The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will participate in the inaugural Art Week NYC, organizers announced Friday, bringing some of New York‘s biggest cultural institutions into the four-day event.
Taking place Nov. 11 to 14, the first edition will also include the Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio and the New York Public Library. The new roster brings museums, nonprofits and civic organizations into a program originally built around the city’s galleries, offering a chance to “introduce people to artists and cultural spaces they may not otherwise encounter,” said New York City Council Deputy Speaker Dr. Nantasha Williams.
The New Museum will serve as the event’s primary institutional partner, hosting five public conversations on Nov. 14 with Artforum, which, like WWD, is owned by Penske Media Corp. Titled “Site Conditions: Five Talks on Art and the City,” the program will bring together artists, architects, filmmakers, critics and writers to discuss everything from museum redesigns and artists moving into filmmaking to the cost of working in New York and the use of artificial intelligence in studio practice.
“We are thrilled that the New Museum will be at its center, as a catalyst for dialogues between artists, architects, curators, filmmakers and the public,” said New Museum director Massimiliano Gioni.
The talks coincide with the museum’s fall exhibitions, including a major Arthur Jafa survey, Diego Marcon’s first solo museum exhibition in New York, a show tracing 400 years of the Bowery and a new commission by artist Ho Tzu Nyen in the museum’s OMA-designed expansion.
Other participating organizations include the International Center of Photography, the High Line, Madison Square Park Conservancy, the FLAG Art Foundation and the Immigrant Artist Biennial. Select museums and institutions are participating in partnership with Bloomberg Connects.
Art Week NYC first announced its gallery lineup in August, including Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner and Pace Gallery. More than 80 galleries are participating in the inaugural event, which will span Chelsea, TriBeCa, the Lower East Side, the Upper East Side and other neighborhoods, with exhibitions, gallery openings, artist talks and special programming.
“New York City’s world-renowned galleries and museums draw art lovers from all over the globe, but they belong first and foremost to the New Yorkers who live here,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin said.
Additional programming details are expected before the November event.