New York Art Archives

FAD NEWS: Giant 65-foot Hot Dog returns to Times Square for America’s 250th birthday celebrations

22 July 2026 • Mark Westall

A giant 65-foot hot dog has returned to Times Square. Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s Hot Dog: The Second Serving

Notes on Rhizome’s Conference 2026

12 July 2026 • Rayya Fadlo Khuri

Michael Connor discusses AI, internet art, NFTs, privacy and why artists continue to engage with the technologies of the moment.

DIGITAL

Early Bridget Riley paintings go on long-term view at Dia Beacon

3 July 2026 • Mark Westall

A focused exhibition of Bridget Riley’s early black-and-white paintings opens today at Dia Beacon, bringing together works created between 1961 and 1964.

FAD NEWS: The most interesting new art space in SoHo opens in a former Jackie Winsor loft.

17 June 2026 • Mark Westall

New York’s gallery landscape has no shortage of white cubes. What it has less of are spaces willing to rethink… Read More

FAD News: Sarah Lucas unveils new public sculpture commission for New Museum plaza

12 May 2026 • Mark Westall

Sarah Lucas has unveiled VENUS VICTORIA a monumental work drawn from her iconic Bunny series.

Art News New York

TOXIC’s ‘ALWAYS EVER SINCE 83’ brings four decades of uncompromising practice to Woodbury House

12 May 2026 • Mark Westall

Torrick Ablack, better known as TOXIC, will present a major solo exhibition at Woodbury House this summer, bringing together new… Read More

FAD News: Rhizome announces line-up for 7×7 2026 at the New Museum

8 May 2026 • Mark Westall

Seven on Seven (7×7), returning to the New Museum on 16th May

Esther III returns to New York Estonian House during Frieze Week

6 May 2026 • Mark Westall

Esther III returns for its third and final edition this May, transforming the New York Estonian House into a lively platform for international galleries, installations, performances and artist-led projects.

Gerhard Richter + Jasper Johns exhibitions opening at David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street

6 May 2026 • Mark Westall

Two landmark exhibitions at David Zwirner bring together Gerhard Richter’s and Jasper Johns

FAD News: Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize Announces Star-Studded Selection Committee

30 April 2026 • Mark Westall

Serpentine x The FLAG Art Foundation Prize has revealed the international selection committee that will choose its inaugural winner

New Museum Unveils Tschabalala Self’s Art Lovers Facade Commission

24 March 2026 • Mark Westall

Tschabalala Self unveils Art Lovers, a major facade sculpture at the New Museum in New York, marking her first large-scale public work in the city.

Brooklyn Museum to Open New African Art Galleries in Major $13M Renovation

24 March 2026 • Mark Westall

Expected to open in fall 2027, the transformational project will present one of the country’s most renowned African art collections

Andy Warhol new Shadows exhibition coming soon

1 August 2018 • Mark Westall

In addition to Warhol’s highly anticipated retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, the Dia Art Foundation is planning an ambitious reunion of Warhol’s monumental Shadows. Up to 50 of the series’ brightly coloured canvases, will take over the Calvin Klein headquarters in Manhattan this October.

Skarstedt’s Summer Group Exhibition

1 August 2018 • Mark Westall

Skarstedt’s Summer Group Exhibition includes artwork from the likes of George Condo, Cindy Sherman and David Salle and KAWS

Jeff Koons new show opens in New York

31 May 2018 • Mark Westall

Gagosian are showing recent works by Jeff Koons from his Gazing Ball series. Making use of conceptual constructs including the ancient, the everyday, and the sublime, Koons creates luxurious icons and elaborate tableaux, which, beneath their captivating exteriors, engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history.

REVIEW: Z Behl Plays Her Cards Right with ‘Joker’s Solitaire’ at Kai Matsumiya

17 March 2015 • VC Maurer

Inspired by a set of female nudist playing cards, which she found in her father’s drawer as a child, her most recent solo exhibition, ‘Joker of Solitaire’ while provocative, seemingly humorous, and often seductive, is inherently seeking to stimulate a dialogue around the history of the mythological and historical ‘trickster’.

FADNewYork – Something For The Weekend: Lucky Dragons and more @MoMA PS1

17 October 2014 • VC Maurer

A day-long exploration of electroacoustic music in all its forms, featuring collaborations between legends, luminaries, and newcomers as they examine the interplay between human and machine sounds.

Mark Westall Interviews Bahram Safinia Founder & Managing Director GalleryLOG NYC

3 March 2014 • Mark Westall

Another one off FAD’s occasional interviews with the people changing the very fabric of the art world , up now is Bahram Safinia Founder & Managing Director GalleryLOG NYC

Fluorescent geometric abstract shapes.

30 January 2013 • Mark Westall

Nihalani’s bold, flat shapes continue to evolve into complex multi-dimensional patterns, often producing intricate optical illusions that challenge the viewer’s relationship with their surrounding environment

EXHIBITIONS

Opening Tomorrow NEW URS FISCHER Exhibition at Eden Rock Gallery St Barts

23 December 2012 • Mark Westall

Everybody likes objects; everybody likes different objects. It comes down to what objects you want to put in your art…I like them all: high, low, used, new, whichever works.