The Year in, and Beyond, New York’s Galleries—Plus a Top 10 from All Over

“Art of the City” is a weekly column by Andrew Russeth that runs every Tuesday.
On Sunday afternoon, a delivery man biking through Tribeca turned onto Cortlandt Alley and slammed his breaks. Hundreds of people were blocking his way, and he looked baffled. Artists Space, the stalwart New York alternative space, had just opened its new home there, and the people were on hand for a performance by Ei Arakawa—a characteristically winning, absurd one called WeWork Babies, which invol