Sources

Where every fact in this Special Report comes from, how conflicting figures were resolved, and who took the photographs.

Nov11–142026

First edition

Art Week NYC

Opens Wed, Nov 11, 2026

Downtown rooftops with the Empire State Building in the distance — Downtown rooftops, the Empire State Building beyond. Photo: Sharon Yanai.

How this report was made

Sources and Method

Every date, time and figure in this Special Report was checked on Monday, October 19, 2026, against the organizer’s own page where one could be read, and otherwise against the publication named beside it. Where two sources disagree, both figures are printed and the disagreement is explained. Items marked “TBA” or listed under What Is Not Announced Yet were looked for and not found.

A note on independence. Art Week NYC is presented by Penske Media Corporation, which also owns Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America and the Robb Report. Most coverage of the event so far comes from those titles. Biennale treats their descriptions of the event (“first of its kind,” “premier”) as the organizer’s own and relies on them only for facts the organizer controls: dates, names and lists. No independent review of the event existed on the date checked.

Stone arches and a domed ceiling in a museum hall. Photo: Grace Estrada.

The Lower Manhattan skyline at dusk. Photo: Luca Bravo.

Press and records

Secondary Sources

Where sources disagree

Conflicts, Resolved

Figures that differ between sources
Item	What the sources say	What this report prints
Gallery count	70 (art-week.com); “more than 76” (Artforum, Aug 4); 76 (ARTnews, Aug 4); “more than eighty” (Artforum, Oct 16)	76 named in August, more than 80 expected; the August list in full
ADAA Fair dates	“November 12–16” (exhibitors page, counting the gala); gala Nov 12, run of show Nov 13–16 (visitor page)	Gala Nov 12; public Nov 13–16
Institutions	32 (Artforum, Oct 16); 30 names (Robb Report list)	32, the organizers’ list
Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale	Nov 19 (secondary summary only); series runs Nov 17–23 (Christie’s)	Within Nov 17–23, flagged

Pictures

Image Credits

All 34 photographs in this Special Report are hosted in the Biennale image library and were published on Unsplash under the free Unsplash License, which allows editorial and commercial use; none is an Unsplash+ or agency image. Each is credited to its photographer in its caption and below. None shows Art Week NYC itself: no event photography had been released for reuse on the date checked, and no free-license photograph of the Park Avenue Armory or the New Museum building was found, so those two venues are described rather than pictured.

Photographs used in this Special Report (33 photographers)
Photographer	Subject	File
Alex Eckermann	The Guggenheim Museum rotunda and skylight.	new-york-guggenheim-ramps.jpg
Alfred Schrock	Central Park in autumn, the towers of Central Park South in fog.	new-york-central-park-fog-autumn.jpg
Andrea Cau	A Midtown avenue.	new-york-avenue-towers.jpg
Benjamin Ashton	The Empire State Building and Midtown at sunset.	new-york-empire-state-sunset.jpg
Benjamin Ashton	Lower Manhattan from a hotel room window.	new-york-window-downtown.jpg
Claudio Schwarz	A stairwell in the Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Street.	new-york-whitney-staircase.jpg
Clay LeConey	Park Avenue at 72nd Street on the Upper East Side, a few blocks north of the Armory.	new-york-park-avenue-72nd.jpg
David Emrich	The Guggenheim rotunda.	new-york-guggenheim-rotunda.jpg
Emily Kessler	The Lake in Central Park in November, the twin towers of the San Remo reflected.	new-york-central-park-lake-autumn.jpg
Frolicsome Fairy	A brick loft building on West Street, Lower Manhattan.	new-york-west-street-brick.jpg
Gene Gallin	Tenement rooftops on the Lower East Side.	new-york-lower-east-side-rooftops.jpg
Grace Estrada	Stone arches and a domed ceiling in a museum hall.	new-york-stone-arches.jpg
Janne Simoes	The Park Avenue Viaduct at Grand Central Terminal, Midtown.	new-york-park-avenue-viaduct.jpg
Jared Lisack	Plantings on the High Line and the rooftops of Chelsea.	new-york-high-line-view.jpg
Jeffrey Blum	The Lower East Side in early morning light, Midtown beyond.	new-york-lower-east-side-morning.jpg
John Angel	Brick and glass on a converted building in Chelsea.	new-york-chelsea-brick-glass.jpg
Jon Flobrant	An avenue crosswalk.	new-york-avenue-crosswalk.jpg
Kai Pilger	The Flatiron Building through autumn leaves.	new-york-flatiron-autumn-leaves.jpg
Kevin Snow	Midtown from a hotel window.	new-york-hotel-window.jpg
Leslie Cross	A Chelsea street at golden hour, seen from the High Line.	new-york-chelsea-street-golden-hour.jpg
Luca Bravo	The Lower Manhattan skyline at dusk.	new-york-skyline-dusk.jpg
Martti Salmi	The supertall towers of 57th Street over Central Park, Midtown.	new-york-billionaires-row.jpg
Max Harlynking	The Whitney Museum of American Art, one of the 32 participating institutions.	new-york-whitney-facade.jpg
Michael Discenza	The Empire State Building at sunset, seen from 375 Hudson Street in the West Village.	new-york-rooftop-sunset-view.jpg
Pedro Kümmel	Midtown at dusk, the Empire State Building at center.	new-york-midtown-pink-dusk.jpg
Sam Balye	Brownstones in November light.	new-york-brownstone-row.jpg
Sharon Yanai	Downtown rooftops, the Empire State Building beyond.	new-york-downtown-rooftops.jpg
The New York Public Library	The Washington Square Arch in winter.	new-york-washington-square-arch.jpg
Thomas Habr	Midtown across the East River.	new-york-midtown-east-river.jpg
Todd Quackenbush	The Empire State Building above Midtown in low sun.	new-york-empire-state-haze.jpg
tommao wang	The entrance of The Museum of Modern Art, a participating institution.	new-york-moma-entrance.jpg
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen	A yellow cab in Times Square.	new-york-times-square-cab.jpg
Zachary Shakked	A cobblestone street in Tribeca.	new-york-tribeca-cobblestones.jpg
Zoshua Colah	A tenement front in the Lower East Side manner.	new-york-tenement-stoop.jpg

Corrections. Write to contact@biennalemail.com. Biennale research, October 2026.

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ADAA Fair, Park Avenue Armory

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At a glance

Art Week NYC: Wed Nov 11 to Sat Nov 14, 2026. First edition
Where: Chelsea, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, the Upper East Side, and a Midtown hub
Presented by: Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America (Penske Media Corporation)
Galleries: 76 named Aug 4; “more than eighty” by Oct 16
Institutions: 32, named Oct 16
ADAA Fair: Gala Nov 12; public Nov 13 to 16, Park Avenue Armory
New Museum: Five talks, Sat Nov 14, 11 am to 6 pm
Official site: art-week.com

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