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New York city page · Art Week NYC · November 11 to 14, 2026
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Day by Day
From the first auction viewings on November 7 to the last evening sale on November 18, every published date and time, with a plain flag where something is still to be announced.
First edition
Art Week NYC
Opens Wed, Nov 11, 2026
The calendar
Two Weeks, Day by Day
Art Week NYC itself is four days, Wednesday to Saturday. Around it sit the ADAA Fair, which overlaps its last three days and runs to Monday, and the evening sales, which begin the Monday after. Only times an organizer has published appear here. All times are Eastern.
| Day | What is on |
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| Wed–Sun Nov 4–8 |
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| Saturday Nov 7 |
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| Wednesday Nov 11 |
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| Thursday Nov 12 |
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| Friday Nov 13 |
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| Saturday Nov 14 |
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| Sunday Nov 15 |
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| Monday Nov 16 |
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| Tuesday Nov 17 |
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| Wednesday Nov 18 |
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| Thu–Mon Nov 19–23 |
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Sources: the organizers’ announcements (PMC, Artforum), the New Museum’s event page, the ADAA Fair visitor page, and each auction house’s own sale page. Salon Art + Design dates are from the fair’s visitor page. Hours move; confirm before you go.

Openings
Night by Night, When It Is Published
The organizers describe “three days of openings and activations” by neighborhood. A reasonable guess is that each evening belongs to one or two districts, so that visitors can attend every opening, but the assignments have not been announced, and this page will not guess. When they are, each night will be listed here with its galleries and hours, and the routes will be matched to them.


Gallery openings in New York are usually free and open to the public, typically early evening. Art Week NYC’s site invites visitors to sign up for “early access to tickets,” so some events may need a ticket or RSVP. Ticketing TBA
Saturday, November 14
Five Talks at the New Museum
The New Museum and Artforum co-present Site Conditions: Five Talks on Art and the City in the New Museum Theater, 235 Bowery, from 11 am to 6 pm. Artists, architects, filmmakers, critics and writers will take on the design of new museums, why artists are moving into film, the economics of working in New York and machine intelligence in the studio. The museum says the full schedule and tickets will be released “in the coming weeks.” Access Pass Plus members and New Museum Fellows get complimentary tickets by emailing membership@newmuseum.org. Live CART captioning is provided; ASL interpretation is available on request with three weeks’ notice.

Sources. PMC announcement, June 11, 2026; Artforum, galleries, Aug 4; Artforum, institutions, Oct 16; New Museum event page; ADAA Fair visitor information; Salon Art + Design; Christie’s, 20th Century Evening Sale; Christie’s 20th/21st Century series; Phillips, Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale; Sotheby’s, Now & Contemporary Evening; Sotheby’s, Modern Evening. Every fact was checked on October 19, 2026; full list on the Sources page. Corrections: contact@biennalemail.com.
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Art Week NYC runs Wednesday to Saturday, the days most New York galleries are open anyway.
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