During Design Week in New York, where it will take place the renowned International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) between 18th and 21th May, we invite you to pass by the best design galleries that represent the ultimate hit in the vibrant city.
You’ll be as astonished as we were due to the rare quality of each element showcased. Let the show begin!
Gagossian belongs to Larry Gagosian, one of the most powerful names in the art world he works with collectors including David Geffen and Samuel Newhouse Jr. The gallery he founded represents a stellar roster of artists that includes Richard Serra, Cy Twombly and Ed Ruscha. The Madison Avenue outpost there are two other spaces in New York as well as branches in London, Los Angeles and Rome currently has an exhibition that explores artists fascination with marble, as well as show of new painting by Richard Philips.
Barbara Gladstone, owner of Gladstone Gallery is a art world pioneer and opened her first gallery when she was 40 and has remained on top for three decades by making relationships as important as the work. The artist–gallery relationship also involves a dependency on the part of the artist to trust the person who represents this most precious thing, the art. And that’s not something to take lightly.
Zwirner & Wirth opened at 32 East 69th Street on February 23rd, 2000, intstituting a partnership between New York gallerist David Zwirner and London-based gallerist Iwan Wirth.
Zwirner & Wirth exhibits modern and contemporary masters, as well as group shows showcasing German painting, Surrealism in the 20th century, Minimalism from the 60s and 70s, Assemblage, contemporary sculpture, German and American Pop Art, and conceptual photography.
Since its establishment nearly two decades ago Lehmann Maupin has identified and cultivated the careers of an international roster of visionary and historically significant artists. The gallery has garnered a reputation for supporting artists working across disciplines and with new and challenging forms of creative expression; artists whose work has had a lasting impact on contemporary art and culture.
The Marian Goodman Gallery has played an important role in introducing European artists to American audiences and helping to establish a vital dialogue among artists and institutions working internationally. Marian Goodman founded Multiples, which published prints, multiples, and books by leading American artists, such as Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, and Andy Warhol.
Pace/MacGill Gallery was founded in 1983 by Peter MacGill, in collaboration with partners Arne Glimcher of The Pace Gallery and Richard Solomon of Pace Prints and Pace Primitive. The gallery has had the privilege of representing such masters of photography as Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Irving Penn, John Szarkowksi, Richard Avedon, William Christenberry, Emmet Gowin, Josef Koudelka, Duane Michals, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Judith Joy Ross, Fazal Sheikh, Frederick Sommer, JoAnn Verburg, and Henry Wessel.
