Rynee Scott: To learn about shows ahead of time, see the gallery schedule. The Classic Multistory Gallery Space gives you the opportunity to browse. High quality and high-end craft, certainly.
Julie Soscia: See the gallery schedule to learn about exhibitions in advance. A great option if you’ve been to the main museums.
Julie Soscia: See the gallery schedule to learn about exhibitions in advance. A great option if you’ve exhausted the main museums.
AlAnoud A AlGhunaim: Magnificent, the art installation is out of this world!
Gregory Fisher: This place is amazing and hosts school visits, including a private tour! Warning, it gets hot inside!
Jessica Lin: Top collection of incredible works, currently Basquiat, across 4 floors of a beautiful building. Several rules & a pain to get a ticket but a show of this caliber for free in NYC is really special.
3. Gagosian Gallery
9.3
555 W 24th St (btwn 10th & 11th Ave), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Chelsea · 51 tips and reviews
Chris Ochoa: It's one of the best private contemporary galleries in the city.
Time Out New York: The best place to see museum-quality gallery shows has perfected this high-end form. Shows such as “Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’Amour Fou” prove you don’t have to be MoMA to stage a blockbuster. Read more.
Tiffany & Co: Steal away for a weekday afternoon with your favorite art lover and check out the exhilarating masterworks at this gallery, which launched the careers of important contemporary artists.
4. National Arts Club
9.0
15 Gramercy Park S (btw Park Ave & Irving Pl), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Gramercy Park · 22 tips and reviews
Cara: used this location for a private event. awesome bartender and the art selection is beyond amazing
amNewYork: Formed in 1898 by a literary and art critic at The New York Times to “foster and promote public interest in the arts.” Early members included Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Holly Hager: The current Warhol exhibit (from a private collection) inaugurates a new program of shows the club will put on that'll open the club to the public on a regular basis for the first time!
6. Phillips
9.0
450 Park Ave (at E 57th St), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Midtown East · 8 tips and reviews
Aisling O'Toole: The art is amazing
BLOUIN ARTINFO: Andy Warhol's "Men in Her Life" - his 1962 black-and-white Liz Taylor silkscreen - sold for $63,362,500 here on 11/08/2010, as part of the "Carte Blanche" contemporary sale that made $137 million. Read more.
BLOUIN ARTINFO: In 2010, a Prince “Nurse” sold here for $6,466,500, the third highest price for a Prince at auction.
7. Pace Gallery
9.2
534 W 25th St (10th and 11th Ave), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Chelsea · 26 tips and reviews
Aliza Rupert: Gorgeous. Amazing space. Lovely set up. Attended @jamesfrancotv's show and it was #fabulous and #inspiring.
@JaumePrimero: Who ever said you can't enjoy NYC without watching the money fly out of your wallet is a fool! Head to the Pace Gallery for some contemporary inspiration, followed by a stroll on the High Line!
Tiffany & Co: Chelsea is positively pulsing with excitement, creativity and energy. And there’s no better place to experience the world’s contemporary art scene than Pace Gallery.
14. Sotheby's
8.6
1334 York Ave (at E 72nd St), New York, NY
Art Gallery · Upper East Side · 24 tips and reviews
Andrea DiCastro: Sant Ambroeus has taken over the Terrace Cafe. Coffee, pastries and fine art...
BLOUIN ARTINFO: An Andy Warhol self-portrait sold for a record $32.6m on May 12, 2010, at the auction house's contemporary art sale. The painting is the most expensive work of 1980s art ever sold at auction.
HUGO BOSS: "Naked," Jeff Koons’s cherubs in porcelain from 1988, was given a pre-sale estimate of $1.5 - 2 million but streaked to a $9,001,000 finish here in 2008. (via ARTINFO)