Abbie Fentress Swanson

If you're walking down the Bowery on Manhattan's Lower East Side this week, you may notice something different on the facade of the New Museum.

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Soon, museum visitors may be walking through construction to check out the Met's 130,000 plus works. The museum is spending $10 million to beautify the plaza below the stairs and fix its dormant fountains.

Andy Warhol's works of art have sold above their projected pricetags at this week's contemporary art auction sales.

The German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has won this year's Hugo Boss prize. Feldmann, who has been creating conceptual art for four decades, will receive $100,000 along with the award.

Zebadiah Arrington, 19, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Thursday for spray painting his tag, "ZEB," onto seven New York City subway cars.

The bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse, Nu de Dos, 4 État sold for nearly $48.8 million at Christie's on Wednesday, a record for the artist at auction.

A fortnight of the year's most anticipated art sales got off to a bang on Tuesday night. An undisclosed buyer purchased Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Assis Sur un Divan (La Belle Romaine) ...

For years, New York City has been the center of the modern art world. But in recent decades, the business of art has gotten more and more global.

Hollywood legend Doris Day is one of the few top-ranking female box office stars who is still alive to talk about what it was like to break into Hollywood in the 1940s. Day recently s...

They're using mobile phones for talking, texting, e-mailing, playing video games, and now...fine art.

Think it's your last chance to grab a cheap pretzel, kebob or hot dog before heading into the Guggenheim museum? Think again. On Tuesday, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission denied the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum's application to install a permanent teardrop-shaped food kiosk made of stainless steel and resin. The commission ruled that the museum's proposed kiosk would not fit with Frank Lloyd Wright's 1950s spirals and cantilevers in the museum's entry area.

For one week, Cinema Tropical screens the ten best Latin American films of the '00s at the IFC Center in the West Village.

At least 11 new musicals are scheduled to open on Broadway this year. Some critics say this will be the fall of the has-been and the rehashed. But others say that's true only if you stick to Broadway plays.

For years, some of New York's most prestigious art museums have gotten heat for not featuring enough female artists. A searing 2007 report by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine revealed that women often made up less than 15 percent of a museum's permanent collection on display. Since then, there has been a move to make up for this imbalance. In fact, this week, a number of local arts institutions have female-heavy rosters.

For the first time, all of Alfred Stieglitz's photos shot in New York City will be on display—at the same time.

The New York-based fashion brand Proenza Schouler recently released a video called "Act da Fool" to help sell its fall collection. Harmony Korine created it. Does the video perpetuate...

Musicians from New York and New Jersey represented their home states at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) in Los Angeles on Sunday night. One of the highlights of the awards ceremony was the outfit on the Upper West Side's Lady Gaga, which was made entirely of meat. Gaga became the first female solo artist to receive two nominations for Video of the Year when both "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" were nominated. She also made history by getting 13 VMA nominations in the past year, more than any other artist.