At last estimate, there were over 6,500 art galleries in the United States alone. It’s a number that seems to have grown exponentially in the years since, with the rise of young curators coming to the fore of the art world thanks in large part, no doubt, to social media. Our list of the top ten art galleries in the country pays homage to those fastest-growing on Instagram, regardless of age or pedigree.
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Two exhibitions are currently on view at our 21st Street locations through December 15th: "Sol LeWitt: Large Gouaches" and "Laura Hunt." #SolLeWitt #LauraHunt #PaulaCooperGallery . . . . Image: [1] Artwork details (left to right): Sol LeWitt, "Brushstrokes," 1996, gouache on paper, 60 1/2 x 92 1/2 in.; Sol LeWitt, "Wavy Brushstrokes (vertical)," 1996, gouache on paper, 62 3/4 x 60 1/2 in. [2] Artwork details (left to right): Laura Hunt, "Untitled," 2018, custom-printed cotton hand-sewn into nylon on aluminum stretcher, 60 x 20 in.; Laura Hunt, "Untitled," 2018, custom-printed cotton hand-sewn into nylon, approx: 48 x 48 in.; Laura Hunt "Untitled," 2018, acrylic and custom-printed cotton, hand-sewn, 48 x 48 in.
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Paula Cooper Gallery
📈 30-Day Growth: 5.17% (+5.6k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Jay Gorney , Director
🎨 Artists Repped: Claes Oldenburg , Sol LeWitt
🖼 Current Exhibits: Laura Hunt , Sol LeWitt’ s “Large Gouaches,” Lynda Benglis , Tauba Auberbach ‘s “A Broken Stream,” Mark di Suervo ‘s “Hugs”
🌟 Claim to Fame: Per an Observer profile on Paula Cooper herself , “When Ms. Cooper opened on Prince Street, not only were there no other dealers in the neighborhood, there weren’t even street lamps.”
Gagosian
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.8% (+26.9k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Larry Gagosian , Founder
🎨 Artists Repped: Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jeff Koons , Roy Lichtenstein
🖼 Current Exhibits: Nate Lowman , Spencer Sweeney , Mark Grotjahn , Richard Prince … In New York alone.
🌟 Claim to Fame: Its namesake, who’s among the wealthiest (not to mention, most controversial) art dealers in the world
GBE
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.78% (+1.2k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Gavin Brown
🎨 Artists Repped: Franz Ackermann, Jeremy Deller , Alex Katz
🖼 Current Exhibits: Sam Pulitzer , Jannis Kounellis , Brian Belott
🌟 Claim to Fame: Per a profile in ARTnews , “Brown is part of a great generation of dealers who opened galleries in the 1990s, people whose purpose was to somehow to make money while making worlds possible where they, and the kind of art that they thought helped people, slide into … other destinations.”
Lisson Gallery
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.67% (+6.1k)
🎨 Artists Repped: Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei , Lawrence Weiner
🖼 Current Exhibits: Stanley Whitney , Ceal Foyer , Leon Polk Smith
🌟 Claim to Fame: Its founder’s rags-to-riches empire
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‘Calder: Nonspace’ presents primarily monochromatic, abstract sculptures that create volumes out of voids. Follow the link in our Stories to learn more. - Organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation (@calderfoundation), New York, the exhibition takes its title from a 1963 essay by American novelist James Jones. Upon encountering a series of large-scale sculptures at the artist’s studio in Saché, France, Jones remarked, ‘[Calder] is willing to believe equally in a nonspace as well as in space. Because of this, his stabiles (and his mobiles as well) are able to fill a given space without occupying it …. He has taken a given space and, by molding beautiful elements of steel around it, caused it to become nonspace.’ - Calder’s deep understanding of architectural and natural environments enabled him to reorder a viewer’s perception of the world around it. In thus challenging key tenets of modernist abstract art, he has significantly influenced generations of artists into the present day. Our indoor-outdoor presentation features numerous examples of Calder’s revolutionary mobiles – an original form of modernist kinetic sculpture that the artist first realized in 1931 and explored continuously for the rest of his life. ‘Calder: Nonspace’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles through 6 January 2019. #CalderinLA #CalderNonspace #Calder #Nonspace #Monochrome #Mobile#Stabile #StandingMobile #OutdoorSculpture #Sculpture #DTLA #MustSee #AlexanderCalder #HWLosAngeles #CalderFoundation #HauserWirth Image: Installation view, ‘Calder: Nonspace’, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2018 © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
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Hauser & Wirth
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.59% (+8.9k)
🎨 Artists Repped: Lorna Simpson, Paul McCarthy, Matthew Day Jackson
🖼 Current Exhibits: Zoe Leonard , Martin Creed , Roni Horn , Phyllida Barlow , Anna Maria Maiolino
🌟 Claim to Fame: Its new non-profit , Hauser & Wirth Institute
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teamLab is back in Silicon Valley! Drop by Pace Gallery this evening from 4–7 PM for the opening reception of "teamLab: Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity" at 229 Hamilton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto. This exhibition is #teamLab's second in the San Francisco area and features six monitor works in various scales. Each work embodies @teamlab_news's long-standing interest in the possibilities and meaning of what they call "Ultrasubjective Space" - or the shallow spatial structure of traditional Japanese painting. The show will be on view through January 13, 2019. - Compared to classical western space, the viewer does not hold a dominant perspective over the subject matter depicted in #teamLab's works. Rather, we are immersed within an integrated experience with it. Neither subordinate nor superior to western perspective, the implication of this alternative vantage point raises questions regarding how different cultures perceive the world. For instance, what does it mean when systems perceived as opposites are equally true and sustainable? - Image: Installation view, "teamLab: Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity," November 15, 2018 – January 13, 2019, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, photography by Glen Cheriton ©️ teamLab
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Pace Gallery
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.38% (+17.1k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Andria Hickey , Curator
🎨 Artists Repped: Chuck Close, David Hockney, Irving Penn
🖼 Current Exhibits: Ham Kyungah , Robert Whitman , Nigel Cooke , Agnes Martin , Mark Tobey , Richard Tuttle , Brent Wadden
🌟 Claim to Fame: In 2009, it became the first major Manhattan art gallery to open in Beijing .
