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Max Levai is expanding into Chelsea at a moment when much of the market is pulling back. The former president of Marlborough Gallery will open a 7,000-square-foot flagship at 529 West 20th Street this fall, his first permanent New York space after several years of operating between pop-ups, international projects like his presentation of works by Frank Auerbach at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and his Montauk compound, The Ranch. “Having a gallery that is permanent… has been on my mind for a while,” Levai told ARTnews this week by phone. “There’s a roster of artists I’m motivated to provide a proper stage for.”  That stage, he believes, still belongs in Chelsea. While Tribeca has drawn a younger wave of galleries, Levai is blunt about where he sees the center of the market. “In my opinion, Chelsea is simply the best place to have a gallery,” he said, pointing to the scale and flexibility of its buildings. His previous Tribeca location, roughly 900 square feet, was suited to...

Andy Warhol’s former studio building on Broadway and East 17th Street has been home to many businesses since the Pop artist decamped from his third-floor Factory in 1984, after a decade at 860 Broadway. A nightclub (the Underground) was there in the ‘80s, followed by a Petco in the mid-90s, which relocated nearby in 2023. The commercial building’s ground floor retail space has been vacant for the intervening years, but a new tenant has moved it. The Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo will open its seventh New York store at 860 Broadway tomorrow. 860 Broadway, where the new Uniqlo Union Square store opens on Apr. 3, 2026. It is unclear if the store expands all the way to the third floor, the former location of Warhol’s Factory. Either way, Uniqlo is using the location’s connection to Wahol’s legacy to promote the opening weekend festivities. An Instagram post on from today includes a black-and-white photograph from 1983 of Warhol standing in front of a wall with a sideways America...

Larry Gagosian doesn’t do a lot of interviews, but one supposes when Elle Decor asks to do a glossy profile on the rocket-ship trajectory of his eponymous gallery, you say yes. Speaking on the occasion of a new gallery opening at 980 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side this spring, Gagosian reflected on his many successes—and two notable failures. His short-lived San Francisco gallery, which opened in 2016 near SFMoMA and closed in 2021, was one such failure. At the time, a spokesperson framed the closing as an effort to “consolidate and strengthen Gagosian’s presence in California.” In the interview with Elle Decor , the mega-dealer was quite a bit blunter. “It just failed,” Gagosian said. “I mean, nobody showed up. It was so depressing. I’d fly up there for an opening, and there’s nobody there. I’d go, What the f— am I doing here?” While the Bay Area is home to many ARTnews  Top 200 collectors, including  Laurene Powell Jobs , billionaire venture capitalist  Mar...