Art is everywhere if you know where to look.

Every week, we walk the neighborhoods to see what just opened. This is our take on the most exciting shows now.

1/5

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

MAR19

MAY02

Dance like everybody’s watching. Because they are. In StarPower, the performance holds, even when nothing is holding it up.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

New Humans: Memories of the Future

MAR21

JUL26

New Museum

What does it mean to be human when algorithms compete for our attention and machines can take over our lives?

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Greg Parma Smith: Things in the Air

APR11

MAY23

Hoffman Donahue Gallery

DJs, lute players, and sacred geometries of sound make this a trippy visual manifestation of downtown experimental music.

Read Review

Best of ShowsChinatown

Jo Messer: Speed Stick

MAR19

MAY17

56 HENRY

Bodies, fish, and paint collide in a slippery, visceral take on the pleasures of looking.

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

MAR19

MAY02

Bitforms

Dance like everybody’s watching. Because they are. In StarPower, the performance holds, even when nothing is holding it up.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

The art spaces that have earned, and kept, cult status

ArtEast Village

Swiss Institute

Get your brain whirring with global, intellectual art at this free museum smack dab in the center of St Mark’s Place.

ArtLittle Italy

PARTICIPANT INC

A locally loved, black box (not white cube) alternative art space with superb shows of historic activist work and underground emerging artists.

ArtLower East Side

Reena Spaulings Fine Art

The brainchild of a real collective of artists that is every bit as glamorous and mysterious as its fictitious literary namesake.

ArtChinatown

56 HENRY

There’s a feeling that the party is just about to get started here, and it’s infectious.

ArtLower East Side

Miguel Abreu Gallery

Poetic, philosophically-minded art in a cavernous floor-thru loft on Eldridge Street, where the ethereal light of the space meets the light behind the work.

ArtLower East Side

Ramiken

The Lower East Side's punk past still beats at this gallery, where beauty and ruin move together.

ArtLower East Side

Wilmer Jennings Gallery

Where Black artists, communities, and movements have been nurtured, honored, and lifted for generations.

ArtLower East Side

Westwood Gallery

A neighborhood-embedded gallery showcasing artists whose work will transport you to the factory lofts and artists’ studios of iconic 1970s and ‘80s Bowery.

ArtEast Village

Karma Gallery

This gallery, bookstore, and publishing house is pioneering a genre. Enjoy gentle, slow art that invites you to pause and step back from the fast pace of life.

ArtNoHo

Grey Art Museum

Global, diverse, and interdisciplinary exhibitions propel conversations forward at NYU’s museum in history-drenched Cooper Square.

ArtNoHo

Eric Firestone Gallery

Bold, sensual, and rebellious work by artists who have been making waves from the ‘70s to now.

ArtEast Village

The Hole

Joyful, irreverent, and unfiltered, The Hole is where the conversations never end, and the party is just getting started.

ArtLower East Side

Perrotin

A former fabric shop turned global art playground, Perrotin keeps Orchard Street buzzing with color, wit, and spectacle.

ArtEast Village

The Brant Foundation

Powerhouse private collection meets fame, excess, and downtown mythology at this landmark East Village art space.

ArtLower East Side

New Museum

The museum dedicated to new art, new ideas, and new voices now has a new addition.

See where the future of art is heading next.

ArtLower East Side

Blade Study

Where artists ask the same questions humans have always asked, just asked through memes, code, and group chats.

ArtLittle Italy

Company Gallery

Feminist, queer, theatrical art in a graffiti-covered gallery with a basement speakeasy.

ArtLittle Italy

Derosia

Self-aware, socially-motivated painting about culture, media, and the moment we’re living in.

ArtLower East Side

Elliott Templeton Fine Arts

The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.

ArtLower East Side

Entrance

The spirit of the zine and maker culture collide in this DIY gallery on Ludlow Street.

ArtLower East Side

Foreign & Domestic

Process is worshipped in this basement gallery, which champions younger local and international artists.

ArtLower East Side

gratin

Walking into gratin is like entering a party lit up by the promise of the night.

ArtEast Village

Half Gallery

This glass-walled gallery shows realist work in which desire and fantasy simmer on the surface.

ArtLower East Side

Hannah Traore Gallery

Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.

ArtLower East Side

King's Leap

A rising generation of artists whose shared Tumblr and techno experiences splinter into dystopian visions, futuristic dreams, and meta commentaries on 21st-century life.

ArtChinatown

Long Story Short

A big-hearted, storefront gallery where locals linger on the benches outside and rising artists explore imagined realms inside.

ArtChinatown

Management

Otherworldly, metaphysical works blur the boundaries between mysticism and philosophy on the fourth floor of a Chinatown office building.

ArtEast Village

MARCH

East Village vibes meet Southern warmth inside this double-wide storefront on Avenue A, where you can expect a mix of NYC up-and-comers and artists exploring Black craftsmanship.

ArtChinatown

Ulrik

Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.

Where distinct ideas, subcultures, and communities are championed

ArtLower East Side

Bitforms

Where technology stops being a problem to solve and starts being a story to tell.

