Sotheby's welcomes visitors to their newly-expanded & reimagined galleries

Sotheby’s unveiled today their newly-expanded and reimagined New York City galleries, located in their global headquarters at 1334 York Avenue. Designed in collaboration with Sotheby’s by Shohei Shigematsu, of the internationally-acclaimed architecture firm OMA New York, the redesign features vast new galleries that were designed to provide the optimal exhibition space for everything from single objects to expansive collections, and can accommodate works of art of any scale. Opening today with Sotheby’s May exhibitions and auctions – including masterworks of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and more – the new galleries increase Sotheby’s exhibition space from 67,000 to more than 90,000 square feet (the equivalent of two acres). Comprising 40 public galleries and 9 private sales salons of varying sizes spread across four entirely transformed floors,