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Which Art Week?

Art Week NYC in November is not the May fair week, not the 2022 coalition, and not newyorkartweek.com. Five uses of one name, side by side.

Nov11–142026

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The Empire State Building at sunset, seen from 375 Hudson Street in the West Village. Photo: Michael Discenza.
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Five Things Called Art Week

The November event is called Art Week NYC. It is new, it is gallery-led, and it is presented by Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America. But “New York Art Week” has meant other things, and still does. ARTnews noted in its launch story that earlier uses of the name “generally centered around art fairs like Frieze and the Armory Show.” Here is how to tell them apart.

Uses of the name, and what each one is
NameWhenWhat it isWho
Art Week NYCNov 11–14, 2026The event in this guide. Citywide, gallery-led, with 32 institutions; not a fairPenske Media Corporation, through Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America (art-week.com)
“New York Art Week,” MayEach MayAn informal name for the spring fair cluster: Frieze New York, TEFAF New York, Independent, NADA and others. TEFAF’s own May 2026 release said the fair “closes New York Art Week”No single organizer
New York Art Week, 2022May 5–12, 2022A formal initiative by more than 20 fairs, museums and auction houses, among them Independent, TEFAF New York, NADA, the Met, MoMA, the Whitney and the New MuseumFounding coalition, announced by Independent
“New York Art Week,” 2012March 2012A city-recognized week around the ADAA’s The Art Show and The Armory Show, under Mayor Michael BloombergCity of New York, with the fairs Secondary source
newyorkartweek.com, “New York Art Week™”Listed for May 2026A commercial listings platform that sells digital exhibitor placements (“physical space to be available in 2027”) and calls itself an “Official Digital Platform”Art Week Media™, which also runs Miami and Los Angeles “Art Week” sites. No link to the November event was found

Biennale found no city, fair or organizer endorsement of newyorkartweek.com’s “official” description. Penske Media Corporation applied in April 2026 to register ART WEEK NYC as a trademark (USPTO serial 99767703); the application was pending on the date checked, according to a summary of the federal record. Verify on USPTO TSDR

The Flatiron Building seen through autumn leaves
Art Week NYC is an autumn week: the Flatiron Building in November leaves. Photo: Kai Pilger.
Autumn trees and the San Remo towers reflected in a still lake
Central Park in November. The fair week of the same informal name comes in May. Photo: Emily Kessler.

And one more

The Armory and The Armory Show

A second, older confusion: the Park Avenue Armory, on the Upper East Side, is the building where the ADAA Fair and Salon Art + Design take place. The Armory Show is a different fair, named for the 1913 exhibition, held in September at the Javits Center on the West Side. Neither is part of Art Week NYC’s own program, although the ADAA Fair is its official collaborator.

Prewar apartment buildings on Park Avenue at dusk
Park Avenue on the Upper East Side; the Park Avenue Armory stands at East 66th to 67th Streets. Photo: Clay LeConey.
The Washington Square Arch in winter
The Washington Square Arch in winter. Photo: The New York Public Library.
Midtown Manhattan across the East River
Midtown across the East River. The Armory Show is held on the far West Side, at the Javits Center. Photo: Thomas Habr.

How Biennale writes it

A Style Note

On first mention, this Special Report says “Art Week NYC (Artforum, ARTnews and Art in America; November 11–14).” It uses “Art Week in New York” only as the title of the report, which covers the fortnight around it, and does not call the November event “New York Art Week.”

Sources. ARTnews, June 11; art-week.com; PMC announcement, June 11, 2026; Independent, New York Art Week 2022; TEFAF New York, May 2026 release; Vanity Fair, May 2022; ADAA Fair history; newyorkartweek.com; USPTO record summary, serial 99767703 (Markinton); USPTO TSDR, serial 99767703. Every fact was checked on October 19, 2026; full list on the Sources page. Corrections: contact@biennalemail.com.

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