Around this time every year, you’ll find many New Yorkers using any excuse to leave the city for breezier climes. If you should happen to spot one of them en route, likely within an air-conditioned departures lounge, they’ll give you a host of reasons why New York is not an ideal place to be in the summer. But tell that to anyone trying to get a restaurant reservation right now.
The reality is that summer in New York has never been more alive, and Phillips celebrates that fact with the return of one of the city’s best-kept secrets: Summer on Park. So skip all the museum lines, stop sweating the Resy notifications, and visit our refreshing gallery at 432 Park, where we’ve planned a variety of exhibitions and auction previews that will quench your cultural thirst while everyone else waits in line somewhere else.
Below, check out all that Phillips offers to the Empire City this summer. A pro tip — check back here as more events are added throughout the summer.
New York Private Sales Salon
Alexander Calder, Cornucopia, 1955. New York Private Sales Salon.
From the second floor of our Midtown gallery, discover a curated selection of works by iconic artists including Anni Albers, Alexander Calder, T.C. Cannon, Agnes Martin, Takashi Murakami, Vivian Springford, Andry Warhol, and Bastiaan Woudt.
Private Sales at Phillips is a unique service for those looking to buy and sell across multiple categories beyond the auction calendar. Phillips’ experts use innovative, targeted approaches that combine personal relationships with connoisseurship and market intelligence. But the rare opportunity for the public is that some of the greatest artworks on the market right now are available for all to discover.
On View 1 July–10 August
Thierry Noir’s Gold series across platforms
Thierry Noir, Skateboarding, Ukiyo-e Suite, 2024. Dropshop.
Phillips showcases Thierry Noir as the July Dropshop artist alongside a solo exhibition at 432 Park Avenue. Both the Drop and the exhibition, entitled Thierry Noir: Gold, will open 25 July, with the works on Dropshop marking the first editioned artworks by Noir in eight years. The exhibition offers 35 original paintings from the acclaimed series across multiple formats, and marks the first time that works from a PhillipsX selling exhibition will be available for purchase using the same “Buy Now” model as Dropshop.
Noir rose to worldwide acclaim in 1984 as the first person to paint murals on the Berlin Wall, with his works becoming integral to the cultural zeitgeist of Berlin in the 1980s. In Gold, Thierry Noir points out the commonalities between sport and art. Whether physical, emotional, or imaginative, each Gold artwork is a full expression of human potential. As Noir himself notes, “Art and sport both have the power to break down barriers and dissolve political divisions.”
Exhibition On View 25 July–10 August
‘Gold’ Drops Thursday, 25 July, 10am ET
Lynne Drexler’s Garden: Works from the 1950s–1990s
Lynne Drexler, Untitled, 1962. Lynne Drexler’s Garden: Works from the 1950s–1990s.
With 31 works of colored pencil on paper and canvas by the leading second-generation Abstract Expressionist, this selling exhibition welcomes viewers into the artist’s world of landscapes, still life, and abstract representations filled with color, vibrancy, and vitality.
After nearly a decade of struggling to break through with her purely non-objective style, Lynne Drexler turned a blind eye to the fickle trends of the New York gallery world of the 1950s and 1960s and embarked on a long and fruitful creative journey from abstraction to representation. Visit the exhibition through 11 August to discover major works from each unique period in her artistic career.
On View 25 July–10 August
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