Three of the world's leading art publications are putting New York's gallery scene under one banner. ARTnews, its sister publication Art in America and Artforum have created Art Week NYC, presented as the first citywide art week built specifically for New York — a break from earlier years when the label "art week" usually meant the orbit of commercial fairs like Frieze and the Armory Show. The inaugural edition runs November 11 through 14.

On Friday, the organisers announced 32 participating institutions. The list spans the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Queens Museum, alongside nonprofits including ArtTable, the Madison Square Park Conservancy and the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation, plus a spread of other citywide arts organisations.

The program is anchored in the city's four main gallery districts — Chelsea, the Lower East Side, Tribeca and the Upper East Side — with a mix of walking tours, artist talks and gallery openings. ARTnews and Art in America will run a Midtown hub offering live interviews, panel discussions and editor-led tours across the districts, while Artforum is pairing with galleries on neighbourhood-themed openings and staging a full day of public programming at the New Museum.

The gallery program itself brings together 76 galleries, from blue-chip names such as Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace, White Cube, Perrotin, Lisson and Paula Cooper to midsize and emerging spaces. Danielle McConnell, publisher of Artforum, said the project began with the galleries — the places, she noted, where artists are discovered, careers are built and the conversation around contemporary art moves forward. The organisers framed the week as a reflection of New York's gallery community at a moment when the city faces competition from an ever-expanding global fair calendar.