Perrotin

Once upon a time, this was Beckentstein’s, the Orchard Street stop for fabric remnants to turn into slipcovers for your latest street-foraged couch. Today, the building is home to Perrotin, where artists from all over the world are shown and shining in its spacious three floors of exhibition space.

Perrotin was among the first to show some of the biggest names of the 1990s, like Takashi Murakami, Maurizio Cattelan, KAWS, JR, and Daniel Arsham. To name a few. As for the current art shows? They’re truly international with a few blockbusters sprinkled in.

Objects are shiny. Paintings are big and bold. The tone is often cheeky and fun, with topics touching on comics, literature, film, design, and fashion, by artists who are united by the sheer excitement of building new worlds with art.

Don’t miss the sleek, bright, and expertly curated bookstore on the ground floor. Perfect for coffee table art books and artist-made objects, impossible to find anywhere else.

The brainchild of Emmanuel Perrotin, who launched it in 1990 in his apartment in Paris with small shows of artists who were about to take the decade by storm: Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, and Takashi Murakami. Nowadays, he has outposts in six major cities: Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, LA, and New York.

Perriton opened the New York space in 2017 with architectural support from Peterson Rich Office (PRO), who transformed the interior into a museum-quality exhibition space and preserved the exterior from the days when it was Beckenstein’s, and Orchard Street was the center of Manhattan’s fabric district.