News from New York art institutions: galleries opening, relocating or closing, museum acquisitions and leadership changes, exhibition announcements, public art commissions and fair schedule shifts. Entries stay short and dated. For dealers, curators and regular gallery-goers tracking the city's changes.
Tribeca gallery district news, March 2026: the Stephen Friedman Gallery has closed its New York space while the Cape Town-founded design gallery Southern Guild prepares to open at 75 Leonard Street.
Gainsborough at the Frick Collection — The Fashion of Portraiture, the first New York exhibition devoted to the painter's portraits, opened February 12, 2026 under new chief curator Aimee Ng and runs through May 25.
MoMA PS1 free admission for all visitors began January 1, 2026, underwritten by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu that keeps the Long Island City museum free for three years.
The Brooklyn Museum collection grew by nearly 600 works acquired between December 2024 and October 2025, the museum announced on December 9, 2025, from a Jenny Holzer installation to joint purchases with museums in Washington and Los Angeles.