Art is everywhere if you know where to look.

Witness a visual language that’s raw, coded, and completely alive in the now.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?

Best of ShowsNoHo

Kate Hargrave: MILK TEETH

FEB20

APR22

Girls taking care of children, in a world that belongs only to them.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Saodat Ismailova: Amanat

JAN21

APR19

A dreamlike double feature pairing a 1,000-year-old walnut forest with Perestroika-era propaganda.

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Don Porcaro: Lost Stories

MAR10

MAY10

Westwood Gallery

This is the summary. Icon-like pictures of men, most wearing fez and have finger nails painted pink, by the frontman for the New York Dolls.

Elliott Templeton Fine Arts

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Mira Schor: Figures of Speech

MAR29

APR24

What would humans be like if we were forbidden to use words to say what we need to say?

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Mire Lee – Black Sun

JUN01

APR19

A reminder of what it means to have a body. And what it means to live with pain—and the power—inside it.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Mona Filleul: Sissy Institute

SEP30

JAN04

The message of this “sanctuary for sissies”? Darling, you belong here.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Nina Chanel Abney – Big Butch Synergy

AUG26

SEP23

Witness a visual language that’s raw, coded, and completely alive in the now.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?

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

Beauty and ruin move together at this gallery where the Lower East Side's punk past still beats.

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.

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 exhibitions in downtown NYC worth your time.

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Best of ShowsEast Village

Nina Chanel Abney – Big Butch Synergy

AUG26

SEP23

Witness a visual language that’s raw, coded, and completely alive in the now.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?

Best of ShowsNoHo

Kate Hargrave: MILK TEETH

FEB20

APR22

Girls taking care of children, in a world that belongs only to them.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Saodat Ismailova: Amanat

JAN21

APR19

A dreamlike double feature pairing a 1,000-year-old walnut forest with Perestroika-era propaganda.

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Don Porcaro: Lost Stories

MAR10

MAY10

Westwood Gallery

This is the summary. Icon-like pictures of men, most wearing fez and have finger nails painted pink, by the frontman for the New York Dolls.

Elliott Templeton Fine Arts

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Mira Schor: Figures of Speech

MAR29

APR24

What would humans be like if we were forbidden to use words to say what we need to say?

Best of ShowsLower East Side

Mire Lee – Black Sun

JUN01

APR19

A reminder of what it means to have a body. And what it means to live with pain—and the power—inside it.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Mona Filleul: Sissy Institute

SEP30

JAN04

The message of this “sanctuary for sissies”? Darling, you belong here.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Nina Chanel Abney – Big Butch Synergy

AUG26

SEP23

Witness a visual language that’s raw, coded, and completely alive in the now.

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?

Best of ShowsEast Village

Lee Gihun: Prometheus and Pietà

JAN24

APR30

Masked boys march through flood and fire in monumental paintings that ask: who saves us now?