CHISHOLM LARSSON GALLERY
Read moreChisholm Larsson Gallery is a gallery unlike any other, as it is a shop where you can buy vintage posters! Here is a good idea of souvenirs to bring back. The website is very well done and describes perfectly the collection, probably the most extensive in the Big Apple. You'll find a selection of 35,000 posters from 1890 to the present day, including over 15,000 movie posters. The collection of French posters is absolutely gigantic (there are over 7,000). You are bound to find something you like!
JANET BORDEN
Read moreAfter being a private vendor, Janet Borden opened a gallery in 1988, specializing in contemporary photography, including McDuff Everton, Robert Levin, Andrew Moore, John Pfahl, Sandy Skoglund…
Staley-Wise Gallery
Read moreIn the same building as Janet Borden, this gallery exhibits some of the great names in photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon and the French Patrick Demarchelier and Robert Doisneau. The emphasis is on fashion photography, although there are also portraits and landscapes, as well as some nudes. When the gallery opened in 1981, it became one of the first to exhibit the work of fashion photographers, and to consider them as artists in their own right.
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
Read moreMatthew Marks opened his first gallery in 1990 at the age of 27. He left Madison for Chelsea, where he exhibits, in his two "mega gallery" spaces, photographers including David Armstrong, Nancy Shaver, etc., and works by promising artists such as Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Katharina Fritsh… In 2000, paintings from Nayland Blake, de Willem de Kooning, of Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Ugo Rondinone, Sam Taylor-Wood were exposed to it and, in the autumn, it was the turn of Peter Hujar of Darren Almond of Nan. Goldin and De Freund.
303 GALLERY
Read moreNora Tobbe opened her first gallery in SoHo in 1986. In 1988, she moved to Greene Street, which she left in 1996 to settle in Chelsea (she was one of the first to do so). In this space, young talents such as Kim Gordon, Karen Kilimnik, Elke Krystufek, Thomas Ruff, Collier Schorr, Jane and Louise Wilson are presented. The name of the gallery is a tribute to the famous art dealer and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who made one of his greatest exhibitions in Anderson Galleries' Room 303.
GAGOSIAN
Read moreThis is one of the gallery's six Manhattan addresses. Gagosian has worked with Francesco Clemente, painters Philip Taafe and David Salle, and conceptual sculptor Walter de Maria. He is in charge of Yves Klein's estate. The gallery organizes museum-level exhibitions based on private collections: Jackson Pollock's Black Enamel Paintings, Sam Francis' Blue Balls , Andy Warhol's Shadow Paintings , Cy Twombly's Bolsena Paintings and sculptures by Brancusi. Quite a program for NY's most respected gallery.
ARTISTS SPACE
Read moreFounded in 1973, this non-commercial gallery is an arts service organization that provides artists with exhibition opportunities and financial assistance. It represents one of the most respected alternative spaces in the New York art scene. A wide variety of events: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, mixed media, architecture, performances, videos, films, readings and installations. All exhibitions result in a catalogue or brochure, often containing reviews.
LEO CASTELLI GALLERY
Read moreAfter opening his first gallery in Paris in 1939, Leo Castelli, escaping the Occupation, arrived in New York. He opened galleries in SoHo, from where he moved successively to finally settle on 77th Street. He is undoubtedly the greatest art dealer in SoHo, and it is thanks to him that the art world now knows Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Morris Louis, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, etc
ACQUAVELLA
Read moreThe opening of this gallery by Acquavella father took place in the 1950 s, with the Italian primitifs and the period of the Italian Renaissance. In the 1960 s, the gallery presented impressionist. With the arrival of Acquavella son, the gallery looks to the modern (Picasso, Miro, Matisse, etc.) and towards the late 1970 s, that son opens a contemporary American post-war department (De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko…), and essentially Anglo-Saxon, with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freund, David Hockney…
CHRISTOPHER HENRY GALLERY
Read moreA small, particularly friendly "intellectual stimulation" area, located on horseback between the LES and NoLIta.
JEN BEKMAN
Read moreThis gallery also supports emerging artists in all forms: collage, photo, painting and audiovisual.