For art-world pilgrims decamping for the summer to Long Island’s East End, Harper Levine, the rare-book dealer with spaces in East Hampton and New York City, and Bill Powers, the founder of…
Glenn O’Brien, the writer, editor, and aesthete-about-town who shaped the cultural identity of 1980s New York, has died. O’Brien had been combatting a serious illness for years. He was
Bottles of vodka zipped around the tiny, jam-packed room in downtown Moscow, passing from hand to hand like buckets of water in a slapstick fire drill. What began as a modest birthday fete on the
One recent afternoon in Donald Judd’s old house in downtown Manhattan, the late artist’s children—Flavin and Rainer—were discussing their father’s career. Flavin has a boyish, unlined face…
Benefit auctions, popping up every spring like Park Avenue tulips, have become about as ubiquitous as art fairs and openings. Charity sales are the primary means by which artists can pack a
The first night of New York’s May auctions wrapped up with a modest 20th-century and contemporary art sale at Phillips. The house hammered down $39.3 million total (without buyers…
Weaving between the legs of a colossal metal spider, a crowd descended on the Garage Center for Contemporary Art. A private opening for “Structures of Existence: The Cells,” a stunning…
Anne Pasternak, current president and artistic director of the New York-based arts nonprofit Creative Time, will take the helm of the Brooklyn Museum, succeeding Arnold Lehman, who has held the
When Arnold Lehman cedes the helm of the Brooklyn Museum next month, he’ll use his newfound freedom to pen a book on “Sensation,” the legendary exhibition that defined his turbulent…