This September’s version of Impartial twentieth Century will convey exhibitors and collectors collectively at Sotheby’s Breuer Constructing on Madison Avenue, marking the primary such collaboration between a business artwork honest and a significant public sale home. The brand new venue will enable the honest to host greater than double the variety of exhibitors from final yr.
The Breuer Constructing, which opened in 1966 and was designed by the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer, was constructed to accommodate the Whitney Museum of American Artwork. After that establishment relocated to the Meatpacking District in 2015, the constructing housed a short lived outpost of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and, subsequently, offered exhibition house for the Frick Assortment whereas that museum’s Gilded-Age residence underwent a five-year renovation. In 2023, Sotheby’s introduced it could purchase the storied constructing for a reported $100m.
“Impartial twentieth Century on the Breuer demonstrates the present’s distinctive skill to convey an artist’s imaginative and prescient from the trendy period to life in a historic architectural and partnership setting—leading to a brand new cultural dialog that breaks with aesthetic and market norms,” Elizabeth Dee, Impartial’s founder, stated in a press release.
Joel Sternfeld’s New York Metropolis (#1) (1976) Courtesy of Rodder and Impartial
A press launch asserting the exhibitors on the upcoming honest describes the partnership between Impartial and Sotheby’s as motivated by a shared need to foster connections between galleries, collectors and the better public, by combining the honest’s curatorial chops with Sotheby’s information and platform.
“Sotheby’s is delighted to collaborate with Impartial to push past the standard boundaries of the artwork world in ways in which interact collectors, gallerists and artwork lovers alike,” Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief government, stated in a press release.
Shifting from Casa Cipriani within the Monetary District, the place the honest has been staged for the reason that inaugural version in 2022, to the Modernist landmark on the Higher East Facet will enable the occasion to develop considerably. This yr, 56 exhibitors will participate, a 75% improve in comparison with earlier years, when the variety of stands by no means exceeded greater than 32 galleries.
Of these exhibitors, 33 are new to the honest, together with an inflow of worldwide blue-chip sellers like Hauser & Wirth, which is able to current a stand devoted to the Swiss artist and healer Emma Kunz; Thaddaeus Ropac, which is able to present work by the German inventive polymath Oskar Schlemmer; Sprüth Magers, which is able to present works by Jenny Holzer and Marian Goodman, devoting its presentation to banners from the limited-edition fabric-based studio The Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co and Multiples Inc. Different first-time individuals embrace Esther Schipper, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Berry Campbell, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Gallery Wendi Norris and Olney Gleason.
Set up view of the 1971 Andy Warhol exhibit on the Breuer when it was residence to the Whitney Museum of American Artwork. Picture by Geoffrey Clements, Art work © 2026 The Andy Warhol Basis for the Visible Arts, Inc.
This yr’s honest will even function a stronger presence of Latin American galleries. Exhibitors Galatea, Gomide&Co and Nara Roesler all have areas in São Paulo, whereas Instituto de Visión and Leon Tovar Gallery have been each based in Bogotá.
Returning galleries embrace Luxembourg + Co, Nahmad Modern, Salon 94, Richard Saltoun, Hollis Taggart, Weinstein Gallery and James Fuentes. Contributors who took half in 2025 however won’t return for the 2026 version embrace Sea View from Los Angeles, Cristin Tierney Gallery from New York and Tureen from Dallas.
True to Impartial twentieth Century’s repute for curatorial ambition and rigour, round 80% of stands at September’s honest will function a solo or dual-artist presentation. This targeted method the honest’s devotion to ignored artists and underappreciated our bodies of works by well-known artists from the earlier century; its sister honest Impartial, held within the spring, focuses on up to date artwork.
Together with the brand new location, Impartial twentieth Century’s dates will even shift again by three weeks, going down from 24 September to 27 September. The brand new dates line up with different expos within the metropolis, together with The Armory Present and Spring Break.
