From bold new art shows, to thought-provoking artist talks and underground performances throughout the Lower East Side, SoHo, NoHo, Tribeca, and the East Village, this week’s curated listings spotlight the best in downtown New York’s creative scene. Discover the most buzzed-about gallery openings, book launches, and cultural happenings to experience now, whether you’re an art lover, collector, or just looking to tap into the city’s ever-evolving creative energy.
Lower East Side | Weds
Derek Eller Gallery, 300 Broome St, ‘Split Level’ by Steve Keister
Helm Contemporary, 132 Bowery, 3rd Floor, ‘Cross Currents’ featuring 20+ artists
New Art Dealers Alliance at LUNCH, 311 East Broadway, 2nd Floor NADA Talks with Alan Barrows, 6pm
Tribeca | Weds
Scroll, 86 Walker St, In the Afternoon’ with Raina Lee, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Alejandro Sintura
Canada, 60 Lispenard St, ‘Paper Tigers’ with Katherine Bernhardt, Kathy Bradford, Joe Bradley, Marc Hundley, Denzil Hurley, Kahlil Robert Irving, Xylor Jane, Robert Janitz, Elizabeth Kley, Sadie Laska, Mimi Lauter, Lily Ludlow, Michael Mahalchick, Joanna Milanowska, Elena Panakova, Tyson Reeder, Scott Reeds, Hasani Sahlehe, Julie Shapiro, Joan Snyder, Rob Swainston, Trevor Warren, Rachel Williams, Wallace Whitney, Annette Wehrhahn, and Anke Weyer
George Adams Gallery, 38 Walker Street, ‘Staff Picks’ with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Craig Calderwood, Tony May, Katherine Sherwood, M. Louise Stanley, and William T. Wiley
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, 87 Franklin Street, ‘Explosion Robinson’ with Helen Beckman, Nancy Bowen, Sasha Budai, Amy Decker, Julio Espada, Chad Etting, Saskia Fleishman, Meena Hasan, Cooper Holoweski, Wayson R. Jones, Rhea Karam, John Hyen Lee, Sangram Majumdar, Noah Markoe, Kimberli Meyer, Nyeema Morgan, Toshiaki Noda, Bobbie Oliver, Nathalie Shepherd, Alma Sinai, Thomas Spoerndle, Kim Uchiyama, Skye Volmar, Mie Yim, Matthew Zaccari
PPOW, 392 Broadway, ‘I have become my own worst fear’ with Dotty Attie, Jimmy DeSana, Joe Houston, Betty Tompkins, Anton van Dalen, Martha Wilson, David Wojnarowicz with Jesse Hultberg, Martin Wong
Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, 36 White St, ‘Edifice’ by Nick Angelo
Elza Kayal Gallery, 368 Broadway #409, ‘The Jaguar in the Mirror’ by Anne Katrine Senstad
Lower East Side | Thurs
Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St, Fear of the Fiddle by Eric McHenry
Gern en Regalia, 105 Henry St #5, Book launch for ‘Pyre’ by Michael Cavuto, 73-pm, performance with Henry Fraser
Olfactory Art Keller, 25A Henry Street, The Rise of Medusa, performance with Ben Richter and M Dougherty, 7:30pm
Gordon Gallery, 139 Norfolk St, ‘Landscapes’ by Ronit Goldschmidt
Equity Gallery, 245 Broome St, ‘Grand Unity’ curated by Sharilyn Neidhardt and Meer Musa, featuring several artists
Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St, ‘Joyful Apocalypse’ by Al Diaz, Brian Gormley, Christine Randolph, Ed Higgins III, Konstantin Bokov, Johan Wahlstrom, Juan Carlos Pinto, Kevin Wendall (FA-Q), Matthew Aaron, Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor), Peter Griffin, Shalom Tomáš Neuman, 6pm-9pm
Entrance, 48 Ludlow St, ‘Blunt Instrument’ 6pm-9pm
Island, 83 Bowery, 2nd Fl, ‘Centrifugal’ with Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Alice Gong Xiaowen
Soho | Thurs
Allouche Gallery, 77 Mercer St, Summer Show 2025 with FAILE, Rose Freymuth-Frazier, Israel Agboola Oladapo, Juan de la Rica, Felix R. Cid, Hannah Lupton Reinhard and Mia Scarpa, Swoon, and Chito
Market Gallery, 51 Mercer St, ‘Revolve’ featuring several artists, 6pm-9pm
Noho | Thurs
Aicon, 35 Great Jones St, ‘In Lights’ by Rasheed Araeen, ‘Looking Back and Forward’ by Victor Ekpuk
The Hole, 312 Bowery, ‘Herbivore’ featuring various artists, ‘Reflections’ by Matthew Zefeldt
Tribeca | Thurs
Galerie Timonier, 246 West Broadway, ‘a labyrinth of linkages, pt II’ with Michaela Bathrick, Morgan Canavan, Olivier Mosset, Michael Ross, Jairo Sosa, Z Susskind
Mryia Gallery, 101 Reade St, Refractions with Saint Chalom, Brittany Clifford, Erik Sommer, 6pm-9pm
Kerry Schuss Gallery, 73 Leonard St, ‘Summer Garden’ by Mary Carlson, 5pm-7pm
Lower East Side | Fri
Blank Mag Books, 17 Eldridge St, Oh, You’ by Chad Moore, 6pm-9pm
Underdonk, 191 Henry St, Reset’ by Jeenho Seo
All St, 119 Hester St, All Street Community Art Day, 1-8pm
Whaam!, 15 Elizabeth St, Heatstroke Candy with Abella D’Adamo, Chloee Maugile, Chris Martin, Coco144, Hunter Ney, Lawe/Sub5 aka Chris Capuzzo, Ruth Angel Edwards, Wombat
Space776, 37-39 Clinton St, ‘Refreshment: On the Aesthetics of Reawakening’ with Ocean, Roberta Gattel, Mary McGee, RSVP
Tribeca | Fri
Gallery 456 (CAAC), 456 Broadway, 3rd Fl, ‘The Duet’s Carnival’ by Tianxing Xu, curated by Phil Zheng Cai, 5pm-8pm
Harkawik, 88 Walker St, ‘Good News/Bad News’ by Katarina Janečková Walshe
One Art Space, 23 Warren St, Bam! Red Dots! Art Experience featuring 40+ artists, 6pm-9pm
Tribeca | Sat
Francis Irv, 106 Walker St, #201 (3rd Fl), ‘Adam Unparadis’d’ with Tina Barney, Arthur Marie, Carissa Rodriguez, Rose Salane
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Whether you’re exploring LES, SoHo, Tribeca, NoHo, or the East Village, make time to witness these monumental embodiments of care, contradiction, and control. Janečková’s latest works are a must-see highlight of NYC’s contemporary art scene this week.
Don’t miss In Good News/Bad News, a powerful solo exhibition from Katarina Janečková Walshe, on view this week in the Lower East Side. Known for her surreal, feminist figuration, Walshe confronts the contradictions of motherhood, empathy, and identity with vivid, corporeal intensity. Across works like Nurturer-Torturer and Growing You a Space to Care, she dissects the myth of the maternal with painterly rawness—recalling the psychological depth of Hilary Harkness and the primal energy of Ellen Berkenblit.
Stay tuned for next week’s curated art openings, talks, and book launches across downtown Manhattan—and follow us for the latest in emerging and established art in New York City.
Featured work above by Katarina Janečková Walshe at Harkawik
