2019 expansion arranged the collection and when the sculpture garden is empty.
The Frick Collection reopened in April 2025 after its Selldorf Architects renovation, opening second-floor galleries of the Gilded Age mansion for the first time in its history as a museum.
A 1982 city law quietly shapes the sculptures, mosaics and murals in New York's firehouses, courthouses and schools. Here is how the selection actually works.