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Tonight, 6-8pm: join us to celebrate “Works from the Collection of John Ashbery” at 297 Tenth Ave. • John Ashbery died at the age of 90 in September 2017. It was his wish that upon his death his collection of art be sold with the proceeds supporting experimental artists in various fields. Most of the works hung in Ashbery’s home and have never before been exhibited. • Artists represented in the exhibition include James Bishop, Joe Brainard, Anne Dunn, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Jean Hélion, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Rodrigo Moynihan, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Anne Ryan, Neil Welliver, and Trevor Winkfield. • Exhibition presented in collaboration with @ericbrownartgroup Photo: Diego Flores. #JohnAshbery #ExhibitionOpening #Kasmin
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Kasmin Gallery
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.32% (+2.4k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Nick Olney , Managing Director
🎨 Artists Repped: Joel Shapiro, Lee Krasner
🖼 Current Exhibits: Walton Ford , Joel Shapiro , Stuart Davis , Brancusi & Duchamp
🌟 Claim to Fame: The gallery’s new rooftop sculpture garden, which rejects “the dichotomy that pits brick-and-mortar against new methods of programming [and] places Kasmin’s roster of artists and exhibitions in conversation with one of the most innovative platforms for art developed in recent years, reimagining how a commercial gallery can engage with art and the public.”
Lehmann Maupin
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.32% (+1.8k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: David Maupin , Co-Founder
🎨 Artists Repped: Marilyn Minter , David Salle , Juergen Teller
🖼 Current Exhibits: Mandy El-Sayegh , Catherine Opie , Kader Attia , Angel Otero
🌟 Claim to Fame: Among the gallery’s many accomplishments, fun fact: Maupin’s partner is Stefano Tonchi , the editor-in-chief of W .
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"A series considered one of the towering achievements of American art reminds us that nothing can surpass the strange beauty of reality if a photographer knows where to look,” writes Arthur Lubow for @nytimes. Inaugurating their collaboration as co-representatives of The Estate of Diane Arbus, David Zwirner and Fraenkel Gallery are pleased to announce the first complete presentation of Diane Arbus’s Untitled series. The sixty-six images were made at residences for people with developmental disabilities, and are a radical departure from the bold, confrontational images upon which Arbus’s formidable reputation largely stands. The results are strangely lyrical, even tender, documenting a world possessed of its own rituals and codes of conduct that remain somehow mesmerizingly familiar. ___ Pictured: Installation view, Diane Arbus Untitled, David Zwirner, New York, 2018 #DianeArbus #FraenkelGallery #DavidZwirner @fraenkelgallery
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David Zwirner
📈 30-Day Growth: 2.07% (+8.8k)
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: Elena Soboleva , Online Sales Director
🎨 Artists Repped: Diane Arbus, Jeff Koons
🖼 Current Exhibits: Diane Arbus , Lisa Yuskavage
🌟 Claim to Fame: Its founder’s high rankings among both ArtReview’s “Power 100” list and Forbes’ “America’s Most Powerful Art Dealers.”
Ronin Gallery
📈 Engagement Rate: 5.89%
👩🎨 Gallerist of Note: David Taro Libertson , President
🎨 Artists Repped: Horiyoshi_3 ,
🖼 Current Exhibits: “Sakura: An Enduring Tradition ,” a collection of 18th-19th century Japanese woodblock prints that depict cherry blossoms.
🌟 Claim to Fame: The largest collection of Japanese prints in the United States.
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