Perrotin

Once upon a time, this was Beckenstein’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 across its three spacious floors of exhibition space.

Perrotin was among the first to show some of the biggest names of the 1990s: 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. All are by artists who are united in the sheer excitement of building new worlds with art.

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

Emmanuel Perrotin launched his namesake gallery in 1990 from his tiny Paris apartment, showing artists who soon defined the decade: Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan, and Takashi Murakami. Today, Perrotin spans six major cities: Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, LA, and New York, which opened in 2017. With help from Peterson Rich Office architects, Perrotin transformed the interior into a museum-quality space but left the exterior untouched—preserving the façade of Beckenstein’s, the legendary fabric and upholstery store that once anchored Orchard Street’s bustling fabric district.