These top flight Chelsea art galleries offer the very best in contemporary painting, sculpture and more

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Whether you're a casual art lover or a dedicated connoisseur, there's no better place to be than New York. The city boasts the largest concentration of art galleries in the world, with some estimates putting the total number well north of 1,000, located in a number of gallery districts that include the Upper East Side, the Lower East Side, Midtown and Soho—not to mention parts of Brooklyn and Queens. But the biggest such neighborhood by far is Chelsea, home to NYC's largest gathering of galleries, some 350 in all. That's a lot of ground to cover for even the most committed gallery-goer. But if you want to find where, exactly, you can catch up on the latest and best of what's happening in the art world, look no further than our curated guide to best Chelsea art galleries.

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Best Chelsea art galleries

This mid-size contemporary art space has been a fixture on the Chelsea scene since 1996, which is when the neighborhood first took off as a gallery district. Dealer Andrew Kreps remains focused on introducing emerging talents, though some of the artists on his roster have shown with him since the beginning, making them more midcareer at this point. Nontheless Kreps's stable—which includes Ricci Albenda, Roe Ethridge, Robert Melee and Ruth Root—is nothing if not adventurous.