Augusto Arbizo, artist and gallery director at Eleven Rivington
Lisa Beck, painter and sculptor
Noah Becker, painter and editor- in-chief of Whitehot Magazine
Dike Blair, painter and sculptor
Robin Cembalest, journalist and former executive editor of ARTnews
Jill Conner, art critic and curator
Tony Feher, sculptor
Raymond Foye, art writer
Natalie Frank, painter
Benjamin Genocchio, editor-in-chief of Artnet News
Jay Gorney, art dealer
Howard Halle, art editor at Time Out New York
Julie Heffernan, painter
Daniel Hesidence, painter
Matthew Higgs, conceptual artist and director at White Columns
Laura Hoptman, Painting & Sculpture curator at the Museum of Modern Art
Paddy Johnson, founder and editor of Art Fag City
David LaChapelle, photographer and film director
Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum
Andrew Masullo, painter
Carlo McCormick, cultural critic and curator
Bob Nickas, writer and curator
Walter Robinson, painter and art critic
Andrew Russeth, co–executive editor of ARTnews
Jenny Schlenzka, associate curator at MoMA PS1
Daniel Simmons, painter and author
Lisa Small, curator of exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum
Robert Storr, curator, critic, painter and academic
Eugenie Tsai, curator of contemporary art at Brooklyn Museum
Christian Viveros-Fauné, art critic and curator
Lilly Wei, art critic and curator
B. Wurtz, mixed-media artist
Linda Yablonsky, art journalist
John Zinsser, painter
New York City has some of the best art in the world—and some of the strongest opinions. So to calculate our list of the 100 best paintings in New York, we asked heavyweight artists like David LaChapelle and curators like MoMA’s Laura Hoptman to send us their absolute favorite brushstrokes in town. See the full list of all the contributors below.