ArtLower East Side

Fridman Gallery

Socially conscious art upstairs and an experimental sound studio downstairs converge at this gallery with spiritually attuned leanings.

ArtLower East Side

Heft

Where artists stare into the dreams of generative code, AI, and emerging technologies.

ArtLower East Side

Howl! Arts Howl! Archive!

The spirit of the bohemian East Village screams in this living shrine to its artist icons, past and present.

ArtLower East Side

LAAMS

Art, books, streetwear, and records are floor to ceiling at this Orchard Street gallery, made by the neighborhood for the neighborhood.

ArtLower East Side

Museum at Eldridge Street

Be immersed in the Jewish history of the Lower East Side in this tenderly restored synagogue, where downtown artists weave the neighborhood’s past into shows and the building itself.

ArtLower East Side

Steven Harvey Fine Arts

Explore the rigors and elegance of decades of New York painting at this tiny storefront off the Sara D. Roosevelt Park.

ArtLower East Side

Westwood Gallery

A neighborhood-embedded gallery showcasing artists whose work will transport you to the factory lofts and artists’ studios of iconic 1970s and ‘80s Bowery.

ArtLower East Side

Wilmer Jennings Gallery

Where Black artists, communities, and movements have been nurtured, honored, and lifted for generations.

The latest and greatest new-to-the-neighborhood art spaces.

ArtLower East Side

ABRI MARS

A refuge for art that is quietly optimistic about the future, from a designer who lost everything in a fire.

ArtLower East Side

Heft

Where artists stare into the dreams of generative code, AI, and emerging technologies.

ArtLower East Side

gratin

Walking into gratin is like entering a party lit up by the promise of the night.

ArtLower East Side

Kiang Malingue

Hong Kong cool collides with Chinatown edge in a sunlit loft where artists across Asia and its diaspora race toward what’s next.

ArtChinatown

Astor Weeks

Art for people who notice things like when the light changes and the room goes quiet.

ArtChinatown

Ulrik

Take the pulse of the new New York scene at this spacious, sunny second-floor gallery overlooking Canal Street, where artistic careers are launched and revitalized.

ArtLower East Side

Elliott Templeton Fine Arts

The highly aesthetic art in this gallery, named after a fictional post-WWI art dealer, can be summed up in one word: romantic.

Every week, we walk the neighborhoods to see what just opened. This is our take on the most exciting shows now.

1/5

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

MAR19

MAY02

Bitforms

Dance like everybody’s watching. Because they are. In StarPower, the performance holds, even when nothing is holding it up.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

New Humans: Memories of the Future

MAR21

JUL26

New Museum

What does it mean to be human when algorithms compete for our attention and machines can take over our lives?

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Greg Parma Smith: Things in the Air

APR11

MAY23

Hoffman Donahue Gallery

DJs, lute players, and sacred geometries of sound make this a trippy visual manifestation of downtown experimental music.

Read Review

Best of ShowsChinatown

Jo Messer: Speed Stick

MAR19

MAY17

56 HENRY

Bodies, fish, and paint collide in a slippery, visceral take on the pleasures of looking.

Read Review

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

MAR19

MAY02

Bitforms

Dance like everybody’s watching. Because they are. In StarPower, the performance holds, even when nothing is holding it up.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

MAR11

MAY31

The Brant Foundation

From early drawings and subway icons to East Village legend: Haring’s explosive early years.

Read Review

Art is everywhere if you know where to look.

The most exciting art in New York City is downtown. We'll show you where.

Best of Shows

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

Best of ShowsLower East Side

New Humans: Memories of the Future

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Greg Parma Smith: Things in the Air

Best of ShowsChinatown

Jo Messer: Speed Stick

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Maya Man: StarPower

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

Best of ShowsEast Village

Keith Haring

Local Legends

ArtEast Village

Swiss Institute

ArtLittle Italy

PARTICIPANT INC

ArtLower East Side

Reena Spaulings Fine Art

ArtChinatown

56 HENRY

ArtLower East Side

Miguel Abreu Gallery

ArtLower East Side

Ramiken

ArtLower East Side

Wilmer Jennings Gallery

ArtLower East Side

Westwood Gallery

ArtEast Village

Karma Gallery

ArtNoHo

Grey Art Museum

ArtNoHo

Eric Firestone Gallery

ArtEast Village

The Hole

ArtLower East Side

Perrotin

ArtEast Village

The Brant Foundation

ArtLower East Side

New Museum

Rising Galleries

ArtLower East Side

Blade Study

ArtLittle Italy

Company Gallery

ArtLittle Italy

Derosia

ArtLower East Side

Elliott Templeton Fine Arts

ArtLower East Side

Entrance

ArtLower East Side

Foreign & Domestic

ArtLower East Side

gratin

ArtEast Village

Half Gallery

ArtLower East Side

Hannah Traore Gallery

ArtLower East Side

King's Leap

ArtChinatown

Long Story Short

ArtChinatown

Management

ArtEast Village

MARCH

ArtChinatown

Ulrik

Specialists